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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 170 192
Rank change year-on-year +21 +22 -6
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 947 518 537
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.80% 1.59% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.76% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 376 373
10th Percentile £425 £398 £425
25th Percentile £488 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 4
10th Percentile £51.30 £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 £78.31 £86.25 £36.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £94.50 £59.64
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 44,805 29,397 36,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.38% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,846 18,489 23,062
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,636 1,550 2,325
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.65 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.75 £70.00 £73.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.18% -4.70%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +12 774 £575 -1.03% 194
UK excluding London +40 453 £550 +2.33% 140
London +6 364 £575 -6.50% 92
Work from Home +26 321 £560 +1.82% 99
North of England +2 130 £550 +17.27% 32
South East -2 123 £575 -9.80% 51
Yorkshire +11 78 £544 +31.82% 14
Midlands -33 69 £550 +10.00% 15
Scotland +30 58 £480 -10.29% 11
South West -14 57 £600 +11.63% 17
West Midlands -28 55 £550 - 7
North West -20 51 £575 +16.87% 17
East of England -10 21 £555 -17.84% 5
East Midlands -23 12 £638 +54.55% 8
Wales - 8 £471 - 7
North East -38 2 £600 +20.91% 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 30 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 27 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (2.22%) Confluence
4 9 (0.95%) Apache
5 7 (0.74%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.32%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.21%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.11%) Mendix
9 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.63%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.21%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 432 (45.62%) Azure
2 298 (31.47%) Entra ID
3 205 (21.65%) AWS
4 119 (12.57%) GCP
5 73 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (5.60%) GitHub
7 47 (4.96%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (4.22%) Azure AKS
9 40 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
10 39 (4.12%) SaaS
11 38 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
12 31 (3.27%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (2.96%) OCI
13 28 (2.96%) Serverless
14 27 (2.85%) PaaS
15 25 (2.64%) IaaS
16 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (2.11%) Power Automate
16 20 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (9.50%) Network Security
2 84 (8.87%) DNS
2 84 (8.87%) Firewall
3 47 (4.96%) DHCP
4 46 (4.86%) WAN
5 33 (3.48%) VPN
6 27 (2.85%) BGP
6 27 (2.85%) LAN
7 26 (2.75%) OSPF
8 24 (2.53%) BIG-IP
8 24 (2.53%) Ethernet VPN
8 24 (2.53%) Junos
8 24 (2.53%) VXLAN
9 19 (2.01%) Cisco ISE
10 18 (1.90%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.80%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.16%) SSL
13 8 (0.84%) Internet
13 8 (0.84%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.11%) Power BI
3 11 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (0.84%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 7 (0.74%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.74%) Tableau
7 6 (0.63%) Metadata
7 6 (0.63%) Oracle Exadata
8 5 (0.53%) Big Data
8 5 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.21%) MySQL
11 2 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (5.28%) JIRA
2 43 (4.54%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.38%) Git
4 18 (1.90%) GitLab
5 7 (0.74%) Gatling
6 4 (0.42%) Postman
6 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.32%) MSBuild
7 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.32%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.21%) JMeter
8 2 (0.21%) Maven
8 2 (0.21%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.21%) Selenium
8 2 (0.21%) Snyk
9 1 (0.11%) Jaeger
General
1 234 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 189 (19.96%) Finance
3 125 (13.20%) Public Sector
4 89 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (6.86%) Banking
6 50 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (4.75%) Retail
8 22 (2.32%) Legal
9 16 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.74%) Police
13 6 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.63%) Military
13 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.42%) Law
16 3 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 249 (26.29%) Architect
2 82 (8.66%) Lead
3 80 (8.45%) Analyst
4 76 (8.03%) Senior
5 75 (7.92%) Security Architect
6 68 (7.18%) Developer
7 44 (4.65%) Consultant
7 44 (4.65%) Java Developer
8 41 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.91%) Project Manager
10 36 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 34 (3.59%) Technical Architect
12 33 (3.48%) Support Engineer
13 29 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 28 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (2.85%) DevOps Engineer
16 26 (2.75%) Cloud Architect
16 26 (2.75%) Security Engineer
17 25 (2.64%) IAM Developer
18 24 (2.53%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.67%) SailPoint
