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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 191 186
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +104
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 601 488 607
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.67% 1.37% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.57% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 328 394
10th Percentile £364 £421 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £782 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £54.50 - £66.00
25th Percentile £70.07 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -14.29% +25.00%
75th Percentile £94.06 - £91.25
90th Percentile £95.00 - £93.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process and 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 32,041 31,135 40,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.06% 87.25% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,133 18,828 26,941
10th Percentile £300 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 1,103 1,555
10th Percentile £14.58 £15.22 £14.38
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -24.14% +24.29%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £43.83
% change year-on-year -29.69% -25.84% +37.15%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 2025. 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 +30 545 £538 -10.42% 147
UK excluding London +12 291 £525 -12.50% 152
London +32 256 £568 -5.42% 61
Work from Home +12 183 £525 -10.64% 114
North of England +11 112 £508 -10.18% 28
Yorkshire +3 65 £518 -3.27% 9
Midlands -1 59 £525 -10.64% 15
South East -9 49 £526 -19.14% 47
West Midlands -13 45 £550 -7.07% 13
North West -1 39 £496 -17.33% 16
South West +8 38 £663 +55.88% 14
Scotland -9 17 £540 -14.29% 35
East of England -3 15 £600 -7.69% 6
East Midlands - 13 £413 - 2
North East +2 9 £533 -18.08% 3
Wales -3 1 £700 -6.67% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 1

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 41 (6.82%) Confluence
2 36 (5.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (4.83%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.50%) Apache
4 9 (1.50%) WebSphere
4 9 (1.50%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (1.33%) IIS
5 8 (1.33%) iPlanet
5 8 (1.33%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) CMS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.17%) CICS
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.50%) Maximo
3 2 (0.33%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 241 (40.10%) Azure
2 164 (27.29%) Entra ID
3 132 (21.96%) AWS
4 73 (12.15%) GCP
5 56 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (5.16%) SaaS
7 29 (4.83%) GitHub
8 24 (3.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 23 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
10 22 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (3.33%) OpenShift
12 17 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (2.83%) OneDrive
13 16 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.50%) PaaS
15 14 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (2.33%) IaaS
16 13 (2.16%) Serverless
17 10 (1.66%) Azure AKS
17 10 (1.66%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 58 (9.65%) Network Security
2 53 (8.82%) Firewall
3 32 (5.32%) DNS
4 20 (3.33%) VPN
5 19 (3.16%) Kerberos
6 14 (2.33%) SSL
7 12 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 10 (1.66%) DHCP
9 8 (1.33%) SSH
9 8 (1.33%) WebEx
10 7 (1.16%) Internet
11 6 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (1.00%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.83%) HTTP
12 5 (0.83%) NAS
12 5 (0.83%) SAN
13 4 (0.67%) WAN
14 3 (0.50%) BGP
14 3 (0.50%) LAN
14 3 (0.50%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.00%) Oracle Database
2 9 (1.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.33%) Power BI
4 6 (1.00%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (0.83%) DocumentDB
5 5 (0.83%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.83%) Tableau
6 4 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.50%) Redis
8 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.33%) Big Data
8 2 (0.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (10.15%) JIRA
2 30 (4.99%) Git
3 23 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.33%) GitLab
5 10 (1.66%) Postman
5 10 (1.66%) SoapUI
6 9 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket Server
7 8 (1.33%) CA Release Automation
8 3 (0.50%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.50%) Fiddler
8 3 (0.50%) MSI
9 2 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) TestRail
10 1 (0.17%) Toad
10 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 211 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 143 (23.79%) Finance
3 85 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.99%) Banking
6 21 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (3.33%) Legal
8 14 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.66%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.16%) Law
12 7 (1.16%) Retail
13 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.00%) Electronics
13 6 (1.00%) Marketing
13 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (26.29%) Architect
2 80 (13.31%) Analyst
3 65 (10.82%) Solutions Architect
4 51 (8.49%) Security Architect
5 50 (8.32%) Consultant
6 45 (7.49%) Senior
7 42 (6.99%) Business Analyst
8 32 (5.32%) Lead
9 25 (4.16%) Security Engineer
10 21 (3.49%) Developer
10 21 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (2.83%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (2.50%) Security Consultant
15 14 (2.33%) Security Solutions Architect
16 13 (2.16%) Azure Architect
16 13 (2.16%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (2.16%) Test Analyst
