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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 181 188
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 984 522 539
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.87% 1.60% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.77% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 376 373
10th Percentile £425 £386 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £537 £625
% change year-on-year +2.42% -14.08% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 4
10th Percentile £51.33 £49.50 -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +173.11% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.02 £86.25 £36.60
90th Percentile £87.72 £94.50 £59.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.09 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -6.56% - -

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 44,826 29,510 35,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.34% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,532 22,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,642 1,578 2,152
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.94 £62.76
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.13 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.45%

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 23 July 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 23 July 2026.

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 23 July 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 +14 802 £575 - 282
UK excluding London +45 467 £550 +2.42% 185
London +15 382 £575 -4.17% 132
Work from Home +25 329 £550 +1.85% 137
North of England +5 134 £550 +17.15% 57
South East +1 133 £575 -11.54% 54
Yorkshire 0 79 £544 +20.83% 32
Midlands -33 68 £550 +10.89% 19
Scotland +40 61 £478 -10.65% 17
South West -13 54 £563 +7.14% 26
West Midlands -31 53 £525 -4.55% 9
North West -14 52 £575 +16.87% 25
East of England -12 22 £553 -18.21% 5
East Midlands -22 13 £638 +55.49% 10
Wales - 8 £471 - 6
North East -37 4 £550 +10.83%
Channel Islands - 1 £575 -