2 92 (9.71%) OAuth
3 79 (8.34%) SAML
4 74 (7.81%) OpenID
5 59 (6.23%) LDAP
6 42 (4.44%) REST
7 30 (3.17%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.75%) 802.1X
9 21 (2.22%) ARM Templates
10 20 (2.11%) .NET
11 18 (1.90%) Middleware
12 16 (1.69%) Node.js
13 14 (1.48%) JSON
13 14 (1.48%) Spring
14 13 (1.37%) Web Services
15 12 (1.27%) Kafka
15 12 (1.27%) Spring Boot
16 11 (1.16%) React
16 11 (1.16%) SOAP
16 11 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.88%) Onboarding
2 94 (9.93%) PKI
3 74 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 35 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 28 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.96%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 26 (2.75%) Operational Technology
9 24 (2.53%) Clustering
9 24 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.48%) Enterprise Cloud
14 12 (1.27%) Replication
15 11 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (12.57%) Windows
2 69 (7.29%) Linux
3 38 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 9 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (0.95%) Ubuntu
4 9 (0.95%) Unix
5 6 (0.63%) Debian
5 6 (0.63%) VMS
6 5 (0.53%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.32%) Android
9 2 (0.21%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (21.01%) Cybersecurity
2 192 (20.27%) DevOps
3 165 (17.42%) Agile
4 160 (16.90%) CI/CD
5 149 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 144 (15.21%) Zero Trust
7 140 (14.78%) RBAC
8 137 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
9 132 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 130 (13.73%) Cloud Security
11 115 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 107 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (11.30%) Security Architecture
13 104 (10.98%) Identity Management
14 102 (10.77%) Privileged Access Management
15 94 (9.93%) Migration
16 89 (9.40%) Roadmaps
17 86 (9.08%) AI
18 83 (8.76%) Technical Leadership
19 74 (7.81%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 155 (16.37%) PowerShell
2 122 (12.88%) Python
3 79 (8.34%) Java
4 65 (6.86%) SQL
5 43 (4.54%) Bicep
6 39 (4.12%) Bash
7 17 (1.80%) C#
8 15 (1.58%) Go
8 15 (1.58%) Rust
9 5 (0.53%) Scala
9 5 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.42%) Groovy
10 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.32%) C++
11 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.32%) R
12 2 (0.21%) C
12 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 302 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 219 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.55%) CISSP
4 67 (7.07%) DV Cleared
5 53 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
6 48 (5.07%) Degree
7 46 (4.86%) CISM
8 44 (4.65%) Azure Certification
9 32 (3.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (2.85%) CCSP
12 17 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 15 (1.58%) PMP
14 14 (1.48%) PMI Certification
15 11 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.74%) CISA
16 7 (0.74%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.74%) MCSE
16 7 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (9.71%) NIST
2 90 (9.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (7.07%) GDPR
4 37 (3.91%) NCSC
5 31 (3.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 30 (3.17%) GRC
7 16 (1.69%) SLA
8 15 (1.58%) QA
9 12 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.06%) Data Quality
10 10 (1.06%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.95%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.84%) PMO
13 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.63%) COBIT
14 6 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
15 5 (0.53%) ITGC
15 5 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 270 (28.51%) Active Directory
2 71 (7.50%) Docker
3 29 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (1.80%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.42%) IAG
7 3 (0.32%) vSphere
8 2 (0.21%) KVM
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.21%) RACF
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.11%) GPFS
9 1 (0.11%) Lustre
9 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 136 (14.36%) Terraform
2 112 (11.83%) Single Sign-On
3 103 (10.88%) Kubernetes
4 59 (6.23%) Ansible
5 26 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (2.53%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.32%) Grafana
8 20 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 12 (1.27%) Argo
10 10 (1.06%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.74%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 7 (0.74%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.53%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.53%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 4 (0.42%) Podman
14 4 (0.42%) Puppet
14 4 (0.42%) SCCM
15 3 (0.32%) Istio
15 3 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 293 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 107 (11.30%) Okta
3 64 (6.76%) CyberArk
4 56 (5.91%) Google
5 43 (4.54%) ServiceNow
5 43 (4.54%) Splunk
6 41 (4.33%) Oracle
6 41 (4.33%) VMware
7 37 (3.91%) BeyondTrust
8 35 (3.70%) Cisco
9 33 (3.48%) SAP
10 30 (3.17%) ForgeRock
11 26 (2.75%) F5
12 24 (2.53%) Juniper
12 24 (2.53%) SolarWinds
13 23 (2.43%) Zscaler
14 22 (2.32%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (2.11%) Workday
16 15 (1.58%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (1.58%) Ping Identity