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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 172 193
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 872 492 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.61% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.77% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 357 368
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £486 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £761 £739 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £635
% change year-on-year - -13.39% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 3
10th Percentile £51.33 £49.50 -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +173.11% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.02 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £87.72 £94.50 -
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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +8 741 £575 -1.71% 174
UK excluding London +33 427 £550 - 121
London -4 341 £575 -5.58% 88
Work from Home +20 296 £560 +1.82% 84
North of England +20 141 £550 +11.79% 34
South East -5 116 £575 -11.54% 44
Yorkshire +24 92 £539 +14.87% 13
Midlands -38 68 £550 +10.89% 13
South West -3 56 £600 +9.09% 7
West Midlands -24 54 £538 -8.51% 7
North West -19 49 £563 +7.14% 16
Scotland +11 41 £492 -7.95% 11
East Midlands -25 12 £638 +54.55% 6
East of England -28 10 £540 -16.92% 6
Wales - 8 £471 - 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 30 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 25 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.29%) Confluence
4 7 (0.80%) Apache
5 6 (0.69%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Mendix
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.57%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
3 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 414 (47.48%) Azure
2 274 (31.42%) Entra ID
3 189 (21.67%) AWS
4 120 (13.76%) GCP
5 75 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (5.62%) GitHub
7 47 (5.39%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.28%) Azure AKS
8 46 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
9 37 (4.24%) SaaS
10 34 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
11 28 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
11 28 (3.21%) Serverless
12 26 (2.98%) IaaS
12 26 (2.98%) PaaS
13 19 (2.18%) Microsoft Copilot
13 19 (2.18%) OCI
13 19 (2.18%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (9.75%) DNS
2 84 (9.63%) Network Security
3 75 (8.60%) Firewall
4 49 (5.62%) DHCP
5 46 (5.28%) WAN
6 30 (3.44%) VPN
7 27 (3.10%) BGP
7 27 (3.10%) LAN
8 26 (2.98%) OSPF
9 24 (2.75%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.75%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.75%) Junos
9 24 (2.75%) VXLAN
10 23 (2.64%) Kerberos
11 19 (2.18%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (2.06%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.49%) SSL
14 9 (1.03%) Internet
15 6 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.69%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.52%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.18%) Power BI
3 10 (1.15%) Neo4j
3 10 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.03%) Tableau
5 8 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.46%) Big Data
7 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.46%) Metadata
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.11%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.11%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 59 (6.77%) JIRA
2 50 (5.73%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.67%) Git
4 23 (2.64%) GitLab
5 12 (1.38%) Postman
6 10 (1.15%) Gatling
7 5 (0.57%) JMeter
7 5 (0.57%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.57%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.46%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.46%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.23%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.23%) Snyk
9 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 219 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 165 (18.92%) Finance
3 115 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 71 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.19%) Banking
6 39 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.33%) Retail
8 25 (2.87%) Legal
9 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.80%) Police
14 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.69%) Military
15 5 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.57%) Local Government
16 3 (0.34%) Aviation
16 3 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 235 (26.95%) Architect
2 78 (8.94%) Senior
3 76 (8.72%) Analyst
4 69 (7.91%) Lead
5 67 (7.68%) Security Architect
6 66 (7.57%) Developer
7 39 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.36%) Consultant
8 38 (4.36%) Java Developer
9 34 (3.90%) Project Manager
10 29 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (3.21%) Business Analyst
12 26 (2.98%) Security Engineer
12 26 (2.98%) Technical Architect
13 24 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
15 22 (2.52%) Support Engineer
16 20 (2.29%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (11.58%) SailPoint
2 81 (9.29%) SAML
3 80 (9.17%) OAuth
4 67 (7.68%) OpenID
5 62 (7.11%) LDAP
6 46 (5.28%) REST
7 28 (3.21%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.98%) 802.1X
9 21 (2.41%) ARM Templates
10 20 (2.29%) Middleware
11 17 (1.95%) .NET
