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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 169 184
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 832 492 553
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.68% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.84% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 353 375
10th Percentile £402 £402 £415
25th Percentile £481 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £585 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -4.49% -
75th Percentile £650 £684 £703
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £650
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 3
10th Percentile £51.33 £61.75 -
25th Percentile - £68.13 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +246.64% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.02 £93.13 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £97.25 -
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 41,920 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.71% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,154 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,513 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% +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 10 June 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 June 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 June 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 +5 710 £575 -1.71% 151
UK excluding London +31 409 £550 - 102
London -17 316 £575 -4.17% 71
Work from Home +21 286 £550 - 91
North of England +12 140 £543 +3.43% 27
South East -14 110 £575 -11.54% 45
Yorkshire +20 95 £538 +14.61% 12
Midlands -36 69 £550 +4.76% 9
South West +4 58 £600 +9.09% 7
West Midlands -23 55 £550 -7.60% 2
North West -22 45 £575 +9.52% 11
Scotland +10 33 £540 +1.98% 3
East Midlands -32 12 £638 +51.79% 7
East of England -29 7 £553 -15.00% 5
Wales - 5 £468 - 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 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.40%) Confluence
4 7 (0.84%) Apache
5 6 (0.72%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.48%) IIS
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.96%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.60%) Maximo
2 5 (0.60%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 408 (49.04%) Azure
2 264 (31.73%) Entra ID
3 184 (22.12%) AWS
4 115 (13.82%) GCP
5 76 (9.13%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (5.89%) Azure AKS
7 48 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (5.53%) Power Platform
9 45 (5.41%) GitHub
10 38 (4.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 38 (4.57%) SaaS
11 30 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (3.37%) IaaS
12 28 (3.37%) PaaS
13 27 (3.25%) Serverless
14 19 (2.28%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.28%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 79 (9.50%) DNS
2 78 (9.38%) Network Security
3 76 (9.13%) Firewall
4 47 (5.65%) DHCP
5 46 (5.53%) WAN
6 31 (3.73%) VPN
7 27 (3.25%) LAN
8 26 (3.13%) BGP
8 26 (3.13%) OSPF
9 24 (2.88%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.88%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.88%) Junos
9 24 (2.88%) VXLAN
10 19 (2.28%) Cisco ISE
10 19 (2.28%) Kerberos
11 18 (2.16%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.80%) SSL
13 8 (0.96%) Internet
14 7 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.64%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.28%) Power BI
3 9 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (1.08%) Neo4j
3 9 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.08%) Tableau
4 7 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 6 (0.72%) MongoDB
5 6 (0.72%) MySQL
6 3 (0.36%) Big Data
6 3 (0.36%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.36%) DocumentDB
6 3 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (0.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.24%) Metadata
7 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (7.81%) JIRA
2 55 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.61%) Git
4 25 (3.00%) GitLab
5 17 (2.04%) Postman
6 14 (1.68%) Selenium
7 10 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.20%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.08%) Gatling
9 7 (0.84%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.60%) Maven
10 5 (0.60%) TestRail
11 4 (0.48%) JMeter
11 4 (0.48%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.48%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.36%) JUnit
12 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.36%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 207 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 156 (18.75%) Finance
3 110 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 60 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.73%) Banking
6 37 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.13%) Legal
8 25 (3.00%) Retail
9 11 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.84%) Police
12 6 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.72%) Military
12 6 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.48%) Local Government
14 3 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.36%) Law
14 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 225 (27.04%) Architect
2 80 (9.62%) Senior
3 74 (8.89%) Analyst
4 71 (8.53%) Lead
5 63 (7.57%) Security Architect
6 60 (7.21%) Developer
7 37 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.33%) Java Developer
9 34 (4.09%) Consultant
10 33 (3.97%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.37%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.00%) Security Engineer
14 24 (2.88%) Technical Architect
15 22 (2.64%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
15 22 (2.64%) Identity Management Analyst
