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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 181 189
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 735 449 571
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.73% 1.52% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.69% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 320 397
10th Percentile £398 £413 £407
25th Percentile £465 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £618
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £752 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £592 £650
% change year-on-year -7.07% -8.94% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £71.02 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £93.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 36,632 26,629 38,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.08% 90.34% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,216 16,983 25,185
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -1.84% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 898 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.57 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.68 £76.53 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £32.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -17.02% +0.63% -9.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +27 669 £550 -10.93% 133
UK excluding London +18 364 £550 -7.07% 95
London +29 294 £568 -9.20% 54
Work from Home +5 220 £550 -4.35% 66
North of England +18 143 £537 +2.29% 21
Yorkshire +5 92 £519 -2.85% 5
South East -18 80 £583 -10.38% 44
Midlands -24 77 £550 -6.38% 11
West Midlands -29 61 £550 -7.71% 5
South West +9 50 £675 +17.39% 5
North West -12 46 £550 +4.76% 16
East Midlands -22 15 £638 +27.50% 6
Scotland +3 13 £550 +4.76% 4
North East -8 6 £491 -9.17%
East of England -30 6 £500 -23.08% 8
Wales -7 1 £250 -66.67% 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 46 (6.26%) Confluence
2 38 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (4.49%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.41%) Apache
4 3 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.27%) IIS
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.14%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) iPlanet
6 1 (0.14%) JBoss
6 1 (0.14%) Mendix
6 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (2.31%) MS Visio
2 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.95%) Maximo
3 3 (0.41%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 321 (43.67%) Azure
2 238 (32.38%) Entra ID
3 143 (19.46%) AWS
4 92 (12.52%) GCP
5 74 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (5.31%) GitHub
7 37 (5.03%) SaaS
8 36 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (4.63%) Azure AKS
9 34 (4.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 28 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (3.67%) Power Platform
12 25 (3.40%) PaaS
12 25 (3.40%) Serverless
13 23 (3.13%) IaaS
14 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.59%) OneDrive
16 18 (2.45%) OpenShift
17 16 (2.18%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (11.43%) Firewall
2 74 (10.07%) DNS
3 63 (8.57%) Network Security
4 42 (5.71%) DHCP
5 31 (4.22%) VPN
6 29 (3.95%) Kerberos
7 25 (3.40%) WAN
8 22 (2.99%) LAN
8 22 (2.99%) SSL
9 20 (2.72%) BGP
9 20 (2.72%) OSPF
10 19 (2.59%) BIG-IP
10 19 (2.59%) Ethernet VPN
10 19 (2.59%) Junos
10 19 (2.59%) VXLAN
11 14 (1.90%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (1.50%) WebEx
13 9 (1.22%) Internet
14 7 (0.95%) TCP/IP
15 6 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.18%) Power BI
2 15 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.77%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.50%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.36%) DocumentDB
6 8 (1.09%) Tableau
7 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.68%) MySQL
7 5 (0.68%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.54%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.41%) Redis
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 72 (9.80%) JIRA
2 39 (5.31%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.08%) Git
4 26 (3.54%) GitLab
5 17 (2.31%) Postman
6 15 (2.04%) Selenium
7 10 (1.36%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.09%) Jaeger
9 6 (0.82%) TestRail
10 4 (0.54%) Gatling
10 4 (0.54%) JMeter
10 4 (0.54%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.54%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.54%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.41%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Maven
11 3 (0.41%) MSI
12 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 200 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 135 (18.37%) Finance
3 90 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (7.35%) Banking
6 28 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.81%) Legal
7 17 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Military
11 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.82%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.68%) Police
12 5 (0.68%) Retail
12 5 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.41%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 225 (30.61%) Architect
2 84 (11.43%) Analyst
3 75 (10.20%) Solutions Architect
4 65 (8.84%) Lead
4 65 (8.84%) Senior
5 56 (7.62%) Security Architect
6 41 (5.58%) Business Analyst
7 32 (4.35%) Consultant
8 31 (4.22%) Developer
9 28 (3.81%) Security Engineer
10 23 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (3.13%) Lead Architect
11 22 (2.99%) Azure Architect
11 22 (2.99%) Project Manager
12 21 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.86%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (2.45%) Identity Management Architect
