Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 185 195
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +89
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 592 502 621
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.37% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.59% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 341 395
10th Percentile £368 £425 £425
25th Percentile £430 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £713 £780 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -17.00% +8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £55.50 £34.04 £66.00
25th Percentile - £49.40 £70.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 - £91.25
90th Percentile £96.00 - £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Identity Access Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,960 31,635 41,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.93% 86.21% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,027 19,055 27,781
10th Percentile £295 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,126 1,593
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.12 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%
75th Percentile £44.40 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £33.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -31.42% -24.83% +48.81%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Identity Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Identity Access Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +25 536 £530 -11.67% 205
UK excluding London +19 284 £519 -17.00% 113
London +17 250 £575 -4.17% 113
Work from Home +5 174 £520 -13.33% 89
North of England +19 111 £500 -16.67% 20
Yorkshire 0 63 £509 -4.91% 8
Midlands -6 61 £520 -13.33% 17
South East -22 45 £515 -23.70% 42
North West +1 40 £471 -33.85% 11
West Midlands -28 38 £550 -9.41% 16
South West -2 32 £600 +33.33% 21
East Midlands - 22 £406 - 1
East of England -3 18 £600 -7.69% 5
Scotland -11 16 £540 -15.63% 8
North East -2 9 £533 -18.08% 1
Wales 0 1 £700 -6.67%
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 -

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 36 (6.08%) Confluence
1 36 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.52%) Apache
3 9 (1.52%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.52%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (1.35%) IIS
4 8 (1.35%) iPlanet
4 8 (1.35%) JBoss
5 6 (1.01%) CMS
6 5 (0.84%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.17%) CICS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.51%) Maximo
3 2 (0.34%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 243 (41.05%) Azure
2 156 (26.35%) Entra ID
3 138 (23.31%) AWS
4 72 (12.16%) GCP
5 60 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.24%) SaaS
7 26 (4.39%) Azure Sentinel
8 24 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (3.72%) GitHub
10 21 (3.55%) OpenShift
11 17 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
11 17 (2.87%) OneDrive
11 17 (2.87%) Serverless
12 16 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.36%) PaaS
14 13 (2.20%) IaaS
15 12 (2.03%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (1.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.30%) Network Security
2 57 (9.63%) Firewall
3 32 (5.41%) DNS
4 19 (3.21%) Kerberos
5 16 (2.70%) VPN
6 12 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.69%) DHCP
8 9 (1.52%) SSL
9 8 (1.35%) SSH
9 8 (1.35%) WebEx
10 7 (1.18%) Internet
11 6 (1.01%) HTTP
11 6 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (1.01%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.84%) NAS
12 5 (0.84%) SAN
13 4 (0.68%) WAN
14 3 (0.51%) BGP
14 3 (0.51%) LAN
14 3 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.52%) Oracle Database
1 9 (1.52%) Power BI
1 9 (1.52%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (0.84%) DynamoDB
3 5 (0.84%) Tableau
4 4 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.34%) Big Data
6 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.34%) MySQL
7 1 (0.17%) Hasura
7 1 (0.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 57 (9.63%) JIRA
2 23 (3.89%) Git
2 23 (3.89%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.86%) GitLab
4 10 (1.69%) Postman
4 10 (1.69%) SoapUI
5 9 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 8 (1.35%) CA Release Automation
7 3 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.51%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.51%) MSI
8 2 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.17%) Gatling
9 1 (0.17%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
9 1 (0.17%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.17%) TestRail
General
1 211 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 145 (24.49%) Finance
3 89 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 50 (8.45%) Banking
6 22 (3.72%) Legal
7 19 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.01%) Electronics
13 6 (1.01%) Law
13 6 (1.01%) Marketing
13 6 (1.01%) Retail
14 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 156 (26.35%) Architect
2 79 (13.34%) Analyst
3 58 (9.80%) Security Architect
4 55 (9.29%) Solutions Architect
5 50 (8.45%) Consultant
6 42 (7.09%) Senior
7 39 (6.59%) Business Analyst
8 25 (4.22%) Lead
9 23 (3.89%) Security Engineer
10 20 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 19 (3.21%) Project Manager
12 16 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
13 15 (2.53%) Security Consultant
14 14 (2.36%) Azure Architect
