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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 178 185
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 789 461 540
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.65% 1.59% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 1.74% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 332 382
10th Percentile £400 £414 £408
25th Percentile £481 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £589 £618
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -4.66% -1.20%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £725
90th Percentile £750 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £645
% change year-on-year -4.35% -10.85% +12.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 0 2
10th Percentile £48.28 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £23.80
75th Percentile £73.69 - -
90th Percentile £79.73 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.33 - -

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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +9 687 £575 -4.17% 169
UK excluding London +29 382 £550 -4.35% 121
London +11 307 £578 -7.60% 68
Work from Home +26 260 £550 - 72
North of England +16 131 £539 +2.62% 23
South East -13 99 £581 -10.62% 48
Yorkshire +11 88 £531 -0.61% 8
Midlands -17 75 £550 -1.35% 10
West Midlands -19 62 £550 -7.60% 6
South West +1 61 £675 +22.73% 16
North West -15 42 £575 +9.52% 14
Scotland +6 23 £450 -14.29% 6
East Midlands -23 11 £638 +43.34% 3
Wales -4 4 £468 -22.08% 6
East of England -36 4 £710 +9.23% 15
North East -19 1 £400 -6.98% 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 25 (3.17%) Confluence
1 25 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.76%) Apache
3 6 (0.76%) Apache Superset
4 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.38%) IIS
5 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.13%) Mendix
6 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.63%) Maximo
2 5 (0.63%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 376 (47.66%) Azure
2 242 (30.67%) Entra ID
3 168 (21.29%) AWS
4 99 (12.55%) GCP
5 70 (8.87%) Microsoft 365
6 50 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (6.34%) GitHub
7 46 (5.83%) Azure AKS
8 40 (5.07%) Power Platform
9 35 (4.44%) SaaS
10 34 (4.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (3.55%) PaaS
12 27 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.42%) IaaS
13 26 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.79%) Serverless
15 17 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (2.15%) OpenShift
16 16 (2.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (10.27%) Firewall
2 75 (9.51%) DNS
3 66 (8.37%) Network Security
4 48 (6.08%) DHCP
5 42 (5.32%) WAN
6 34 (4.31%) VPN
7 28 (3.55%) LAN
8 26 (3.30%) BGP
8 26 (3.30%) OSPF
9 24 (3.04%) BIG-IP
9 24 (3.04%) Ethernet VPN
9 24 (3.04%) Junos
9 24 (3.04%) VXLAN
10 23 (2.92%) SSL
11 21 (2.66%) Kerberos
12 19 (2.41%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (1.77%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.76%) Internet
14 6 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.03%) Power BI
3 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
4 12 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (1.27%) DocumentDB
7 9 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.14%) Tableau
8 6 (0.76%) MySQL
9 4 (0.51%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.38%) Big Data
10 3 (0.38%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.38%) Redis
10 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.25%) Metadata
11 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (7.86%) JIRA
2 53 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.18%) Git
4 25 (3.17%) GitLab
5 17 (2.15%) Postman
6 15 (1.90%) Selenium
7 10 (1.27%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.27%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.14%) Gatling
9 8 (1.01%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.63%) Maven
10 5 (0.63%) TestRail
11 4 (0.51%) JMeter
11 4 (0.51%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.51%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.51%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.38%) JUnit
13 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.25%) git-flow
13 2 (0.25%) Snyk
General
1 182 (23.07%) Social Skills
2 133 (16.86%) Finance
3 97 (12.29%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.84%) Banking
6 30 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.17%) Legal
8 16 (2.03%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.77%) Retail
10 12 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.01%) Military
12 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Police
13 6 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.51%) Local Government
14 4 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.38%) Aviation
16 2 (0.25%) Front Office
16 2 (0.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 226 (28.64%) Architect
2 74 (9.38%) Senior
3 72 (9.13%) Lead
4 71 (9.00%) Analyst
5 62 (7.86%) Developer
6 51 (6.46%) Security Architect
7 41 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
8 31 (3.93%) Java Developer
9 28 (3.55%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.42%) Business Analyst
10 27 (3.42%) Security Engineer
11 26 (3.30%) Consultant
12 24 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (2.79%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
13 22 (2.79%) Identity Management Analyst
14 21 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
14 21 (2.66%) Cloud Engineer
15 20 (2.53%) Technical Architect
16 18 (2.28%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.04%) SailPoint