11 17 (1.95%) Kafka
12 16 (1.83%) Node.js
12 16 (1.83%) Playwright
12 16 (1.83%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.38%) JSON
13 12 (1.38%) Spring
13 12 (1.38%) Web Services
14 11 (1.26%) React
14 11 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.44%) Onboarding
2 82 (9.40%) PKI
3 70 (8.03%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.93%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.10%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.87%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.75%) Clustering
9 24 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.64%) Operational Technology
11 18 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.06%) Replication
12 17 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
16 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 9 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.53%) Windows
2 64 (7.34%) Linux
3 41 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.15%) Unix
5 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.69%) Debian
7 6 (0.69%) VMS
8 5 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.46%) Android
10 2 (0.23%) CentOS
10 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.11%) Rocky
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (21.44%) DevOps
2 186 (21.33%) Cybersecurity
3 152 (17.43%) Agile
3 152 (17.43%) CI/CD
4 141 (16.17%) RBAC
5 134 (15.37%) Zero Trust
6 123 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 118 (13.53%) Cloud Security
7 118 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 94 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (10.44%) Identity Management
11 91 (10.44%) Security Architecture
12 89 (10.21%) AI
13 81 (9.29%) Migration
13 81 (9.29%) Privileged Access Management
13 81 (9.29%) Roadmaps
14 75 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
15 73 (8.37%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 139 (15.94%) PowerShell
2 114 (13.07%) Python
3 86 (9.86%) Java
4 66 (7.57%) SQL
5 42 (4.82%) Bicep
6 21 (2.41%) Bash
7 16 (1.83%) Rust
8 14 (1.61%) Scala
9 13 (1.49%) Go
10 11 (1.26%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.15%) C#
12 5 (0.57%) Cypher
12 5 (0.57%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.46%) Groovy
13 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.34%) R
15 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 272 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 198 (22.71%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.26%) CISSP
4 64 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (5.28%) Degree
7 41 (4.70%) CISM
8 37 (4.24%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 28 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (2.87%) CCSP
12 24 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.61%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.38%) PMP
15 11 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.26%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.80%) CISA
16 7 (0.80%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.80%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.80%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (10.09%) NIST
2 86 (9.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (7.91%) GDPR
4 35 (4.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 32 (3.67%) NCSC
6 28 (3.21%) GRC
7 18 (2.06%) QA
8 14 (1.61%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.49%) SLA
10 11 (1.26%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.26%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.03%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.92%) PMO
13 7 (0.80%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.69%) COBIT
15 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.46%) Data Quality
16 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
17 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 241 (27.64%) Active Directory
2 63 (7.22%) Docker
3 25 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.72%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.15%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.34%) IAG
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.23%) RACF
10 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 122 (13.99%) Terraform
2 108 (12.39%) Single Sign-On
3 100 (11.47%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.19%) Ansible
5 27 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.75%) FortiGate
7 23 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.83%) Grafana
9 11 (1.26%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.92%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.80%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 6 (0.69%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 5 (0.57%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.57%) Istio
15 4 (0.46%) Argo
15 4 (0.46%) Kiali
15 4 (0.46%) Podman
15 4 (0.46%) Puppet
15 4 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 265 (30.39%) Microsoft
2 103 (11.81%) Okta
3 61 (7.00%) Google
4 49 (5.62%) ServiceNow
5 47 (5.39%) CyberArk
6 44 (5.05%) Splunk
7 34 (3.90%) Cisco
8 33 (3.78%) VMware
9 30 (3.44%) ForgeRock
10 29 (3.33%) Oracle
10 29 (3.33%) SAP
11 26 (2.98%) F5
12 24 (2.75%) Juniper
12 24 (2.75%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.52%) BeyondTrust
13 22 (2.52%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (2.52%) Zscaler
14 20 (2.29%) Workday
15 14 (1.61%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (1.61%) Ping Identity