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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 178 191
Rank change year-on-year +49 +13 -2
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,170 538 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.14% 1.62% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.79% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 353 322
10th Percentile £413 £367 £425
25th Percentile £475 £442 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £735 £723 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £633
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.95% +13.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £51.50 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +278.15% -66.24%
75th Percentile £85.00 £95.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £98.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -0.05% - -

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 46,195 29,974 32,629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.49% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,749 18,609 19,667
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,350 1,884 1,294
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £73.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.35% -2.35%

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 10 October 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 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 18 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 10 October 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 +27 952 £550 +2.42% 734
UK excluding London +48 551 £525 +5.00% 329
London +27 461 £575 - 424
Work from Home +47 360 £556 +6.97% 345
North of England +1 196 £500 +5.26% 82
South East +19 136 £574 +10.70% 111
Yorkshire +23 118 £538 +8.37% 32
Scotland +36 72 £481 -15.61% 35
North West -17 64 £500 +10.38% 45
South West -2 51 £600 +20.00% 33
Midlands -46 50 £575 +13.30% 37
East of England -9 40 £550 -12.00% 19
West Midlands -36 38 £510 -7.27% 22
North East -35 13 £500 -2.91% 5
East Midlands -27 11 £600 +46.34% 15
Wales -2 10 £488 -30.36% 8
Northern Ireland +7 2 £600 -4.00% 6
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 39 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.25%) Confluence
3 36 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.60%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.34%) nginx
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.085%) Documentum
8 1 (0.085%) Drupal
8 1 (0.085%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.85%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.43%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.17%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.085%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.085%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 484 (41.37%) Azure
2 363 (31.03%) Entra ID
3 302 (25.81%) AWS
4 168 (14.36%) GCP
5 94 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (5.81%) GitHub
7 64 (5.47%) SaaS
8 53 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (4.36%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (3.59%) Power Platform
10 42 (3.59%) Serverless
11 40 (3.42%) OCI
12 35 (2.99%) Azure AKS
12 35 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
13 34 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
14 33 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.39%) Azure Key Vault
16 27 (2.31%) PaaS
17 25 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
18 24 (2.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (8.29%) Network Security
2 89 (7.61%) Firewall
3 64 (5.47%) DNS
4 40 (3.42%) VPN
5 22 (1.88%) DHCP
6 18 (1.54%) WAN
7 17 (1.45%) Kerberos
8 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.94%) IPsec
10 10 (0.85%) SSL
11 8 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.68%) X.509
12 7 (0.60%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.60%) Internet
13 6 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.43%) LAN
15 4 (0.34%) MQTT
15 4 (0.34%) VLAN
16 3 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
16 3 (0.26%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.65%) Metadata
3 28 (2.39%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.62%) Power BI
5 12 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.94%) Neo4j
6 11 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 60 (5.13%) Git
2 49 (4.19%) JIRA
3 40 (3.42%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.88%) GitLab
5 20 (1.71%) Selenium
6 11 (0.94%) Gatling
7 8 (0.68%) JMeter
8 7 (0.60%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.34%) Postman
10 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.26%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.17%) JUnit
12 2 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 355 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 255 (21.79%) Finance
3 152 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 132 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (6.58%) Banking
6 64 (5.47%) Retail
7 59 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.42%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.05%) Legal
10 20 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.03%) Military
13 9 (0.77%) Law
13 9 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.68%) Local Government
14 8 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Automotive
15 5 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 290 (24.79%) Architect
2 108 (9.23%) Lead
3 97 (8.29%) Analyst
3 97 (8.29%) Security Architect
4 74 (6.32%) Senior
5 69 (5.90%) Developer
6 61 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
7 59 (5.04%) Consultant
8 56 (4.79%) Security Engineer
