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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 163 183
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 757 476 552
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.63% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 1.80% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 343 398
10th Percentile £398 £413 £423
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £621
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.38% +1.18%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £585 £633
% change year-on-year -5.98% -7.51% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile £52.55 - -
25th Percentile £58.92 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £92.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - -

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 39,137 26,475 37,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.32% 90.62% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,793 17,183 24,611
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,000 2,387
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.28 £70.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £29.23 £33.07
% change year-on-year +25.59% -11.60% -7.64%

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 April 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 April 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 10 April 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 +19 682 £563 -8.54% 157
UK excluding London +17 379 £550 -5.98% 109
London -1 289 £573 -8.40% 70
Work from Home -9 241 £550 -4.35% 80
North of England +6 135 £550 +6.80% 21
South East -15 93 £600 -7.69% 45
Midlands -15 81 £550 -7.37% 10
Yorkshire +5 79 £540 +20.00% 3
West Midlands -23 68 £550 -8.33% 6
South West +7 62 £675 +17.39% 9
North West -3 53 £550 +4.76% 17
Scotland -5 12 £500 -4.76% 2
East Midlands -25 11 £638 +27.50% 4
East of England -39 6 £710 +9.23% 19
North East -14 4 £508 +18.14% 1
Wales -13 1 £250 -62.96% 6

