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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 183 185
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 +48
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 741 455 567
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.54% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.71% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 327 392
10th Percentile £399 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -1.20%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +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 37,150 26,655 38,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 90.32% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,527 17,023 25,087
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 £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 906 2,334
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.69% -9.57%

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 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 14 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 14 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 +32 674 £550 -11.65% 132
UK excluding London +27 371 £550 -8.33% 95
London +20 292 £568 -9.20% 68
Work from Home 0 219 £550 -4.35% 65
North of England +20 145 £537 +2.29% 20
Yorkshire +14 93 £522 -2.39% 4
South East -23 85 £591 -9.04% 44
Midlands -16 76 £550 -6.38% 10
West Midlands -34 61 £550 -7.71% 5
South West +1 52 £675 +17.39% 9
North West -9 47 £550 +4.76% 16
East Midlands -19 14 £619 +23.75% 5
Scotland -2 13 £550 +4.76% 4
North East -8 6 £491 +14.07%
East of England -32 6 £500 -23.08% 5
Wales -11 1 £250 -66.67% 4

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 43 (5.80%) Confluence
2 37 (4.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (4.32%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.54%) Apache
4 4 (0.54%) 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 (0.13%) CMS
6 1 (0.13%) iPlanet
6 1 (0.13%) JBoss
6 1 (0.13%) Mendix
6 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
6 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 15 (2.02%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.94%) Maximo
3 3 (0.40%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 327 (44.13%) Azure
2 242 (32.66%) Entra ID
3 147 (19.84%) AWS
4 92 (12.42%) GCP
5 71 (9.58%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (5.40%) GitHub
8 36 (4.86%) SaaS
9 35 (4.72%) Azure AKS
9 35 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 32 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (4.18%) Power Platform
12 26 (3.51%) PaaS
13 25 (3.37%) Serverless
14 24 (3.24%) IaaS
15 21 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (2.56%) OneDrive
17 18 (2.43%) OpenShift
18 16 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (12.01%) Firewall
2 78 (10.53%) DNS
3 64 (8.64%) Network Security
4 45 (6.07%) DHCP
5 31 (4.18%) VPN
6 29 (3.91%) Kerberos
6 29 (3.91%) WAN
7 25 (3.37%) LAN
8 22 (2.97%) BGP
8 22 (2.97%) OSPF
8 22 (2.97%) SSL
9 20 (2.70%) BIG-IP
9 20 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
9 20 (2.70%) Junos
9 20 (2.70%) VXLAN
10 15 (2.02%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (1.48%) WebEx
12 10 (1.35%) Internet
13 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.29%) Power BI
2 15 (2.02%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.75%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.48%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.35%) DocumentDB
6 9 (1.21%) Tableau
7 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.67%) MySQL
7 5 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.54%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.40%) Redis
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (9.85%) JIRA
2 38 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.05%) Git
4 26 (3.51%) GitLab
5 17 (2.29%) Postman
6 15 (2.02%) Selenium
7 10 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.35%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.08%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.67%) 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 (0.40%) JUnit
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
11 3 (0.40%) MSI
12 2 (0.27%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.27%) Metasploit
General
1 196 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 135 (18.22%) Finance
3 90 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 79 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (7.02%) Banking
6 29 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (3.91%) Legal
7 16 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.08%) Military
11 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.67%) Police
12 5 (0.67%) Retail
13 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.40%) Local Government
15 2 (0.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 229 (30.90%) Architect
2 79 (10.66%) Analyst
3 75 (10.12%) Solutions Architect
4 66 (8.91%) Lead
4 66 (8.91%) Senior
5 56 (7.56%) Security Architect
6 40 (5.40%) Business Analyst
7 33 (4.45%) Consultant
8 31 (4.18%) Developer
9 28 (3.78%) Security Engineer
10 26 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (3.10%) Lead Architect
11 23 (3.10%) Project Manager
12 22 (2.97%) Azure Architect
12 22 (2.97%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (2.43%) Identity Management Architect
13 18 (2.43%) Technical Architect
14 17 (2.29%) Platform Engineer
15 15 (2.02%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (11.34%) OAuth
2 83 (11.20%) SAML
3 79 (10.66%) SailPoint
4 63 (8.50%) OpenID
5 52 (7.02%) LDAP
