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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 171 192
Rank change year-on-year +13 +21 -3
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 862 496 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.69% 1.64% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.80% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 359 370
10th Percentile £415 £400 £413
25th Percentile £494 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.50% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £645
% change year-on-year - -14.73% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile £51.35 £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 £85.00 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £94.50 -
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 43,249 27,546 37,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 91.07% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,953 17,432 23,598
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -4.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,594 1,315 2,564
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.71 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +17.65%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +4 733 £575 -1.42% 178
UK excluding London +25 419 £550 - 132
London +8 339 £575 -4.64% 83
Work from Home +12 291 £560 +1.82% 83
North of England +23 138 £550 +4.76% 36
South East +1 116 £575 -11.54% 48
Yorkshire +24 90 £539 +14.87% 14
Midlands -41 66 £550 +10.89% 11
South West -9 55 £600 +9.09% 9
West Midlands -27 54 £538 -8.51% 5
North West -20 48 £575 +9.52% 15
Scotland +13 40 £515 -3.79% 14
East Midlands -20 10 £638 +54.55% 6
East of England -32 10 £540 -16.92% 6
Wales - 7 £468 - 6
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 30 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.20%) Confluence
4 7 (0.81%) Apache
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.58%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
3 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 411 (47.68%) Azure
2 269 (31.21%) Entra ID
3 189 (21.93%) AWS
4 117 (13.57%) GCP
5 75 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 48 (5.57%) GitHub
7 47 (5.45%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.34%) Azure AKS
9 45 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 37 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
11 35 (4.06%) SaaS
12 33 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (3.25%) Serverless
14 27 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
15 25 (2.90%) IaaS
15 25 (2.90%) PaaS
16 19 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
16 19 (2.20%) Power Automate
16 19 (2.20%) PowerApps
17 18 (2.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (9.63%) DNS
1 83 (9.63%) Network Security
2 75 (8.70%) Firewall
3 49 (5.68%) DHCP
4 46 (5.34%) WAN
5 29 (3.36%) VPN
6 27 (3.13%) BGP
6 27 (3.13%) LAN
7 26 (3.02%) OSPF
8 24 (2.78%) BIG-IP
8 24 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
8 24 (2.78%) Junos
8 24 (2.78%) VXLAN
9 21 (2.44%) Kerberos
10 19 (2.20%) Cisco ISE
11 18 (2.09%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.51%) SSL
13 9 (1.04%) Internet
14 6 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.20%) Power BI
1 19 (2.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (1.16%) Neo4j
2 10 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.04%) Tableau
4 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.46%) Big Data
6 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.46%) Metadata
7 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.12%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 59 (6.84%) JIRA
2 49 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.60%) Git
4 23 (2.67%) GitLab
5 12 (1.39%) Postman
6 10 (1.16%) Gatling
7 5 (0.58%) JMeter
7 5 (0.58%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.58%) Selenium
8 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.46%) Jaeger
8 4 (0.46%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.46%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.23%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) Snyk
9 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
General
1 217 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 165 (19.14%) Finance
3 113 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 70 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.26%) Banking
6 39 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.36%) Retail
8 25 (2.90%) Legal
9 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.81%) Police
14 6 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.70%) Military
15 5 (0.58%) Local Government
16 4 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.35%) Aviation
17 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (26.91%) Architect
2 77 (8.93%) Analyst
2 77 (8.93%) Senior
3 69 (8.00%) Lead
4 67 (7.77%) Security Architect
5 66 (7.66%) Developer
6 39 (4.52%) Solutions Architect
7 38 (4.41%) Consultant
7 38 (4.41%) Java Developer
8 34 (3.94%) Project Manager
9 29 (3.36%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.13%) Security Engineer
12 26 (3.02%) Technical Architect
13 23 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
15 21 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (2.32%) IAM Developer
16 20 (2.32%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (11.60%) SailPoint
2 81 (9.40%) SAML
3 80 (9.28%) OAuth
4 67 (7.77%) OpenID
5 61 (7.08%) LDAP
6 46 (5.34%) REST
7 28 (3.25%) OAuth2
8 26 (3.02%) 802.1X
