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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 181 188
Rank change year-on-year +51 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,187 536 504
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 1.61% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.78% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 350 332
10th Percentile £410 £367 £425
25th Percentile £475 £440 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £537 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.42% -10.50% +1.05%
75th Percentile £638 £637 £700
90th Percentile £735 £717 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £635
% change year-on-year +5.00% -21.26% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £52.50 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £63.44 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £88.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% +272.90% -66.24%
75th Percentile £85.00 £95.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.96 £97.50 -
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 46,870 30,047 32,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 90.49% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,156 18,700 19,515
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% -2.42%
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 3,444 1,888 1,247
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £65.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +35 966 £550 +3.77% 205
UK excluding London +42 562 £525 +5.00% 148
London +33 466 £575 - 71
Work from Home +41 364 £563 +8.17% 118
North of England +5 201 £500 +3.41% 48
South East +17 136 £574 +14.80% 54
Yorkshire +16 122 £538 +7.50% 25
Scotland +32 72 £481 -10.93% 3
North West -14 65 £500 +10.38% 19
Midlands -51 54 £510 -1.35% 14
South West -9 51 £600 +9.09% 21
East of England -3 40 £550 -8.33% 7
West Midlands -38 38 £510 -7.27% 11
East Midlands -21 15 £475 +15.85% 3
North East -29 13 £500 -2.91% 4
Wales -1 12 £500 -28.57% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 £600 -4.00%
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 41 (3.45%) Confluence
2 39 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.59%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
5 4 (0.34%) nginx
6 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.084%) Documentum
8 1 (0.084%) Drupal
8 1 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.42%) 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 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.084%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.084%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 490 (41.28%) Azure
2 369 (31.09%) Entra ID
3 308 (25.95%) AWS
4 169 (14.24%) GCP
5 95 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (6.15%) GitHub
7 66 (5.56%) SaaS
8 53 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (3.54%) Power Platform
10 42 (3.54%) Serverless
11 39 (3.29%) OCI
12 36 (3.03%) Azure AKS
12 36 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 34 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
14 33 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.36%) Azure Key Vault
16 27 (2.27%) PaaS
17 26 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
18 24 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 98 (8.26%) Network Security
2 89 (7.50%) Firewall
3 63 (5.31%) DNS
4 40 (3.37%) VPN
5 21 (1.77%) DHCP
6 20 (1.68%) Kerberos
7 17 (1.43%) WAN
8 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.93%) IPsec
10 10 (0.84%) SSL
11 8 (0.67%) Internet
11 8 (0.67%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.67%) X.509
12 7 (0.59%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.34%) LAN
14 4 (0.34%) MQTT
14 4 (0.34%) VLAN
15 3 (0.25%) SSH
15 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.88%) SQL Server
2 32 (2.70%) Metadata
3 29 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.60%) Power BI
5 12 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.93%) Neo4j
6 11 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.76%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.76%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 61 (5.14%) Git
2 52 (4.38%) JIRA
3 40 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.19%) GitLab
5 20 (1.68%) Selenium
6 11 (0.93%) Gatling
7 8 (0.67%) JMeter
8 7 (0.59%) Claude Code
8 7 (0.59%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.42%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.42%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.34%) JUnit
10 4 (0.34%) Postman
10 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.25%) Maven
11 3 (0.25%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 357 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 262 (22.07%) Finance
3 154 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 132 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (6.91%) Banking
6 64 (5.39%) Retail
7 61 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
8 40 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (2.19%) Legal
10 20 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.35%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.10%) Military
13 10 (0.84%) Law
14 9 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.67%) Local Government
15 8 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.42%) Automotive
16 5 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 292 (24.60%) Architect
2 110 (9.27%) Lead
3 99 (8.34%) Analyst
4 97 (8.17%) Security Architect
5 77 (6.49%) Senior
6 69 (5.81%) Developer
7 62 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
8 59 (4.97%) Consultant
9 56 (4.72%) Security Engineer
10 52 (4.38%) Business Analyst
11 50 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (4.13%) Support Engineer
