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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 176 193
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,117 532 500
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 1.61% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.78% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 362 334
10th Percentile £408 £375 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +6.75% -20.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £51.38 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.68 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £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 46,152 29,871 33,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.49% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,085 18,553 20,430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £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 £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,056 1,793 1,507
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.58 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.32% -47.50% +7.50%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +17 909 £563 +2.27% 496
UK excluding London +41 538 £534 +6.75% 285
London +19 429 £575 -1.37% 265
Work from Home +33 352 £550 +4.76% 425
North of England +13 189 £515 +9.57% 70
South East +20 138 £575 -4.17% 96
Yorkshire +25 116 £538 +16.85% 19
Scotland +31 71 £478 -20.33% 22
North West -17 60 £515 +9.34% 44
South West -18 55 £588 +14.63% 35
Midlands -48 51 £505 +1.00% 26
West Midlands -36 40 £500 -9.09% 15
East of England +1 35 £550 -15.38% 27
North East -37 12 £500 -9.09% 7
Wales -8 9 £475 -32.14% 6
East Midlands -29 9 £600 +49.25% 11
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 6
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 39 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.04%) Confluence
4 8 (0.72%) Apache
5 5 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.45%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.18%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.18%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.18%) nginx
7 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.090%) Drupal
8 1 (0.090%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.45%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.18%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.090%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 470 (42.08%) Azure
2 332 (29.72%) Entra ID
3 277 (24.80%) AWS
4 150 (13.43%) GCP
5 89 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (6.00%) GitHub
7 53 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (4.66%) SaaS
9 49 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (4.30%) Power Platform
11 41 (3.67%) Serverless
12 34 (3.04%) Azure AKS
12 34 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 33 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
14 32 (2.86%) OCI
15 28 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
16 24 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
16 24 (2.15%) IaaS
16 24 (2.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (8.24%) Network Security
2 84 (7.52%) Firewall
3 60 (5.37%) DNS
4 36 (3.22%) VPN
5 28 (2.51%) WAN
6 22 (1.97%) DHCP
7 16 (1.43%) SD-WAN
8 12 (1.07%) Kerberos
8 12 (1.07%) SSL
9 9 (0.81%) IPsec
9 9 (0.81%) LAN
9 9 (0.81%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.63%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.54%) Internet
12 5 (0.45%) BGP
12 5 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (0.45%) SAN
12 5 (0.45%) VLAN
13 4 (0.36%) BIG-IP
13 4 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.21%) SQL Server
2 27 (2.42%) Metadata
3 26 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.97%) Power BI
5 12 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.98%) Neo4j
7 10 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.45%) Big Data
11 4 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.36%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (4.66%) Git
2 51 (4.57%) JIRA
3 39 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.88%) GitLab
5 20 (1.79%) Selenium
6 12 (1.07%) Gatling
7 8 (0.72%) JMeter
8 7 (0.63%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.45%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.27%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.27%) Postman
11 3 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.18%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.18%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 331 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 234 (20.95%) Finance
3 143 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 120 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (6.98%) Banking
6 61 (5.46%) Retail
7 57 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.79%) Legal
10 19 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Local Government
15 7 (0.63%) Law
15 7 (0.63%) Military
16 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.45%) Automotive
18 4 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 280 (25.07%) Architect
2 105 (9.40%) Lead
3 96 (8.59%) Security Architect
4 91 (8.15%) Analyst
5 73 (6.54%) Senior
6 70 (6.27%) Developer
7 52 (4.66%) Consultant
8 51 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
9 47 (4.21%) Business Analyst
9 47 (4.21%) Project Manager
9 47 (4.21%) Support Engineer
10 43 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (3.76%) Java Developer
12 41 (3.67%) Security Engineer
13 39 (3.49%) Technical Architect
14 38 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.04%) Service Manager