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 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (4.10%) Confluence
2 31 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Superset
4 5 (0.66%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.26%) IIS
6 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.13%) Mendix
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (1.72%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.92%) Maximo
3 3 (0.40%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 348 (45.97%) Azure
2 248 (32.76%) Entra ID
3 156 (20.61%) AWS
4 91 (12.02%) GCP
5 72 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (5.81%) GitHub
8 41 (5.42%) Azure AKS
9 38 (5.02%) Power Platform
10 37 (4.89%) Azure Sentinel
11 35 (4.62%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (4.62%) SaaS
12 28 (3.70%) PaaS
13 26 (3.43%) IaaS
14 25 (3.30%) Serverless
15 21 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.51%) Microsoft Purview
17 18 (2.38%) OneDrive
18 16 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
18 16 (2.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 90 (11.89%) Firewall
2 84 (11.10%) DNS
3 65 (8.59%) Network Security
4 46 (6.08%) DHCP
5 35 (4.62%) VPN
5 35 (4.62%) WAN
6 26 (3.43%) LAN
7 24 (3.17%) BGP
7 24 (3.17%) OSPF
8 23 (3.04%) SSL
9 22 (2.91%) BIG-IP
9 22 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
9 22 (2.91%) Junos
9 22 (2.91%) VXLAN
10 21 (2.77%) Kerberos
11 17 (2.25%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (1.59%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.45%) WebEx
14 5 (0.66%) Internet
14 5 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.38%) Power BI
2 16 (2.11%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.72%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (1.45%) Tableau
6 10 (1.32%) DocumentDB
7 5 (0.66%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.66%) MySQL
8 4 (0.53%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Database
8 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.40%) Big Data
9 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (0.40%) Redis
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.26%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (8.72%) JIRA
2 39 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.83%) Git
4 27 (3.57%) GitLab
5 17 (2.25%) Postman
6 15 (1.98%) Selenium
7 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.32%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.06%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.66%) Gatling
9 5 (0.66%) TestRail
10 4 (0.53%) JMeter
10 4 (0.53%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.53%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.53%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.40%) JUnit
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
11 3 (0.40%) MSI
12 2 (0.26%) git-flow
12 2 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 189 (24.97%) Social Skills
2 124 (16.38%) Finance
3 91 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.53%) Banking
6 31 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (4.10%) Legal
7 16 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 12 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.06%) Military
9 8 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.06%) Retail
10 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.79%) Police
11 5 (0.66%) Local Government
12 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.26%) Front Office
14 2 (0.26%) Law
14 2 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 223 (29.46%) Architect
2 76 (10.04%) Senior
3 73 (9.64%) Analyst
4 66 (8.72%) Lead
5 56 (7.40%) Solutions Architect
6 48 (6.34%) Security Architect
7 34 (4.49%) Business Analyst
8 33 (4.36%) Developer
9 29 (3.83%) Consultant
10 28 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.57%) Security Engineer
12 25 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (2.77%) Technical Architect
15 19 (2.51%) Azure Architect
15 19 (2.51%) Cloud Engineer
16 18 (2.38%) Identity Management Architect
16 18 (2.38%) Lead Architect
16 18 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (11.10%) SailPoint
2 77 (10.17%) SAML
3 74 (9.78%) OAuth
4 65 (8.59%) OpenID
5 54 (7.13%) LDAP
6 51 (6.74%) REST
7 31 (4.10%) ARM Templates
8 27 (3.57%) OAuth2
9 24 (3.17%) 802.1X
9 24 (3.17%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.04%) .NET
10 23 (3.04%) Kafka
11 20 (2.64%) Middleware
12 17 (2.25%) Spring
13 15 (1.98%) Node.js
14 14 (1.85%) RESTful
15 11 (1.45%) Playwright
15 11 (1.45%) XMPP
16 10 (1.32%) HTML
17 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.85%) Onboarding
2 58 (7.66%) PKI
3 44 (5.81%) Cloud Native
4 33 (4.36%) Data Centre
5 31 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 28 (3.70%) Security Posture
8 23 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (2.91%) Clustering
9 22 (2.91%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.51%) Product Ownership
11 15 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.98%) Replication
12 12 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.06%) Operational Technology
14 6 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
15 5 (0.66%) Fat Client
15 5 (0.66%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 113 (14.93%) Windows
2 46 (6.08%) Windows Server
3 42 (5.55%) Linux
4 10 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.19%) Unix
6 8 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.92%) VMS
7 7 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.53%) Android
8 4 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.26%) Debian
9 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (20.48%) DevOps
2 153 (20.21%) RBAC
3 150 (19.82%) Cybersecurity
4 140 (18.49%) CI/CD
5 117 (15.46%) Agile
6 114 (15.06%) Cloud Security
7 109 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 101 (13.34%) Infrastructure as Code
10 95 (12.55%) Zero Trust
11 89 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 87 (11.49%) Identity Management
13 79 (10.44%) Privileged Access Management
14 74 (9.78%) Migration
15 70 (9.25%) Analytics
15 70 (9.25%) Data Protection
15 70 (9.25%) Observability
16 66 (8.72%) High Availability
17 63 (8.32%) Roadmaps
18 62 (8.19%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 133 (17.57%) PowerShell
2 86 (11.36%) Python
3 71 (9.38%) Java
4 65 (8.59%) SQL
5 40 (5.28%) Bicep
6 31 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 23 (3.04%) Bash
8 13 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.32%) C#
9 10 (1.32%) Scala
10 9 (1.19%) Rust
11 8 (1.06%) PHP
12 7 (0.92%) Perl
13 4 (0.53%) Cypher
13 4 (0.53%) Groovy
13 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.40%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) R
15 2 (0.26%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 269 (35.54%) Security Cleared
2 189 (24.97%) SC Cleared
3 73 (9.64%) DV Cleared
4 67 (8.85%) CISSP
5 47 (6.21%) CISM
6 44 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 42 (5.55%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (5.15%) Degree
10 17 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 16 (2.11%) PMI Certification
12 15 (1.98%) CCSP
13 14 (1.85%) PMP
14 12 (1.59%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (1.06%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.92%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.92%) JNCIS
16 7 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.17%) GDPR
1 77 (10.17%) NIST
2 76 (10.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (5.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 23 (3.04%) GRC
5 22 (2.91%) NCSC
6 19 (2.51%) QA
7 16 (2.11%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.45%) COBIT
9 10 (1.32%) NIST 800
10 9 (1.19%) Accessibility
11 8 (1.06%) Data Quality
11 8 (1.06%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.79%) ITGC
12 6 (0.79%) PMO
12 6 (0.79%) SOX 404
13 5 (0.66%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.53%) SLA
15 3 (0.40%) GxP
System Software
1 228 (30.12%) Active Directory
2 57 (7.53%) Docker
3 31 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.98%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.92%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.53%) vSphere
10 3 (0.40%) IAG
10 3 (0.40%) RACF
11 2 (0.26%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.26%) OpenDJ
11 2 (0.26%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.13%) GPFS
12 1 (0.13%) Lustre
12 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 111 (14.66%) Terraform
2 95 (12.55%) Kubernetes
3 92 (12.15%) Single Sign-On
4 46 (6.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 31 (4.10%) Ansible
6 22 (2.91%) FortiGate
7 17 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.98%) Grafana
9 11 (1.45%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.32%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 10 (1.32%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 8 (1.06%) Kiali
11 8 (1.06%) SCCM
12 4 (0.53%) Istio
13 3 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.40%) CASB
13 3 (0.40%) Icinga
13 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (0.40%) QRadar
14 2 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 249 (32.89%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.66%) Okta
3 56 (7.40%) CyberArk
4 52 (6.87%) Google
5 48 (6.34%) Splunk
6 43 (5.68%) ServiceNow
7 40 (5.28%) VMware
8 38 (5.02%) Cisco
9 33 (4.36%) Oracle
10 24 (3.17%) F5
10 24 (3.17%) SAP
11 23 (3.04%) Juniper
12 22 (2.91%) SolarWinds
13 21 (2.77%) BeyondTrust
14 20 (2.64%) Citrix
14 20 (2.64%) Extreme Networks
15 18 (2.38%) ForgeRock
16 15 (1.98%) Red Hat
17 12 (1.59%) NetIQ
17 12 (1.59%) Workday