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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 177 183
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,020 522 528
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.91% 1.59% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 1.76% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 370 359
10th Percentile £425 £383 £425
25th Percentile £481 £466 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £751 £726 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +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 45,324 29,743 33,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.43% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,013 18,657 21,666
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,761 1,640 1,941
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.32 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.55% -42.44% +2.35%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 +15 834 £575 - 352
UK excluding London +49 480 £550 +2.33% 214
London +22 400 £575 -2.34% 166
Work from Home +37 338 £550 +2.42% 176
North of England +18 150 £550 +15.79% 68
South East +7 140 £575 -11.54% 69
Yorkshire +19 94 £544 +15.81% 42
Scotland +32 59 £478 -11.07% 16
Midlands -42 57 £590 +19.92% 13
South West -13 56 £588 +11.90% 32
North West -25 50 £550 +11.79% 26
West Midlands -44 42 £513 -6.82% 5
East of England -4 22 £553 -7.92% 9
East Midlands -25 13 £638 +55.49% 8
Wales - 8 £471 - 5
North East -37 5 £500 +0.76%
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 (3.14%) Confluence
1 32 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.88%) Apache
4 7 (0.69%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.39%) IIS
6 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.098%) Mendix
8 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.69%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 453 (44.41%) Azure
2 305 (29.90%) Entra ID
3 220 (21.57%) AWS
4 129 (12.65%) GCP
5 72 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (5.59%) GitHub
7 55 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (4.71%) Power Platform
9 45 (4.41%) Azure AKS
10 44 (4.31%) SaaS
11 43 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
12 40 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
13 38 (3.73%) Azure Sentinel
14 32 (3.14%) OCI
15 30 (2.94%) PaaS
16 29 (2.84%) Serverless
17 26 (2.55%) IaaS
18 22 (2.16%) Azure Key Vault
19 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
20 20 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 95 (9.31%) Network Security
2 85 (8.33%) Firewall
3 80 (7.84%) DNS
4 47 (4.61%) WAN
5 40 (3.92%) DHCP
6 32 (3.14%) VPN
7 27 (2.65%) LAN
8 26 (2.55%) BGP
9 25 (2.45%) OSPF
10 24 (2.35%) BIG-IP
10 24 (2.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 24 (2.35%) Junos
10 24 (2.35%) VXLAN
11 19 (1.86%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (1.76%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.08%) SSL
14 10 (0.98%) TCP/IP
15 8 (0.78%) Internet
16 7 (0.69%) Kerberos
17 6 (0.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.73%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.06%) Power BI
3 14 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 9 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.78%) Neo4j
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
7 7 (0.69%) Tableau
8 6 (0.59%) Metadata
9 5 (0.49%) Big Data
9 5 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.20%) Parquet
12 2 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 52 (5.10%) JIRA
2 42 (4.12%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.43%) Git
4 19 (1.86%) GitLab
5 10 (0.98%) Gatling
6 5 (0.49%) JMeter
6 5 (0.49%) NeoLoad
7 4 (0.39%) Postman
7 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.29%) MSBuild
8 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.29%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.20%) Maven
9 2 (0.20%) Snyk
10 1 (0.098%) REST Assured
General
1 266 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 215 (21.08%) Finance
3 130 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 94 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 68 (6.67%) Banking
6 55 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
6 55 (5.39%) Retail
7 24 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
7 24 (2.35%) Legal
8 15 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 14 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.59%) Military
12 6 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.49%) Local Government
14 3 (0.29%) Law
14 3 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 264 (25.88%) Architect
2 100 (9.80%) Lead
3 88 (8.63%) Security Architect
4 82 (8.04%) Analyst
5 81 (7.94%) Senior
6 73 (7.16%) Developer
7 49 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (4.61%) Consultant
9 45 (4.41%) Business Analyst
10 44 (4.31%) Java Developer
11 41 (4.02%) Project Manager
12 40 (3.92%) Support Engineer
13 33 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 33 (3.24%) Technical Architect
14 31 (3.04%) Service Manager
14 31 (3.04%) Service Transition Manager
14 31 (3.04%) Transition Manager
15 30 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.84%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (9.51%) OAuth
2 96 (9.41%) SailPoint
