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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 171 186
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 817 469 544
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.64% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.80% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 341 379
10th Percentile £400 £410 £407
25th Percentile £487 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £655 £688 £725
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 2
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £87.96 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - -

All Process & 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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 May 2026.

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 27 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 16 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 27 May 2026. 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 -1 705 £575 -2.13% 188
UK excluding London +25 408 £550 - 122
London -6 306 £588 -6.00% 87
Work from Home +17 270 £550 -1.35% 99
North of England +16 139 £538 +2.38% 29
South East -3 112 £583 -10.38% 52
Yorkshire +17 95 £538 +0.56% 8
Midlands -34 73 £550 - 7
South West 0 60 £600 +9.09% 14
West Midlands -27 57 £525 -10.64% 5
North West -24 43 £575 +9.52% 18
Scotland +19 29 £540 +1.12% 6
East Midlands -30 14 £619 +40.78% 2
Wales -12 5 £468 -22.08% 6
East of England -32 5 £608 -6.54% 9
North East -24 1 £400 -6.98% 3

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 27 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 22 (2.69%) Confluence
2 22 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.86%) Apache
4 6 (0.73%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.49%) IIS
6 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.12%) Mendix
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.61%) Maximo
2 5 (0.61%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 402 (49.20%) Azure
2 258 (31.58%) Entra ID
3 178 (21.79%) AWS
4 108 (13.22%) GCP
5 74 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
7 48 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 48 (5.88%) GitHub
8 42 (5.14%) Power Platform
9 36 (4.41%) SaaS
10 34 (4.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (3.30%) IaaS
12 27 (3.30%) PaaS
12 27 (3.30%) Serverless
13 19 (2.33%) OpenShift
14 18 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
14 18 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
14 18 (2.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 81 (9.91%) Firewall
2 80 (9.79%) DNS
3 74 (9.06%) Network Security
4 48 (5.88%) DHCP
5 47 (5.75%) WAN
6 34 (4.16%) VPN
7 28 (3.43%) LAN
8 26 (3.18%) BGP
8 26 (3.18%) OSPF
9 24 (2.94%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.94%) Junos
9 24 (2.94%) SSL
9 24 (2.94%) VXLAN
10 21 (2.57%) Kerberos
11 19 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (2.20%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.73%) Internet
14 6 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.96%) Power BI
3 11 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (1.35%) MongoDB
3 11 (1.35%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.10%) Tableau
5 8 (0.98%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.86%) DocumentDB
7 6 (0.73%) MySQL
8 3 (0.37%) Big Data
8 3 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.24%) Redis
9 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (7.96%) JIRA
2 53 (6.49%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.55%) Git
4 24 (2.94%) GitLab
5 17 (2.08%) Postman
6 14 (1.71%) Selenium
7 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.22%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.10%) Gatling
9 8 (0.98%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.61%) Maven
10 5 (0.61%) TestRail
11 4 (0.49%) JMeter
11 4 (0.49%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.49%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.37%) JUnit
12 3 (0.37%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.24%) git-flow
13 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 200 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 143 (17.50%) Finance
3 105 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.10%) Banking
5 57 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (3.30%) Legal
8 20 (2.45%) Retail
9 15 (1.84%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.98%) Military
13 7 (0.86%) Police
14 5 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.49%) Local Government
16 3 (0.37%) Aviation
16 3 (0.37%) Law
16 3 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 222 (27.17%) Architect
2 79 (9.67%) Senior
3 77 (9.42%) Lead
4 69 (8.45%) Analyst
5 62 (7.59%) Developer
6 55 (6.73%) Security Architect
7 38 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
8 35 (4.28%) Java Developer
9 30 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (3.43%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.30%) Consultant
11 27 (3.30%) Security Engineer
12 26 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
13 24 (2.94%) Business Analyst
13 24 (2.94%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 24 (2.94%) Identity Management Analyst
14 22 (2.69%) Cloud Architect
15 21 (2.57%) Cloud Engineer
16 20 (2.45%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (11.75%) SailPoint
