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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 191 184
Rank change year-on-year +28 -7 +92
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 636 445 590
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.40% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 1.58% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 296 402
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £455 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% -4.00% +0.40%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £725
90th Percentile £715 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74.26 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £94.06 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 32,749 28,251 37,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.81% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,723 17,176 25,071
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £739 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,987 905 1,714
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%
75th Percentile £56.38 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.82 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £41.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -24.93% +41.38%

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 17 January 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 17 January 2026.

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 17 January 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 +36 584 £540 -10.00% 224
UK excluding London +23 308 £525 -12.50% 213
London +35 269 £564 -6.04% 91
Work from Home +7 188 £525 -4.72% 201
North of England +15 139 £500 -6.54% 43
Yorkshire +10 95 £500 -14.16% 19
Midlands -8 58 £550 -7.71% 18
South East -12 50 £591 -9.04% 74
West Midlands -18 45 £550 -7.71% 7
South West -1 43 £675 +35.68% 24
North West -9 37 £482 -8.29% 22
East Midlands - 12 £538 - 11
East of England -19 10 £575 -11.54% 26
North East -3 8 £495 -23.85% 2
Scotland -15 8 £540 +2.86% 21
Wales 0 1 £700 -6.67% 18
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 1

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 45 (7.08%) Confluence
2 34 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (3.93%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.42%) Apache
4 9 (1.42%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.42%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.26%) IIS
5 8 (1.26%) iPlanet
5 8 (1.26%) JBoss
6 2 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.16%) CICS
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (2.67%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.26%) Maximo
2 5 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 256 (40.25%) Azure
2 182 (28.62%) Entra ID
3 134 (21.07%) AWS
4 80 (12.58%) GCP
5 55 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
6 39 (6.13%) SaaS
7 32 (5.03%) GitHub
8 29 (4.56%) OpenShift
9 28 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (4.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 20 (3.14%) PaaS
12 18 (2.83%) Azure AKS
12 18 (2.83%) IaaS
12 18 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (2.83%) Serverless
13 17 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.89%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 64 (10.06%) Firewall
2 56 (8.81%) Network Security
3 41 (6.45%) DNS
4 27 (4.25%) Kerberos
4 27 (4.25%) VPN
5 25 (3.93%) SSL
6 15 (2.36%) DHCP
7 9 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.26%) Internet
8 8 (1.26%) WebEx
9 7 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.79%) HTTP
10 5 (0.79%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.63%) DKIM
11 4 (0.63%) DMARC
11 4 (0.63%) SSH
11 4 (0.63%) WAN
12 3 (0.47%) BGP
12 3 (0.47%) OSPF
12 3 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 12 (1.89%) Oracle Database
3 11 (1.73%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.57%) DocumentDB
5 7 (1.10%) Power BI
6 6 (0.94%) MySQL
7 5 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.63%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.63%) Tableau
9 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.47%) Redis
9 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.31%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.31%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (9.75%) JIRA
2 40 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 33 (5.19%) Git
4 22 (3.46%) GitLab
5 15 (2.36%) Postman
6 13 (2.04%) Selenium
7 9 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.26%) Bitbucket Server
8 8 (1.26%) CA Release Automation
8 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.26%) REST Assured
9 7 (1.10%) Jaeger
10 6 (0.94%) TestRail
11 4 (0.63%) Gatling
11 4 (0.63%) JMeter
11 4 (0.63%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.63%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.63%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.47%) Maven
12 3 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 202 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 134 (21.07%) Finance
3 80 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 53 (8.33%) Banking
6 25 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.99%) Legal
8 16 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 15 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 15 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.94%) Electronics
13 6 (0.94%) Marketing
14 5 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.63%) Retail
16 3 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 181 (28.46%) Architect
2 75 (11.79%) Solutions Architect
3 71 (11.16%) Analyst
4 52 (8.18%) Security Architect
4 52 (8.18%) Senior
5 49 (7.70%) Lead
6 43 (6.76%) Business Analyst
7 41 (6.45%) Consultant
8 29 (4.56%) Security Engineer
9 25 (3.93%) Developer
9 25 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (2.99%) Azure Architect
11 17 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (2.52%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