15 13 (2.20%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (2.20%) Security Solutions Architect
15 13 (2.20%) Test Analyst
16 12 (2.03%) Developer
16 12 (2.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.02%) OAuth
2 78 (13.18%) SAML
3 73 (12.33%) SailPoint
4 63 (10.64%) OpenID
5 46 (7.77%) LDAP
6 34 (5.74%) OAuth2
7 24 (4.05%) REST
8 18 (3.04%) ARM Templates
9 14 (2.36%) ADO
10 10 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
11 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
12 8 (1.35%) .NET
12 8 (1.35%) XMPP
13 7 (1.18%) React
14 6 (1.01%) Hibernate
14 6 (1.01%) Keycloak
14 6 (1.01%) Spring
14 6 (1.01%) YAML
15 5 (0.84%) .NET Framework
15 5 (0.84%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.08%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (5.57%) Management Information System
4 31 (5.24%) Security Posture
5 30 (5.07%) Cloud Native
6 24 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.38%) PKI
8 14 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
9 11 (1.86%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (1.01%) NHS
15 5 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
16 4 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
16 4 (0.68%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.72%) Windows
2 57 (9.63%) Linux
3 41 (6.93%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.04%) Unix
5 11 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.52%) VMS
7 8 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.01%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.51%) Android
9 3 (0.51%) CentOS
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (25.84%) Cybersecurity
2 117 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (17.91%) Cloud Security
4 105 (17.74%) Agile
4 105 (17.74%) Privileged Access Management
5 100 (16.89%) CI/CD
6 92 (15.54%) RBAC
7 87 (14.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 85 (14.36%) Identity Management
9 80 (13.51%) DevOps
10 78 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 77 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 72 (12.16%) Roadmaps
13 69 (11.66%) Zero Trust
14 60 (10.14%) Incident Response
14 60 (10.14%) SIEM
15 57 (9.63%) DevSecOps
16 55 (9.29%) Data Protection
16 55 (9.29%) Vulnerability Management
17 52 (8.78%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 124 (20.95%) PowerShell
2 78 (13.18%) Python
3 45 (7.60%) Bash
4 37 (6.25%) Java
5 27 (4.56%) SQL
6 22 (3.72%) Bicep
7 19 (3.21%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.20%) Groovy
9 12 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.35%) C#
10 8 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.01%) Go
11 6 (1.01%) Perl
12 5 (0.84%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.34%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) VBScript
15 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 146 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 125 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 92 (15.54%) CISSP
4 74 (12.50%) CISM
5 49 (8.28%) Degree
6 43 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (5.91%) Azure Certification
8 30 (5.07%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (3.04%) DV Cleared
11 15 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.52%) CCSP
14 9 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (1.35%) CCNP
15 8 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (17.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 89 (15.03%) NIST
3 88 (14.86%) GDPR
4 28 (4.73%) HIPAA
5 27 (4.56%) PCI DSS
6 24 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (2.70%) QA
8 13 (2.20%) SOC 2
9 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.86%) GRC
10 10 (1.69%) NCSC
11 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.35%) ITGC
11 8 (1.35%) NIST 800
12 6 (1.01%) COBIT
12 6 (1.01%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.84%) PSD2
14 4 (0.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 177 (29.90%) Active Directory
2 41 (6.93%) Docker
3 23 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.34%) NFS
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) NDS
8 1 (0.17%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.17%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.17%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.17%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.17%) RACF
8 1 (0.17%) SRDF
8 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (14.70%) Single Sign-On
2 76 (12.84%) Terraform
3 51 (8.61%) Kubernetes
4 28 (4.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (4.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (4.22%) Ansible
6 12 (2.03%) SCCM
7 10 (1.69%) CA Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.35%) CA Wily
8 8 (1.35%) Grafana
8 8 (1.35%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.35%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.01%) Tivoli Identity Manager
10 4 (0.68%) Istio
10 4 (0.68%) QRadar
11 3 (0.51%) Argo
11 3 (0.51%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.34%) Consul
12 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 208 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 82 (13.85%) CyberArk
3 41 (6.93%) Okta
4 39 (6.59%) Oracle
5 34 (5.74%) Google
6 33 (5.57%) VMware
7 27 (4.56%) Splunk
8 25 (4.22%) SAP
9 24 (4.05%) BeyondTrust
10 22 (3.72%) Cisco
10 22 (3.72%) ServiceNow
11 20 (3.38%) ForgeRock
11 20 (3.38%) IBM
12 17 (2.87%) BiZZdesign
13 16 (2.70%) Citrix
13 16 (2.70%) Red Hat
14 15 (2.53%) Thycotic
15 14 (2.36%) Ping Identity
16 13 (2.20%) Centrify
16 13 (2.20%) Workday