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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 192 194
Rank change year-on-year +21 +2 +95
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 607 493 606
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.35% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.55% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 329 391
10th Percentile £364 £423 £425
25th Percentile £449 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £717 £782 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +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 32,184 31,740 40,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.29% 87.07% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,215 19,128 27,258
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,084 1,140 1,567
10th Percentile £14.56 £15.22 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.04 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -23.87% -24.65% +25.26%
75th Percentile £45.53 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +39.06%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +33 551 £545 -9.17% 106
UK excluding London +26 291 £525 -12.50% 84
London +34 262 £568 -5.42% 51
Work from Home +8 184 £525 -10.64% 51
North of England +16 111 £508 -10.18% 10
Yorkshire +9 64 £518 -3.27% 4
Midlands -6 59 £525 -10.64% 11
South East -5 48 £526 -20.63% 40
West Midlands -9 45 £550 -7.07% 10
North West -2 39 £496 -17.33% 4
South West +17 37 £663 +55.88% 15
East of England -2 18 £600 -7.69% 5
Scotland -11 17 £540 -12.20% 2
East Midlands - 13 £413 - 1
North East +2 9 £533 -18.08% 2
Wales 0 1 £700 -6.67% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 1

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 39 (6.43%) Confluence
2 37 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (4.94%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.48%) Apache
4 9 (1.48%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.32%) IIS
5 8 (1.32%) iPlanet
5 8 (1.32%) JBoss
6 6 (0.99%) CMS
7 5 (0.82%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.16%) CICS
9 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.81%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.49%) Maximo
3 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 240 (39.54%) Azure
2 163 (26.85%) Entra ID
3 134 (22.08%) AWS
4 73 (12.03%) GCP
5 59 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.11%) SaaS
7 27 (4.45%) GitHub
8 25 (4.12%) Azure Sentinel
9 24 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.29%) OpenShift
12 18 (2.97%) OneDrive
13 17 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (2.80%) Serverless
14 16 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.47%) PaaS
16 14 (2.31%) IaaS
17 10 (1.65%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.88%) Network Security
2 53 (8.73%) Firewall
3 32 (5.27%) DNS
4 19 (3.13%) Kerberos
4 19 (3.13%) VPN
5 13 (2.14%) SSL
6 12 (1.98%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.65%) DHCP
8 8 (1.32%) SSH
8 8 (1.32%) WebEx
9 7 (1.15%) Internet
10 6 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.99%) Wireshark
11 5 (0.82%) HTTP
11 5 (0.82%) NAS
11 5 (0.82%) SAN
12 4 (0.66%) WAN
13 3 (0.49%) BGP
13 3 (0.49%) LAN
13 3 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (1.98%) Oracle Database
2 9 (1.48%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.32%) Power BI
4 7 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (0.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
6 5 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.82%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.82%) Tableau
7 4 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.66%) DocumentDB
8 3 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.33%) Big Data
9 2 (0.33%) MySQL
9 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 59 (9.72%) JIRA
2 29 (4.78%) Git
3 23 (3.79%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.31%) GitLab
5 10 (1.65%) Postman
5 10 (1.65%) SoapUI
6 9 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.32%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (1.32%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (0.49%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.49%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.49%) MSI
9 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.16%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) TestRail
10 1 (0.16%) Toad
10 1 (0.16%) WebDriver
General
1 213 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.56%) Finance
3 85 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.91%) Banking
6 21 (3.46%) Legal
7 20 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.65%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.32%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.15%) Law
13 6 (0.99%) Electronics
13 6 (0.99%) Marketing
13 6 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 162 (26.69%) Architect
2 80 (13.18%) Analyst
3 64 (10.54%) Solutions Architect
4 53 (8.73%) Security Architect
5 50 (8.24%) Consultant
6 44 (7.25%) Senior
7 42 (6.92%) Business Analyst
8 28 (4.61%) Lead
9 26 (4.28%) Security Engineer
10 21 (3.46%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (3.29%) Developer
12 19 (3.13%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.80%) Platform Engineer
14 16 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (2.47%) Security Consultant
