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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 188 187
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +94
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 669 437 572
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.71% 1.41% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.57% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 301 389
10th Percentile £400 £413 £412
25th Percentile £463 £500 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £630
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.76% +3.28%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £725
90th Percentile £723 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £543 £596 £650
% change year-on-year -8.88% -8.32% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74.26 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - £75.00
75th Percentile £93.13 - -
90th Percentile £94.25 - -
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 34,050 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.05% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,585 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £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 £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.73% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +11.43%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +38 614 £550 -8.33% 147
UK excluding London +28 328 £543 -8.88% 113
London +27 278 £575 -8.00% 57
Work from Home +4 194 £531 -7.65% 85
North of England +6 136 £518 -2.17% 24
Yorkshire +3 94 £518 -11.16% 5
Midlands -2 71 £550 -6.73% 17
West Midlands -9 60 £550 -6.73% 14
South East -12 55 £520 -20.08% 49
South West +5 46 £675 +22.73% 11
North West -11 37 £550 +4.76% 18
Scotland -7 12 £800 +52.38% 2
East Midlands - 10 £550 - 3
East of England -22 9 £575 -11.54% 14
North East -10 6 £491 -9.17% 1
Wales -1 1 £700 -6.67% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 -

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 (6.28%) Confluence
2 32 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (3.89%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.05%) Apache
5 6 (0.90%) IIS
5 6 (0.90%) iPlanet
5 6 (0.90%) JBoss
5 6 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 6 (0.90%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (2.54%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.20%) Maximo
2 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 272 (40.66%) Azure
2 199 (29.75%) Entra ID
3 135 (20.18%) AWS
4 90 (13.45%) GCP
5 59 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (5.38%) SaaS
7 34 (5.08%) GitHub
8 31 (4.63%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (3.89%) OpenShift
11 22 (3.29%) Serverless
12 20 (2.99%) Azure AKS
12 20 (2.99%) IaaS
13 19 (2.84%) PaaS
14 18 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (2.69%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 14 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (1.94%) OneDrive
17 13 (1.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (9.72%) Firewall
2 56 (8.37%) Network Security
3 49 (7.32%) DNS
4 35 (5.23%) Kerberos
5 32 (4.78%) VPN
6 25 (3.74%) SSL
7 22 (3.29%) DHCP
8 8 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.20%) WebEx
9 7 (1.05%) Internet
10 5 (0.75%) HTTP
10 5 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (0.75%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.60%) BGP
11 4 (0.60%) OSPF
11 4 (0.60%) WAN
11 4 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.45%) LAN
12 3 (0.45%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.24%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 11 (1.64%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.49%) DocumentDB
4 10 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 8 (1.20%) Power BI
6 5 (0.75%) BigQuery
6 5 (0.75%) MySQL
7 4 (0.60%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.60%) Tableau
8 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.45%) Redis
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.30%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.30%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 62 (9.27%) JIRA
2 40 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.93%) Git
4 24 (3.59%) GitLab
5 15 (2.24%) Postman
5 15 (2.24%) Selenium
6 10 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.49%) REST Assured
7 8 (1.20%) Jaeger
8 6 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (0.90%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.90%) TestRail
9 4 (0.60%) Gatling
9 4 (0.60%) JMeter
9 4 (0.60%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.60%) NeoLoad
9 4 (0.60%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.45%) JUnit
10 3 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 199 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 140 (20.93%) Finance
3 81 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 57 (8.52%) Banking
6 28 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (3.14%) Legal
8 17 (2.54%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.39%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.90%) Electronics
14 6 (0.90%) Marketing
15 5 (0.75%) Police
16 4 (0.60%) Military
16 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 202 (30.19%) Architect
2 77 (11.51%) Analyst
3 76 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
4 55 (8.22%) Lead
5 52 (7.77%) Senior
6 48 (7.17%) Security Architect
7 39 (5.83%) Business Analyst
7 39 (5.83%) Consultant
8 27 (4.04%) Security Engineer
9 23 (3.44%) Developer
10 22 (3.29%) Azure Architect
10 22 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
12 18 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
12 18 (2.69%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.39%) Identity Management Architect
