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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 179 182
Rank change year-on-year +48 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,184 530 503
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 1.60% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.77% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 348 331
10th Percentile £410 £367 £425
25th Percentile £475 £440 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £534 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -11.08% +1.05%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £700
90th Percentile £735 £727 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £635
% change year-on-year +5.00% -21.26% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £63.44 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £88.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +272.90% -66.24%
75th Percentile £85.00 £95.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £97.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -0.05% - -

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 46,826 30,024 32,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.50% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,144 18,679 19,408
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,886 1,245
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.07 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 14 October 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 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 18 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 14 October 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 +34 964 £550 +3.77% 717
UK excluding London +47 561 £525 +5.00% 339
London +23 463 £575 - 380
Work from Home +44 364 £563 +8.17% 370
North of England +11 201 £500 +5.26% 102
South East +22 137 £574 +14.80% 112
Yorkshire +22 122 £538 +8.37% 50
Scotland +28 71 £481 -15.61% 21
North West -16 65 £500 +10.38% 47
Midlands -55 54 £510 -1.35% 39
South West -6 51 £600 +9.09% 33
East of England -4 40 £550 -8.33% 20
West Midlands -41 38 £510 -7.27% 26
East Midlands -27 15 £475 +15.85% 13
North East -34 13 £500 -2.91% 5
Wales -3 11 £500 -28.57% 9
Northern Ireland +7 2 £600 -4.00% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £575 - 1

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 41 (3.46%) Confluence
2 39 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.59%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.34%) nginx
6 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.084%) Documentum
8 1 (0.084%) Drupal
8 1 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.42%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.17%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.084%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 488 (41.22%) Azure
2 367 (31.00%) Entra ID
3 307 (25.93%) AWS
4 169 (14.27%) GCP
5 96 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (6.17%) GitHub
7 65 (5.49%) SaaS
8 53 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (3.55%) Power Platform
10 42 (3.55%) Serverless
11 39 (3.29%) OCI
12 36 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 35 (2.96%) Azure AKS
14 34 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
15 33 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
17 27 (2.28%) PaaS
18 25 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
19 24 (2.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 98 (8.28%) Network Security
2 89 (7.52%) Firewall
3 64 (5.41%) DNS
4 40 (3.38%) VPN
5 22 (1.86%) DHCP
6 19 (1.60%) Kerberos
7 18 (1.52%) WAN
8 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.93%) IPsec
10 10 (0.84%) SSL
11 8 (0.68%) Internet
11 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.68%) X.509
12 7 (0.59%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.42%) LAN
15 4 (0.34%) MQTT
15 4 (0.34%) VLAN
16 3 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
16 3 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.62%) Metadata
3 28 (2.36%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.60%) Power BI
5 12 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.93%) Neo4j
6 11 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 61 (5.15%) Git
2 52 (4.39%) JIRA
3 40 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.20%) GitLab
5 20 (1.69%) Selenium
6 11 (0.93%) Gatling
7 8 (0.68%) JMeter
8 7 (0.59%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.59%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.42%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.42%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.34%) JUnit
10 4 (0.34%) Postman
10 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.25%) Maven
11 3 (0.25%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 356 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 262 (22.13%) Finance
3 154 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 132 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (6.84%) Banking
6 64 (5.41%) Retail
7 60 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (2.11%) Legal
10 20 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.35%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.01%) Military
13 9 (0.76%) Law
13 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.68%) Local Government
14 8 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.42%) Automotive
15 5 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 291 (24.58%) Architect
2 110 (9.29%) Lead
3 98 (8.28%) Analyst
3 98 (8.28%) Security Architect
4 76 (6.42%) Senior
5 68 (5.74%) Developer
6 61 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
7 59 (4.98%) Consultant
8 56 (4.73%) Security Engineer
9 52 (4.39%) Business Analyst
10 49 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (4.14%) Support Engineer
11 42 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
11 42 (3.55%) Project Manager