13 43 (3.62%) Project Manager
14 42 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 42 (3.54%) Technical Architect
15 41 (3.45%) Java Developer
16 35 (2.95%) Service Manager
17 34 (2.86%) Service Transition Manager
17 34 (2.86%) Transition Manager
18 32 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (16.93%) Terraform
2 129 (10.87%) OAuth
3 111 (9.35%) OpenID
4 92 (7.75%) SailPoint
4 92 (7.75%) SAML
5 72 (6.07%) LDAP
6 68 (5.73%) REST
7 51 (4.30%) OAuth2
8 35 (2.95%) .NET
9 31 (2.61%) Kafka
10 27 (2.27%) ARM Templates
11 24 (2.02%) React
12 23 (1.94%) JSON
13 19 (1.60%) Spring
14 18 (1.52%) .NET Framework
14 18 (1.52%) RESTful
14 18 (1.52%) Web Services
14 18 (1.52%) XML
15 17 (1.43%) Node.js
16 15 (1.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 137 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 136 (11.46%) Onboarding
3 100 (8.42%) PKI
4 76 (6.40%) Security Posture
5 55 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (4.38%) Management Information System
7 44 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
8 38 (3.20%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.53%) Operational Technology
11 28 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
12 27 (2.27%) Data Centre
12 27 (2.27%) Public Cloud
13 23 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.43%) CMDB
17 15 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
17 15 (1.26%) IoT
17 15 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (10.70%) Windows
2 97 (8.17%) Linux
3 61 (5.14%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.76%) macOS
5 9 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.76%) Unix
6 7 (0.59%) VMS
6 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
8 5 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.34%) Debian
9 4 (0.34%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.084%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (25.95%) Cybersecurity
2 280 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 247 (20.81%) CI/CD
4 216 (18.20%) DevOps
5 215 (18.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 211 (17.78%) Agile
7 200 (16.85%) RBAC
8 198 (16.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 184 (15.50%) Cloud Security
10 171 (14.41%) Security Architecture
11 167 (14.07%) Zero Trust
12 165 (13.90%) Roadmaps
13 164 (13.82%) Privileged Access Management
14 154 (12.97%) Problem-Solving
15 150 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 147 (12.38%) Migration
17 129 (10.87%) Technical Leadership
18 128 (10.78%) Identity Management
18 128 (10.78%) Vulnerability Management
19 126 (10.61%) AI
Programming Languages
1 205 (17.27%) PowerShell
2 196 (16.51%) Python
3 97 (8.17%) Java
4 86 (7.25%) Bash
5 80 (6.74%) SQL
6 54 (4.55%) Bicep
7 30 (2.53%) C#
8 18 (1.52%) Go
9 14 (1.18%) Rust
10 11 (0.93%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.67%) JavaScript
11 8 (0.67%) Scala
12 6 (0.51%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.42%) Groovy
14 4 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.25%) Cypher
16 2 (0.17%) DAML
16 2 (0.17%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 345 (29.06%) Security Cleared
2 263 (22.16%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.59%) CISSP
4 71 (5.98%) Degree
5 66 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 64 (5.39%) CISM
7 62 (5.22%) DV Cleared
8 50 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (3.37%) AWS Certification
10 35 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 35 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 26 (2.19%) CCSP
13 21 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.52%) PMP
15 16 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (1.01%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.93%) CRISC
18 11 (0.93%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (10.61%) NIST
2 118 (9.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.55%) GDPR
4 43 (3.62%) NCSC
5 38 (3.20%) GRC
6 25 (2.11%) Data Quality
7 21 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.60%) QA
9 17 (1.43%) SLA
10 16 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 10 (0.84%) COBIT
14 9 (0.76%) Accessibility
14 9 (0.76%) PMO
15 8 (0.67%) ITGC
16 7 (0.59%) SOC 2
17 6 (0.51%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.51%) JSP 440
18 5 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 306 (25.78%) Active Directory
2 111 (9.35%) Docker
3 29 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.59%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.34%) vSphere
8 3 (0.25%) KVM
8 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.084%) IAG
10 1 (0.084%) Squid
10 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.084%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 137 (11.54%) Single Sign-On
2 134 (11.29%) Kubernetes
3 68 (5.73%) Ansible
4 47 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 41 (3.45%) Grafana
6 21 (1.77%) Prometheus
7 20 (1.68%) Argo
8 13 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 9 (0.76%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.59%) Istio
12 6 (0.51%) Puppet
13 5 (0.42%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.42%) Podman
14 4 (0.34%) NetBackup
14 4 (0.34%) SCCM
15 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.25%) FreeIPA
15 3 (0.25%) Karpenter
15 3 (0.25%) WMI
Vendors
1 434 (36.56%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.10%) Okta
3 98 (8.26%) CyberArk
4 84 (7.08%) Google
5 60 (5.05%) BeyondTrust
6 55 (4.63%) ServiceNow
7 51 (4.30%) Oracle
8 46 (3.88%) VMware
9 34 (2.86%) Zscaler
10 29 (2.44%) SAP
11 23 (1.94%) ForgeRock
11 23 (1.94%) Ping Identity
12 19 (1.60%) Cisco
13 18 (1.52%) Splunk
14 17 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.26%) Databricks
16 14 (1.18%) Red Hat
17 13 (1.10%) Workday
18 10 (0.84%) Palo Alto
18 10 (0.84%) Tenable