6 46 (6.21%) REST
7 29 (3.91%) ARM Templates
7 29 (3.91%) OAuth2
8 27 (3.64%) .NET
9 23 (3.10%) Kafka
10 22 (2.97%) 802.1X
10 22 (2.97%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.70%) Middleware
12 17 (2.29%) Node.js
13 15 (2.02%) Spring
14 14 (1.89%) RESTful
15 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (1.48%) XMPP
17 10 (1.35%) HTML
17 10 (1.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.10%) Onboarding
2 56 (7.56%) PKI
3 46 (6.21%) Cloud Native
4 38 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.45%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.32%) Data Centre
7 28 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.70%) Clustering
9 20 (2.70%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.29%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.29%) Replication
11 16 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.81%) BYOD
14 6 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (0.81%) Operational Technology
15 5 (0.67%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.67%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 103 (13.90%) Windows
2 46 (6.21%) Windows Server
3 36 (4.86%) Linux
4 11 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.35%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.94%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.81%) VMS
8 5 (0.67%) Android
9 4 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.54%) Unix
10 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
2 144 (19.43%) RBAC
3 140 (18.89%) CI/CD
4 135 (18.22%) DevOps
5 116 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
6 115 (15.52%) Cloud Security
7 106 (14.30%) Agile
7 106 (14.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 99 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (12.01%) Identity Management
9 89 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 88 (11.88%) Privileged Access Management
11 84 (11.34%) Zero Trust
12 72 (9.72%) Migration
13 71 (9.58%) Data Protection
14 65 (8.77%) Observability
15 64 (8.64%) Analytics
16 63 (8.50%) Roadmaps
17 61 (8.23%) High Availability
17 61 (8.23%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 135 (18.22%) PowerShell
2 85 (11.47%) Python
3 66 (8.91%) Java
4 58 (7.83%) SQL
5 37 (4.99%) Bicep
6 35 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 24 (3.24%) Bash
8 15 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.62%) C#
10 9 (1.21%) Rust
10 9 (1.21%) Scala
11 8 (1.08%) PHP
12 7 (0.94%) Perl
13 5 (0.67%) Groovy
14 4 (0.54%) Cypher
15 3 (0.40%) C++
15 3 (0.40%) Go
16 2 (0.27%) BeanShell
16 2 (0.27%) C
16 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 251 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 177 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.61%) CISSP
4 67 (9.04%) CISM
5 63 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 52 (7.02%) Degree
7 43 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (5.67%) Azure Certification
9 37 (4.99%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.89%) AWS Certification
11 14 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 14 (1.89%) PMI Certification
12 13 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 12 (1.62%) CCSP
13 12 (1.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 12 (1.62%) PMP
14 10 (1.35%) PhD
15 9 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.08%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (10.26%) GDPR
2 74 (9.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (8.64%) NIST
4 33 (4.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 22 (2.97%) GRC
6 19 (2.56%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.56%) QA
7 18 (2.43%) NCSC
8 12 (1.62%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.48%) COBIT
10 8 (1.08%) Data Quality
10 8 (1.08%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.94%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.81%) ITGC
12 6 (0.81%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.67%) PMO
13 5 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 217 (29.28%) Active Directory
2 59 (7.96%) Docker
3 25 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.48%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.94%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 7 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.40%) IAG
9 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.27%) RACF
10 1 (0.13%) GPFS
10 1 (0.13%) NDS
10 1 (0.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (14.44%) Terraform
2 96 (12.96%) Single Sign-On
3 88 (11.88%) Kubernetes
4 49 (6.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 27 (3.64%) Ansible
6 25 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.83%) FortiGate
8 16 (2.16%) Grafana
9 12 (1.62%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.35%) SCCM
11 8 (1.08%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 8 (1.08%) Kiali
11 8 (1.08%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 5 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.67%) QRadar
13 4 (0.54%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.54%) Istio
14 3 (0.40%) CASB
14 3 (0.40%) Icinga
15 2 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.23%) Okta
3 60 (8.10%) CyberArk
4 55 (7.42%) Google
5 47 (6.34%) Splunk
6 38 (5.13%) Cisco
7 37 (4.99%) ServiceNow
8 31 (4.18%) VMware
9 30 (4.05%) Oracle
10 26 (3.51%) SAP
11 21 (2.83%) F5
11 21 (2.83%) Juniper
12 20 (2.70%) SolarWinds
13 18 (2.43%) Citrix
13 18 (2.43%) Extreme Networks
14 16 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
14 16 (2.16%) ForgeRock
15 15 (2.02%) BeyondTrust
15 15 (2.02%) Centrify
15 15 (2.02%) Red Hat