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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 176 184
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 807 471 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.62% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.78% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 341 381
10th Percentile £400 £413 £408
25th Percentile £481 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £585 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -5.65% -0.80%
75th Percentile £652 £684 £725
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £650
% change year-on-year -2.65% -13.08% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 2
10th Percentile £50.26 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £74.26 - -
90th Percentile £83.38 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.80 - -

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 40,694 26,498 36,630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.34% 91.04% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,533 17,004 23,615
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,106 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.98 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +20 699 £575 -2.13% 160
UK excluding London +32 401 £550 -2.65% 122
London +9 305 £580 -6.83% 62
Work from Home +15 268 £550 - 74
North of England +15 136 £540 +2.86% 26
South East -4 107 £583 -10.38% 52
Yorkshire +17 94 £531 -0.61% 7
Midlands -10 76 £550 - 10
South West -2 61 £613 +11.36% 17
West Midlands -19 61 £525 -10.64% 5
North West -23 41 £575 +9.52% 17
Scotland +6 27 £540 +2.86% 6
East Midlands -20 13 £619 +39.12% 4
Wales -5 5 £468 -22.08% 5
East of England -28 4 £710 +9.23% 6
North East -23 1 £400 -6.98% 2

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 26 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.10%) Confluence
3 21 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.87%) Apache
5 6 (0.74%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.50%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.36%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.62%) Maximo
2 5 (0.62%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 383 (47.46%) Azure
2 246 (30.48%) Entra ID
3 176 (21.81%) AWS
4 106 (13.14%) GCP
5 71 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
6 51 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (6.20%) GitHub
8 46 (5.70%) Azure AKS
9 41 (5.08%) Power Platform
10 34 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
10 34 (4.21%) SaaS
11 27 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (3.35%) IaaS
11 27 (3.35%) PaaS
11 27 (3.35%) Serverless
12 18 (2.23%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (2.23%) OpenShift
13 17 (2.11%) Power Automate
13 17 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 80 (9.91%) Firewall
2 75 (9.29%) DNS
3 72 (8.92%) Network Security
4 48 (5.95%) DHCP
5 43 (5.33%) WAN
6 34 (4.21%) VPN
7 28 (3.47%) LAN
8 26 (3.22%) BGP
8 26 (3.22%) OSPF
9 24 (2.97%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.97%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.97%) Junos
9 24 (2.97%) VXLAN
10 23 (2.85%) SSL
11 21 (2.60%) Kerberos
12 19 (2.35%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (1.73%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.74%) Internet
16 5 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.85%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.98%) Power BI
3 15 (1.86%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.73%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.24%) DocumentDB
7 9 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.12%) Tableau
8 8 (0.99%) Neo4j
9 6 (0.74%) MySQL
10 3 (0.37%) Big Data
10 3 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.37%) Redis
11 2 (0.25%) Metadata
11 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.25%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (8.30%) JIRA
2 53 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.97%) Git
4 24 (2.97%) GitLab
5 17 (2.11%) Postman
6 15 (1.86%) Selenium
7 10 (1.24%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.24%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.12%) Gatling
9 8 (0.99%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.62%) Maven
10 5 (0.62%) TestRail
11 4 (0.50%) JMeter
11 4 (0.50%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.50%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.50%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.37%) JUnit
13 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.25%) git-flow
13 2 (0.25%) Snyk
General
1 194 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 140 (17.35%) Finance
3 101 (12.52%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.94%) Banking
5 33 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (3.10%) Legal
7 19 (2.35%) Retail
8 16 (1.98%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (0.99%) Military
12 7 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.87%) Police
13 5 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.50%) Local Government
15 3 (0.37%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.37%) Aviation
15 3 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 220 (27.26%) Architect
2 77 (9.54%) Lead
2 77 (9.54%) Senior
3 73 (9.05%) Analyst
4 64 (7.93%) Developer
5 52 (6.44%) Security Architect
6 39 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
7 33 (4.09%) Java Developer
8 29 (3.59%) Project Manager
9 28 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 28 (3.47%) Security Engineer
10 27 (3.35%) Business Analyst
11 26 (3.22%) Consultant
12 25 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
13 23 (2.85%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 23 (2.85%) Identity Management Analyst
14 22 (2.73%) Cloud Architect
14 22 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.48%) Technical Architect
