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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 173 187
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 847 499 542
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.67% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.83% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 362 372
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £491 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -2.50% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £757 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile £51.35 £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 £85.00 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +5 724 £575 -1.71% 165
UK excluding London +31 413 £550 - 128
London -8 331 £575 -6.50% 79
Work from Home +29 291 £560 +1.82% 87
North of England +13 135 £550 +4.76% 34
South East -1 115 £578 -11.08% 43
Yorkshire +19 87 £539 +14.87% 11
Midlands -30 66 £550 +10.00% 12
South West -5 58 £600 +9.09% 6
West Midlands -27 54 £538 -8.51% 4
North West -18 48 £575 +9.52% 18
Scotland +8 37 £538 +0.66% 13
East Midlands -28 10 £638 +54.55% 8
East of England -29 10 £540 -16.92% 4
Wales - 5 £468 - 9
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 31 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (2.13%) Confluence
4 7 (0.83%) Apache
5 6 (0.71%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.47%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.12%) Mendix
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.59%) Maximo
2 5 (0.59%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 410 (48.41%) Azure
2 266 (31.40%) Entra ID
3 182 (21.49%) AWS
4 112 (13.22%) GCP
5 76 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (5.79%) Azure AKS
7 47 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (5.55%) Power Platform
8 44 (5.19%) GitHub
9 40 (4.72%) Azure Sentinel
10 35 (4.13%) SaaS
11 31 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (3.31%) Serverless
14 25 (2.95%) IaaS
14 25 (2.95%) PaaS
15 19 (2.24%) Microsoft Copilot
15 19 (2.24%) Power Automate
15 19 (2.24%) PowerApps
16 18 (2.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 81 (9.56%) DNS
2 80 (9.45%) Network Security
3 77 (9.09%) Firewall
4 49 (5.79%) DHCP
5 46 (5.43%) WAN
6 32 (3.78%) VPN
7 27 (3.19%) BGP
7 27 (3.19%) LAN
8 26 (3.07%) OSPF
9 24 (2.83%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.83%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.83%) Junos
9 24 (2.83%) VXLAN
10 20 (2.36%) Kerberos
11 19 (2.24%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (2.13%) SD-WAN
13 13 (1.53%) SSL
14 9 (1.06%) Internet
15 6 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.24%) Power BI
2 17 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.06%) Neo4j
3 9 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.06%) Tableau
4 8 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.59%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.47%) Big Data
6 4 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.35%) Metadata
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.24%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (6.73%) JIRA
2 47 (5.55%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.54%) Git
4 22 (2.60%) GitLab
5 11 (1.30%) Postman
6 9 (1.06%) Gatling
7 5 (0.59%) Jaeger
7 5 (0.59%) Selenium
8 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.47%) JMeter
8 4 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.47%) NeoLoad
8 4 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
9 2 (0.24%) Snyk
10 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.12%) SpecFlow
General
1 217 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.48%) Finance
3 111 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 69 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.38%) Banking
6 39 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.31%) Retail
8 25 (2.95%) Legal
9 11 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.83%) Police
14 6 (0.71%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.71%) Military
15 5 (0.59%) Local Government
16 4 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.35%) Aviation
17 3 (0.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 226 (26.68%) Architect
2 76 (8.97%) Senior
3 75 (8.85%) Analyst
4 69 (8.15%) Lead
5 64 (7.56%) Developer
5 64 (7.56%) Security Architect
6 40 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (4.49%) Consultant
7 38 (4.49%) Java Developer
8 35 (4.13%) Project Manager
9 29 (3.42%) Business Analyst
9 29 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 25 (2.95%) Security Engineer
10 25 (2.95%) Technical Architect
11 24 (2.83%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 21 (2.48%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
12 21 (2.48%) Identity Management Analyst
12 21 (2.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (2.36%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (11.57%) SailPoint
2 81 (9.56%) SAML
3 79 (9.33%) OAuth
4 66 (7.79%) OpenID
5 59 (6.97%) LDAP
6 42 (4.96%) REST
7 28 (3.31%) OAuth2
8 26 (3.07%) 802.1X
9 23 (2.72%) ARM Templates
10 20 (2.36%) Middleware
11 18 (2.13%) Kafka
12 17 (2.01%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.77%) Node.js
