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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 172 188
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 960 517 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.82% 1.59% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.76% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 372 368
10th Percentile £425 £384 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £688
90th Percentile £750 £737 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +2.33% -14.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 4
10th Percentile £51.30 £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 £78.31 £86.25 £36.60
90th Percentile £87.16 £94.50 £59.64
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 44,806 29,445 35,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.36% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,768 18,486 22,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,649 1,571 2,189
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.50% -40.00% -1.45%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +15 782 £575 - 272
UK excluding London +40 456 £550 +2.33% 181
London +14 372 £575 -4.64% 126
Work from Home +18 320 £550 - 134
North of England +7 133 £550 +19.70% 54
South East -6 124 £578 -9.33% 52
Yorkshire +1 79 £544 +31.82% 29
Midlands -27 67 £550 +10.89% 19
Scotland +27 61 £478 -10.65% 17
South West -15 54 £563 +7.14% 24
West Midlands -24 53 £538 -2.27% 10
North West -16 52 £575 +16.87% 25
East of England -9 22 £553 -18.21% 6
East Midlands -23 12 £638 +55.49% 9
Wales - 8 £471 - 7
North East -42 3 £600 +20.91%
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 31 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (2.29%) Confluence
4 9 (0.94%) Apache
5 7 (0.73%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.42%) IIS
7 3 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.21%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.10%) Mendix
9 1 (0.10%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
1 6 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 14 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.63%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.21%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 440 (45.83%) Azure
2 301 (31.35%) Entra ID
3 213 (22.19%) AWS
4 124 (12.92%) GCP
5 74 (7.71%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (5.63%) GitHub
7 47 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.90%) Power Platform
8 42 (4.38%) Azure AKS
9 41 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
10 40 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 40 (4.17%) SaaS
11 33 (3.44%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (3.13%) OCI
12 30 (3.13%) Serverless
13 27 (2.81%) PaaS
14 25 (2.60%) IaaS
15 20 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (2.08%) Power Automate
15 20 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 92 (9.58%) Network Security
2 84 (8.75%) Firewall
3 78 (8.13%) DNS
4 45 (4.69%) WAN
5 41 (4.27%) DHCP
6 33 (3.44%) VPN
7 27 (2.81%) BGP
8 26 (2.71%) LAN
8 26 (2.71%) OSPF
9 24 (2.50%) BIG-IP
9 24 (2.50%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (2.50%) Junos
9 24 (2.50%) VXLAN
10 19 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (1.77%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.15%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.15%) SSL
13 8 (0.83%) Internet
13 8 (0.83%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.08%) Power BI
3 12 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
5 8 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.73%) Neo4j
6 7 (0.73%) Oracle Exadata
6 7 (0.73%) Tableau
7 6 (0.63%) Metadata
8 5 (0.52%) Big Data
8 5 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.42%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.21%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 50 (5.21%) JIRA
2 43 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 33 (3.44%) Git
4 18 (1.88%) GitLab
5 7 (0.73%) Gatling
6 4 (0.42%) Postman
6 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.31%) MSBuild
7 3 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.31%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.21%) JMeter
8 2 (0.21%) Maven
8 2 (0.21%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.21%) Selenium
8 2 (0.21%) Snyk
9 1 (0.10%) CircleCI
General
1 236 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 196 (20.42%) Finance
3 127 (13.23%) Public Sector
4 88 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (6.88%) Banking
6 51 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (5.21%) Retail
8 24 (2.50%) Legal
9 16 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.73%) Police
14 6 (0.63%) Military
14 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.42%) Law
17 3 (0.31%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 251 (26.15%) Architect
2 85 (8.85%) Lead
3 79 (8.23%) Analyst
4 78 (8.13%) Security Architect
5 75 (7.81%) Senior
6 68 (7.08%) Developer
7 45 (4.69%) Consultant
8 44 (4.58%) Java Developer
9 41 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
10 39 (4.06%) Project Manager
11 36 (3.75%) Support Engineer
12 35 (3.65%) Business Analyst
13 31 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
13 31 (3.23%) Technical Architect
14 28 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (2.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (2.92%) Security Engineer
15 27 (2.81%) Cloud Architect
15 27 (2.81%) Service Manager
15 27 (2.81%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (10.73%) SailPoint
2 86 (8.96%) OAuth
3 74 (7.71%) OpenID
4 73 (7.60%) SAML
5 55 (5.73%) LDAP
6 42 (4.38%) REST
7 30 (3.13%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.71%) 802.1X
