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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 173 187
Rank change year-on-year +36 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,024 522 535
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.93% 1.59% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 1.75% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 369 362
10th Percentile £425 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £586
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.92% -2.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £726 £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 24 3 5
10th Percentile £51.33 £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 £83.02 £86.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £94.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £77.09 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -6.56% - -

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 45,167 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,653 21,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,759 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.47 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +3.38%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +9 839 £575 +0.61% 422
UK excluding London +41 478 £550 +2.42% 237
London +28 408 £575 -2.54% 200
Work from Home +32 337 £550 +2.42% 202
North of England +21 151 £550 +15.79% 78
South East +2 135 £585 -10.00% 74
Yorkshire +18 95 £544 +15.94% 37
Midlands -44 59 £580 +17.89% 18
Scotland +28 57 £478 -11.07% 20
South West -21 55 £588 +11.90% 34
North West -26 50 £550 +11.79% 39
West Midlands -37 44 £500 -9.09% 9
East of England 0 24 £550 -8.33% 11
East Midlands -19 13 £638 +55.49% 9
Wales - 9 £471 - 1
North East -38 5 £500 -9.09% 2
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 34 (3.32%) Confluence
2 31 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.98%) Apache
5 8 (0.78%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.39%) IIS
8 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.20%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.098%) Mendix
10 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.098%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.68%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.20%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 456 (44.53%) Azure
2 310 (30.27%) Entra ID
3 222 (21.68%) AWS
4 129 (12.60%) GCP
5 76 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (5.66%) GitHub
7 55 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (4.59%) Power Platform
9 45 (4.39%) Azure AKS
9 45 (4.39%) SaaS
10 43 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
13 32 (3.13%) OCI
14 29 (2.83%) PaaS
14 29 (2.83%) Serverless
15 25 (2.44%) IaaS
16 22 (2.15%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
18 20 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 95 (9.28%) Network Security
2 84 (8.20%) Firewall
3 81 (7.91%) DNS
4 47 (4.59%) WAN
5 41 (4.00%) DHCP
6 32 (3.13%) VPN
7 27 (2.64%) LAN
8 26 (2.54%) BGP
9 25 (2.44%) OSPF
10 24 (2.34%) BIG-IP
10 24 (2.34%) Ethernet VPN
10 24 (2.34%) Junos
10 24 (2.34%) VXLAN
11 19 (1.86%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (1.76%) SD-WAN
13 11 (1.07%) SSL
14 10 (0.98%) TCP/IP
15 8 (0.78%) Internet
16 7 (0.68%) Kerberos
17 6 (0.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.95%) Power BI
3 14 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 9 (0.88%) Neo4j
5 9 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 8 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
7 7 (0.68%) Tableau
8 6 (0.59%) Metadata
9 5 (0.49%) Big Data
9 5 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.49%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.20%) Parquet
12 2 (0.20%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (5.27%) JIRA
2 41 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.42%) Git
4 18 (1.76%) GitLab
5 12 (1.17%) Gatling
6 7 (0.68%) JMeter
6 7 (0.68%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.49%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.49%) Postman
8 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.29%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.29%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.20%) Maven
10 2 (0.20%) Snyk
11 1 (0.098%) CircleCI
General
1 267 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 212 (20.70%) Finance
3 130 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 97 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (6.74%) Banking
6 58 (5.66%) Retail
7 55 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (2.34%) Legal
10 15 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.59%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.59%) Local Government
14 6 (0.59%) Military
14 6 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.39%) Law
16 3 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 261 (25.49%) Architect
2 98 (9.57%) Lead
3 91 (8.89%) Security Architect
4 81 (7.91%) Analyst
5 80 (7.81%) Senior
6 73 (7.13%) Developer
7 48 (4.69%) Consultant
7 48 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
8 46 (4.49%) Business Analyst
9 44 (4.30%) Java Developer
10 42 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 42 (4.10%) Support Engineer
11 35 (3.42%) Technical Architect
12 34 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 33 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.22%) Service Manager
13 33 (3.22%) Service Transition Manager
13 33 (3.22%) Transition Manager
14 30 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 29 (2.83%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (9.38%) OAuth
2 94 (9.18%) SailPoint
3 82 (8.01%) OpenID
4 81 (7.91%) SAML
5 50 (4.88%) LDAP