12 16 (2.52%) Identity Management Analyst
12 16 (2.52%) Identity Management Architect
12 16 (2.52%) Project Manager
13 15 (2.36%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (2.20%) Cloud Engineer
14 14 (2.20%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (13.05%) SailPoint
2 76 (11.95%) SAML
3 74 (11.64%) OAuth
4 60 (9.43%) OpenID
5 51 (8.02%) LDAP
6 39 (6.13%) REST
7 23 (3.62%) OAuth2
8 22 (3.46%) .NET
8 22 (3.46%) Kafka
9 21 (3.30%) ARM Templates
10 18 (2.83%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.67%) Node.js
12 13 (2.04%) Spring
13 12 (1.89%) RESTful
14 11 (1.73%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (1.73%) Middleware
15 10 (1.57%) HTML
15 10 (1.57%) Playwright
16 8 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
16 8 (1.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.86%) Onboarding
2 47 (7.39%) Management Information System
3 36 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 36 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (5.19%) Security Posture
5 24 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (3.77%) PKI
6 15 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.73%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (1.73%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.73%) Replication
8 10 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (0.94%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (14.47%) Windows
2 55 (8.65%) Linux
3 43 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.14%) Unix
5 12 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.57%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.79%) VMS
9 3 (0.47%) Android
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.31%) CentOS
10 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.16%) MVS
11 1 (0.16%) Solaris
11 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (24.84%) Cybersecurity
2 130 (20.44%) CI/CD
3 126 (19.81%) RBAC
4 118 (18.55%) Cloud Security
5 112 (17.61%) DevOps
6 102 (16.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 96 (15.09%) Agile
7 96 (15.09%) Privileged Access Management
7 96 (15.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 95 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 77 (12.11%) Identity Management
11 70 (11.01%) Roadmaps
12 66 (10.38%) Zero Trust
13 65 (10.22%) SIEM
14 63 (9.91%) Data Protection
15 62 (9.75%) Incident Response
16 56 (8.81%) Test Automation
16 56 (8.81%) Vulnerability Management
17 52 (8.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 123 (19.34%) PowerShell
2 83 (13.05%) Python
3 59 (9.28%) Java
4 41 (6.45%) SQL
5 36 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.56%) Bash
7 25 (3.93%) Bicep
8 16 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.89%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.73%) Groovy
11 9 (1.42%) Scala
12 8 (1.26%) C#
12 8 (1.26%) PHP
12 8 (1.26%) Rust
13 7 (1.10%) Perl
14 5 (0.79%) BeanShell
15 4 (0.63%) Cypher
16 3 (0.47%) Go
17 2 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
18 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 199 (31.29%) Security Cleared
2 161 (25.31%) SC Cleared
3 88 (13.84%) CISSP
4 71 (11.16%) CISM
5 53 (8.33%) Degree
6 43 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (6.13%) DV Cleared
8 37 (5.82%) Azure Certification
9 22 (3.46%) AWS Certification
10 21 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (2.36%) Master's Degree
13 13 (2.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (1.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 11 (1.73%) CCSP
15 10 (1.57%) PhD
16 9 (1.42%) PMI Certification
17 8 (1.26%) CCNP
17 8 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
18 7 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (14.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (12.58%) NIST
3 74 (11.64%) GDPR
4 25 (3.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 23 (3.62%) PCI DSS
6 19 (2.99%) QA
7 16 (2.52%) GRC
8 13 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 13 (2.04%) HIPAA
8 13 (2.04%) NCSC
9 8 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.26%) NIST 800
10 7 (1.10%) COBIT
10 7 (1.10%) Data Quality
10 7 (1.10%) ITGC
10 7 (1.10%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.94%) SOX 404
12 5 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.79%) PSD2
13 4 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 175 (27.52%) Active Directory
2 61 (9.59%) Docker
3 22 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.26%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 7 (1.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 7 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.79%) vSphere
8 2 (0.31%) NFS
8 2 (0.31%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.31%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.31%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) NDS
9 1 (0.16%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.16%) RACF
9 1 (0.16%) UAG
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (13.68%) Terraform
2 82 (12.89%) Single Sign-On
3 72 (11.32%) Kubernetes
4 36 (5.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (3.77%) Ansible
7 13 (2.04%) Grafana
8 12 (1.89%) SCCM
9 10 (1.57%) CA Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.57%) Prometheus
10 8 (1.26%) CA Wily
10 8 (1.26%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.26%) Tivoli
11 7 (1.10%) Kiali
12 5 (0.79%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 5 (0.79%) Istio
12 5 (0.79%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 4 (0.63%) QRadar
14 3 (0.47%) PingFederate
14 3 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 198 (31.13%) Microsoft
2 71 (11.16%) CyberArk
3 42 (6.60%) Google
4 39 (6.13%) Okta
5 38 (5.97%) Oracle
6 32 (5.03%) VMware
7 31 (4.87%) ServiceNow
7 31 (4.87%) Splunk
8 23 (3.62%) SAP
9 20 (3.14%) Red Hat
10 19 (2.99%) Cisco
10 19 (2.99%) IBM
11 18 (2.83%) Citrix
12 17 (2.67%) BiZZdesign
13 15 (2.36%) Centrify
14 14 (2.20%) BeyondTrust
14 14 (2.20%) Zscaler
15 13 (2.04%) Workday
16 9 (1.42%) ForgeRock
16 9 (1.42%) Palo Alto