16 19 (2.35%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.02%) SailPoint
2 75 (9.29%) SAML
3 72 (8.92%) OAuth
4 63 (7.81%) LDAP
4 63 (7.81%) OpenID
5 48 (5.95%) REST
6 28 (3.47%) Kafka
7 27 (3.35%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.22%) 802.1X
8 26 (3.22%) ARM Templates
9 22 (2.73%) Node.js
9 22 (2.73%) OAuth2
10 20 (2.48%) .NET
10 20 (2.48%) Middleware
11 19 (2.35%) Spring
12 15 (1.86%) Playwright
12 15 (1.86%) RESTful
13 10 (1.24%) HTML
13 10 (1.24%) YAML
14 9 (1.12%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 74 (9.17%) PKI
2 68 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 50 (6.20%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.33%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.59%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.10%) Security Posture
7 24 (2.97%) Clustering
7 24 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.97%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.23%) Replication
9 17 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.11%) Operational Technology
9 17 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 15 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.99%) SCADA
13 7 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.38%) Windows
2 51 (6.32%) Linux
3 32 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.12%) Unix
5 8 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.62%) Debian
7 5 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.50%) VMS
9 3 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (22.92%) DevOps
2 171 (21.19%) Cybersecurity
3 158 (19.58%) CI/CD
4 143 (17.72%) Agile
5 135 (16.73%) RBAC
6 117 (14.50%) Zero Trust
7 110 (13.63%) Cloud Security
8 98 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
8 98 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 93 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 88 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 77 (9.54%) Identity Management
12 76 (9.42%) Security Architecture
13 75 (9.29%) Observability
14 72 (8.92%) AI
14 72 (8.92%) Privileged Access Management
15 70 (8.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (8.67%) High Availability
15 70 (8.67%) Migration
16 67 (8.30%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 129 (15.99%) PowerShell
2 96 (11.90%) Java
3 95 (11.77%) Python
4 70 (8.67%) SQL
5 37 (4.58%) Bicep
6 23 (2.85%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.73%) Bash
8 14 (1.73%) Scala
9 13 (1.61%) Rust
10 9 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.87%) C#
11 7 (0.87%) Go
12 5 (0.62%) Groovy
12 5 (0.62%) PHP
13 4 (0.50%) Cypher
14 3 (0.37%) C++
14 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.37%) R
15 2 (0.25%) C
15 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 270 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.92%) SC Cleared
3 71 (8.80%) DV Cleared
4 67 (8.30%) CISSP
5 45 (5.58%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (5.20%) CISM
7 39 (4.83%) Degree
8 37 (4.58%) Azure Certification
9 25 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 22 (2.73%) CCSP
12 17 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.61%) PMI Certification
14 12 (1.49%) PMP
15 10 (1.24%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.87%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.87%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.87%) JNCIS
17 6 (0.74%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (10.29%) NIST
2 80 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 78 (9.67%) GDPR
4 36 (4.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 29 (3.59%) GRC
6 24 (2.97%) NCSC
7 21 (2.60%) QA
8 14 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.61%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.24%) NIST 800
10 10 (1.24%) SLA
11 7 (0.87%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.87%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.74%) PMO
13 5 (0.62%) COBIT
14 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.37%) GxP
16 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.25%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 212 (26.27%) Active Directory
2 68 (8.43%) Docker
3 26 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.73%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.87%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.37%) IAG
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.25%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.25%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.25%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.25%) RACF
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 109 (13.51%) Terraform
2 108 (13.38%) Kubernetes
3 87 (10.78%) Single Sign-On
4 41 (5.08%) Ansible
5 30 (3.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.97%) FortiGate
7 21 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.11%) Grafana
9 12 (1.49%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.24%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 10 (1.24%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 9 (1.12%) SCCM
12 8 (0.99%) Kiali
13 7 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.87%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.62%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.50%) Argo
15 4 (0.50%) Istio
16 3 (0.37%) Icinga
16 3 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 231 (28.62%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.92%) Okta
3 52 (6.44%) Google
4 44 (5.45%) Splunk
5 42 (5.20%) ServiceNow
6 40 (4.96%) CyberArk
7 34 (4.21%) Cisco
8 33 (4.09%) VMware
9 27 (3.35%) ForgeRock
10 26 (3.22%) F5
10 26 (3.22%) Oracle
10 26 (3.22%) SAP
11 24 (2.97%) Juniper
11 24 (2.97%) SolarWinds
12 22 (2.73%) Extreme Networks
13 18 (2.23%) Workday
13 18 (2.23%) Zscaler
14 17 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
15 13 (1.61%) Citrix
16 12 (1.49%) Red Hat