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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 173 195
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 889 508 545
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.72% 1.61% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.77% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 371 379
10th Percentile £419 £400 £418
25th Percentile £489 £486 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -3.17% -0.41%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £635
% change year-on-year - -13.39% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 3
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 -
90th Percentile £87.72 £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 43,890 28,628 37,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.04% 90.75% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,271 18,064 23,618
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 1,406 2,527
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +8.91%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +11 752 £575 -1.03% 251
UK excluding London +38 435 £550 - 182
London +8 346 £575 -4.17% 125
Work from Home +22 305 £561 +2.05% 128
North of England +15 142 £550 +11.79% 45
South East +4 118 £581 -10.62% 58
Yorkshire +15 91 £539 +22.23% 15
Midlands -30 69 £550 +10.89% 14
South West -7 55 £600 +9.09% 21
West Midlands -31 55 £538 -8.51% 6
North West -12 50 £575 +9.52% 25
Scotland +14 43 £492 -7.95% 24
East of England -29 13 £558 -14.23% 5
East Midlands -24 12 £638 +54.55% 8
Wales - 8 £471 - 11
North East -37 1 - - 5
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 29 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.70%) Confluence
2 24 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.90%) Apache
4 6 (0.67%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.45%) IIS
6 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.11%) Mendix
7 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.56%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 424 (47.69%) Azure
2 280 (31.50%) Entra ID
3 201 (22.61%) AWS
4 122 (13.72%) GCP
5 74 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (6.30%) GitHub
7 49 (5.51%) Power Platform
8 45 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (4.95%) Azure AKS
10 40 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (4.39%) SaaS
12 36 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
13 28 (3.15%) Serverless
14 27 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (3.04%) PaaS
15 26 (2.92%) IaaS
15 26 (2.92%) OCI
16 19 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (2.14%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (9.56%) DNS
1 85 (9.56%) Network Security
2 75 (8.44%) Firewall
3 49 (5.51%) DHCP
4 46 (5.17%) WAN
5 30 (3.37%) VPN
6 27 (3.04%) BGP
6 27 (3.04%) LAN
7 26 (2.92%) OSPF
8 24 (2.70%) BIG-IP
8 24 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
8 24 (2.70%) Junos
8 24 (2.70%) Kerberos
8 24 (2.70%) VXLAN
9 19 (2.14%) Cisco ISE
10 18 (2.02%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.46%) SSL
12 9 (1.01%) Internet
13 6 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.47%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.36%) Power BI
3 11 (1.24%) Neo4j
4 10 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (1.01%) Tableau
6 8 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (0.45%) Big Data
8 4 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.45%) Metadata
8 4 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.22%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.22%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (6.64%) JIRA
2 50 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.60%) Git
4 24 (2.70%) GitLab
5 12 (1.35%) Postman
6 11 (1.24%) Gatling
7 6 (0.67%) JMeter
7 6 (0.67%) NeoLoad
8 5 (0.56%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.45%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.34%) Jaeger
10 3 (0.34%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.22%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.22%) Snyk
11 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 223 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 168 (18.90%) Finance
3 120 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 77 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.19%) Banking
6 39 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (3.37%) Retail
8 25 (2.81%) Legal
9 13 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.79%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.79%) Police
14 6 (0.67%) Military
15 5 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.56%) Local Government
16 4 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.34%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 241 (27.11%) Architect
2 78 (8.77%) Analyst
3 76 (8.55%) Senior
4 75 (8.44%) Lead
5 69 (7.76%) Security Architect
6 67 (7.54%) Developer
7 40 (4.50%) Java Developer
7 40 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.27%) Consultant
9 34 (3.82%) Project Manager
10 30 (3.37%) Technical Architect
11 28 (3.15%) Business Analyst
12 27 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.04%) Security Engineer
13 26 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (2.81%) Support Engineer
15 24 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.47%) Azure Engineer
17 21 (2.36%) IAM Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (11.70%) SailPoint
2 83 (9.34%) OAuth
3 82 (9.22%) SAML
4 71 (7.99%) OpenID
5 63 (7.09%) LDAP
6 47 (5.29%) REST
7 28 (3.15%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.92%) 802.1X
9 19 (2.14%) ARM Templates