14 15 (2.24%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (2.24%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
14 15 (2.24%) Identity Management Analyst
14 15 (2.24%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (12.71%) SAML
2 83 (12.41%) SailPoint
3 81 (12.11%) OAuth
4 62 (9.27%) OpenID
5 60 (8.97%) LDAP
6 41 (6.13%) REST
7 24 (3.59%) ARM Templates
8 23 (3.44%) .NET
8 23 (3.44%) Kafka
9 22 (3.29%) OAuth2
10 19 (2.84%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.54%) Node.js
12 15 (2.24%) Middleware
13 12 (1.79%) RESTful
13 12 (1.79%) Spring
14 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (1.49%) HTML
15 10 (1.49%) Playwright
16 8 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
16 8 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.37%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.43%) Management Information System
3 37 (5.53%) Cloud Native
4 30 (4.48%) PKI
5 29 (4.33%) Security Posture
6 28 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.54%) Replication
9 11 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.20%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
14 6 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.75%) NHS
15 5 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 96 (14.35%) Windows
2 55 (8.22%) Linux
3 50 (7.47%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.39%) Unix
5 12 (1.79%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.75%) VMS
8 4 (0.60%) Android
9 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.30%) CentOS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (22.72%) Cybersecurity
2 134 (20.03%) RBAC
3 128 (19.13%) CI/CD
4 119 (17.79%) Cloud Security
5 110 (16.44%) DevOps
6 97 (14.50%) Privileged Access Management
6 97 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 95 (14.20%) Agile
8 92 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 88 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 78 (11.66%) Identity Management
12 69 (10.31%) Zero Trust
13 63 (9.42%) Data Protection
14 61 (9.12%) Incident Response
14 61 (9.12%) Roadmaps
14 61 (9.12%) SIEM
15 54 (8.07%) Test Automation
16 53 (7.92%) Migration
17 51 (7.62%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (19.58%) PowerShell
2 83 (12.41%) Python
3 58 (8.67%) Java
4 45 (6.73%) SQL
5 36 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.04%) Bash
6 27 (4.04%) Bicep
7 16 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 11 (1.64%) C#
9 9 (1.35%) Groovy
9 9 (1.35%) Rust
9 9 (1.35%) Scala
10 8 (1.20%) PHP
11 7 (1.05%) Perl
11 7 (1.05%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.90%) Go
13 4 (0.60%) Cypher
14 3 (0.45%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.45%) C++
15 2 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 209 (31.24%) Security Cleared
2 166 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 79 (11.81%) CISSP
4 66 (9.87%) CISM
5 47 (7.03%) DV Cleared
6 45 (6.73%) Degree
7 43 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (5.23%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.54%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (2.24%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (1.49%) PhD
13 10 (1.49%) PMI Certification
14 8 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.20%) CCNP
14 8 (1.20%) PMP
15 7 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (13.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 76 (11.36%) GDPR
3 74 (11.06%) NIST
4 32 (4.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (3.14%) PCI DSS
6 18 (2.69%) GRC
6 18 (2.69%) QA
7 15 (2.24%) Accessibility
8 14 (2.09%) NCSC
9 10 (1.49%) HIPAA
10 8 (1.20%) COBIT
10 8 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 7 (1.05%) Data Quality
11 7 (1.05%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.90%) ITGC
12 6 (0.90%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.75%) SLA
14 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 197 (29.45%) Active Directory
2 62 (9.27%) Docker
3 22 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (1.35%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.90%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 5 (0.75%) vSphere
8 2 (0.30%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.30%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.30%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.15%) GPFS
9 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.15%) IAG
9 1 (0.15%) Lustre
9 1 (0.15%) RACF
9 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.15%) UAG
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (14.35%) Terraform
2 95 (14.20%) Single Sign-On
3 74 (11.06%) Kubernetes
4 47 (7.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 25 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (3.59%) Ansible
7 14 (2.09%) Grafana
7 14 (2.09%) SCCM
8 11 (1.64%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.20%) CA Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.20%) Kiali
10 7 (1.05%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.90%) CA Wily
11 6 (0.90%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.75%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 5 (0.75%) Istio
12 5 (0.75%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 5 (0.75%) QRadar
13 3 (0.45%) Icinga
13 3 (0.45%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 225 (33.63%) Microsoft
2 69 (10.31%) CyberArk
3 55 (8.22%) Google
4 50 (7.47%) Okta
5 34 (5.08%) ServiceNow
6 33 (4.93%) VMware
7 32 (4.78%) Oracle
7 32 (4.78%) Splunk
8 20 (2.99%) SAP
9 18 (2.69%) BeyondTrust
9 18 (2.69%) Citrix
10 17 (2.54%) Red Hat
11 16 (2.39%) BiZZdesign
12 15 (2.24%) Centrify
12 15 (2.24%) Cisco
12 15 (2.24%) IBM
12 15 (2.24%) Zscaler
13 9 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (1.35%) Databricks
13 9 (1.35%) NetIQ