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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 180 192
Rank change year-on-year +33 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 994 521 526
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 1.59% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.76% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 372 362
10th Percentile £425 £384 £425
25th Percentile £481 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £575 £593
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -2.95% -1.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £679
90th Percentile £750 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £536 £625
% change year-on-year +2.61% -14.24% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 4
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 £36.60
90th Percentile £87.72 £94.50 £59.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.09 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -6.56% - -

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 45,072 29,587 34,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,942 18,578 22,301
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 2,665 1,596 2,086
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.31
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.00% -1.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +19 809 £575 - 276
UK excluding London +43 469 £550 +2.61% 187
London +15 387 £575 -4.17% 128
Work from Home +25 332 £550 +1.85% 129
South East +5 137 £575 -11.54% 57
North of England -4 134 £550 +17.15% 54
Yorkshire -2 79 £544 +20.83% 28
Midlands -31 67 £550 +11.79% 18
Scotland +26 61 £478 -10.65% 16
South West -8 53 £563 +7.14% 24
North West -21 52 £575 +16.87% 25
West Midlands -24 52 £525 -4.55% 10
East of England -5 22 £553 -18.21% 8
East Midlands -24 13 £638 +55.49% 8
Wales - 8 £471 - 8
North East -41 4 £550 +10.83% 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 32 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.92%) Confluence
3 28 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.91%) Apache
5 7 (0.70%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.40%) IIS
7 3 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.10%) Mendix
9 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.70%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 451 (45.37%) Azure
2 310 (31.19%) Entra ID
3 213 (21.43%) AWS
4 121 (12.17%) GCP
5 75 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (5.53%) GitHub
7 54 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (4.93%) Power Platform
9 46 (4.63%) Azure AKS
10 42 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (4.02%) Azure Sentinel
11 40 (4.02%) SaaS
12 39 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
13 31 (3.12%) OCI
14 29 (2.92%) PaaS
15 28 (2.82%) Serverless
16 26 (2.62%) IaaS
17 21 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
17 21 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 93 (9.36%) Network Security
2 87 (8.75%) Firewall
3 77 (7.75%) DNS
4 47 (4.73%) WAN
5 39 (3.92%) DHCP
6 34 (3.42%) VPN
7 27 (2.72%) BGP
7 27 (2.72%) LAN
8 26 (2.62%) OSPF
9 24 (2.41%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.41%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.41%) Junos
9 24 (2.41%) VXLAN
10 19 (1.91%) Cisco ISE
11 18 (1.81%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.11%) SSL
13 10 (1.01%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.91%) TCP/IP
15 8 (0.80%) Internet
16 7 (0.70%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.72%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.11%) Power BI
3 14 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 9 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.70%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.70%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (0.70%) Tableau
7 6 (0.60%) Metadata
8 5 (0.50%) Big Data
8 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.50%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.40%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.20%) MySQL
11 2 (0.20%) Parquet
11 2 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 53 (5.33%) JIRA
2 44 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.52%) Git
4 19 (1.91%) GitLab
5 7 (0.70%) Gatling
6 4 (0.40%) Postman
6 4 (0.40%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.30%) MSBuild
7 3 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.30%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.30%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.20%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.20%) JMeter
8 2 (0.20%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.20%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.20%) Selenium
8 2 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 248 (24.95%) Social Skills
2 206 (20.72%) Finance
3 131 (13.18%) Public Sector
4 90 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (6.64%) Banking
6 54 (5.43%) Retail
7 53 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (2.52%) Legal
9 19 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (1.51%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.41%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.60%) Military
14 6 (0.60%) Police
15 5 (0.50%) Local Government
15 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 260 (26.16%) Architect
2 87 (8.75%) Lead
3 84 (8.45%) Security Architect
4 83 (8.35%) Analyst
5 79 (7.95%) Senior
6 73 (7.34%) Developer
7 48 (4.83%) Consultant
8 44 (4.43%) Java Developer
8 44 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (4.02%) Business Analyst
9 40 (4.02%) Project Manager
10 36 (3.62%) Support Engineer