17 12 (2.00%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.48%) OAuth
2 77 (12.81%) SAML
3 74 (12.31%) SailPoint
4 59 (9.82%) OpenID
5 39 (6.49%) LDAP
6 30 (4.99%) OAuth2
7 26 (4.33%) REST
8 18 (3.00%) ARM Templates
9 14 (2.33%) ADO
10 11 (1.83%) Spring
11 9 (1.50%) .NET
11 9 (1.50%) Kafka
11 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (1.50%) Node.js
12 8 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (1.33%) XMPP
13 7 (1.16%) Keycloak
13 7 (1.16%) React
13 7 (1.16%) RESTful
14 6 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.16%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 33 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 30 (4.99%) Cloud Native
4 30 (4.99%) Security Posture
5 22 (3.66%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.00%) PKI
7 14 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
10 10 (1.66%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.50%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
14 5 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.83%) NHS
15 4 (0.67%) PMI
15 4 (0.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 92 (15.31%) Windows
2 55 (9.15%) Linux
3 40 (6.66%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.16%) Unix
5 11 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.50%) VMS
7 8 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.00%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.50%) CentOS
9 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.33%) Android
10 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.17%) MVS
11 1 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (24.46%) Cybersecurity
2 115 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (18.47%) CI/CD
4 109 (18.14%) Privileged Access Management
5 104 (17.30%) Cloud Security
6 102 (16.97%) RBAC
7 101 (16.81%) Agile
8 96 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
9 83 (13.81%) DevOps
10 82 (13.64%) Identity Management
10 82 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 79 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 68 (11.31%) Roadmaps
13 64 (10.65%) Zero Trust
14 62 (10.32%) Incident Response
15 58 (9.65%) DevSecOps
15 58 (9.65%) SIEM
16 54 (8.99%) Data Protection
17 53 (8.82%) Vulnerability Management
18 50 (8.32%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 122 (20.30%) PowerShell
2 78 (12.98%) Python
3 45 (7.49%) Bash
4 35 (5.82%) Java
5 23 (3.83%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.83%) SQL
6 22 (3.66%) Bicep
7 13 (2.16%) Groovy
8 12 (2.00%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.33%) C#
10 7 (1.16%) Perl
10 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.00%) Go
12 5 (0.83%) BeanShell
13 3 (0.50%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.33%) VBScript
15 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) Rust
Qualifications
1 165 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 136 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 94 (15.64%) CISSP
4 76 (12.65%) CISM
5 54 (8.99%) Degree
6 44 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (5.99%) Azure Certification
8 26 (4.33%) AWS Certification
9 25 (4.16%) DV Cleared
10 19 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 16 (2.66%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.66%) PhD
13 10 (1.66%) PMI Certification
14 9 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 9 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (1.50%) CCSP
15 8 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (1.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (16.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (13.98%) NIST
3 81 (13.48%) GDPR
4 27 (4.49%) PCI DSS
5 24 (3.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 23 (3.83%) HIPAA
7 15 (2.50%) QA
8 14 (2.33%) GRC
9 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.66%) NCSC
10 10 (1.66%) SOC 2
11 8 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (1.33%) ITGC
12 7 (1.16%) COBIT
13 6 (1.00%) Data Quality
13 6 (1.00%) SOX 404
14 5 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.83%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.83%) PSD2
System Software
1 172 (28.62%) Active Directory
2 49 (8.15%) Docker
3 23 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.33%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.00%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) vSphere
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.33%) NFS
8 2 (0.33%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.33%) OpenDJ
8 2 (0.33%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) NDS
9 1 (0.17%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.17%) RACF
9 1 (0.17%) SRDF
9 1 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (13.31%) Single Sign-On
2 76 (12.65%) Terraform
3 59 (9.82%) Kubernetes
4 27 (4.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 27 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (4.16%) Ansible
6 12 (2.00%) SCCM
7 10 (1.66%) CA Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.33%) CA Wily
8 8 (1.33%) Grafana
8 8 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.33%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.00%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.67%) Istio
10 4 (0.67%) Puppet
10 4 (0.67%) QRadar
10 4 (0.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 3 (0.50%) Argo
11 3 (0.50%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 204 (33.94%) Microsoft
2 89 (14.81%) CyberArk
3 40 (6.66%) Oracle
4 39 (6.49%) Okta
5 38 (6.32%) Google
6 33 (5.49%) VMware
7 26 (4.33%) SAP
7 26 (4.33%) Splunk
8 24 (3.99%) BeyondTrust
9 21 (3.49%) Cisco
9 21 (3.49%) ServiceNow
10 19 (3.16%) BiZZdesign
11 18 (3.00%) IBM
12 16 (2.66%) Citrix
12 16 (2.66%) ForgeRock
13 15 (2.50%) Centrify
13 15 (2.50%) Red Hat
13 15 (2.50%) Thycotic
14 14 (2.33%) Workday
15 12 (2.00%) Zscaler