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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 179 190
Rank change year-on-year +50 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,133 526 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.08% 1.60% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.76% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 828 353 330
10th Percentile £413 £369 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £686
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +7.50% -20.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.02 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.14% - -

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 45,960 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,897 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,123 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.69% -47.67% +1.18%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +35 919 £563 +2.27% 711
UK excluding London +48 541 £538 +7.50% 370
London +27 438 £575 -1.37% 414
Work from Home +33 358 £560 +6.67% 341
North of England +22 190 £500 +6.27% 85
South East +19 136 £575 +7.08% 129
Yorkshire +31 117 £538 +15.72% 25
Scotland +36 73 £480 -20.08% 44
North West -21 60 £515 +11.47% 52
South West -10 55 £600 +20.00% 31
Midlands -48 50 £510 -0.97% 42
West Midlands -32 40 £500 -9.09% 29
East of England -5 37 £550 -15.38% 20
North East -39 12 £500 -6.10% 8
Wales -5 9 £475 -32.14% 6
East Midlands -30 9 £600 +47.78% 13
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 16
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 38 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.09%) Confluence
3 34 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.62%) Apache
5 5 (0.44%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.35%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.26%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
8 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.088%) Drupal
9 1 (0.088%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.44%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 477 (42.10%) Azure
2 341 (30.10%) Entra ID
3 281 (24.80%) AWS
4 154 (13.59%) GCP
5 89 (7.86%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (5.74%) GitHub
7 60 (5.30%) SaaS
8 50 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
9 49 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (4.15%) Power Platform
11 41 (3.62%) Serverless
12 37 (3.27%) Azure AKS
12 37 (3.27%) Azure Sentinel
13 33 (2.91%) OCI
14 32 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (2.29%) Azure Key Vault
16 26 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
17 24 (2.12%) PaaS
18 23 (2.03%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (8.56%) Network Security
2 84 (7.41%) Firewall
3 61 (5.38%) DNS
4 37 (3.27%) VPN
5 23 (2.03%) WAN
6 22 (1.94%) DHCP
7 12 (1.06%) Kerberos
8 11 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.97%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.88%) SSL
10 9 (0.79%) IPsec
11 7 (0.62%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.62%) Internet
11 7 (0.62%) LAN
12 6 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (0.44%) BGP
13 5 (0.44%) VLAN
13 5 (0.44%) X.509
14 4 (0.35%) BIG-IP
14 4 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.15%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.65%) Metadata
3 26 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 21 (1.85%) Power BI
5 12 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.97%) Neo4j
7 10 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.62%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.44%) Big Data
12 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
12 4 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.35%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.26%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (4.85%) Git
2 51 (4.50%) JIRA
3 42 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.85%) GitLab
5 20 (1.77%) Selenium
6 12 (1.06%) Gatling
7 8 (0.71%) JMeter
8 7 (0.62%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.44%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.44%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.35%) Postman
10 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.26%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.18%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 332 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 238 (21.01%) Finance
3 146 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 124 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (6.97%) Banking
6 62 (5.47%) Retail
7 58 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (1.68%) Legal
9 19 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 16 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.79%) Law
13 9 (0.79%) Local Government
14 7 (0.62%) Military
15 6 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.44%) Automotive
17 4 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 290 (25.60%) Architect
2 104 (9.18%) Lead
3 97 (8.56%) Security Architect
4 92 (8.12%) Analyst
5 71 (6.27%) Developer
5 71 (6.27%) Senior
6 57 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
7 54 (4.77%) Consultant
8 48 (4.24%) Business Analyst
9 47 (4.15%) Security Engineer
10 46 (4.06%) Support Engineer
11 45 (3.97%) Project Manager
12 43 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 43 (3.80%) Java Developer
13 41 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
14 40 (3.53%) Technical Architect
15 35 (3.09%) Service Manager
16 34 (3.00%) Service Transition Manager
16 34 (3.00%) Transition Manager
