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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 171 183
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +39
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 736 475 567
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.62% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.79% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 341 398
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £465 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.23% -0.82%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £725
90th Percentile £725 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £71.02 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £93.63 - -
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 37,403 26,465 38,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 90.45% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,742 17,048 24,949
10th Percentile £313 £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 £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,201 924 2,323
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.41 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £31.64 £31.13
% change year-on-year -11.50% +1.65% -11.14%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +24 668 £550 -12.00% 141
UK excluding London +18 371 £550 -8.33% 97
London +12 288 £568 -9.92% 64
Work from Home -10 218 £550 -4.35% 68
North of England +23 148 £537 +2.29% 22
Yorkshire +10 94 £525 +11.94% 6
South East -40 81 £591 -9.04% 43
Midlands -23 76 £550 -6.73% 10
West Midlands -33 62 £550 -8.33% 6
South West +4 53 £675 +15.38% 8
North West -5 50 £563 +7.14% 16
Scotland -7 13 £550 +4.76% 2
East Midlands -27 12 £638 +27.50% 4
East of England -25 6 £500 -23.08% 11
North East -10 5 £466 +8.37%
Wales -11 1 £250 -66.67% 3

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 42 (5.71%) Confluence
2 37 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (4.35%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.68%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.54%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.14%) CMS
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) Mendix
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.95%) Maximo
3 3 (0.41%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 327 (44.43%) Azure
2 240 (32.61%) Entra ID
3 150 (20.38%) AWS
4 92 (12.50%) GCP
5 75 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
7 41 (5.57%) GitHub
8 35 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 35 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 35 (4.76%) SaaS
9 33 (4.48%) Power Platform
10 32 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (3.53%) PaaS
11 26 (3.53%) Serverless
12 24 (3.26%) IaaS
13 20 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (2.72%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (2.58%) OneDrive
15 16 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
15 16 (2.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 88 (11.96%) Firewall
2 78 (10.60%) DNS
3 65 (8.83%) Network Security
4 44 (5.98%) DHCP
5 33 (4.48%) VPN
6 32 (4.35%) WAN
7 27 (3.67%) Kerberos
8 25 (3.40%) LAN
9 23 (3.13%) SSL
10 22 (2.99%) BGP
10 22 (2.99%) OSPF
11 20 (2.72%) BIG-IP
11 20 (2.72%) Ethernet VPN
11 20 (2.72%) Junos
11 20 (2.72%) VXLAN
12 15 (2.04%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.49%) WebEx
14 10 (1.36%) Internet
14 10 (1.36%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.45%) Power BI
2 15 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.77%) NoSQL
4 11 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (1.49%) MongoDB
5 10 (1.36%) DocumentDB
5 10 (1.36%) Tableau
6 5 (0.68%) BigQuery
6 5 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.68%) MySQL
6 5 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.54%) Neo4j
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.41%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.41%) Redis
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.27%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (9.92%) JIRA
2 38 (5.16%) Jenkins
3 29 (3.94%) Git
4 26 (3.53%) GitLab
5 17 (2.31%) Postman
6 15 (2.04%) Selenium
7 10 (1.36%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.09%) Jaeger
9 5 (0.68%) Gatling
9 5 (0.68%) TestRail
10 4 (0.54%) JMeter
10 4 (0.54%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.54%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.54%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.41%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Maven
11 3 (0.41%) MSI
12 2 (0.27%) git-flow
12 2 (0.27%) Snyk
General
1 193 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 125 (16.98%) Finance
3 89 (12.09%) Public Sector
4 73 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (7.20%) Banking
6 31 (4.21%) Legal
7 30 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.63%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.09%) Military
11 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.82%) Retail
13 5 (0.68%) Police
14 4 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.41%) Local Government
15 3 (0.41%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.27%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 227 (30.84%) Architect
2 77 (10.46%) Analyst
3 72 (9.78%) Solutions Architect
4 69 (9.38%) Lead
4 69 (9.38%) Senior
5 57 (7.74%) Security Architect
6 37 (5.03%) Business Analyst
7 29 (3.94%) Consultant
7 29 (3.94%) Security Engineer
8 28 (3.80%) Developer
9 25 (3.40%) Project Manager
10 24 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.13%) Lead Architect
12 22 (2.99%) Cloud Architect
12 22 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (2.85%) Azure Architect
14 18 (2.45%) Identity Management Architect
