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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 177 183
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +57
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 724 448 574
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.74% 1.47% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.64% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 318 398
10th Percentile £400 £413 £412
25th Percentile £463 £510 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +0.40%
75th Percentile £650 £693 £725
90th Percentile £716 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £590 £650
% change year-on-year -6.73% -9.28% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile £71.02 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
75th Percentile £92.50 - -
90th Percentile £93.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 35,946 27,398 38,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.59% 90.01% 86.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,812 17,104 25,306
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -1.93% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 887 2,267
10th Percentile £14.66 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.48 £64.50 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.35 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year -20.81% -7.16% -2.26%

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 1 March 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 1 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 15 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 1 March 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 +33 669 £550 -10.20% 165
UK excluding London +25 364 £550 -6.73% 129
London +25 292 £563 -10.00% 64
Work from Home +5 209 £537 -6.61% 82
North of England +23 154 £520 -0.95% 19
Yorkshire +2 98 £509 -9.96% 5
Midlands -11 74 £550 -6.38% 26
South East -13 71 £583 -10.38% 60
West Midlands -19 62 £550 -7.07% 14
South West +3 52 £675 +17.39% 8
North West -9 51 £550 +4.76% 13
Scotland -2 12 £670 +27.62% 5
East Midlands -15 11 £550 +10.00% 12
East of England -33 7 £500 -23.08% 10
North East -8 6 £491 -9.17% 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 48 (6.63%) Confluence
2 38 (5.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (4.42%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.97%) Apache
5 5 (0.69%) IIS
5 5 (0.69%) iPlanet
5 5 (0.69%) JBoss
5 5 (0.69%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.41%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.14%) CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Mendix
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (2.49%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Maximo
2 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.28%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 306 (42.27%) Azure
2 227 (31.35%) Entra ID
3 144 (19.89%) AWS
4 92 (12.71%) GCP
5 69 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
6 36 (4.97%) GitHub
7 35 (4.83%) SaaS
8 34 (4.70%) Azure Sentinel
9 33 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (3.87%) Azure AKS
11 23 (3.18%) OpenShift
11 23 (3.18%) Power Platform
11 23 (3.18%) Serverless
12 22 (3.04%) PaaS
13 21 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (2.90%) IaaS
14 20 (2.76%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (2.62%) OneDrive
16 18 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 82 (11.33%) Firewall
2 70 (9.67%) DNS
3 58 (8.01%) Network Security
4 40 (5.52%) DHCP
5 34 (4.70%) Kerberos
6 31 (4.28%) VPN
7 25 (3.45%) SSL
8 21 (2.90%) WAN
9 20 (2.76%) BGP
9 20 (2.76%) OSPF
10 19 (2.62%) LAN
11 16 (2.21%) BIG-IP
11 16 (2.21%) Ethernet VPN
11 16 (2.21%) Junos
11 16 (2.21%) VXLAN
12 13 (1.80%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (1.52%) WebEx
14 10 (1.38%) TCP/IP
15 7 (0.97%) Internet
16 6 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.80%) NoSQL
2 13 (1.80%) Power BI
3 11 (1.52%) MongoDB
4 10 (1.38%) DocumentDB
5 9 (1.24%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.97%) Tableau
7 5 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.69%) BigQuery
7 5 (0.69%) MySQL
8 4 (0.55%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.41%) Redis
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.28%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.28%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 70 (9.67%) JIRA
2 43 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.70%) Git
4 27 (3.73%) GitLab
5 17 (2.35%) Postman
6 15 (2.07%) Selenium
7 10 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.38%) REST Assured
8 8 (1.10%) Jaeger
9 6 (0.83%) TestRail
10 5 (0.69%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (0.69%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.55%) Gatling
11 4 (0.55%) JMeter
11 4 (0.55%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.55%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.55%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.41%) JUnit
12 3 (0.41%) MSI
General
1 204 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 143 (19.75%) Finance
3 85 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 81 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.73%) Banking
6 28 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.59%) Legal
8 17 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.10%) Military
12 7 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.69%) Police
15 4 (0.55%) Electronics
15 4 (0.55%) Marketing
15 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 219 (30.25%) Architect
2 83 (11.46%) Analyst
3 77 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
4 63 (8.70%) Senior
5 55 (7.60%) Lead
5 55 (7.60%) Security Architect
6 40 (5.52%) Business Analyst
7 36 (4.97%) Consultant
8 31 (4.28%) Developer
8 31 (4.28%) Security Engineer
9 23 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 22 (3.04%) Azure Architect
