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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 183 184
Rank change year-on-year +44 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,048 517 536
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.96% 1.57% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.74% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 759 363 362
10th Percentile £422 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £463 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £568 £586
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -3.11% -3.10%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £537 £625
% change year-on-year +2.42% -14.08% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 5
10th Percentile £45.31 £50.50 -
25th Percentile - £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £82.37 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.64 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.99% - -

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 45,370 29,720 33,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.44% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,958 18,627 21,372
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,804 1,656 1,869
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.33 £18.13
Median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +2.35%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +25 862 £575 +1.23% 411
UK excluding London +48 491 £550 +2.42% 227
London +26 417 £575 -2.54% 199
Work from Home +41 342 £550 +2.42% 180
North of England +11 158 £550 +15.79% 65
South East +4 138 £584 -10.19% 69
Yorkshire +21 98 £538 +14.61% 28
Midlands -45 58 £590 +19.92% 22
Scotland +30 57 £478 -11.07% 19
South West -6 57 £600 +17.07% 36
North West -14 52 £550 +15.79% 36
West Midlands -43 43 £500 -9.09% 11
East of England -4 26 £550 -8.33% 14
East Midlands -23 13 £638 +55.49% 11
Wales - 9 £471 - 2
North East -39 7 £500 -9.09% 1
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 36 (3.44%) Confluence
2 33 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.95%) Apache
5 8 (0.76%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.38%) IIS
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.095%) Mendix
10 1 (0.095%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.095%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.095%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.67%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 465 (44.37%) Azure
2 314 (29.96%) Entra ID
3 225 (21.47%) AWS
4 132 (12.60%) GCP
5 79 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (5.63%) GitHub
7 56 (5.34%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (4.58%) Power Platform
9 47 (4.48%) Azure AKS
9 47 (4.48%) SaaS
10 44 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
12 37 (3.53%) Azure Sentinel
13 32 (3.05%) OCI
14 31 (2.96%) PaaS
15 30 (2.86%) Serverless
16 26 (2.48%) IaaS
17 23 (2.19%) Azure Key Vault
18 22 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
19 21 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 99 (9.45%) Network Security
2 89 (8.49%) Firewall
3 84 (8.02%) DNS
4 48 (4.58%) WAN
5 41 (3.91%) DHCP
6 35 (3.34%) VPN
7 27 (2.58%) LAN
8 26 (2.48%) BGP
9 25 (2.39%) OSPF
10 24 (2.29%) BIG-IP
10 24 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 24 (2.29%) Junos
10 24 (2.29%) VXLAN
11 19 (1.81%) Cisco ISE
11 19 (1.81%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.05%) SSL
13 10 (0.95%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.76%) Internet
14 8 (0.76%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.57%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.82%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.91%) Power BI
3 14 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (0.95%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.86%) Neo4j
7 8 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.67%) Metadata
8 7 (0.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 7 (0.67%) Tableau
9 5 (0.48%) Big Data
9 5 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.48%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.19%) Parquet
12 2 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 56 (5.34%) JIRA
2 41 (3.91%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.53%) Git
4 20 (1.91%) GitLab
5 12 (1.15%) Gatling
6 7 (0.67%) JMeter
6 7 (0.67%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.48%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.48%) Postman
8 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.29%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.19%) Maven
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) Snyk
General
1 274 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 218 (20.80%) Finance
3 135 (12.88%) Public Sector
4 101 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.77%) Banking
6 60 (5.73%) Retail
7 57 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.29%) Legal
10 15 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.67%) Local Government
13 7 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.57%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.48%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 265 (25.29%) Architect
2 100 (9.54%) Lead
3 93 (8.87%) Security Architect
4 86 (8.21%) Analyst
5 82 (7.82%) Senior
6 73 (6.97%) Developer
7 48 (4.58%) Business Analyst
7 48 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
8 47 (4.48%) Consultant
9 44 (4.20%) Java Developer
10 43 (4.10%) Support Engineer
11 42 (4.01%) Project Manager
12 36 (3.44%) Technical Architect
13 35 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (3.15%) Service Manager
15 33 (3.15%) Service Transition Manager