17 30 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (15.36%) Terraform
2 109 (9.62%) OAuth
3 97 (8.56%) OpenID
4 93 (8.21%) SailPoint
5 81 (7.15%) SAML
6 62 (5.47%) LDAP
6 62 (5.47%) REST
7 39 (3.44%) OAuth2
8 32 (2.82%) .NET
9 26 (2.29%) ARM Templates
10 22 (1.94%) Kafka
10 22 (1.94%) React
11 19 (1.68%) JSON
12 16 (1.41%) .NET Framework
12 16 (1.41%) Node.js
12 16 (1.41%) Web Services
12 16 (1.41%) XML
13 14 (1.24%) Spring
14 13 (1.15%) Keycloak
15 12 (1.06%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 132 (11.65%) Onboarding
2 113 (9.97%) Cloud Native
3 99 (8.74%) PKI
4 62 (5.47%) Security Posture
5 49 (4.32%) Management Information System
6 46 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (3.18%) Product Ownership
8 34 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.74%) Operational Technology
10 28 (2.47%) Data Centre
11 25 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (2.21%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
13 21 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.41%) CMDB
14 16 (1.41%) IoT
15 14 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (10.41%) Windows
2 88 (7.77%) Linux
3 53 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.06%) Unix
5 10 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.62%) VMS
8 6 (0.53%) Debian
8 6 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.26%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.18%) Android
12 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.088%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (24.80%) Cybersecurity
2 246 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 222 (19.59%) CI/CD
4 210 (18.53%) Agile
5 206 (18.18%) DevOps
6 187 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 181 (15.98%) RBAC
8 179 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 173 (15.27%) Cloud Security
10 171 (15.09%) Zero Trust
11 160 (14.12%) Security Architecture
12 154 (13.59%) Privileged Access Management
13 146 (12.89%) Roadmaps
13 146 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 140 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
15 130 (11.47%) Migration
16 122 (10.77%) AI
17 120 (10.59%) Identity Management
18 118 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
19 111 (9.80%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (16.50%) PowerShell
2 177 (15.62%) Python
3 92 (8.12%) Java
4 80 (7.06%) SQL
5 69 (6.09%) Bash
6 48 (4.24%) Bicep
7 26 (2.29%) C#
8 14 (1.24%) Go
8 14 (1.24%) Rust
9 9 (0.79%) Scala
9 9 (0.79%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.53%) JavaScript
10 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 5 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.26%) Cypher
13 3 (0.26%) Groovy
14 2 (0.18%) DAML
14 2 (0.18%) Solidity
15 1 (0.088%) Swift
Qualifications
1 337 (29.74%) Security Cleared
2 251 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.00%) CISSP
4 68 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 66 (5.83%) Azure Certification
6 62 (5.47%) Degree
7 60 (5.30%) CISM
8 47 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 34 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 31 (2.74%) AWS Certification
13 29 (2.56%) CCSP
14 20 (1.77%) PMP
15 18 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.24%) PMI Certification
17 13 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
18 11 (0.97%) CISA
19 10 (0.88%) CRISC
19 10 (0.88%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (11.56%) NIST
2 122 (10.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (6.00%) GDPR
4 48 (4.24%) NCSC
5 41 (3.62%) GRC
6 23 (2.03%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 20 (1.77%) QA
9 17 (1.50%) SLA
10 16 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.79%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.79%) COBIT
13 9 (0.79%) ITGC
14 8 (0.71%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.71%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.62%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.62%) PMO
16 6 (0.53%) JSP 440
System Software
1 283 (24.98%) Active Directory
2 94 (8.30%) Docker
3 28 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.97%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.18%) KVM
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.18%) zsh
10 1 (0.088%) IAG
10 1 (0.088%) RACF
10 1 (0.088%) Squid
10 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.088%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 131 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 123 (10.86%) Single Sign-On
3 65 (5.74%) Ansible
4 42 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (2.65%) Grafana
6 15 (1.32%) Argo
6 15 (1.32%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.79%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.62%) Istio
11 6 (0.53%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.44%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.44%) Podman
13 4 (0.35%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 4 (0.35%) Puppet
14 3 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Management
14 3 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Manager
14 3 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 388 (34.25%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.83%) Okta
3 92 (8.12%) CyberArk
4 72 (6.35%) Google
5 55 (4.85%) ServiceNow
6 53 (4.68%) BeyondTrust
7 49 (4.32%) Oracle
8 47 (4.15%) VMware
9 33 (2.91%) Zscaler
10 30 (2.65%) SAP
11 24 (2.12%) ForgeRock
12 22 (1.94%) Splunk
13 20 (1.77%) Cisco
13 20 (1.77%) Workday
14 16 (1.41%) Ping Identity
15 15 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.32%) Databricks
16 13 (1.15%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.97%) Palo Alto
18 10 (0.88%) Citrix