6 49 (4.79%) REST
7 37 (3.61%) OAuth2
8 27 (2.64%) .NET
9 26 (2.54%) 802.1X
10 25 (2.44%) ARM Templates
11 16 (1.56%) JSON
11 16 (1.56%) Node.js
12 15 (1.46%) .NET Framework
12 15 (1.46%) Kafka
12 15 (1.46%) React
12 15 (1.46%) Spring
13 13 (1.27%) Middleware
14 12 (1.17%) RESTful
14 12 (1.17%) Web Services
15 11 (1.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 113 (11.04%) Onboarding
2 105 (10.25%) PKI
3 94 (9.18%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.39%) Security Posture
5 43 (4.20%) Data Centre
6 37 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 33 (3.22%) Management Information System
8 32 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.83%) Operational Technology
10 28 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (2.73%) Public Cloud
11 24 (2.34%) Clustering
11 24 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 20 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
13 16 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
14 15 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.07%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 122 (11.91%) Windows
2 76 (7.42%) Linux
3 38 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.98%) Unix
5 9 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 8 (0.78%) VMS
7 6 (0.59%) Debian
8 5 (0.49%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.20%) Android
11 2 (0.20%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.098%) CentOS
12 1 (0.098%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (22.85%) Cybersecurity
2 214 (20.90%) DevOps
3 190 (18.55%) CI/CD
4 189 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 175 (17.09%) Agile
6 159 (15.53%) Zero Trust
7 153 (14.94%) RBAC
8 152 (14.84%) Cloud Security
8 152 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 145 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
10 131 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 130 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 128 (12.50%) Security Architecture
13 120 (11.72%) Privileged Access Management
14 111 (10.84%) Roadmaps
15 108 (10.55%) Identity Management
16 94 (9.18%) AI
16 94 (9.18%) Technical Leadership
17 93 (9.08%) Migration
18 88 (8.59%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 168 (16.41%) PowerShell
2 139 (13.57%) Python
3 84 (8.20%) Java
4 73 (7.13%) SQL
5 55 (5.37%) Bash
6 52 (5.08%) Bicep
7 22 (2.15%) C#
8 14 (1.37%) Rust
9 12 (1.17%) Go
10 9 (0.88%) Scala
11 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.39%) Groovy
12 4 (0.39%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.29%) Cypher
13 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.29%) R
14 2 (0.20%) DAML
14 2 (0.20%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 309 (30.18%) Security Cleared
2 224 (21.88%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.08%) CISSP
4 65 (6.35%) DV Cleared
5 56 (5.47%) Degree
6 55 (5.37%) CISM
7 54 (5.27%) Azure Certification
7 54 (5.27%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (3.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 32 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (2.73%) CCSP
12 19 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.86%) PMP
13 16 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 14 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (0.98%) FFIEC
15 10 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
16 8 (0.78%) CISA
17 7 (0.68%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (10.25%) NIST
2 99 (9.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 64 (6.25%) GDPR
4 41 (4.00%) NCSC
5 36 (3.52%) GRC
6 24 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 18 (1.76%) QA
8 16 (1.56%) SLA
9 13 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.07%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.88%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.88%) COBIT
11 9 (0.88%) Data Quality
11 9 (0.88%) PMO
12 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.78%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.59%) ITGC
15 5 (0.49%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 280 (27.34%) Active Directory
2 77 (7.52%) Docker
3 29 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.46%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.39%) IAG
7 4 (0.39%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) KVM
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.20%) RACF
8 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.20%) zsh
9 1 (0.098%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.098%) Squid
Systems Management
1 152 (14.84%) Terraform
2 117 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 104 (10.16%) Single Sign-On
4 59 (5.76%) Ansible
5 31 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 26 (2.54%) Grafana
7 24 (2.34%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.37%) Argo
9 12 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.68%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 7 (0.68%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.49%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.49%) Istio
13 5 (0.49%) NetIQ Identity Manager
14 4 (0.39%) Podman
14 4 (0.39%) Puppet
15 3 (0.29%) Oracle Identity Manager
15 3 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 319 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 101 (9.86%) Okta
3 73 (7.13%) CyberArk
4 55 (5.37%) Google
5 47 (4.59%) VMware
6 46 (4.49%) Oracle
6 46 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 42 (4.10%) BeyondTrust
8 41 (4.00%) Splunk
9 38 (3.71%) SAP
10 36 (3.52%) Cisco
11 30 (2.93%) ForgeRock
12 27 (2.64%) Zscaler
13 26 (2.54%) F5
14 24 (2.34%) Juniper
14 24 (2.34%) SolarWinds
15 22 (2.15%) Extreme Networks
16 20 (1.95%) Workday
17 16 (1.56%) Ping Identity
18 13 (1.27%) Databricks