14 17 (2.31%) Technical Architect
15 15 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (11.29%) OAuth
2 82 (11.16%) SAML
3 80 (10.88%) SailPoint
4 62 (8.44%) OpenID
5 52 (7.07%) LDAP
6 46 (6.26%) REST
7 28 (3.81%) ARM Templates
7 28 (3.81%) OAuth2
8 27 (3.67%) .NET
9 23 (3.13%) Kafka
10 22 (2.99%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.72%) 802.1X
11 20 (2.72%) Middleware
12 17 (2.31%) Node.js
13 15 (2.04%) Spring
14 14 (1.90%) RESTful
15 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (1.50%) XMPP
17 10 (1.36%) HTML
17 10 (1.36%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.30%) Onboarding
2 54 (7.35%) PKI
3 44 (5.99%) Cloud Native
4 38 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.49%) Security Posture
6 29 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 19 (2.59%) Clustering
10 17 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.31%) Replication
11 16 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.82%) BYOD
14 6 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.68%) Fat Client
15 5 (0.68%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (13.88%) Windows
2 46 (6.26%) Windows Server
3 36 (4.90%) Linux
4 11 (1.50%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.82%) VMS
7 5 (0.68%) Android
8 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.54%) Unix
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (22.18%) Cybersecurity
2 141 (19.18%) RBAC
3 133 (18.10%) CI/CD
4 128 (17.41%) DevOps
5 115 (15.65%) Cloud Security
5 115 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
6 105 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 102 (13.88%) Agile
8 96 (13.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 92 (12.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 91 (12.38%) Identity Management
11 90 (12.24%) Privileged Access Management
12 83 (11.29%) Zero Trust
13 72 (9.80%) Data Protection
14 71 (9.66%) Migration
15 63 (8.57%) Roadmaps
16 62 (8.44%) Observability
17 60 (8.16%) Analytics
18 59 (8.03%) High Availability
18 59 (8.03%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (18.23%) PowerShell
2 80 (10.88%) Python
3 66 (8.98%) Java
4 56 (7.62%) SQL
5 35 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 33 (4.49%) Bicep
7 25 (3.40%) Bash
8 15 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.63%) C#
10 9 (1.22%) Rust
10 9 (1.22%) Scala
11 8 (1.09%) PHP
12 7 (0.95%) Perl
13 5 (0.68%) Groovy
14 4 (0.54%) Cypher
15 3 (0.41%) C++
15 3 (0.41%) Go
16 2 (0.27%) BeanShell
16 2 (0.27%) C
16 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 246 (33.47%) Security Cleared
2 176 (23.95%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.70%) CISSP
4 67 (9.12%) CISM
5 61 (8.30%) DV Cleared
6 52 (7.07%) Degree
7 43 (5.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (5.58%) Azure Certification
9 35 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.90%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.90%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.90%) PMI Certification
12 13 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (1.63%) CCSP
13 12 (1.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (1.50%) PMP
15 10 (1.36%) PhD
16 9 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.34%) GDPR
2 74 (10.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (8.57%) NIST
4 33 (4.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 22 (2.99%) GRC
6 20 (2.72%) QA
7 19 (2.59%) PCI DSS
8 18 (2.45%) NCSC
9 12 (1.63%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.50%) COBIT
11 8 (1.09%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.09%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.95%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.95%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.82%) ITGC
13 6 (0.82%) PMO
13 6 (0.82%) SOX 404
14 5 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 216 (29.39%) Active Directory
2 58 (7.89%) Docker
3 24 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.50%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.68%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.54%) vSphere
10 3 (0.41%) IAG
11 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
11 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
11 2 (0.27%) RACF
12 1 (0.14%) GPFS
12 1 (0.14%) Lustre
12 1 (0.14%) NetIQ eDirectory
12 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
12 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (14.29%) Terraform
2 96 (13.06%) Single Sign-On
3 87 (11.84%) Kubernetes
4 49 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 27 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (3.54%) Ansible
7 20 (2.72%) FortiGate
8 16 (2.18%) Grafana
9 12 (1.63%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.50%) SCCM
11 8 (1.09%) Kiali
12 7 (0.95%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 7 (0.95%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 5 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.68%) QRadar
14 4 (0.54%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.54%) Istio
15 3 (0.41%) CASB
15 3 (0.41%) Icinga
16 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 244 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.44%) CyberArk
2 62 (8.44%) Okta
3 55 (7.48%) Google
4 46 (6.26%) Splunk
5 37 (5.03%) ServiceNow
6 36 (4.90%) Cisco
7 30 (4.08%) Oracle
7 30 (4.08%) VMware
8 27 (3.67%) SAP
9 20 (2.72%) F5
9 20 (2.72%) Juniper
10 19 (2.59%) Citrix
10 19 (2.59%) SolarWinds
11 17 (2.31%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (2.18%) BiZZdesign
12 16 (2.18%) ForgeRock
13 15 (2.04%) BeyondTrust
13 15 (2.04%) Centrify
13 15 (2.04%) Red Hat