2 71 (9.00%) SAML
3 68 (8.62%) OAuth
4 61 (7.73%) LDAP
5 59 (7.48%) OpenID
6 47 (5.96%) REST
7 26 (3.30%) 802.1X
7 26 (3.30%) ARM Templates
8 25 (3.17%) Spring Boot
9 21 (2.66%) .NET
9 21 (2.66%) Kafka
9 21 (2.66%) Node.js
10 20 (2.53%) OAuth2
11 19 (2.41%) Middleware
12 18 (2.28%) Spring
13 15 (1.90%) Playwright
14 13 (1.65%) RESTful
15 10 (1.27%) HTML
16 9 (1.14%) J2EE
16 9 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.62%) Onboarding
2 67 (8.49%) PKI
3 45 (5.70%) Cloud Native
4 41 (5.20%) Data Centre
5 30 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.04%) Clustering
6 24 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 22 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 18 (2.28%) Replication
9 17 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.77%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.52%) Operational Technology
13 9 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.89%) SCADA
15 6 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
16 5 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 105 (13.31%) Windows
2 43 (5.45%) Linux
3 34 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.27%) Unix
5 8 (1.01%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.51%) VMS
9 3 (0.38%) Android
9 3 (0.38%) Debian
10 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.13%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (22.31%) DevOps
2 158 (20.03%) Cybersecurity
3 151 (19.14%) CI/CD
4 137 (17.36%) RBAC
5 130 (16.48%) Agile
6 110 (13.94%) Cloud Security
7 107 (13.56%) Zero Trust
8 96 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 93 (11.79%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 83 (10.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 76 (9.63%) Identity Management
13 73 (9.25%) Security Architecture
14 70 (8.87%) High Availability
15 69 (8.75%) Observability
16 68 (8.62%) AI
16 68 (8.62%) Migration
17 67 (8.49%) Privileged Access Management
18 66 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 65 (8.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 127 (16.10%) PowerShell
2 94 (11.91%) Java
3 93 (11.79%) Python
4 70 (8.87%) SQL
5 36 (4.56%) Bicep
6 23 (2.92%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.79%) Bash
8 14 (1.77%) Scala
9 12 (1.52%) Rust
10 9 (1.14%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.89%) C#
11 7 (0.89%) Go
12 6 (0.76%) PHP
13 5 (0.63%) Groovy
14 4 (0.51%) Cypher
14 4 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.38%) C++
15 3 (0.38%) R
16 2 (0.25%) C
16 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 266 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 188 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.75%) DV Cleared
4 64 (8.11%) CISSP
5 46 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (5.07%) CISM
7 39 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 36 (4.56%) Degree
9 28 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (3.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 23 (2.92%) CCSP
12 16 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.77%) PMI Certification
14 13 (1.65%) PMP
15 12 (1.52%) AWS Certification
16 7 (0.89%) JNCIA
16 7 (0.89%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.89%) JNCIS
17 6 (0.76%) CISA
17 6 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (10.27%) NIST
2 79 (10.01%) GDPR
2 79 (10.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (4.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 30 (3.80%) GRC
5 24 (3.04%) NCSC
6 20 (2.53%) QA
7 14 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.27%) NIST 800
9 10 (1.27%) SLA
10 7 (0.89%) HIPAA
10 7 (0.89%) PMO
10 7 (0.89%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.63%) COBIT
12 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.51%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.38%) GxP
14 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.25%) ITGC
System Software
1 214 (27.12%) Active Directory
2 63 (7.98%) Docker
3 26 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.52%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (1.14%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.38%) IAG
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.25%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.25%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.25%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.25%) RACF
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.13%) GPFS
11 1 (0.13%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) Squid
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 103 (13.05%) Terraform
2 101 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 86 (10.90%) Single Sign-On
4 36 (4.56%) Ansible
5 31 (3.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (3.04%) FortiGate
7 20 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.90%) Grafana
9 11 (1.39%) Prometheus
10 10 (1.27%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 10 (1.27%) NetIQ Identity Manager
11 9 (1.14%) SCCM
12 8 (1.01%) Kiali
13 6 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.63%) HAProxy
15 4 (0.51%) Istio
16 3 (0.38%) Argo
16 3 (0.38%) Icinga
16 3 (0.38%) Kustomize
16 3 (0.38%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 234 (29.66%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.62%) Okta
3 52 (6.59%) Google
4 44 (5.58%) Splunk
5 42 (5.32%) ServiceNow
6 41 (5.20%) CyberArk
7 33 (4.18%) Cisco
8 31 (3.93%) VMware
9 27 (3.42%) Oracle
10 26 (3.30%) F5
10 26 (3.30%) SAP
11 25 (3.17%) ForgeRock
12 24 (3.04%) Juniper
12 24 (3.04%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.79%) Extreme Networks
14 17 (2.15%) BeyondTrust
14 17 (2.15%) Workday
15 16 (2.03%) Zscaler
16 12 (1.52%) NetIQ
17 11 (1.39%) Red Hat