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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 173 185
Rank change year-on-year +13 +12 +38
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 749 471 568
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.62% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.79% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 339 407
10th Percentile £400 £412 £425
25th Percentile £468 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.23% +1.64%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £753 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £635
% change year-on-year -6.38% -7.48% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £71.02 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £93.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - -

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 37,825 26,281 38,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.77% 90.55% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,952 17,099 24,858
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 950 2,347
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £18.75 £20.49 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.91
90th Percentile £76.40 £77.22 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 £31.64 £31.50
% change year-on-year -3.60% +0.44% -13.10%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +12 679 £550 -11.29% 157
UK excluding London +10 377 £550 -6.38% 109
London +3 289 £575 -8.37% 70
Work from Home -11 228 £550 - 80
North of England +23 149 £539 +2.57% 21
Yorkshire +14 92 £525 +14.25% 3
South East -25 85 £600 -7.69% 45
Midlands -25 78 £550 -6.73% 10
West Midlands -26 64 £550 -8.33% 6
North West -1 54 £550 +4.76% 17
South West +4 53 £675 +22.73% 9
East Midlands -22 12 £638 +27.50% 4
Scotland -13 11 £675 +28.57% 2
East of England -34 7 £575 -11.54% 19
North East -9 4 £508 +18.14% 1
Wales -11 1 £250 -66.67% 6

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 42 (5.61%) Confluence
2 35 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (4.14%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Mendix
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.93%) 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
1 336 (44.86%) Azure
2 244 (32.58%) Entra ID
3 156 (20.83%) AWS
4 93 (12.42%) GCP
5 73 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (5.74%) GitHub
8 35 (4.67%) Azure AKS
8 35 (4.67%) Power Platform
9 34 (4.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 33 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
11 32 (4.27%) SaaS
12 25 (3.34%) PaaS
13 24 (3.20%) Serverless
14 23 (3.07%) IaaS
15 20 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.54%) OneDrive
17 18 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
18 16 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (2.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 89 (11.88%) Firewall
2 80 (10.68%) DNS
3 68 (9.08%) Network Security
4 46 (6.14%) DHCP
5 36 (4.81%) VPN
5 36 (4.81%) WAN
6 26 (3.47%) Kerberos
6 26 (3.47%) LAN
7 23 (3.07%) BGP
7 23 (3.07%) OSPF
8 22 (2.94%) SSL
9 21 (2.80%) BIG-IP
9 21 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
9 21 (2.80%) Junos
9 21 (2.80%) VXLAN
10 16 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
11 13 (1.74%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.47%) WebEx
13 9 (1.20%) Internet
14 6 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (2.27%) Power BI
2 14 (1.87%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.74%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.34%) DocumentDB
5 10 (1.34%) Tableau
6 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
6 5 (0.67%) MySQL
7 4 (0.53%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.40%) Redis
9 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.27%) Metadata
9 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (9.75%) JIRA
2 36 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 27 (3.60%) Git
4 26 (3.47%) GitLab
5 17 (2.27%) Postman
6 15 (2.00%) Selenium
7 10 (1.34%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.34%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.07%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.67%) Gatling
9 5 (0.67%) TestRail
10 4 (0.53%) JMeter
10 4 (0.53%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.53%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.53%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.40%) JUnit
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
11 3 (0.40%) MSI
12 2 (0.27%) git-flow
12 2 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 189 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 128 (17.09%) Finance
3 91 (12.15%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.48%) Banking
6 31 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (4.01%) Legal
8 16 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.07%) Military
12 6 (0.80%) Retail
13 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.67%) Police
14 4 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.40%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 234 (31.24%) Architect
2 76 (10.15%) Analyst
3 72 (9.61%) Solutions Architect
4 70 (9.35%) Senior
5 69 (9.21%) Lead
6 58 (7.74%) Security Architect
7 37 (4.94%) Business Analyst
8 28 (3.74%) Consultant
8 28 (3.74%) Developer
9 26 (3.47%) Security Engineer
10 25 (3.34%) Project Manager
11 24 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
12 22 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (2.94%) Lead Architect
13 21 (2.80%) Azure Architect
14 20 (2.67%) Technical Architect
