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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 173 187
Rank change year-on-year +39 +14 +3
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,115 535 498
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.05% 1.62% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.79% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 363 332
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 £538 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +7.50% -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 46,112 29,840 32,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.46% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,098 18,520 20,299
10th Percentile £325 £300 £312
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 3,038 1,780 1,507
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.38 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.89% -47.37% +8.65%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +30 906 £563 +2.27% 362
UK excluding London +44 534 £538 +7.50% 203
London +22 428 £575 -1.71% 199
Work from Home +34 354 £550 +3.58% 197
North of England +17 188 £515 +9.69% 50
South East +13 138 £575 -4.17% 76
Yorkshire +27 115 £538 +16.85% 14
Scotland +14 69 £478 -20.33% 15
North West -24 60 £515 +11.47% 30
South West -19 55 £588 +14.63% 25
Midlands -50 51 £505 +1.81% 18
West Midlands -29 40 £500 -9.09% 12
East of England -7 34 £550 -15.38% 14
North East -38 12 £500 -9.09% 6
Wales -3 9 £475 -32.14% 3
East Midlands -29 9 £600 +49.25% 6
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 5
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 37 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.05%) Confluence
3 33 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.090%) Drupal
8 1 (0.090%) nginx
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
1 469 (42.06%) Azure
2 331 (29.69%) Entra ID
3 274 (24.57%) AWS
4 147 (13.18%) GCP
5 87 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (6.01%) GitHub
7 54 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (4.75%) SaaS
9 50 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (4.39%) Power Platform
11 42 (3.77%) Serverless
12 36 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (3.14%) Azure AKS
13 35 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
14 33 (2.96%) OCI
15 28 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
16 26 (2.33%) PaaS
17 25 (2.24%) Azure Key Vault
17 25 (2.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (8.25%) Network Security
2 87 (7.80%) Firewall
3 63 (5.65%) DNS
4 35 (3.14%) VPN
5 30 (2.69%) WAN
6 23 (2.06%) DHCP
7 17 (1.52%) SD-WAN
8 12 (1.08%) Kerberos
9 11 (0.99%) SSL
10 10 (0.90%) LAN
11 9 (0.81%) IPsec
11 9 (0.81%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.63%) BGP
12 7 (0.63%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.63%) Internet
13 6 (0.54%) OSPF
13 6 (0.54%) VLAN
14 5 (0.45%) BIG-IP
14 5 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 27 (2.42%) Metadata
3 25 (2.24%) Relational Database
4 22 (1.97%) Power BI
5 12 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (0.99%) Neo4j
7 10 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 8 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.63%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.45%) Big Data
10 5 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
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%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (4.57%) JIRA
2 50 (4.48%) Git
3 38 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.88%) GitLab
5 19 (1.70%) Selenium
6 12 (1.08%) 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
1 329 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 233 (20.90%) Finance
3 140 (12.56%) Public Sector
4 121 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (7.00%) Banking
6 61 (5.47%) Retail
7 58 (5.20%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.88%) Legal
10 19 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.43%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Local Government
15 7 (0.63%) Military
16 6 (0.54%) Law
16 6 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.45%) Automotive
18 4 (0.36%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 278 (24.93%) Architect
2 105 (9.42%) Lead
3 96 (8.61%) Security Architect
4 91 (8.16%) Analyst
5 75 (6.73%) Senior
6 71 (6.37%) Developer
7 52 (4.66%) Consultant
8 49 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
9 48 (4.30%) Business Analyst
9 48 (4.30%) Project Manager
10 47 (4.22%) Support Engineer
11 42 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (3.77%) Java Developer
12 41 (3.68%) Security Engineer
13 39 (3.50%) Technical Architect
14 38 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.05%) Service Manager
15 34 (3.05%) Service Transition Manager
15 34 (3.05%) Transition Manager
16 32 (2.87%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (14.98%) Terraform
2 106 (9.51%) OAuth
3 95 (8.52%) OpenID
4 90 (8.07%) SailPoint
5 81 (7.26%) SAML
6 62 (5.56%) LDAP
6 62 (5.56%) REST
7 40 (3.59%) OAuth2
8 32 (2.87%) .NET
9 25 (2.24%) ARM Templates
10 20 (1.79%) React
11 19 (1.70%) Kafka
12 17 (1.52%) JSON
13 16 (1.43%) Node.js
14 15 (1.35%) .NET Framework
14 15 (1.35%) Web Services
14 15 (1.35%) XML