9 52 (4.44%) Business Analyst
10 49 (4.19%) Support Engineer
11 47 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (3.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 42 (3.59%) Project Manager
12 42 (3.59%) Technical Architect
13 41 (3.50%) Java Developer
14 35 (2.99%) Service Manager
15 34 (2.91%) Service Transition Manager
15 34 (2.91%) Transition Manager
16 32 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (16.50%) Terraform
2 122 (10.43%) OAuth
3 107 (9.15%) OpenID
4 90 (7.69%) SailPoint
5 88 (7.52%) SAML
6 67 (5.73%) LDAP
7 63 (5.38%) REST
8 47 (4.02%) OAuth2
9 35 (2.99%) .NET
10 27 (2.31%) ARM Templates
10 27 (2.31%) Kafka
11 24 (2.05%) React
12 19 (1.62%) JSON
13 18 (1.54%) .NET Framework
14 17 (1.45%) Node.js
14 17 (1.45%) Web Services
14 17 (1.45%) XML
15 16 (1.37%) RESTful
16 15 (1.28%) Spring
17 14 (1.20%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.45%) Cloud Native
1 134 (11.45%) Onboarding
2 99 (8.46%) PKI
3 73 (6.24%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
5 49 (4.19%) Management Information System
6 41 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
7 38 (3.25%) Product Ownership
8 33 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.56%) Operational Technology
10 28 (2.39%) Data Centre
10 28 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (2.31%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (1.37%) CMDB
16 15 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
16 15 (1.28%) IoT
17 14 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 126 (10.77%) Windows
2 92 (7.86%) Linux
3 60 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.68%) Unix
7 7 (0.60%) VMS
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Debian
10 4 (0.34%) OpenVMS
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.085%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
2 277 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 240 (20.51%) CI/CD
4 212 (18.12%) DevOps
5 211 (18.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 210 (17.95%) Agile
7 194 (16.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 194 (16.58%) RBAC
8 182 (15.56%) Cloud Security
9 168 (14.36%) Security Architecture
10 164 (14.02%) Zero Trust
11 162 (13.85%) Roadmaps
12 161 (13.76%) Privileged Access Management
13 151 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
14 146 (12.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 143 (12.22%) Migration
16 127 (10.85%) Technical Leadership
17 125 (10.68%) Identity Management
18 122 (10.43%) AI
18 122 (10.43%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (17.09%) PowerShell
2 189 (16.15%) Python
3 91 (7.78%) Java
4 82 (7.01%) Bash
5 79 (6.75%) SQL
6 52 (4.44%) Bicep
7 30 (2.56%) C#
8 18 (1.54%) Go
9 14 (1.20%) Rust
10 9 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.68%) Scala
12 7 (0.60%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.26%) Cypher
16 3 (0.26%) Groovy
17 2 (0.17%) DAML
17 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 343 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 260 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 99 (8.46%) CISSP
4 70 (5.98%) Degree
5 66 (5.64%) Azure Certification
6 62 (5.30%) DV Cleared
7 61 (5.21%) CISM
8 49 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (3.33%) AWS Certification
10 36 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (2.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 26 (2.22%) CCSP
14 21 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (1.54%) PMP
16 15 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 12 (1.03%) PMI Certification
19 11 (0.94%) CRISC
19 11 (0.94%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (10.60%) NIST
2 119 (10.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.62%) GDPR
4 44 (3.76%) NCSC
5 39 (3.33%) GRC
6 25 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 20 (1.71%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.62%) QA
9 18 (1.54%) SLA
10 16 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.77%) COBIT
12 9 (0.77%) ITGC
13 7 (0.60%) PMO
14 6 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.51%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.43%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 303 (25.90%) Active Directory
2 103 (8.80%) Docker
3 29 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.60%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.34%) vSphere
8 3 (0.26%) KVM
8 3 (0.26%) zsh
9 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.17%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.085%) IAG
10 1 (0.085%) Squid
10 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.085%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 134 (11.45%) Kubernetes
1 134 (11.45%) Single Sign-On
2 67 (5.73%) Ansible
3 47 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (3.33%) Grafana
5 20 (1.71%) Argo
6 19 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (0.77%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.60%) Istio
11 6 (0.51%) Puppet
12 5 (0.43%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.43%) Podman
13 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.34%) NetBackup
13 4 (0.34%) SCCM
14 3 (0.26%) FreeIPA
14 3 (0.26%) VxRail
14 3 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 427 (36.50%) Microsoft
2 107 (9.15%) Okta
3 96 (8.21%) CyberArk
4 83 (7.09%) Google
5 59 (5.04%) BeyondTrust
6 53 (4.53%) ServiceNow
7 52 (4.44%) Oracle
8 46 (3.93%) VMware
9 34 (2.91%) Zscaler
10 29 (2.48%) SAP
11 22 (1.88%) ForgeRock
12 21 (1.79%) Ping Identity
13 20 (1.71%) Cisco
14 18 (1.54%) Splunk
15 16 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (1.20%) Databricks
16 14 (1.20%) Red Hat
17 13 (1.11%) Workday
18 10 (0.85%) Palo Alto
19 9 (0.77%) WALLIX