15 34 (3.04%) Service Transition Manager
15 34 (3.04%) Transition Manager
16 32 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (15.22%) Terraform
2 106 (9.49%) OAuth
3 95 (8.50%) OpenID
4 90 (8.06%) SailPoint
5 81 (7.25%) SAML
6 62 (5.55%) LDAP
7 61 (5.46%) REST
8 40 (3.58%) OAuth2
9 32 (2.86%) .NET
10 25 (2.24%) ARM Templates
11 21 (1.88%) React
12 19 (1.70%) Kafka
13 17 (1.52%) JSON
14 16 (1.43%) .NET Framework
14 16 (1.43%) Node.js
15 15 (1.34%) Web Services
15 15 (1.34%) XML
16 12 (1.07%) Keycloak
16 12 (1.07%) Middleware
16 12 (1.07%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 126 (11.28%) Onboarding
2 111 (9.94%) Cloud Native
3 94 (8.42%) PKI
4 56 (5.01%) Security Posture
5 45 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 33 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 30 (2.69%) Operational Technology
10 26 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 25 (2.24%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.97%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
13 21 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.34%) CMDB
15 15 (1.34%) IoT
16 12 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (10.83%) Windows
2 89 (7.97%) Linux
3 53 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.07%) Unix
5 10 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.63%) VMS
8 6 (0.54%) Debian
8 6 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.27%) 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 (0.090%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (24.62%) Cybersecurity
2 241 (21.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 226 (20.23%) CI/CD
4 212 (18.98%) DevOps
5 211 (18.89%) Agile
6 184 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
7 176 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 173 (15.49%) RBAC
9 164 (14.68%) Cloud Security
9 164 (14.68%) Zero Trust
10 155 (13.88%) Security Architecture
11 149 (13.34%) Privileged Access Management
12 142 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 140 (12.53%) Roadmaps
14 138 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
15 125 (11.19%) Migration
16 118 (10.56%) AI
16 118 (10.56%) Identity Management
17 116 (10.38%) Technical Leadership
18 109 (9.76%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (16.38%) PowerShell
2 176 (15.76%) Python
3 87 (7.79%) Java
4 83 (7.43%) SQL
5 67 (6.00%) Bash
6 48 (4.30%) Bicep
7 26 (2.33%) C#
8 14 (1.25%) Go
8 14 (1.25%) Rust
9 9 (0.81%) Scala
10 8 (0.72%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.54%) JavaScript
11 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.27%) Cypher
14 3 (0.27%) Groovy
14 3 (0.27%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.18%) DAML
15 2 (0.18%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 330 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 243 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 98 (8.77%) CISSP
4 68 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 61 (5.46%) Azure Certification
6 60 (5.37%) Degree
7 59 (5.28%) CISM
8 46 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
10 34 (3.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 33 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (2.60%) AWS Certification
12 29 (2.60%) CCSP
13 20 (1.79%) PMP
14 17 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (1.25%) PMI Certification
16 13 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.98%) CISA
18 10 (0.90%) CRISC
18 10 (0.90%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (11.64%) NIST
2 122 (10.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (6.00%) GDPR
4 45 (4.03%) NCSC
5 40 (3.58%) GRC
6 23 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.70%) QA
9 17 (1.52%) SLA
10 16 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 14 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.81%) Accessibility
13 9 (0.81%) COBIT
13 9 (0.81%) ITGC
14 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.63%) PMO
16 6 (0.54%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 285 (25.51%) Active Directory
2 93 (8.33%) Docker
3 33 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.07%) VMware NSX
7 10 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) IAG
10 1 (0.090%) RACF
10 1 (0.090%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.090%) Squid
10 1 (0.090%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 124 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 117 (10.47%) Single Sign-On
3 61 (5.46%) Ansible
4 38 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (2.60%) Grafana
6 15 (1.34%) Argo
7 14 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.63%) Istio
9 7 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.54%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.45%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 5 (0.45%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.45%) Podman
12 4 (0.36%) Puppet
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 3 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 378 (33.84%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.86%) Okta
3 88 (7.88%) CyberArk
4 67 (6.00%) Google
5 57 (5.10%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.66%) VMware
7 50 (4.48%) Oracle
8 49 (4.39%) BeyondTrust
9 32 (2.86%) Zscaler
10 31 (2.78%) SAP
11 22 (1.97%) ForgeRock
12 21 (1.88%) Splunk
12 21 (1.88%) Workday
13 19 (1.70%) Cisco
14 15 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (1.34%) Databricks
14 15 (1.34%) Ping Identity
15 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 10 (0.90%) Palo Alto
17 9 (0.81%) WALLIX