13 15 (1.77%) Playwright
14 12 (1.42%) JSON
14 12 (1.42%) Spring
15 11 (1.30%) .NET
15 11 (1.30%) Web Services
16 10 (1.18%) React
17 9 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.15%) Onboarding
2 76 (8.97%) PKI
3 68 (8.03%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.08%) Data Centre
5 33 (3.90%) Security Posture
6 31 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.95%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.83%) Clustering
9 24 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.72%) Operational Technology
11 22 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (2.13%) Replication
13 15 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
16 9 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
17 8 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 113 (13.34%) Windows
2 65 (7.67%) Linux
3 38 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.18%) Unix
5 7 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.71%) Debian
7 5 (0.59%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.59%) VMS
8 4 (0.47%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.47%) Android
8 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (21.96%) DevOps
2 183 (21.61%) Cybersecurity
3 150 (17.71%) Agile
4 148 (17.47%) CI/CD
5 136 (16.06%) RBAC
6 132 (15.58%) Zero Trust
7 121 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 119 (14.05%) Cloud Security
9 116 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
10 107 (12.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 101 (11.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 90 (10.63%) Security Architecture
13 87 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
14 86 (10.15%) AI
14 86 (10.15%) Identity Management
15 78 (9.21%) Migration
16 77 (9.09%) Roadmaps
17 76 (8.97%) Privileged Access Management
18 72 (8.50%) High Availability
19 71 (8.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 135 (15.94%) PowerShell
2 110 (12.99%) Python
3 87 (10.27%) Java
4 60 (7.08%) SQL
5 42 (4.96%) Bicep
6 21 (2.48%) Bash
7 16 (1.89%) Rust
8 14 (1.65%) Scala
9 12 (1.42%) Go
10 10 (1.18%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.71%) C#
12 5 (0.59%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.47%) Cypher
13 4 (0.47%) Groovy
13 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.35%) R
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 265 (31.29%) Security Cleared
2 191 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.85%) CISSP
4 66 (7.79%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
6 44 (5.19%) CISM
6 44 (5.19%) Degree
7 39 (4.60%) Azure Certification
8 29 (3.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 28 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.95%) CCSP
11 21 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (1.53%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.53%) PMP
13 11 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.30%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.83%) CISA
14 7 (0.83%) JNCIA
14 7 (0.83%) JNCIP
14 7 (0.83%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.74%) NIST
2 89 (10.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 68 (8.03%) GDPR
4 35 (4.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 32 (3.78%) NCSC
6 28 (3.31%) GRC
7 17 (2.01%) QA
8 14 (1.65%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.30%) SLA
9 11 (1.30%) SOC 2
10 10 (1.18%) NIST 800
11 9 (1.06%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.94%) PMO
13 6 (0.71%) COBIT
14 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
16 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 232 (27.39%) Active Directory
2 61 (7.20%) Docker
3 22 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.77%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.18%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.35%) IAG
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.24%) RACF
10 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.12%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 120 (14.17%) Terraform
2 103 (12.16%) Single Sign-On
3 102 (12.04%) Kubernetes
4 51 (6.02%) Ansible
5 27 (3.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.83%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.89%) Grafana
9 12 (1.42%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.94%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.71%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 6 (0.71%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 5 (0.59%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.59%) Istio
13 5 (0.59%) Kiali
14 4 (0.47%) Argo
14 4 (0.47%) Podman
14 4 (0.47%) Puppet
14 4 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 255 (30.11%) Microsoft
2 98 (11.57%) Okta
3 57 (6.73%) Google
4 45 (5.31%) ServiceNow
4 45 (5.31%) Splunk
5 41 (4.84%) CyberArk
6 34 (4.01%) Cisco
7 30 (3.54%) ForgeRock
7 30 (3.54%) VMware
8 29 (3.42%) SAP
9 28 (3.31%) Oracle
10 26 (3.07%) F5
11 24 (2.83%) Juniper
11 24 (2.83%) SolarWinds
12 22 (2.60%) Extreme Networks
12 22 (2.60%) Zscaler
13 20 (2.36%) Workday
14 19 (2.24%) BeyondTrust
15 14 (1.65%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (1.53%) Ping Identity