16 14 (2.31%) Azure Architect
16 14 (2.31%) Cloud Architect
17 13 (2.14%) Security Solutions Architect
17 13 (2.14%) Test Analyst
18 12 (1.98%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (13.67%) OAuth
2 79 (13.01%) SAML
3 76 (12.52%) SailPoint
4 61 (10.05%) OpenID
5 39 (6.43%) LDAP
6 33 (5.44%) OAuth2
7 25 (4.12%) REST
8 18 (2.97%) ARM Templates
9 14 (2.31%) ADO
10 10 (1.65%) Spring
11 9 (1.48%) .NET
11 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (1.32%) Kafka
12 8 (1.32%) Node.js
12 8 (1.32%) XMPP
13 7 (1.15%) Keycloak
13 7 (1.15%) React
14 6 (0.99%) RESTful
14 6 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.93%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 31 (5.11%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.80%) PKI
7 14 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 10 (1.65%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.65%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.82%) NHS
14 4 (0.66%) PMI
14 4 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 94 (15.49%) Windows
2 55 (9.06%) Linux
3 40 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.13%) Unix
5 11 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.48%) VMS
7 8 (1.32%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.49%) CentOS
9 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.33%) Android
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) MVS
11 1 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (24.22%) Cybersecurity
2 114 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (18.12%) Privileged Access Management
4 108 (17.79%) CI/CD
5 104 (17.13%) Cloud Security
6 101 (16.64%) Agile
6 101 (16.64%) RBAC
7 96 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 83 (13.67%) Identity Management
9 82 (13.51%) DevOps
9 82 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
10 78 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 71 (11.70%) Roadmaps
12 65 (10.71%) Zero Trust
13 61 (10.05%) Incident Response
14 59 (9.72%) SIEM
15 57 (9.39%) DevSecOps
16 55 (9.06%) Migration
17 54 (8.90%) Data Protection
17 54 (8.90%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (20.43%) PowerShell
2 77 (12.69%) Python
3 45 (7.41%) Bash
4 34 (5.60%) Java
5 23 (3.79%) SQL
6 22 (3.62%) Bicep
6 22 (3.62%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.14%) Groovy
8 12 (1.98%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.32%) C#
10 7 (1.15%) Perl
10 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.99%) Go
12 5 (0.82%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.49%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.33%) VBScript
15 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 161 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 134 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 94 (15.49%) CISSP
4 75 (12.36%) CISM
5 54 (8.90%) Degree
6 45 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (5.93%) Azure Certification
8 30 (4.94%) AWS Certification
9 24 (3.95%) DV Cleared
10 20 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (2.47%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 10 (1.65%) CCSP
14 10 (1.65%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.48%) PhD
16 8 (1.32%) CCNP
16 8 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (16.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (14.00%) NIST
3 84 (13.84%) GDPR
4 26 (4.28%) PCI DSS
5 25 (4.12%) HIPAA
6 24 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (2.47%) GRC
7 15 (2.47%) QA
8 11 (1.81%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.65%) NCSC
9 10 (1.65%) SOC 2
10 8 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.32%) ITGC
11 7 (1.15%) COBIT
12 6 (0.99%) Data Quality
12 6 (0.99%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.82%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.82%) PSD2
System Software
1 174 (28.67%) Active Directory
2 48 (7.91%) Docker
3 23 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.32%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.82%) vSphere
7 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.33%) NFS
7 2 (0.33%) OpenAM
7 2 (0.33%) OpenDJ
7 2 (0.33%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) NDS
8 1 (0.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.16%) RACF
8 1 (0.16%) SRDF
8 1 (0.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (13.18%) Single Sign-On
2 76 (12.52%) Terraform
3 58 (9.56%) Kubernetes
4 28 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (4.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 25 (4.12%) Ansible
7 12 (1.98%) SCCM
8 10 (1.65%) CA Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.32%) CA Wily
9 8 (1.32%) Grafana
9 8 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.32%) Tivoli
10 6 (0.99%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.66%) Istio
11 4 (0.66%) Puppet
11 4 (0.66%) QRadar
11 4 (0.66%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 3 (0.49%) Argo
12 3 (0.49%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 208 (34.27%) Microsoft
2 86 (14.17%) CyberArk
3 41 (6.75%) Oracle
4 39 (6.43%) Okta
5 38 (6.26%) Google
6 33 (5.44%) VMware
7 26 (4.28%) SAP
7 26 (4.28%) Splunk
8 23 (3.79%) BeyondTrust
9 22 (3.62%) Cisco
10 21 (3.46%) ServiceNow
11 18 (2.97%) BiZZdesign
11 18 (2.97%) IBM
12 16 (2.64%) Citrix
12 16 (2.64%) ForgeRock
13 15 (2.47%) Red Hat
13 15 (2.47%) Thycotic
14 14 (2.31%) Centrify
14 14 (2.31%) Workday
15 11 (1.81%) Zscaler