9 23 (2.40%) ARM Templates
10 21 (2.19%) .NET
11 18 (1.88%) Middleware
12 16 (1.67%) Node.js
13 14 (1.46%) JSON
13 14 (1.46%) Kafka
13 14 (1.46%) Spring
14 13 (1.35%) Web Services
15 12 (1.25%) React
15 12 (1.25%) Spring Boot
16 11 (1.15%) SOAP
16 11 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (11.04%) Onboarding
2 94 (9.79%) PKI
3 77 (8.02%) Cloud Native
4 42 (4.38%) Data Centre
5 36 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.92%) Public Cloud
8 27 (2.81%) Operational Technology
8 27 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 26 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.50%) Clustering
11 20 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 20 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
15 11 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.04%) IoT
16 10 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 114 (11.88%) Windows
2 70 (7.29%) Linux
3 31 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.04%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.04%) Unix
5 6 (0.63%) Debian
5 6 (0.63%) VMS
6 5 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.42%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.31%) Android
9 2 (0.21%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Rocky
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (20.73%) Cybersecurity
2 198 (20.63%) DevOps
3 167 (17.40%) Agile
4 166 (17.29%) CI/CD
5 152 (15.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 145 (15.10%) Zero Trust
7 137 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
8 135 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
8 135 (14.06%) RBAC
9 134 (13.96%) Cloud Security
10 119 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 111 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (10.94%) Privileged Access Management
12 105 (10.94%) Security Architecture
13 104 (10.83%) Identity Management
14 95 (9.90%) Migration
15 91 (9.48%) Roadmaps
16 90 (9.38%) AI
17 83 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
18 76 (7.92%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 154 (16.04%) PowerShell
2 124 (12.92%) Python
3 80 (8.33%) Java
4 65 (6.77%) SQL
5 45 (4.69%) Bicep
6 44 (4.58%) Bash
7 18 (1.88%) C#
8 15 (1.56%) Go
8 15 (1.56%) Rust
9 5 (0.52%) Scala
9 5 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.42%) Groovy
10 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.31%) C++
11 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.31%) R
12 2 (0.21%) Cypher
12 2 (0.21%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.21%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 295 (30.73%) Security Cleared
2 216 (22.50%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.65%) CISSP
4 63 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 53 (5.52%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (5.21%) Degree
7 47 (4.90%) CISM
8 46 (4.79%) Azure Certification
9 32 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 32 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 27 (2.81%) CCSP
12 18 (1.88%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.67%) PMP
14 14 (1.46%) PMI Certification
15 12 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (0.73%) CISA
16 7 (0.73%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.73%) JNCIS
16 7 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (9.69%) NIST
2 92 (9.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (6.67%) GDPR
4 37 (3.85%) NCSC
5 32 (3.33%) GRC
6 26 (2.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 16 (1.67%) SLA
8 15 (1.56%) QA
9 13 (1.35%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.15%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.15%) SOC 2
11 10 (1.04%) Data Quality
12 9 (0.94%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.83%) PMO
14 7 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.63%) COBIT
15 6 (0.63%) ITGC
16 5 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
16 5 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 270 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 74 (7.71%) Docker
3 26 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (1.46%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.42%) IAG
8 3 (0.31%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) KVM
9 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.21%) RACF
9 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.21%) zsh
10 1 (0.10%) GPFS
10 1 (0.10%) Lustre
10 1 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Squid
Systems Management
1 141 (14.69%) Terraform
2 108 (11.25%) Kubernetes
3 106 (11.04%) Single Sign-On
4 60 (6.25%) Ansible
5 27 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (2.50%) FortiGate
6 24 (2.50%) Grafana
7 13 (1.35%) Argo
8 11 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.73%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 7 (0.73%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.52%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.52%) NetIQ Identity Manager
12 4 (0.42%) Podman
12 4 (0.42%) Puppet
12 4 (0.42%) SCCM
13 3 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 3 (0.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 296 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 102 (10.63%) Okta
3 66 (6.88%) CyberArk
4 57 (5.94%) Google
5 44 (4.58%) Oracle
5 44 (4.58%) Splunk
6 43 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 40 (4.17%) BeyondTrust
7 40 (4.17%) VMware
8 36 (3.75%) Cisco
9 34 (3.54%) SAP
10 30 (3.13%) ForgeRock
11 26 (2.71%) F5
12 24 (2.50%) Juniper
12 24 (2.50%) SolarWinds
12 24 (2.50%) Zscaler
13 22 (2.29%) Extreme Networks
14 19 (1.98%) Workday
15 15 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (1.56%) Ping Identity