3 84 (8.24%) OpenID
4 82 (8.04%) SAML
5 50 (4.90%) LDAP
6 49 (4.80%) REST
7 37 (3.63%) OAuth2
8 27 (2.65%) .NET
8 27 (2.65%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.55%) 802.1X
10 16 (1.57%) Node.js
11 15 (1.47%) .NET Framework
11 15 (1.47%) JSON
11 15 (1.47%) Kafka
11 15 (1.47%) React
11 15 (1.47%) Spring
12 14 (1.37%) Middleware
13 12 (1.18%) Web Services
14 11 (1.08%) SOAP
14 11 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (10.98%) Onboarding
2 106 (10.39%) PKI
3 91 (8.92%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.31%) Data Centre
5 42 (4.12%) Security Posture
6 36 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.24%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.75%) Operational Technology
9 27 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 24 (2.35%) Clustering
11 23 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
15 14 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.08%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 119 (11.67%) Windows
2 74 (7.25%) Linux
3 35 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.98%) Unix
5 9 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.78%) VMS
7 6 (0.59%) Debian
8 5 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.098%) CentOS
12 1 (0.098%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (21.86%) Cybersecurity
2 212 (20.78%) DevOps
3 189 (18.53%) CI/CD
4 187 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 173 (16.96%) Agile
6 158 (15.49%) Zero Trust
7 152 (14.90%) RBAC
8 150 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 146 (14.31%) Cloud Security
10 144 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 123 (12.06%) Security Architecture
14 118 (11.57%) Privileged Access Management
15 109 (10.69%) Roadmaps
16 107 (10.49%) Identity Management
17 95 (9.31%) Migration
18 94 (9.22%) AI
18 94 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
19 87 (8.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 164 (16.08%) PowerShell
2 134 (13.14%) Python
3 82 (8.04%) Java
4 75 (7.35%) SQL
5 54 (5.29%) Bicep
6 53 (5.20%) Bash
7 22 (2.16%) C#
8 14 (1.37%) Rust
9 12 (1.18%) Go
10 7 (0.69%) Scala
11 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.39%) Groovy
12 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.29%) Cypher
13 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.29%) R
14 2 (0.20%) DAML
14 2 (0.20%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 312 (30.59%) Security Cleared
2 225 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 92 (9.02%) CISSP
4 66 (6.47%) DV Cleared
5 55 (5.39%) Degree
6 54 (5.29%) Azure Certification
6 54 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (5.29%) CISM
7 35 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 28 (2.75%) CCSP
11 19 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.86%) PMP
12 16 (1.57%) PMI Certification
13 14 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (0.98%) FFIEC
15 9 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.78%) CISA
17 7 (0.69%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.10%) NIST
2 98 (9.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (6.27%) GDPR
4 40 (3.92%) NCSC
5 36 (3.53%) GRC
6 24 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.67%) SLA
8 16 (1.57%) QA
9 13 (1.27%) Accessibility
10 12 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 11 (1.08%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.98%) Data Quality
13 9 (0.88%) COBIT
13 9 (0.88%) PMO
14 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.78%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.59%) ITGC
17 5 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
17 5 (0.49%) NIST 800
System Software
1 275 (26.96%) Active Directory
2 75 (7.35%) Docker
3 29 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.47%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.39%) IAG
7 4 (0.39%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) KVM
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.20%) RACF
8 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.20%) zsh
9 1 (0.098%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.098%) Squid
Systems Management
1 153 (15.00%) Terraform
2 116 (11.37%) Kubernetes
3 104 (10.20%) Single Sign-On
4 59 (5.78%) Ansible
5 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (2.55%) Grafana
7 24 (2.35%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.37%) Argo
9 12 (1.18%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.69%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 7 (0.69%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.49%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.49%) Istio
13 5 (0.49%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 4 (0.39%) Podman
14 4 (0.39%) Puppet
14 4 (0.39%) SCCM
15 3 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 314 (30.78%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.71%) Okta
3 72 (7.06%) CyberArk
4 54 (5.29%) Google
5 47 (4.61%) ServiceNow
6 46 (4.51%) Oracle
7 45 (4.41%) VMware
8 42 (4.12%) Splunk
9 41 (4.02%) BeyondTrust
10 38 (3.73%) SAP
11 36 (3.53%) Cisco
12 30 (2.94%) ForgeRock
13 27 (2.65%) Zscaler
14 26 (2.55%) F5
15 24 (2.35%) Juniper
15 24 (2.35%) SolarWinds
16 22 (2.16%) Extreme Networks
17 20 (1.96%) Workday
18 16 (1.57%) Ping Identity
19 14 (1.37%) Databricks