9 20 (2.32%) ARM Templates
9 20 (2.32%) Middleware
10 17 (1.97%) Kafka
11 16 (1.86%) Node.js
11 16 (1.86%) Playwright
11 16 (1.86%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.62%) .NET
13 12 (1.39%) JSON
13 12 (1.39%) Spring
13 12 (1.39%) Web Services
14 11 (1.28%) React
14 11 (1.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.09%) Onboarding
2 80 (9.28%) PKI
3 70 (8.12%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.99%) Data Centre
5 34 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.48%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.78%) Clustering
10 23 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.67%) Operational Technology
11 18 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (2.09%) Replication
12 16 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
15 13 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
17 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
18 8 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (13.46%) Windows
2 65 (7.54%) Linux
3 40 (4.64%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.16%) Unix
5 7 (0.81%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.70%) Debian
7 5 (0.58%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.58%) VMS
8 4 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.46%) Android
8 4 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.23%) CentOS
9 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Rocky
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (21.58%) DevOps
2 184 (21.35%) Cybersecurity
3 152 (17.63%) Agile
4 151 (17.52%) CI/CD
5 139 (16.13%) RBAC
6 133 (15.43%) Zero Trust
7 122 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 117 (13.57%) Cloud Security
8 117 (13.57%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 103 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 91 (10.56%) Security Architecture
12 90 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 89 (10.32%) AI
13 89 (10.32%) Identity Management
14 80 (9.28%) Privileged Access Management
15 79 (9.16%) Migration
16 78 (9.05%) Roadmaps
17 73 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
18 72 (8.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 137 (15.89%) PowerShell
2 113 (13.11%) Python
3 86 (9.98%) Java
4 63 (7.31%) SQL
5 40 (4.64%) Bicep
6 21 (2.44%) Bash
7 16 (1.86%) Rust
8 14 (1.62%) Scala
9 13 (1.51%) Go
10 11 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.93%) C#
12 5 (0.58%) Cypher
12 5 (0.58%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.46%) Groovy
13 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.35%) R
15 2 (0.23%) C
15 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 269 (31.21%) Security Cleared
2 195 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.35%) CISSP
4 64 (7.42%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (5.22%) Degree
7 41 (4.76%) CISM
8 36 (4.18%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 27 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (2.90%) CCSP
12 22 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.39%) PMP
15 11 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.28%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.81%) CISA
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.81%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (10.21%) NIST
2 86 (9.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (8.00%) GDPR
4 35 (4.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 32 (3.71%) NCSC
6 28 (3.25%) GRC
7 18 (2.09%) QA
8 14 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.39%) SLA
10 11 (1.28%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.28%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.04%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.93%) PMO
13 7 (0.81%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.70%) COBIT
15 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
17 3 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 3 (0.35%) ITGC
System Software
1 237 (27.49%) Active Directory
2 63 (7.31%) Docker
3 24 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.74%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.16%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.35%) IAG
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.23%) RACF
10 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.23%) 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
1 119 (13.81%) Terraform
2 107 (12.41%) Single Sign-On
3 100 (11.60%) Kubernetes
4 53 (6.15%) Ansible
5 27 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.78%) FortiGate
7 22 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.86%) Grafana
9 11 (1.28%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.93%) Kustomize
12 7 (0.81%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 6 (0.70%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 5 (0.58%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.58%) Istio
15 4 (0.46%) Argo
15 4 (0.46%) Kiali
15 4 (0.46%) Podman
15 4 (0.46%) Puppet
15 4 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 259 (30.05%) Microsoft
2 101 (11.72%) Okta
3 59 (6.84%) Google
4 47 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 45 (5.22%) CyberArk
6 44 (5.10%) Splunk
7 34 (3.94%) Cisco
8 32 (3.71%) VMware
9 30 (3.48%) ForgeRock
10 29 (3.36%) SAP
11 28 (3.25%) Oracle
12 26 (3.02%) F5
13 24 (2.78%) Juniper
13 24 (2.78%) SolarWinds
14 22 (2.55%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (2.55%) Zscaler
15 21 (2.44%) BeyondTrust
16 20 (2.32%) Workday
17 14 (1.62%) CrowdStrike
18 13 (1.51%) Ping Identity