15 12 (1.08%) Microsoft Graph
15 12 (1.08%) Middleware
15 12 (1.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 127 (11.39%) Onboarding
2 111 (9.96%) Cloud Native
3 94 (8.43%) PKI
4 54 (4.84%) Security Posture
5 47 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.86%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.23%) Product Ownership
8 33 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (2.78%) Operational Technology
10 26 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 25 (2.24%) Data Centre
12 22 (1.97%) Public Cloud
13 21 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.35%) CMDB
16 15 (1.35%) IoT
17 12 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (10.76%) Windows
2 88 (7.89%) Linux
3 51 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.08%) Unix
5 10 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.63%) VMS
8 6 (0.54%) Debian
9 5 (0.45%) Mac OS
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
10 4 (0.36%) Apple iOS
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
1 274 (24.57%) Cybersecurity
2 238 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 224 (20.09%) CI/CD
4 212 (19.01%) DevOps
5 211 (18.92%) Agile
6 181 (16.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 175 (15.70%) RBAC
8 174 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (14.71%) Zero Trust
10 162 (14.53%) Cloud Security
11 153 (13.72%) Security Architecture
12 149 (13.36%) Privileged Access Management
13 143 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 139 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
15 138 (12.38%) Roadmaps
16 123 (11.03%) Migration
17 119 (10.67%) Identity Management
18 118 (10.58%) AI
19 113 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
20 108 (9.69%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 181 (16.23%) PowerShell
2 172 (15.43%) Python
3 87 (7.80%) Java
4 83 (7.44%) SQL
5 66 (5.92%) Bash
6 51 (4.57%) Bicep
7 27 (2.42%) C#
8 14 (1.26%) Rust
9 13 (1.17%) Go
10 9 (0.81%) Scala
11 7 (0.63%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.45%) JavaScript
14 4 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.27%) Cypher
15 3 (0.27%) Groovy
15 3 (0.27%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.18%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.18%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 326 (29.24%) Security Cleared
2 240 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 98 (8.79%) CISSP
4 65 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 60 (5.38%) Azure Certification
5 60 (5.38%) Degree
6 59 (5.29%) CISM
7 45 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (3.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 33 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (2.60%) CCSP
12 28 (2.51%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.79%) PMP
14 16 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (1.35%) PMI Certification
16 13 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.99%) CISA
18 10 (0.90%) CRISC
18 10 (0.90%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (11.57%) NIST
2 121 (10.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (6.01%) GDPR
4 44 (3.95%) NCSC
5 40 (3.59%) GRC
6 23 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 22 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 19 (1.70%) QA
9 16 (1.43%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.43%) SLA
10 14 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.81%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.81%) COBIT
12 9 (0.81%) ITGC
13 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.72%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.63%) PMO
15 6 (0.54%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.54%) NIST 800
System Software
1 283 (25.38%) Active Directory
2 90 (8.07%) Docker
3 33 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.08%) 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
1 121 (10.85%) Kubernetes
2 114 (10.22%) Single Sign-On
3 61 (5.47%) Ansible
4 37 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (2.60%) Grafana
6 15 (1.35%) Argo
7 14 (1.26%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.81%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.63%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.63%) Istio
10 7 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.45%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 5 (0.45%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.45%) Podman
13 4 (0.36%) Puppet
14 3 (0.27%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 3 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Management
14 3 (0.27%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 375 (33.63%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.88%) Okta
3 88 (7.89%) CyberArk
4 66 (5.92%) Google
5 57 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 52 (4.66%) VMware
7 50 (4.48%) Oracle
8 49 (4.39%) BeyondTrust
9 31 (2.78%) SAP
9 31 (2.78%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.97%) ForgeRock
10 22 (1.97%) Splunk
11 21 (1.88%) Cisco
11 21 (1.88%) Workday
12 15 (1.35%) Databricks
12 15 (1.35%) Ping Identity
13 14 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (1.08%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.99%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.81%) WALLIX