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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 187 193
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 +104
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 520 489 690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.60% 1.28% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.50% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 326 444
10th Percentile £375 £425 £438
25th Percentile £450 £495 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £730 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £625 £554
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.87% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 13
10th Percentile £50.50 - £62.40
25th Percentile £55.00 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £23.80 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.63% -63.94% -8.97%
75th Percentile £96.25 £75.00 £88.75
90th Percentile £98.50 - £92.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.50 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +19.45%

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 29,370 32,658 44,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.62% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,234 20,154 30,464
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 1,475 1,557
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.70 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +6.17% +76.09%

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
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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 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 +21 460 £550 -8.33% 246
London +10 231 £581 +1.04% 67
UK excluding London +8 222 £500 -20.00% 218
Work from Home +35 173 £520 -15.45% 132
North of England +11 72 £471 -24.11% 46
Midlands -5 49 £508 -20.08% 41
South East -3 43 £540 -19.82% 63
Yorkshire -1 37 £465 -22.58% 20
North West 0 31 £471 -35.03% 23
South West +30 30 £500 +11.11% 24
West Midlands -11 27 £550 -15.38% 23
East Midlands +10 22 £402 -35.37% 15
East of England +16 13 £650 +21.50% 23
Scotland -15 13 £600 -2.44% 14
North East +1 4 £550 -15.38% 3
Wales - 1 £700 - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 3