11 32 (3.22%) Technical Architect
12 30 (3.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (3.02%) Service Manager
12 30 (3.02%) Service Transition Manager
12 30 (3.02%) Transition Manager
13 29 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (10.36%) SailPoint
2 88 (8.85%) OAuth
3 77 (7.75%) OpenID
4 76 (7.65%) SAML
5 54 (5.43%) LDAP
6 50 (5.03%) REST
7 30 (3.02%) OAuth2
8 27 (2.72%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.62%) 802.1X
10 25 (2.52%) .NET
11 16 (1.61%) Middleware
11 16 (1.61%) Node.js
12 15 (1.51%) JSON
12 15 (1.51%) Kafka
13 14 (1.41%) .NET Framework
13 14 (1.41%) React
13 14 (1.41%) Spring
14 13 (1.31%) Web Services
15 12 (1.21%) Spring Boot
16 11 (1.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 111 (11.17%) Onboarding
2 95 (9.56%) PKI
3 79 (7.95%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.43%) Data Centre
5 40 (4.02%) Security Posture
6 33 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
7 31 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.82%) Operational Technology
8 28 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 27 (2.72%) Public Cloud
10 26 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (2.41%) Clustering
12 23 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
17 14 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
18 11 (1.11%) IoT
18 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (11.37%) Windows
2 69 (6.94%) Linux
3 31 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.01%) Unix
5 9 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.60%) Debian
6 6 (0.60%) VMS
7 5 (0.50%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.40%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (21.03%) DevOps
2 208 (20.93%) Cybersecurity
3 175 (17.61%) CI/CD
4 170 (17.10%) Agile
5 163 (16.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 149 (14.99%) Zero Trust
7 147 (14.79%) RBAC
8 140 (14.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 140 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
9 137 (13.78%) Cloud Security
10 124 (12.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 118 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 112 (11.27%) Security Architecture
13 110 (11.07%) Privileged Access Management
14 102 (10.26%) Identity Management
15 101 (10.16%) Roadmaps
16 96 (9.66%) Migration
17 92 (9.26%) AI
18 85 (8.55%) Technical Leadership
19 79 (7.95%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 163 (16.40%) PowerShell
2 128 (12.88%) Python
3 79 (7.95%) Java
4 69 (6.94%) SQL
5 52 (5.23%) Bicep
6 48 (4.83%) Bash
7 23 (2.31%) C#
8 15 (1.51%) Rust
9 12 (1.21%) Go
10 5 (0.50%) Scala
10 5 (0.50%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.40%) Groovy
11 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.30%) C++
12 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.30%) R
13 2 (0.20%) C
13 2 (0.20%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 302 (30.38%) Security Cleared
2 222 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 86 (8.65%) CISSP
4 63 (6.34%) DV Cleared
5 53 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
6 52 (5.23%) Azure Certification
7 51 (5.13%) Degree
8 48 (4.83%) CISM
9 35 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (3.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 30 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (2.72%) CCSP
13 18 (1.81%) AWS Certification
14 17 (1.71%) PMP
15 15 (1.51%) PMI Certification
16 13 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
17 8 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
18 7 (0.70%) CISA
18 7 (0.70%) JNCIA
18 7 (0.70%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 94 (9.46%) NIST
3 64 (6.44%) GDPR
4 37 (3.72%) NCSC
5 35 (3.52%) GRC
6 25 (2.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (1.61%) QA
8 15 (1.51%) SLA
9 13 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 12 (1.21%) Accessibility
11 11 (1.11%) SOC 2
12 10 (1.01%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.80%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.80%) PMO
14 7 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.60%) COBIT
15 6 (0.60%) ITGC
16 5 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 278 (27.97%) Active Directory
2 72 (7.24%) Docker
3 26 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.40%) IAG
8 3 (0.30%) vSphere
9 2 (0.20%) KVM
9 2 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.20%) RACF
9 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.20%) zsh
10 1 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 143 (14.39%) Terraform
2 105 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 105 (10.56%) Single Sign-On
3 58 (5.84%) Ansible
4 30 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (2.52%) Grafana
6 24 (2.41%) FortiGate
7 13 (1.31%) Argo
8 12 (1.21%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.70%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.50%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.50%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 4 (0.40%) Podman
13 4 (0.40%) Puppet
13 4 (0.40%) SCCM
14 3 (0.30%) Oracle Identity Management
14 3 (0.30%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 310 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 101 (10.16%) Okta
3 69 (6.94%) CyberArk
4 52 (5.23%) Google
5 47 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 44 (4.43%) Splunk
7 43 (4.33%) Oracle
8 42 (4.23%) BeyondTrust
9 41 (4.12%) VMware
10 38 (3.82%) SAP
11 36 (3.62%) Cisco
12 30 (3.02%) ForgeRock
13 26 (2.62%) F5
13 26 (2.62%) Zscaler
14 24 (2.41%) Juniper
14 24 (2.41%) SolarWinds
15 22 (2.21%) Extreme Networks
16 20 (2.01%) Workday
17 15 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
17 15 (1.51%) Ping Identity