9 19 (2.14%) Middleware
10 17 (1.91%) .NET
11 16 (1.80%) Kafka
11 16 (1.80%) Node.js
11 16 (1.80%) Playwright
12 15 (1.69%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.35%) JSON
13 12 (1.35%) Spring
13 12 (1.35%) Web Services
14 11 (1.24%) React
14 11 (1.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.57%) Onboarding
2 84 (9.45%) PKI
3 71 (7.99%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 35 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 29 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 28 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.92%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.81%) Operational Technology
10 24 (2.70%) Clustering
11 22 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (2.02%) Replication
13 17 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
16 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 9 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.16%) Windows
2 62 (6.97%) Linux
3 40 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.01%) Unix
5 7 (0.79%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.67%) Debian
6 6 (0.67%) VMS
7 5 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.45%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.45%) Android
9 2 (0.22%) CentOS
9 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.22%) 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
1 191 (21.48%) DevOps
2 187 (21.03%) Cybersecurity
3 159 (17.89%) CI/CD
4 157 (17.66%) Agile
5 144 (16.20%) RBAC
6 137 (15.41%) Zero Trust
7 130 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 124 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 121 (13.61%) Cloud Security
9 121 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (11.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 95 (10.69%) Security Architecture
12 94 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (10.57%) Identity Management
13 88 (9.90%) AI
14 85 (9.56%) Migration
15 83 (9.34%) Privileged Access Management
15 83 (9.34%) Roadmaps
16 80 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
17 75 (8.44%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 141 (15.86%) PowerShell
2 121 (13.61%) Python
3 85 (9.56%) Java
4 67 (7.54%) SQL
5 42 (4.72%) Bicep
6 27 (3.04%) Bash
7 15 (1.69%) Rust
8 13 (1.46%) Go
8 13 (1.46%) Scala
9 11 (1.24%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.12%) C#
11 6 (0.67%) Cypher
12 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.45%) Groovy
13 4 (0.45%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.45%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.34%) R
15 2 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 280 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 205 (23.06%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.21%) CISSP
4 63 (7.09%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (5.17%) Degree
7 39 (4.39%) CISM
8 37 (4.16%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 27 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
12 25 (2.81%) CCSP
13 14 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.46%) PMP
15 12 (1.35%) PMI Certification
16 11 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (0.79%) CISA
17 7 (0.79%) JNCIA
17 7 (0.79%) JNCIP
17 7 (0.79%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (9.90%) NIST
2 85 (9.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (7.76%) GDPR
4 35 (3.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 32 (3.60%) NCSC
6 28 (3.15%) GRC
7 18 (2.02%) QA
8 15 (1.69%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.46%) SLA
10 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.24%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.01%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.90%) PMO
13 6 (0.67%) COBIT
14 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.56%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
15 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
16 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 248 (27.90%) Active Directory
2 69 (7.76%) Docker
3 25 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.34%) IAG
10 2 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.22%) RACF
10 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.22%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 130 (14.62%) Terraform
2 111 (12.49%) Single Sign-On
3 99 (11.14%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.07%) Ansible
5 27 (3.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.70%) FortiGate
7 23 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (2.36%) Grafana
9 10 (1.12%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.01%) Argo
10 9 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.90%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 8 (0.90%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.67%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 5 (0.56%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.56%) Istio
14 4 (0.45%) Podman
14 4 (0.45%) Puppet
14 4 (0.45%) SCCM
15 3 (0.34%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 274 (30.82%) Microsoft
2 106 (11.92%) Okta
3 62 (6.97%) Google
4 51 (5.74%) CyberArk
5 49 (5.51%) ServiceNow
6 43 (4.84%) Splunk
7 35 (3.94%) Oracle
8 34 (3.82%) Cisco
9 33 (3.71%) VMware
10 30 (3.37%) ForgeRock
10 30 (3.37%) SAP
11 26 (2.92%) F5
12 24 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
12 24 (2.70%) Juniper
12 24 (2.70%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.47%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (2.47%) Zscaler
14 19 (2.14%) Workday
15 14 (1.57%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (1.57%) Ping Identity