15 18 (2.40%) Identity Management Architect
16 17 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
17 15 (2.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (10.55%) SailPoint
2 78 (10.41%) SAML
3 76 (10.15%) OAuth
4 60 (8.01%) OpenID
5 50 (6.68%) LDAP
5 50 (6.68%) REST
6 30 (4.01%) ARM Templates
7 27 (3.60%) OAuth2
8 23 (3.07%) .NET
8 23 (3.07%) 802.1X
8 23 (3.07%) Kafka
8 23 (3.07%) Spring Boot
9 19 (2.54%) Middleware
10 16 (2.14%) Spring
11 15 (2.00%) Node.js
12 14 (1.87%) RESTful
13 11 (1.47%) Playwright
13 11 (1.47%) XMPP
14 10 (1.34%) HTML
14 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.81%) Onboarding
2 57 (7.61%) PKI
3 46 (6.14%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.54%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.41%) Data Centre
6 31 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
7 29 (3.87%) Security Posture
8 23 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.80%) Clustering
10 20 (2.67%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.54%) Public Cloud
12 16 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (2.00%) Replication
14 12 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.07%) Operational Technology
16 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
17 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Cloud
18 5 (0.67%) AI Agents
18 5 (0.67%) Fat Client
18 5 (0.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.82%) Windows
2 47 (6.28%) Windows Server
3 41 (5.47%) Linux
4 10 (1.34%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.80%) Unix
6 6 (0.80%) VMS
7 5 (0.67%) Android
7 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Rocky
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
2 151 (20.16%) RBAC
3 143 (19.09%) DevOps
4 133 (17.76%) CI/CD
5 110 (14.69%) Cloud Security
6 109 (14.55%) Agile
7 108 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 98 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
10 91 (12.15%) Identity Management
10 91 (12.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 90 (12.02%) Zero Trust
12 88 (11.75%) Privileged Access Management
13 70 (9.35%) Migration
14 68 (9.08%) Observability
15 67 (8.95%) Data Protection
16 63 (8.41%) Analytics
16 63 (8.41%) High Availability
17 60 (8.01%) Roadmaps
17 60 (8.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 129 (17.22%) PowerShell
2 79 (10.55%) Python
3 65 (8.68%) Java
4 62 (8.28%) SQL
5 36 (4.81%) Bicep
6 31 (4.14%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.94%) Bash
8 13 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.34%) Scala
10 9 (1.20%) C#
10 9 (1.20%) Rust
11 8 (1.07%) PHP
12 7 (0.93%) Perl
13 4 (0.53%) Cypher
13 4 (0.53%) Groovy
13 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.40%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.40%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 255 (34.05%) Security Cleared
2 179 (23.90%) SC Cleared
3 79 (10.55%) CISSP
4 69 (9.21%) DV Cleared
5 63 (8.41%) CISM
6 46 (6.14%) Degree
7 42 (5.61%) Azure Certification
8 41 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (1.87%) PMI Certification
12 12 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 12 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.60%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.60%) PMP
13 11 (1.47%) CCSP
14 10 (1.34%) PhD
15 8 (1.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (1.07%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.48%) GDPR
1 71 (9.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (9.35%) NIST
3 38 (5.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 22 (2.94%) GRC
5 18 (2.40%) NCSC
5 18 (2.40%) QA
6 17 (2.27%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.47%) COBIT
8 10 (1.34%) NIST 800
9 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
10 8 (1.07%) Data Quality
11 7 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.93%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.80%) ITGC
12 6 (0.80%) PMO
12 6 (0.80%) SOX 404
13 4 (0.53%) SLA
14 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 226 (30.17%) Active Directory
2 56 (7.48%) Docker
3 31 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.87%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.93%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.53%) vSphere
10 3 (0.40%) IAG
11 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
11 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
11 2 (0.27%) RACF
12 1 (0.13%) GPFS
12 1 (0.13%) Lustre
12 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (14.02%) Terraform
2 98 (13.08%) Single Sign-On
3 88 (11.75%) Kubernetes
4 47 (6.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 28 (3.74%) Ansible
6 22 (2.94%) FortiGate
7 20 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (2.00%) Grafana
9 11 (1.47%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.20%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 9 (1.20%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 9 (1.20%) SCCM
11 8 (1.07%) Kiali
12 5 (0.67%) QRadar
13 4 (0.53%) Istio
13 4 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.40%) CASB
14 3 (0.40%) Icinga
15 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 248 (33.11%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.54%) CyberArk
3 57 (7.61%) Okta
4 54 (7.21%) Google
5 48 (6.41%) Splunk
6 42 (5.61%) ServiceNow
7 39 (5.21%) Cisco
7 39 (5.21%) VMware
8 32 (4.27%) Oracle
9 25 (3.34%) SAP
10 23 (3.07%) F5
11 22 (2.94%) Juniper
12 21 (2.80%) SolarWinds
13 19 (2.54%) Citrix
13 19 (2.54%) Extreme Networks
14 18 (2.40%) BeyondTrust
15 16 (2.14%) BiZZdesign
16 15 (2.00%) Centrify
16 15 (2.00%) ForgeRock
16 15 (2.00%) Red Hat