11 21 (2.90%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (2.90%) Project Manager
12 20 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (2.49%) Identity Management Architect
14 16 (2.21%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (2.07%) Lead Architect
16 14 (1.93%) Platform Engineer
16 14 (1.93%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (12.02%) SAML
2 85 (11.74%) OAuth
3 83 (11.46%) SailPoint
4 66 (9.12%) OpenID
5 57 (7.87%) LDAP
6 45 (6.22%) REST
7 27 (3.73%) ARM Templates
7 27 (3.73%) OAuth2
8 25 (3.45%) .NET
9 23 (3.18%) Kafka
10 22 (3.04%) Spring Boot
11 19 (2.62%) Middleware
12 18 (2.49%) Node.js
13 17 (2.35%) 802.1X
14 15 (2.07%) Spring
15 14 (1.93%) RESTful
16 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (1.52%) XMPP
17 10 (1.38%) HTML
17 10 (1.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.60%) Onboarding
2 49 (6.77%) PKI
3 41 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 41 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 33 (4.56%) Security Posture
5 26 (3.59%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.35%) Replication
9 16 (2.21%) Clustering
10 12 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.52%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.83%) BYOD
13 6 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.69%) Fat Client
14 5 (0.69%) Security Operations Centre
14 5 (0.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 103 (14.23%) Windows
2 50 (6.91%) Windows Server
3 46 (6.35%) Linux
4 11 (1.52%) Mac OS
4 11 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.24%) Unix
6 8 (1.10%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.69%) Android
7 5 (0.69%) VMS
8 4 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.28%) CentOS
10 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (22.65%) Cybersecurity
2 137 (18.92%) RBAC
3 135 (18.65%) CI/CD
4 124 (17.13%) DevOps
5 112 (15.47%) Cloud Security
5 112 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (14.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 103 (14.23%) Agile
8 97 (13.40%) Privileged Access Management
8 97 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 89 (12.29%) Identity Management
9 89 (12.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (11.46%) Zero Trust
11 70 (9.67%) Data Protection
12 65 (8.98%) Migration
13 63 (8.70%) Incident Response
14 62 (8.56%) Roadmaps
14 62 (8.56%) SIEM
15 57 (7.87%) Test Automation
16 56 (7.73%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (17.68%) PowerShell
2 82 (11.33%) Python
3 65 (8.98%) Java
4 51 (7.04%) SQL
5 37 (5.11%) JavaScript
6 27 (3.73%) Bicep
7 25 (3.45%) Bash
8 16 (2.21%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.66%) C#
10 9 (1.24%) Groovy
10 9 (1.24%) Rust
10 9 (1.24%) Scala
11 8 (1.10%) PHP
12 7 (0.97%) Perl
13 6 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.69%) Go
15 4 (0.55%) Cypher
16 3 (0.41%) C++
17 2 (0.28%) BeanShell
17 2 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 238 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 171 (23.62%) SC Cleared
3 88 (12.15%) CISSP
4 69 (9.53%) CISM
5 59 (8.15%) DV Cleared
6 53 (7.32%) Degree
7 45 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (5.25%) Azure Certification
9 32 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (2.07%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.93%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 13 (1.80%) PMI Certification
14 12 (1.66%) CCSP
14 12 (1.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (1.52%) PMP
16 10 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.38%) PhD
17 7 (0.97%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (10.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (9.94%) GDPR
3 70 (9.67%) NIST
4 34 (4.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (2.90%) GRC
6 20 (2.76%) PCI DSS
7 17 (2.35%) QA
8 13 (1.80%) Accessibility
9 12 (1.66%) NCSC
10 10 (1.38%) COBIT
11 8 (1.10%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.97%) Data Quality
12 7 (0.97%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.97%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.83%) ITGC
13 6 (0.83%) SOX 404
14 5 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.69%) PMO
14 5 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 211 (29.14%) Active Directory
2 62 (8.56%) Docker
3 21 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.69%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.69%) vSphere
8 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.28%) IAG
9 2 (0.28%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.28%) OpenDJ
9 2 (0.28%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.14%) GPFS
10 1 (0.14%) Lustre
10 1 (0.14%) NetIQ eDirectory
10 1 (0.14%) RACF
10 1 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 98 (13.54%) Single Sign-On
1 98 (13.54%) Terraform
2 86 (11.88%) Kubernetes
3 49 (6.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 26 (3.59%) Ansible
4 26 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.35%) FortiGate
6 15 (2.07%) Grafana
7 12 (1.66%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.52%) SCCM
9 8 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.10%) Kiali
10 6 (0.83%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 6 (0.83%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 6 (0.83%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.69%) CA Wily
11 5 (0.69%) Istio
11 5 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.69%) QRadar
11 5 (0.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 241 (33.29%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.84%) CyberArk
3 61 (8.43%) Okta
4 54 (7.46%) Google
5 49 (6.77%) Splunk
6 35 (4.83%) ServiceNow
7 33 (4.56%) Cisco
7 33 (4.56%) Oracle
8 29 (4.01%) VMware
9 22 (3.04%) SAP
10 19 (2.62%) Citrix
11 17 (2.35%) F5
11 17 (2.35%) ForgeRock
11 17 (2.35%) Juniper
12 16 (2.21%) BiZZdesign
12 16 (2.21%) Red Hat
12 16 (2.21%) SolarWinds
12 16 (2.21%) Zscaler
13 15 (2.07%) BeyondTrust
13 15 (2.07%) Centrify