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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 164 189
Rank change year-on-year +26 +25 -6
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,055 541 520
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.97% 1.63% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 1.81% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 377 355
10th Percentile £424 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £552 £585
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -5.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £727 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £532 £622
% change year-on-year +3.38% -14.47% +8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 5
10th Percentile £38.85 £50.50 -
25th Percentile - £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.68 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.14% - -

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +20 868 £575 +4.36% 250
UK excluding London +35 493 £550 +3.38% 199
London +19 422 £575 -1.71% 86
Work from Home +29 340 £550 +4.76% 114
North of England +13 162 £538 +13.16% 62
South East -3 133 £590 -5.60% 66
Yorkshire +28 102 £550 +17.27% 30
Scotland +33 59 £478 -11.07% 13
Midlands -40 58 £625 +26.01% 15
South West -15 55 £563 +9.76% 29
North West -13 51 £550 +15.79% 28
West Midlands -41 41 £525 -4.55% 8
East of England -3 27 £550 -8.33% 12
East Midlands -23 15 £638 +57.02% 7
Wales -6 9 £471 -32.68% 1
North East -38 8 £500 -9.09% 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 36 (3.41%) Confluence
2 34 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.85%) Apache
5 6 (0.57%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.38%) IIS
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.095%) Drupal
10 1 (0.095%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.095%) nginx
10 1 (0.095%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.095%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.66%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.095%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 469 (44.45%) Azure
2 320 (30.33%) Entra ID
3 226 (21.42%) AWS
4 132 (12.51%) GCP
5 79 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
6 64 (6.07%) GitHub
7 55 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (4.74%) SaaS
9 49 (4.64%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (4.64%) Power Platform
10 47 (4.45%) Azure AKS
11 40 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (3.32%) Azure Sentinel
13 33 (3.13%) Serverless
14 32 (3.03%) OCI
15 31 (2.94%) PaaS
16 28 (2.65%) IaaS
17 24 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
18 23 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
19 22 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 95 (9.00%) Network Security
2 82 (7.77%) Firewall
3 72 (6.82%) DNS
4 38 (3.60%) WAN
5 35 (3.32%) VPN
6 30 (2.84%) DHCP
7 19 (1.80%) SD-WAN
8 17 (1.61%) LAN
9 14 (1.33%) BGP
10 13 (1.23%) OSPF
11 12 (1.14%) BIG-IP
11 12 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (1.14%) Junos
11 12 (1.14%) VXLAN
12 11 (1.04%) SSL
13 9 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.76%) Internet
14 8 (0.76%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.98%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.71%) Power BI
3 14 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.04%) Metadata
6 10 (0.95%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.95%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.85%) Neo4j
8 8 (0.76%) NoSQL
9 7 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
10 6 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.57%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.47%) Big Data
11 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.47%) Tableau
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.28%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
14 2 (0.19%) Parquet
14 2 (0.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (5.31%) JIRA
2 42 (3.98%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.70%) Git
4 20 (1.90%) GitLab
5 12 (1.14%) Gatling
6 7 (0.66%) JMeter
6 7 (0.66%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.47%) Postman
8 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.38%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.28%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.28%) Selenium
9 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 289 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 224 (21.23%) Finance
3 137 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 108 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (6.73%) Banking
6 62 (5.88%) Retail
7 56 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
9 22 (2.09%) Legal
10 16 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 15 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.66%) Local Government
13 7 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.47%) Law
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 263 (24.93%) Architect
2 107 (10.14%) Lead
3 92 (8.72%) Security Architect
4 89 (8.44%) Analyst
5 78 (7.39%) Senior
6 74 (7.01%) Developer
7 50 (4.74%) Business Analyst
8 48 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 46 (4.36%) Consultant
9 46 (4.36%) Support Engineer
10 44 (4.17%) Java Developer
11 42 (3.98%) Project Manager
12 39 (3.70%) Technical Architect
13 37 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.22%) Service Manager
14 34 (3.22%) Service Transition Manager
14 34 (3.22%) Transition Manager