15 33 (3.15%) Transition Manager
16 32 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.77%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (9.16%) OAuth
2 95 (9.06%) SailPoint
3 82 (7.82%) OpenID
4 81 (7.73%) SAML
5 51 (4.87%) LDAP
6 50 (4.77%) REST
7 37 (3.53%) OAuth2
8 28 (2.67%) .NET
9 27 (2.58%) ARM Templates
10 26 (2.48%) 802.1X
11 16 (1.53%) JSON
11 16 (1.53%) Node.js
11 16 (1.53%) React
12 15 (1.43%) .NET Framework
12 15 (1.43%) Kafka
12 15 (1.43%) Spring
13 14 (1.34%) Middleware
14 12 (1.15%) RESTful
14 12 (1.15%) Web Services
15 11 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (11.07%) Onboarding
2 106 (10.11%) PKI
3 94 (8.97%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.29%) Security Posture
5 44 (4.20%) Data Centre
6 37 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (3.44%) Management Information System
8 32 (3.05%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.77%) Operational Technology
9 29 (2.77%) Public Cloud
10 28 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 24 (2.29%) Clustering
13 20 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 16 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 124 (11.83%) Windows
2 76 (7.25%) Linux
3 39 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.95%) Unix
5 9 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.86%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.86%) VMS
6 6 (0.57%) Debian
7 5 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.48%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.29%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.095%) CentOS
11 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (23.38%) Cybersecurity
2 219 (20.90%) DevOps
3 196 (18.70%) CI/CD
4 195 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 179 (17.08%) Agile
6 161 (15.36%) RBAC
6 161 (15.36%) Zero Trust
7 159 (15.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 157 (14.98%) Cloud Security
9 149 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
10 140 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (12.69%) Security Architecture
12 132 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 123 (11.74%) Privileged Access Management
14 113 (10.78%) Roadmaps
15 111 (10.59%) Identity Management
16 101 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (9.35%) AI
18 96 (9.16%) Migration
19 90 (8.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 173 (16.51%) PowerShell
2 144 (13.74%) Python
3 85 (8.11%) Java
4 77 (7.35%) SQL
5 59 (5.63%) Bash
6 55 (5.25%) Bicep
7 22 (2.10%) C#
8 14 (1.34%) Rust
9 12 (1.15%) Go
10 9 (0.86%) Scala
11 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.38%) Groovy
12 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.29%) Cypher
13 3 (0.29%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.29%) R
14 2 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 318 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 228 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 97 (9.26%) CISSP
4 66 (6.30%) DV Cleared
5 58 (5.53%) Azure Certification
5 58 (5.53%) Degree
6 57 (5.44%) CISM
7 55 (5.25%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (3.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 33 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (2.77%) CCSP
12 21 (2.00%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.81%) PMP
14 16 (1.53%) PMI Certification
15 14 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (1.05%) FFIEC
18 8 (0.76%) CISA
19 7 (0.67%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.11%) NIST
2 101 (9.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 65 (6.20%) GDPR
4 42 (4.01%) NCSC
5 38 (3.63%) GRC
6 23 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (1.81%) QA
8 16 (1.53%) SLA
9 13 (1.24%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.05%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.95%) COBIT
11 10 (0.95%) Data Quality
12 9 (0.86%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.86%) PMO
13 8 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.76%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.57%) ITGC
16 5 (0.48%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 282 (26.91%) Active Directory
2 80 (7.63%) Docker
3 31 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.43%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.38%) vSphere
8 3 (0.29%) IAG
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.19%) zsh
10 1 (0.095%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.095%) Squid
Systems Management
1 158 (15.08%) Terraform
2 119 (11.35%) Kubernetes
3 109 (10.40%) Single Sign-On
4 62 (5.92%) Ansible
5 33 (3.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.67%) Grafana
7 24 (2.29%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.34%) Argo
8 14 (1.34%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.67%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 7 (0.67%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.48%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.48%) Istio
11 5 (0.48%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 4 (0.38%) Podman
12 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.38%) Puppet
13 3 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 330 (31.49%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.73%) Okta
3 72 (6.87%) CyberArk
4 59 (5.63%) Google
5 49 (4.68%) ServiceNow
5 49 (4.68%) VMware
6 47 (4.48%) Oracle
7 42 (4.01%) BeyondTrust
8 41 (3.91%) Splunk
9 39 (3.72%) SAP
10 36 (3.44%) Cisco
11 30 (2.86%) ForgeRock
12 27 (2.58%) Zscaler
13 26 (2.48%) F5
14 24 (2.29%) Juniper
14 24 (2.29%) SolarWinds
15 22 (2.10%) Extreme Networks
16 20 (1.91%) Workday
17 16 (1.53%) Ping Identity
18 13 (1.24%) Databricks