Identity Access Management Contracts

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Identity Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 193 192
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 +105
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 492 534 772
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.61% 1.24% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.45% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 368 478
10th Percentile £400 £413 £463
25th Percentile £492 £500 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £719
90th Percentile £739 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -13.39% +10.43% +7.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 11
10th Percentile £49.50 - £61.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £63.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £23.80 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +173.11% -63.94% -8.97%
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £94.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.90%

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 27,864 36,803 49,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.90% 85.25% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,568 23,445 34,342
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,367 2,552 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.40 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.91 £61.30 £64.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Identity Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management.

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 15 Contract 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 30 June 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 +37 428 £585 -2.50% 822
London +31 231 £609 +10.73% 485
UK excluding London +25 188 £550 -13.39% 388
Work from Home +36 184 £550 -8.33% 334
South East +29 50 £650 -3.70% 108
Midlands +15 44 £496 -21.89% 64
North of England -11 37 £492 -20.65% 104
South West +46 30 £550 -8.33% 28
West Midlands +5 23 £588 -9.62% 36
North West +1 22 £525 -22.79% 62
East Midlands +14 21 £413 -33.68% 28
Scotland +5 18 £535 -10.92% 45
Yorkshire -7 13 £469 -6.20% 35
East of England +36 12 £650 +31.98% 32
North East - 2 £430 - 7