11 42 (3.55%) Technical Architect
12 41 (3.46%) Java Developer
13 35 (2.96%) Service Manager
14 34 (2.87%) Service Transition Manager
14 34 (2.87%) Transition Manager
15 32 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (16.89%) Terraform
2 127 (10.73%) OAuth
3 109 (9.21%) OpenID
4 91 (7.69%) SailPoint
5 90 (7.60%) SAML
6 70 (5.91%) LDAP
7 66 (5.57%) REST
8 49 (4.14%) OAuth2
9 35 (2.96%) .NET
10 31 (2.62%) Kafka
11 27 (2.28%) ARM Templates
12 24 (2.03%) React
13 22 (1.86%) JSON
14 19 (1.60%) Spring
15 18 (1.52%) .NET Framework
15 18 (1.52%) RESTful
15 18 (1.52%) Web Services
15 18 (1.52%) XML
16 17 (1.44%) Node.js
17 15 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 136 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 135 (11.40%) Onboarding
3 100 (8.45%) PKI
4 75 (6.33%) Security Posture
5 54 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (4.39%) Management Information System
7 44 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (3.21%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.53%) Operational Technology
11 28 (2.36%) Data Centre
11 28 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (2.28%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.44%) CMDB
17 15 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
17 15 (1.27%) IoT
17 15 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.81%) Windows
2 95 (8.02%) Linux
3 61 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.76%) macOS
5 9 (0.76%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.68%) Unix
7 7 (0.59%) VMS
7 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
9 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.34%) Debian
10 4 (0.34%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.084%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (25.93%) Cybersecurity
2 279 (23.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 246 (20.78%) CI/CD
4 215 (18.16%) DevOps
4 215 (18.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 212 (17.91%) Agile
6 198 (16.72%) RBAC
7 197 (16.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (15.54%) Cloud Security
9 171 (14.44%) Security Architecture
10 167 (14.10%) Zero Trust
11 164 (13.85%) Privileged Access Management
11 164 (13.85%) Roadmaps
12 155 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
13 150 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 145 (12.25%) Migration
15 128 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
16 127 (10.73%) Identity Management
16 127 (10.73%) Vulnerability Management
17 126 (10.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 205 (17.31%) PowerShell
2 195 (16.47%) Python
3 96 (8.11%) Java
4 85 (7.18%) Bash
5 80 (6.76%) SQL
6 54 (4.56%) Bicep
7 30 (2.53%) C#
8 18 (1.52%) Go
9 14 (1.18%) Rust
10 11 (0.93%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.68%) Scala
12 7 (0.59%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.42%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.34%) Groovy
15 4 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.25%) Cypher
17 2 (0.17%) DAML
17 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 345 (29.14%) Security Cleared
2 262 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 103 (8.70%) CISSP
4 72 (6.08%) Degree
5 66 (5.57%) Azure Certification
6 65 (5.49%) CISM
7 62 (5.24%) DV Cleared
8 50 (4.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (3.38%) AWS Certification
10 37 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (2.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 27 (2.28%) CCSP
14 21 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (1.52%) PMP
16 16 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (1.01%) PMI Certification
19 11 (0.93%) CRISC
19 11 (0.93%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (10.73%) NIST
2 120 (10.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.65%) GDPR
4 44 (3.72%) NCSC
5 39 (3.29%) GRC
6 25 (2.11%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.60%) QA
9 17 (1.44%) SLA
10 16 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 10 (0.84%) COBIT
13 9 (0.76%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.76%) ITGC
14 8 (0.68%) PMO
15 7 (0.59%) SOC 2
16 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.51%) JSP 440
17 5 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 305 (25.76%) Active Directory
2 109 (9.21%) Docker
3 29 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.34%) vSphere
8 3 (0.25%) KVM
8 3 (0.25%) zsh
9 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.17%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.084%) IAG
10 1 (0.084%) Squid
10 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.084%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 136 (11.49%) Single Sign-On
2 134 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.74%) Ansible
4 47 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (3.46%) Grafana
6 21 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.69%) Argo
8 13 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.76%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.59%) Istio
12 6 (0.51%) Puppet
13 5 (0.42%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.42%) Podman
14 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.34%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.34%) SCCM
15 3 (0.25%) FreeIPA
15 3 (0.25%) VxRail
15 3 (0.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 431 (36.40%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.12%) Okta
3 97 (8.19%) CyberArk
4 84 (7.09%) Google
5 59 (4.98%) BeyondTrust
6 55 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 51 (4.31%) Oracle
8 46 (3.89%) VMware
9 34 (2.87%) Zscaler
10 29 (2.45%) SAP
11 23 (1.94%) Ping Identity
12 22 (1.86%) ForgeRock
13 20 (1.69%) Cisco
14 19 (1.60%) Splunk
15 17 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (1.27%) Databricks
17 14 (1.18%) Red Hat
18 13 (1.10%) Workday
19 10 (0.84%) Palo Alto
19 10 (0.84%) Tenable