16 21 (2.52%) Cloud Architect
17 20 (2.40%) Cloud Engineer
18 19 (2.28%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (12.14%) SailPoint
2 79 (9.50%) SAML
3 73 (8.77%) OAuth
4 69 (8.29%) OpenID
5 63 (7.57%) LDAP
6 43 (5.17%) REST
7 26 (3.13%) 802.1X
7 26 (3.13%) ARM Templates
7 26 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 21 (2.52%) Middleware
9 20 (2.40%) Kafka
10 19 (2.28%) Spring Boot
11 17 (2.04%) .NET
12 15 (1.80%) Playwright
13 14 (1.68%) Node.js
14 12 (1.44%) Spring
15 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (1.20%) Web Services
16 10 (1.20%) YAML
17 9 (1.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.86%) Onboarding
2 71 (8.53%) PKI
3 64 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 44 (5.29%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.61%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.88%) Clustering
8 24 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
9 22 (2.64%) Operational Technology
10 21 (2.52%) Product Ownership
11 18 (2.16%) Replication
12 16 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (0.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 112 (13.46%) Windows
2 61 (7.33%) Linux
3 35 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.08%) Unix
5 7 (0.84%) Mac OS
6 6 (0.72%) Debian
6 6 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.48%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.48%) Android
8 4 (0.48%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (22.72%) DevOps
2 187 (22.48%) Cybersecurity
3 152 (18.27%) CI/CD
4 150 (18.03%) Agile
5 135 (16.23%) Zero Trust
6 130 (15.63%) RBAC
7 118 (14.18%) Cloud Security
8 108 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 107 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 104 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 88 (10.58%) Security Architecture
13 85 (10.22%) Identity Management
14 82 (9.86%) AI
15 80 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 74 (8.89%) Privileged Access Management
17 73 (8.77%) Migration
18 71 (8.53%) High Availability
19 69 (8.29%) Observability
20 68 (8.17%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 139 (16.71%) PowerShell
2 108 (12.98%) Python
3 95 (11.42%) Java
4 70 (8.41%) SQL
5 42 (5.05%) Bicep
6 23 (2.76%) Bash
7 15 (1.80%) Rust
8 14 (1.68%) Scala
9 12 (1.44%) JavaScript
10 10 (1.20%) Go
11 9 (1.08%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.72%) C#
13 5 (0.60%) PHP
14 4 (0.48%) Cypher
14 4 (0.48%) Groovy
15 3 (0.36%) C++
15 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.36%) R
15 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 268 (32.21%) Security Cleared
2 194 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.65%) CISSP
4 66 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 49 (5.89%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (5.17%) CISM
7 40 (4.81%) Degree
8 36 (4.33%) Azure Certification
9 28 (3.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 27 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.88%) CCSP
12 20 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.56%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.56%) PMP
14 11 (1.32%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.84%) CISA
16 7 (0.84%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.84%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.84%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (11.18%) NIST
2 89 (10.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (8.41%) GDPR
4 33 (3.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 30 (3.61%) NCSC
6 26 (3.13%) GRC
7 21 (2.52%) QA
8 13 (1.56%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.32%) SLA
10 10 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 9 (1.08%) HIPAA
11 9 (1.08%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.84%) PMO
13 5 (0.60%) COBIT
14 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.48%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 3 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
15 3 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 222 (26.68%) Active Directory
2 65 (7.81%) Docker
3 25 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.84%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.36%) IAG
10 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.24%) RACF
10 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) KVM
11 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Squid
11 1 (0.12%) vSphere
11 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 117 (14.06%) Terraform
2 101 (12.14%) Kubernetes
3 95 (11.42%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (5.65%) Ansible
5 27 (3.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.88%) FortiGate
7 23 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (2.04%) Grafana
9 13 (1.56%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.96%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.84%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 7 (0.84%) Kiali
12 7 (0.84%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 7 (0.84%) SCCM
13 5 (0.60%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.60%) Istio
14 4 (0.48%) Argo
15 3 (0.36%) Podman
15 3 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (29.57%) Microsoft
2 87 (10.46%) Okta
3 59 (7.09%) Google
4 47 (5.65%) Splunk
5 46 (5.53%) ServiceNow
6 36 (4.33%) CyberArk
7 34 (4.09%) Cisco
8 33 (3.97%) VMware
9 29 (3.49%) ForgeRock
10 27 (3.25%) Oracle
10 27 (3.25%) SAP
11 26 (3.13%) F5
12 24 (2.88%) Juniper
12 24 (2.88%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.64%) Extreme Networks
14 21 (2.52%) Zscaler
15 19 (2.28%) Workday
16 16 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
17 14 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
18 12 (1.44%) Citrix