15 31 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
16 30 (2.84%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (8.82%) OAuth
2 89 (8.44%) SailPoint
3 82 (7.77%) OpenID
4 77 (7.30%) SAML
5 56 (5.31%) REST
6 55 (5.21%) LDAP
7 34 (3.22%) OAuth2
8 29 (2.75%) .NET
9 25 (2.37%) ARM Templates
10 18 (1.71%) React
11 17 (1.61%) Middleware
12 16 (1.52%) .NET Framework
12 16 (1.52%) JSON
12 16 (1.52%) Kafka
12 16 (1.52%) Node.js
13 15 (1.42%) Spring
14 14 (1.33%) 802.1X
15 13 (1.23%) Web Services
16 12 (1.14%) SOAP
16 12 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (11.37%) Onboarding
2 100 (9.48%) Cloud Native
3 98 (9.29%) PKI
4 48 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 40 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.03%) Data Centre
7 32 (3.03%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (2.75%) Operational Technology
8 29 (2.75%) Public Cloud
9 24 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 22 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
14 16 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.23%) Clustering
15 13 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 118 (11.18%) Windows
2 81 (7.68%) Linux
3 44 (4.17%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.04%) Unix
5 9 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 9 (0.85%) VMS
6 6 (0.57%) Debian
6 6 (0.57%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.28%) Android
9 3 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.095%) CentOS
11 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (24.27%) Cybersecurity
2 213 (20.19%) DevOps
3 204 (19.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 203 (19.24%) CI/CD
5 187 (17.73%) Agile
6 164 (15.55%) RBAC
7 163 (15.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 158 (14.98%) Zero Trust
9 152 (14.41%) Cloud Security
10 147 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
12 141 (13.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 135 (12.80%) Security Architecture
14 128 (12.13%) Privileged Access Management
15 120 (11.37%) Roadmaps
16 113 (10.71%) Identity Management
17 110 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
18 103 (9.76%) AI
18 103 (9.76%) Migration
19 94 (8.91%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 175 (16.59%) PowerShell
2 147 (13.93%) Python
3 86 (8.15%) Java
4 76 (7.20%) SQL
5 59 (5.59%) Bash
6 57 (5.40%) Bicep
7 23 (2.18%) C#
8 14 (1.33%) Rust
9 12 (1.14%) Go
10 9 (0.85%) Scala
11 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.38%) Groovy
13 4 (0.38%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.28%) Cypher
14 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 306 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 226 (21.42%) SC Cleared
3 97 (9.19%) CISSP
4 61 (5.78%) Degree
5 59 (5.59%) Azure Certification
5 59 (5.59%) CISM
6 58 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 44 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 31 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (2.56%) CCSP
11 20 (1.90%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.71%) PMP
13 15 (1.42%) PMI Certification
14 14 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (1.14%) FFIEC
15 12 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.76%) CISA
17 7 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.90%) NIST
2 107 (10.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (6.26%) GDPR
4 46 (4.36%) NCSC
5 40 (3.79%) GRC
6 22 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (1.99%) QA
8 16 (1.52%) SLA
9 14 (1.33%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.04%) COBIT
10 11 (1.04%) Data Quality
10 11 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.85%) PMO
12 8 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.76%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.57%) ITGC
13 6 (0.57%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 284 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 79 (7.49%) Docker
3 34 (3.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.61%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.38%) vSphere
9 3 (0.28%) IAG
10 2 (0.19%) KVM
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.19%) RACF
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.19%) zsh
11 1 (0.095%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.095%) Squid
Systems Management
1 163 (15.45%) Terraform
2 119 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 105 (9.95%) Single Sign-On
4 63 (5.97%) Ansible
5 32 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.65%) Grafana
7 14 (1.33%) Argo
7 14 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 12 (1.14%) FortiGate
9 10 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.66%) Istio
10 7 (0.66%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.57%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 5 (0.47%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.38%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.38%) Puppet
14 3 (0.28%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 349 (33.08%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.76%) Okta
3 76 (7.20%) CyberArk
4 59 (5.59%) Google
5 53 (5.02%) VMware
6 49 (4.64%) ServiceNow
7 48 (4.55%) Oracle
8 43 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
9 39 (3.70%) SAP
10 30 (2.84%) ForgeRock
11 29 (2.75%) Splunk
12 26 (2.46%) Zscaler
13 25 (2.37%) Cisco
14 20 (1.90%) Workday
15 16 (1.52%) Ping Identity
16 15 (1.42%) Databricks
17 14 (1.33%) F5
18 12 (1.14%) Extreme Networks
18 12 (1.14%) Juniper
18 12 (1.14%) SolarWinds