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.85%) Confluence
4 5 (1.02%) CMS
4 5 (1.02%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Camunda
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 193 (39.23%) Azure
2 118 (23.98%) AWS
3 109 (22.15%) Entra ID
4 51 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (9.76%) GCP
6 24 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (4.47%) SaaS
7 22 (4.47%) Serverless
8 20 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
9 18 (3.66%) IaaS
10 17 (3.46%) PaaS
11 16 (3.25%) GitHub
12 15 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (3.05%) Microsoft Purview
13 11 (2.24%) Amazon S3
13 11 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 11 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 45 (9.15%) Network Security
2 26 (5.28%) Firewall
3 12 (2.44%) VPN
4 9 (1.83%) DNS
4 9 (1.83%) HTTPS
5 7 (1.42%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.42%) NAS
6 5 (1.02%) DHCP
7 4 (0.81%) HTTP
7 4 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
8 3 (0.61%) LAN
8 3 (0.61%) SAN
8 3 (0.61%) SSL
8 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.61%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.41%) DKIM
9 2 (0.41%) DMARC
9 2 (0.41%) Extranet
9 2 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (1.63%) DynamoDB
2 8 (1.63%) Power BI
3 6 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.81%) Parquet
5 3 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.61%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.41%) Big Data
6 2 (0.41%) Metadata
6 2 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.20%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.20%) DocumentDB
7 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.20%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (3.66%) JIRA
2 11 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.83%) Git
4 8 (1.63%) GitLab
5 2 (0.41%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.20%) Gatling
6 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.20%) Postman
6 1 (0.20%) Selenium
6 1 (0.20%) Snyk
6 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 160 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 124 (25.20%) Finance
3 70 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.99%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.74%) Banking
6 23 (4.67%) Manufacturing
6 23 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 21 (4.27%) Electronics
7 21 (4.27%) Marketing
8 10 (2.03%) Legal
9 9 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.83%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.22%) French Language
12 5 (1.02%) Aviation
12 5 (1.02%) Law
13 4 (0.81%) Retail
14 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 176 (35.77%) Architect
2 62 (12.60%) Security Architect
3 46 (9.35%) Analyst
3 46 (9.35%) Senior
4 32 (6.50%) Consultant
5 26 (5.28%) Active Directory Architect
6 22 (4.47%) Enterprise Architect
6 22 (4.47%) Security Engineer
7 20 (4.07%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (4.07%) Senior Architect
8 18 (3.66%) Business Analyst
9 17 (3.46%) Developer
9 17 (3.46%) IAM Specialist
10 16 (3.25%) Project Manager
10 16 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (3.05%) Security Consultant
12 14 (2.85%) Lead
13 13 (2.64%) Senior Security Architect
14 11 (2.24%) AWS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (16.67%) OAuth
2 77 (15.65%) OpenID
3 71 (14.43%) SAML
4 60 (12.20%) SailPoint
5 38 (7.72%) LDAP
6 32 (6.50%) OAuth2
7 16 (3.25%) REST
8 15 (3.05%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.24%) XACML
10 10 (2.03%) FIDO
10 10 (2.03%) SOAP
10 10 (2.03%) Spring
11 8 (1.63%) Hibernate
11 8 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
12 7 (1.42%) ADO
13 6 (1.22%) JDBC
14 5 (1.02%) Kafka
14 5 (1.02%) Keycloak
14 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Graph
14 5 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.50%) Security Posture
2 27 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 25 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (4.88%) PKI
5 19 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.86%) Product Ownership
6 17 (3.46%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.85%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.42%) Taxonomies
10 6 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (0.61%) Legacy Code
12 3 (0.61%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.28%) Windows
2 27 (5.49%) Linux
3 24 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.02%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) CentOS
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 88 (17.89%) Cybersecurity
3 86 (17.48%) Cloud Security
4 84 (17.07%) Agile
5 79 (16.06%) Identity Management
6 65 (13.21%) DevOps
6 65 (13.21%) RBAC
7 56 (11.38%) Migration
8 55 (11.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 52 (10.57%) CI/CD
9 52 (10.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 52 (10.57%) Security Architecture
10 46 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
11 43 (8.74%) Privileged Access Management
12 42 (8.54%) Roadmaps
13 41 (8.33%) Zero Trust
14 39 (7.93%) Threat Modelling
15 38 (7.72%) DevSecOps
16 36 (7.32%) Project Management
17 35 (7.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (20.33%) PowerShell
2 67 (13.62%) Python
3 48 (9.76%) Java
4 35 (7.11%) SQL
5 18 (3.66%) Bicep
6 16 (3.25%) Bash
7 14 (2.85%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.22%) Groovy
9 3 (0.61%) BeanShell
9 3 (0.61%) C#
9 3 (0.61%) VBA
10 2 (0.41%) Go
10 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) C
11 1 (0.20%) PHP
11 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 76 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 43 (8.74%) CISSP
4 37 (7.52%) DV Cleared
5 36 (7.32%) Degree
6 25 (5.08%) CISM
7 23 (4.67%) Azure Certification
8 22 (4.47%) AWS Certification
9 21 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (1.42%) OCP
11 7 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.42%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.22%) CCSP
12 6 (1.22%) CISA
12 6 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.22%) CRISC
12 6 (1.22%) GCIH
12 6 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (16.67%) NIST
2 80 (16.26%) GDPR
3 63 (12.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (9.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 39 (7.93%) HIPAA
6 17 (3.46%) SOC 2
7 16 (3.25%) GRC
8 15 (3.05%) PCI DSS
9 10 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (1.02%) NIST 800
10 5 (1.02%) QA
11 4 (0.81%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.81%) NCSC
11 4 (0.81%) SLA
12 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 2 (0.41%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.41%) PMO
13 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.20%) COBIT
13 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 164 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.28%) Docker
3 15 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.42%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.61%) OpenDJ
6 3 (0.61%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) IAG
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (14.84%) Single Sign-On
2 45 (9.15%) Terraform
3 43 (8.74%) Kubernetes
4 26 (5.28%) Ansible
5 19 (3.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.63%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 5 (1.02%) Grafana
7 5 (1.02%) SCCM
7 5 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 4 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.61%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.61%) Automic
9 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.61%) OPNET
9 3 (0.61%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.61%) Puppet
10 2 (0.41%) CASB
10 2 (0.41%) Nessus
11 1 (0.20%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 148 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.94%) Okta
3 36 (7.32%) SAP
4 35 (7.11%) Ping Identity
5 34 (6.91%) CyberArk
6 27 (5.49%) ForgeRock
7 24 (4.88%) ServiceNow
8 20 (4.07%) Google
8 20 (4.07%) Oracle
9 13 (2.64%) IBM
10 11 (2.24%) BeyondTrust
11 10 (2.03%) VMware
12 8 (1.63%) Zscaler
13 6 (1.22%) Splunk
14 5 (1.02%) F5
15 4 (0.81%) Qualys
16 3 (0.61%) Apple
16 3 (0.61%) Cisco
16 3 (0.61%) Proofpoint
16 3 (0.61%) Red Hat