2 77 (9.42%) SAML
3 71 (8.69%) OAuth
4 65 (7.96%) OpenID
5 62 (7.59%) LDAP
6 45 (5.51%) REST
7 27 (3.30%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.18%) 802.1X
9 24 (2.94%) Kafka
9 24 (2.94%) OAuth2
10 23 (2.82%) Spring Boot
11 21 (2.57%) Middleware
12 20 (2.45%) .NET
13 19 (2.33%) Node.js
14 15 (1.84%) Playwright
14 15 (1.84%) Spring
15 12 (1.47%) RESTful
16 10 (1.22%) YAML
17 9 (1.10%) JSON
17 9 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.55%) PKI
2 76 (9.30%) Onboarding
3 52 (6.36%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.18%) Security Posture
7 25 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (2.94%) Clustering
8 24 (2.94%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (2.33%) Product Ownership
10 19 (2.33%) Replication
11 18 (2.20%) Operational Technology
12 17 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.98%) SCADA
17 6 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (13.71%) Windows
2 52 (6.36%) Linux
3 32 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.10%) Unix
5 7 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.73%) Debian
7 5 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.49%) VMS
9 3 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (22.89%) DevOps
2 174 (21.30%) Cybersecurity
3 159 (19.46%) CI/CD
4 145 (17.75%) Agile
5 134 (16.40%) RBAC
6 126 (15.42%) Zero Trust
7 113 (13.83%) Cloud Security
8 102 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (11.87%) Infrastructure as Code
10 94 (11.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 92 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 81 (9.91%) Identity Management
13 78 (9.55%) Security Architecture
14 76 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 75 (9.18%) AI
16 73 (8.94%) Observability
17 71 (8.69%) High Availability
18 70 (8.57%) Migration
19 69 (8.45%) Data Protection
19 69 (8.45%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 136 (16.65%) PowerShell
2 101 (12.36%) Python
3 96 (11.75%) Java
4 69 (8.45%) SQL
5 39 (4.77%) Bicep
6 22 (2.69%) Bash
7 18 (2.20%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.71%) Rust
8 14 (1.71%) Scala
9 9 (1.10%) Go
9 9 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.86%) C#
11 5 (0.61%) PHP
12 4 (0.49%) Cypher
12 4 (0.49%) Groovy
13 3 (0.37%) C++
13 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.37%) R
14 2 (0.24%) C
14 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 268 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.62%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 71 (8.69%) CISSP
5 46 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (5.51%) CISM
7 38 (4.65%) Degree
8 37 (4.53%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (3.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 23 (2.82%) CCSP
12 19 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.22%) AWS Certification
13 10 (1.22%) PMI Certification
13 10 (1.22%) PMP
14 7 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.86%) JNCIA
14 7 (0.86%) JNCIP
14 7 (0.86%) JNCIS
15 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (10.65%) NIST
2 85 (10.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (9.42%) GDPR
4 34 (4.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 27 (3.30%) GRC
5 27 (3.30%) NCSC
6 20 (2.45%) QA
7 16 (1.96%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.59%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.35%) SLA
10 10 (1.22%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.86%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.86%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.61%) PMO
13 4 (0.49%) COBIT
13 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
14 3 (0.37%) GxP
System Software
1 216 (26.44%) Active Directory
2 66 (8.08%) Docker
3 27 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.22%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.86%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.37%) IAG
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.24%) RACF
10 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.12%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 113 (13.83%) Terraform
2 108 (13.22%) Kubernetes
3 92 (11.26%) Single Sign-On
4 42 (5.14%) Ansible
5 30 (3.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.94%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.08%) Grafana
9 12 (1.47%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.22%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 10 (1.22%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 9 (1.10%) SCCM
12 8 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.98%) Kiali
12 8 (0.98%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.61%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.61%) Istio
14 4 (0.49%) Argo
15 3 (0.37%) Podman
15 3 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 240 (29.38%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.42%) Okta
3 54 (6.61%) Google
4 45 (5.51%) Splunk
5 42 (5.14%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.77%) CyberArk
7 35 (4.28%) VMware
8 34 (4.16%) Cisco
9 27 (3.30%) ForgeRock
9 27 (3.30%) SAP
10 26 (3.18%) F5
11 25 (3.06%) Oracle
12 24 (2.94%) Juniper
12 24 (2.94%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.69%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (2.57%) Zscaler
15 19 (2.33%) Workday
16 17 (2.08%) BeyondTrust
17 14 (1.71%) Citrix
18 12 (1.47%) Red Hat