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 22 (4.23%) Confluence
2 19 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.54%) Apache
3 8 (1.54%) WebSphere
3 8 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (1.35%) IIS
4 7 (1.35%) iPlanet
4 7 (1.35%) JBoss
5 5 (0.96%) CMS
5 5 (0.96%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.19%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.69%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Maximo
3 1 (0.19%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 188 (36.15%) Azure
2 125 (24.04%) AWS
3 110 (21.15%) Entra ID
4 67 (12.88%) GCP
5 45 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.65%) OpenShift
7 19 (3.65%) SaaS
8 18 (3.46%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (2.69%) GitHub
10 14 (2.69%) PaaS
11 13 (2.50%) IaaS
12 12 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.12%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (2.12%) Serverless
14 10 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (1.92%) Azure Storage
14 10 (1.92%) OneDrive
15 9 (1.73%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (9.42%) Network Security
2 39 (7.50%) Firewall
3 18 (3.46%) DNS
4 17 (3.27%) VPN
5 14 (2.69%) Kerberos
6 9 (1.73%) NAS
6 9 (1.73%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.54%) HTTPS
7 8 (1.54%) SSH
8 7 (1.35%) DHCP
9 6 (1.15%) SSL
10 5 (0.96%) SAN
11 4 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.77%) LAN
11 4 (0.77%) Wireshark
12 3 (0.58%) BGP
12 3 (0.58%) HTTP
12 3 (0.58%) OSPF
12 3 (0.58%) VLAN
13 2 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.54%) Oracle Database
2 6 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (1.15%) Power BI
3 5 (0.96%) DynamoDB
3 5 (0.96%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.77%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.58%) Tableau
6 2 (0.38%) Big Data
6 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.38%) Metadata
6 2 (0.38%) MySQL
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.19%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.19%) Hasura
7 1 (0.19%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 38 (7.31%) JIRA
2 21 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 20 (3.85%) Git
4 10 (1.92%) Postman
4 10 (1.92%) SoapUI
5 8 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (1.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (1.35%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (1.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.58%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.19%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.19%) Gatling
9 1 (0.19%) JMeter
9 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.19%) Snyk
9 1 (0.19%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.19%) TestRail
General
1 182 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 131 (25.19%) Finance
3 68 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.42%) Banking
5 47 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.50%) Legal
8 11 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.92%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.35%) Electronics
11 7 (1.35%) Marketing
12 6 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.15%) French Language
12 6 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.15%) Law
12 6 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.96%) Retail
14 4 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 136 (26.15%) Architect
2 74 (14.23%) Analyst
3 50 (9.62%) Security Architect
4 45 (8.65%) Senior
5 40 (7.69%) Consultant
6 27 (5.19%) Business Analyst
7 22 (4.23%) Security Engineer
8 19 (3.65%) Enterprise Architect
9 18 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.27%) Project Manager
10 17 (3.27%) Security Consultant
11 16 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.08%) Senior Architect
12 15 (2.88%) Developer
13 13 (2.50%) IAM Specialist
13 13 (2.50%) Test Analyst
14 12 (2.31%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
14 12 (2.31%) Identity Management Analyst
15 11 (2.12%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.77%) OAuth
2 77 (14.81%) OpenID
3 76 (14.62%) SailPoint
4 70 (13.46%) SAML
5 44 (8.46%) LDAP
6 31 (5.96%) OAuth2
7 13 (2.50%) ARM Templates
7 13 (2.50%) REST
8 12 (2.31%) ADO
9 11 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (2.12%) Spring
10 10 (1.92%) FIDO
11 9 (1.73%) Hibernate
12 8 (1.54%) Keycloak
12 8 (1.54%) SOAP
13 7 (1.35%) XACML
14 6 (1.15%) JDBC
14 6 (1.15%) YAML
15 5 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
16 4 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.96%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.00%) Security Posture
3 22 (4.23%) PKI
4 21 (4.04%) Cloud Native
5 20 (3.85%) Product Ownership
6 19 (3.65%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.35%) Taxonomies
12 5 (0.96%) NHS
12 5 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
13 4 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
13 4 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.77%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 84 (16.15%) Windows
2 46 (8.85%) Linux
3 28 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.46%) Unix
5 8 (1.54%) VMS
6 6 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.58%) CentOS
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.19%) Android
10 1 (0.19%) MVS
10 1 (0.19%) Solaris
10 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (23.46%) Cybersecurity
2 111 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (19.42%) Cloud Security
4 98 (18.85%) Agile
5 81 (15.58%) CI/CD
6 74 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 73 (14.04%) Identity Management
8 72 (13.85%) DevOps
9 68 (13.08%) RBAC
10 64 (12.31%) Privileged Access Management
11 59 (11.35%) Roadmaps
12 56 (10.77%) DevSecOps
13 55 (10.58%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (10.19%) Migration
14 53 (10.19%) Zero Trust
15 49 (9.42%) Security Architecture
16 48 (9.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 46 (8.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
18 45 (8.65%) Threat Modelling
19 42 (8.08%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 93 (17.88%) PowerShell
2 68 (13.08%) Python
3 50 (9.62%) Java
4 34 (6.54%) Bash
5 32 (6.15%) SQL
6 18 (3.46%) Bicep
7 16 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.31%) Groovy
9 10 (1.92%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.15%) Go
11 5 (0.96%) BeanShell
12 3 (0.58%) C#
12 3 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 109 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 86 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 56 (10.77%) CISSP
4 42 (8.08%) CISM
4 42 (8.08%) Degree
5 28 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 19 (3.65%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (1.54%) CCSP
11 8 (1.54%) ISTQB
12 7 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.35%) CISA
13 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
13 6 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (15.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (15.77%) NIST
3 80 (15.38%) GDPR
4 33 (6.35%) HIPAA
5 31 (5.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 23 (4.42%) PCI DSS
7 15 (2.88%) QA
8 13 (2.50%) GRC
8 13 (2.50%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.54%) Accessibility
10 7 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (1.15%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.77%) SLA
13 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.58%) ITGC
13 3 (0.58%) NCSC
13 3 (0.58%) PMO
13 3 (0.58%) PSD2
14 2 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 141 (27.12%) Active Directory
2 38 (7.31%) Docker
3 14 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 7 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.15%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 2 (0.38%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.38%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) KVM
7 1 (0.19%) SRDF
7 1 (0.19%) UAG
7 1 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (14.23%) Single Sign-On
2 52 (10.00%) Terraform
3 51 (9.81%) Kubernetes
4 29 (5.58%) Ansible
5 19 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.73%) SCCM
6 9 (1.73%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 7 (1.35%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.35%) CA Wily
7 7 (1.35%) Grafana
7 7 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 7 (1.35%) Tivoli
8 6 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 4 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.77%) Istio
11 3 (0.58%) Argo
11 3 (0.58%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.38%) Consul
12 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 162 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.38%) CyberArk
3 39 (7.50%) Okta
4 32 (6.15%) Oracle
5 31 (5.96%) Google
6 29 (5.58%) ForgeRock
7 27 (5.19%) Ping Identity
8 23 (4.42%) IBM
8 23 (4.42%) SAP
9 22 (4.23%) ServiceNow
10 21 (4.04%) BeyondTrust
10 21 (4.04%) VMware
11 16 (3.08%) Splunk
12 13 (2.50%) Zscaler
13 11 (2.12%) Workday
14 10 (1.92%) Cisco
15 9 (1.73%) Red Hat
15 9 (1.73%) Thycotic
16 7 (1.35%) AppDynamics
16 7 (1.35%) Broadcom