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 32 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.95%) Confluence
3 28 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.91%) Apache
5 7 (0.71%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.41%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.10%) Mendix
9 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.71%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.20%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 449 (45.63%) Azure
2 309 (31.40%) Entra ID
3 212 (21.54%) AWS
4 123 (12.50%) GCP
5 76 (7.72%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (5.59%) GitHub
7 53 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (4.98%) Power Platform
9 47 (4.78%) Azure AKS
10 42 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
12 40 (4.07%) SaaS
13 39 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
14 31 (3.15%) OCI
15 30 (3.05%) PaaS
16 28 (2.85%) Serverless
17 27 (2.74%) IaaS
18 21 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
18 21 (2.13%) Microsoft Copilot
18 21 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 94 (9.55%) Network Security
2 86 (8.74%) Firewall
3 78 (7.93%) DNS
4 46 (4.67%) WAN
5 40 (4.07%) DHCP
6 34 (3.46%) VPN
7 27 (2.74%) BGP
8 26 (2.64%) LAN
8 26 (2.64%) OSPF
9 24 (2.44%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.44%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.44%) Junos
9 24 (2.44%) VXLAN
10 19 (1.93%) Cisco ISE
11 18 (1.83%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.12%) SSL
13 10 (1.02%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
15 8 (0.81%) Internet
16 7 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.13%) Power BI
3 14 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 9 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.71%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.71%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (0.71%) Tableau
7 6 (0.61%) Metadata
8 5 (0.51%) Big Data
8 5 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.51%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.41%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.20%) MySQL
11 2 (0.20%) Parquet
11 2 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (5.39%) JIRA
2 44 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.56%) Git
4 19 (1.93%) GitLab
5 7 (0.71%) Gatling
6 4 (0.41%) Postman
6 4 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.30%) MSBuild
7 3 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.30%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.20%) JMeter
8 2 (0.20%) Maven
8 2 (0.20%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 2 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 244 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 200 (20.33%) Finance
3 131 (13.31%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.61%) Banking
6 53 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 52 (5.28%) Retail
8 25 (2.54%) Legal
9 18 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.42%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.81%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.71%) Police
14 6 (0.61%) Military
15 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.41%) Law
16 4 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 256 (26.02%) Architect
2 87 (8.84%) Lead
3 82 (8.33%) Analyst
4 80 (8.13%) Security Architect
5 77 (7.83%) Senior
6 73 (7.42%) Developer
7 47 (4.78%) Consultant
8 44 (4.47%) Java Developer
8 44 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
9 39 (3.96%) Business Analyst
9 39 (3.96%) Project Manager
10 36 (3.66%) Support Engineer
11 32 (3.25%) Technical Architect
12 30 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (2.85%) Service Manager
14 28 (2.85%) Service Transition Manager
14 28 (2.85%) Transition Manager
15 27 (2.74%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (10.57%) SailPoint
2 88 (8.94%) OAuth
3 77 (7.83%) OpenID
4 76 (7.72%) SAML
5 54 (5.49%) LDAP
6 50 (5.08%) REST
7 30 (3.05%) OAuth2
8 28 (2.85%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.64%) 802.1X
10 25 (2.54%) .NET
11 17 (1.73%) Middleware
12 16 (1.63%) Node.js
13 15 (1.52%) JSON
13 15 (1.52%) Kafka
14 14 (1.42%) .NET Framework
14 14 (1.42%) React
14 14 (1.42%) Spring
15 13 (1.32%) Web Services
16 12 (1.22%) Spring Boot
17 11 (1.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (10.87%) Onboarding
2 95 (9.65%) PKI
3 78 (7.93%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.47%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.76%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 29 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.85%) Operational Technology
8 28 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.85%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (2.44%) Clustering
11 23 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
16 14 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (1.12%) IoT
17 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (11.38%) Windows
2 70 (7.11%) Linux
3 30 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.02%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.02%) Unix
5 6 (0.61%) Debian
5 6 (0.61%) VMS
6 5 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.20%) Android
9 2 (0.20%) CentOS
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Rocky
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (21.34%) DevOps
2 204 (20.73%) Cybersecurity
3 177 (17.99%) CI/CD
4 169 (17.17%) Agile
5 158 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (14.84%) Zero Trust
7 144 (14.63%) RBAC
8 141 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 141 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
9 136 (13.82%) Cloud Security
10 123 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 118 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 108 (10.98%) Security Architecture
13 107 (10.87%) Privileged Access Management
14 102 (10.37%) Identity Management
15 99 (10.06%) Roadmaps
16 98 (9.96%) Migration
17 92 (9.35%) AI
18 85 (8.64%) Technical Leadership
19 78 (7.93%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 161 (16.36%) PowerShell
2 128 (13.01%) Python
3 79 (8.03%) Java
4 69 (7.01%) SQL
5 51 (5.18%) Bicep
6 46 (4.67%) Bash
7 23 (2.34%) C#
8 15 (1.52%) Rust
9 12 (1.22%) Go
10 5 (0.51%) Scala
10 5 (0.51%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.41%) Groovy
11 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.30%) C++
12 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.30%) R
13 2 (0.20%) C
13 2 (0.20%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 301 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 220 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.74%) CISSP
4 64 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 53 (5.39%) Azure Certification
5 53 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (5.18%) Degree
7 48 (4.88%) CISM
8 35 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (3.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 30 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (2.74%) CCSP
12 18 (1.83%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.73%) PMP
14 15 (1.52%) PMI Certification
15 13 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.71%) CISA
16 7 (0.71%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.71%) MCSE
16 7 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 94 (9.55%) NIST
2 63 (6.40%) GDPR
3 38 (3.86%) NCSC
4 33 (3.35%) GRC
5 25 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.63%) QA
6 16 (1.63%) SLA
7 13 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.12%) SOC 2
10 10 (1.02%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.81%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.81%) PMO
12 7 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.61%) COBIT
13 6 (0.61%) ITGC
14 5 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
14 5 (0.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 278 (28.25%) Active Directory
2 72 (7.32%) Docker
3 26 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.42%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.41%) IAG
8 3 (0.30%) vSphere
9 2 (0.20%) KVM
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.20%) RACF
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.20%) zsh
10 1 (0.10%) GPFS
10 1 (0.10%) Lustre
10 1 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 145 (14.74%) Terraform
2 107 (10.87%) Single Sign-On
3 106 (10.77%) Kubernetes
4 60 (6.10%) Ansible
5 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 25 (2.54%) Grafana
7 24 (2.44%) FortiGate
8 13 (1.32%) Argo
9 12 (1.22%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.71%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.51%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.51%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 4 (0.41%) Podman
13 4 (0.41%) Puppet
13 4 (0.41%) SCCM
14 3 (0.30%) Istio
14 3 (0.30%) WMI
Vendors
1 309 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 101 (10.26%) Okta
3 67 (6.81%) CyberArk
4 53 (5.39%) Google
5 45 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 44 (4.47%) Oracle
6 44 (4.47%) Splunk
7 41 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
8 40 (4.07%) VMware
9 38 (3.86%) SAP
10 36 (3.66%) Cisco
11 30 (3.05%) ForgeRock
12 26 (2.64%) F5
12 26 (2.64%) Zscaler
13 24 (2.44%) Juniper
13 24 (2.44%) SolarWinds
14 22 (2.24%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (2.03%) Workday
16 15 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (1.52%) Ping Identity