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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 173 186
Rank change year-on-year +36 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,060 525 529
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 1.59% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 1.76% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 367 363
10th Percentile £423 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £456 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £563 £585
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -3.85% -2.90%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £537 £625
% change year-on-year +2.42% -14.08% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 5
10th Percentile £45.31 £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 £82.37 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.64 £98.50 -
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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +17.24%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +26 871 £575 +1.77% 638
UK excluding London +50 498 £550 +2.42% 334
London +21 419 £575 -1.71% 337
Work from Home +31 338 £550 +3.77% 292
North of England +17 163 £538 +13.16% 100
South East +1 141 £588 -9.62% 103
Yorkshire +23 100 £544 +15.94% 36
Scotland +35 58 £478 -11.07% 27
Midlands -40 57 £600 +21.95% 35
South West -14 56 £588 +11.90% 44
North West -17 54 £550 +15.79% 59
West Midlands -29 41 £513 -6.82% 21
East of England -1 26 £550 -8.33% 15
East Midlands -15 14 £638 +57.02% 14
Wales - 9 £471 - 5
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 37 (3.49%) Confluence
2 31 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.55%) 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 (0.094%) Mendix
10 1 (0.094%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.094%) nginx
10 1 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.094%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.60%) 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 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 466 (43.96%) Azure
2 316 (29.81%) Entra ID
3 223 (21.04%) AWS
4 133 (12.55%) GCP
5 79 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (5.75%) GitHub
7 55 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (4.53%) SaaS
9 47 (4.43%) Azure AKS
10 46 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (4.25%) Power Platform
12 40 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
14 32 (3.02%) OCI
15 31 (2.92%) PaaS
15 31 (2.92%) Serverless
16 28 (2.64%) IaaS
17 23 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
18 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
18 22 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 98 (9.25%) Network Security
2 94 (8.87%) Firewall
3 84 (7.92%) DNS
4 50 (4.72%) WAN
5 43 (4.06%) DHCP
6 35 (3.30%) VPN
7 29 (2.74%) LAN
8 26 (2.45%) BGP
9 25 (2.36%) OSPF
10 24 (2.26%) BIG-IP
10 24 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 24 (2.26%) Junos
10 24 (2.26%) VXLAN
11 19 (1.79%) Cisco ISE
11 19 (1.79%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.04%) SSL
13 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.75%) Internet
14 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
15 6 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.96%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.51%) Power BI
3 14 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 9 (0.85%) Neo4j
7 8 (0.75%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.66%) Metadata
8 7 (0.66%) Oracle Exadata
9 6 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.47%) Big Data
10 5 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.47%) Tableau
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.19%) Parquet
13 2 (0.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 58 (5.47%) JIRA
2 43 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.49%) Git
4 20 (1.89%) GitLab
5 12 (1.13%) 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%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.19%) Maven
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
10 2 (0.19%) Snyk
General
1 279 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 222 (20.94%) Finance
3 137 (12.92%) Public Sector
4 107 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (6.79%) Banking
6 61 (5.75%) Retail
7 57 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.26%) Legal
10 15 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.66%) Local Government
13 7 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.57%) Military
14 6 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Law
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 265 (25.00%) Architect
2 103 (9.72%) Lead
3 92 (8.68%) Security Architect
4 87 (8.21%) Analyst
5 81 (7.64%) Senior
6 73 (6.89%) Developer
7 50 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
8 49 (4.62%) Business Analyst
9 46 (4.34%) Consultant
9 46 (4.34%) Support Engineer
10 44 (4.15%) Java Developer
11 42 (3.96%) Project Manager
12 38 (3.58%) Technical Architect
13 37 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 34 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.21%) Service Manager
14 34 (3.21%) Service Transition Manager
14 34 (3.21%) Transition Manager
15 31 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