14 18 (2.45%) Technical Architect
15 17 (2.31%) Platform Engineer
16 15 (2.04%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (11.01%) SAML
2 80 (10.87%) OAuth
3 74 (10.05%) SailPoint
4 62 (8.42%) OpenID
5 50 (6.79%) LDAP
6 46 (6.25%) REST
7 30 (4.08%) OAuth2
8 29 (3.94%) ARM Templates
9 25 (3.40%) .NET
10 23 (3.13%) Kafka
10 23 (3.13%) Spring Boot
11 22 (2.99%) 802.1X
12 19 (2.58%) Middleware
13 17 (2.31%) Node.js
14 16 (2.17%) Spring
15 14 (1.90%) RESTful
16 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Graph
17 11 (1.49%) Playwright
17 11 (1.49%) XMPP
18 10 (1.36%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.42%) Onboarding
2 56 (7.61%) PKI
3 47 (6.39%) Cloud Native
4 38 (5.16%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 29 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.72%) Clustering
9 20 (2.72%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.45%) Public Cloud
11 16 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (2.04%) Replication
13 12 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.82%) BYOD
15 6 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (0.82%) Operational Technology
16 5 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
16 5 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 105 (14.27%) Windows
2 47 (6.39%) Windows Server
3 35 (4.76%) Linux
4 10 (1.36%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.82%) VMS
7 5 (0.68%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.41%) Unix
9 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (22.15%) Cybersecurity
2 143 (19.43%) RBAC
3 137 (18.61%) DevOps
4 135 (18.34%) CI/CD
5 114 (15.49%) Cloud Security
6 112 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
7 105 (14.27%) Agile
8 104 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 99 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 92 (12.50%) Identity Management
11 88 (11.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 85 (11.55%) Privileged Access Management
12 85 (11.55%) Zero Trust
13 73 (9.92%) Migration
14 67 (9.10%) Data Protection
15 66 (8.97%) Observability
16 63 (8.56%) Analytics
16 63 (8.56%) Roadmaps
17 61 (8.29%) Vulnerability Management
18 60 (8.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 133 (18.07%) PowerShell
2 83 (11.28%) Python
3 66 (8.97%) Java
4 59 (8.02%) SQL
5 37 (5.03%) Bicep
6 32 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 23 (3.13%) Bash
8 13 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (1.36%) Scala
10 9 (1.22%) C#
10 9 (1.22%) Rust
11 8 (1.09%) PHP
12 7 (0.95%) Perl
13 4 (0.54%) Cypher
13 4 (0.54%) Groovy
14 3 (0.41%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.41%) C++
14 3 (0.41%) Go
14 3 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 252 (34.24%) Security Cleared
2 179 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.14%) CISSP
4 64 (8.70%) CISM
4 64 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 52 (7.07%) Degree
6 44 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (5.71%) Azure Certification
8 37 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (1.90%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 14 (1.90%) PMI Certification
11 13 (1.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 12 (1.63%) CCSP
12 12 (1.63%) PMP
13 10 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (1.36%) PhD
14 8 (1.09%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (9.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (9.24%) GDPR
3 63 (8.56%) NIST
4 31 (4.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 22 (2.99%) GRC
6 18 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 18 (2.45%) QA
7 17 (2.31%) NCSC
8 11 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.49%) COBIT
9 8 (1.09%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.95%) NIST 800
10 7 (0.95%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.82%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.82%) ITGC
11 6 (0.82%) SOX 404
12 5 (0.68%) PMO
12 5 (0.68%) SLA
13 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 221 (30.03%) Active Directory
2 58 (7.88%) Docker
3 29 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.63%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.95%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.54%) vSphere
9 3 (0.41%) IAG
10 2 (0.27%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.27%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.27%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.27%) RACF
11 1 (0.14%) GPFS
11 1 (0.14%) Lustre
11 1 (0.14%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (14.67%) Terraform
2 95 (12.91%) Single Sign-On
3 88 (11.96%) Kubernetes
4 48 (6.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 28 (3.80%) Ansible
6 24 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.85%) FortiGate
8 15 (2.04%) Grafana
9 11 (1.49%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.36%) SCCM
11 8 (1.09%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 8 (1.09%) Kiali
11 8 (1.09%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 5 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.68%) QRadar
13 4 (0.54%) Istio
14 3 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.41%) CASB
14 3 (0.41%) Icinga
15 2 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (33.56%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.15%) CyberArk
3 58 (7.88%) Okta
4 54 (7.34%) Google
5 46 (6.25%) Splunk
6 38 (5.16%) Cisco
6 38 (5.16%) ServiceNow
7 35 (4.76%) VMware
8 30 (4.08%) Oracle
9 24 (3.26%) SAP
10 22 (2.99%) F5
11 21 (2.85%) Juniper
12 20 (2.72%) SolarWinds
13 18 (2.45%) Citrix
13 18 (2.45%) Extreme Networks
14 16 (2.17%) BeyondTrust
14 16 (2.17%) BiZZdesign
15 15 (2.04%) Centrify
15 15 (2.04%) ForgeRock
15 15 (2.04%) Red Hat