16 30 (2.83%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (8.87%) OAuth
2 91 (8.58%) SailPoint
3 83 (7.83%) OpenID
4 78 (7.36%) SAML
5 53 (5.00%) LDAP
6 51 (4.81%) REST
7 35 (3.30%) OAuth2
8 29 (2.74%) .NET
9 26 (2.45%) 802.1X
10 25 (2.36%) ARM Templates
11 16 (1.51%) .NET Framework
11 16 (1.51%) JSON
11 16 (1.51%) Kafka
11 16 (1.51%) Middleware
11 16 (1.51%) Node.js
11 16 (1.51%) React
12 15 (1.42%) Spring
13 12 (1.13%) RESTful
13 12 (1.13%) Web Services
13 12 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.13%) Onboarding
2 111 (10.47%) PKI
3 96 (9.06%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.34%) Security Posture
5 44 (4.15%) Data Centre
6 39 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 37 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 32 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 30 (2.83%) Public Cloud
10 29 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (2.74%) Operational Technology
11 25 (2.36%) Clustering
11 25 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 21 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
15 16 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.23%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 130 (12.26%) Windows
2 81 (7.64%) Linux
3 45 (4.25%) 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
7 5 (0.47%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.094%) CentOS
11 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (23.58%) Cybersecurity
2 217 (20.47%) DevOps
3 202 (19.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 200 (18.87%) CI/CD
5 186 (17.55%) Agile
6 160 (15.09%) RBAC
6 160 (15.09%) Zero Trust
7 159 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 158 (14.91%) Cloud Security
9 155 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
10 142 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 137 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 133 (12.55%) Security Architecture
13 123 (11.60%) Privileged Access Management
14 117 (11.04%) Roadmaps
15 112 (10.57%) Identity Management
16 106 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
17 100 (9.43%) AI
18 99 (9.34%) Migration
19 90 (8.49%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 175 (16.51%) PowerShell
2 141 (13.30%) Python
3 85 (8.02%) Java
4 73 (6.89%) SQL
5 58 (5.47%) Bash
6 55 (5.19%) Bicep
7 23 (2.17%) C#
8 14 (1.32%) Rust
9 12 (1.13%) Go
10 9 (0.85%) Scala
11 6 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.38%) Groovy
12 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.28%) Cypher
13 3 (0.28%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.19%) DAML
14 2 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 320 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 228 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 96 (9.06%) CISSP
4 67 (6.32%) DV Cleared
5 60 (5.66%) Azure Certification
6 59 (5.57%) Degree
7 57 (5.38%) CISM
8 53 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (3.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 32 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (2.64%) CCSP
12 21 (1.98%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.79%) PMP
14 16 (1.51%) PMI Certification
15 14 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (1.04%) FFIEC
18 8 (0.75%) CISA
19 7 (0.66%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (10.28%) NIST
2 104 (9.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (6.04%) GDPR
4 46 (4.34%) NCSC
5 40 (3.77%) GRC
6 23 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 20 (1.89%) QA
8 16 (1.51%) SLA
9 13 (1.23%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.04%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.94%) COBIT
11 10 (0.94%) Data Quality
12 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.85%) PMO
13 8 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.57%) ITGC
15 6 (0.57%) JSP 440
16 5 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 285 (26.89%) Active Directory
2 79 (7.45%) Docker
3 35 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.70%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.42%) 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 (0.094%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.094%) Squid
Systems Management
1 158 (14.91%) Terraform
2 120 (11.32%) Kubernetes
3 108 (10.19%) Single Sign-On
4 62 (5.85%) Ansible
5 32 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.64%) Grafana
7 24 (2.26%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.32%) Argo
8 14 (1.32%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.66%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.57%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 6 (0.57%) Istio
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%) VxRail
Vendors
1 342 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 104 (9.81%) Okta
3 72 (6.79%) CyberArk
4 59 (5.57%) Google
5 54 (5.09%) VMware
6 49 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 47 (4.43%) Oracle
8 43 (4.06%) BeyondTrust
9 41 (3.87%) Splunk
10 39 (3.68%) SAP
11 38 (3.58%) Cisco
12 30 (2.83%) ForgeRock
13 27 (2.55%) F5
13 27 (2.55%) Zscaler
14 24 (2.26%) Juniper
14 24 (2.26%) SolarWinds
15 22 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
16 20 (1.89%) Workday
17 16 (1.51%) Ping Identity
18 13 (1.23%) Databricks