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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 168 194
Rank change year-on-year +12 +26 -4
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 875 495 534
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.70% 1.61% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.77% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 360 368
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £488 £492 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.99% -2.79% -0.41%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £635
% change year-on-year - -13.39% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 3
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 -
90th Percentile £87.72 £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 43,674 27,949 36,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 90.88% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,163 17,650 23,450
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.79% -4.57% -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 2,623 1,373 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.86 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 July 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 July 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 1 July 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 +11 744 £575 -1.71% 210
UK excluding London +28 430 £550 - 164
London -4 341 £575 -4.64% 97
Work from Home +21 298 £560 +1.82% 119
North of England +22 144 £550 +11.79% 42
South East -8 116 £575 -11.54% 54
Yorkshire +24 93 £538 +14.61% 15
Midlands -33 69 £550 +10.89% 15
South West -5 55 £600 +9.09% 14
West Midlands -20 55 £550 -6.38% 8
North West -11 50 £575 +9.52% 21
Scotland +18 41 £492 -7.95% 22
East Midlands -21 12 £638 +54.55% 7
East of England -23 10 £540 -16.92% 7
Wales - 8 £471 - 11
North East -33 1 - - 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 29 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 24 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (2.29%) Confluence
4 7 (0.80%) Apache
5 6 (0.69%) Apache Superset
6 4 (0.46%) IIS
7 3 (0.34%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Mendix
8 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.57%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.23%) Maximo
3 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 416 (47.54%) Azure
2 276 (31.54%) Entra ID
3 191 (21.83%) AWS
4 120 (13.71%) GCP
5 75 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (5.60%) GitHub
7 47 (5.37%) Power Platform
8 46 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 46 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 38 (4.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 37 (4.23%) SaaS
11 34 (3.89%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (3.20%) Serverless
13 26 (2.97%) IaaS
13 26 (2.97%) PaaS
14 19 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
14 19 (2.17%) OCI
14 19 (2.17%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 85 (9.71%) DNS
1 85 (9.71%) Network Security
2 74 (8.46%) Firewall
3 49 (5.60%) DHCP
4 46 (5.26%) WAN
5 30 (3.43%) VPN
6 27 (3.09%) BGP
6 27 (3.09%) LAN
7 26 (2.97%) OSPF
8 24 (2.74%) BIG-IP
8 24 (2.74%) Ethernet VPN
8 24 (2.74%) Junos
8 24 (2.74%) Kerberos
8 24 (2.74%) VXLAN
9 19 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
10 18 (2.06%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.49%) SSL
12 9 (1.03%) Internet
13 6 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.69%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.51%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.17%) Power BI
3 10 (1.14%) Neo4j
3 10 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.03%) Tableau
5 8 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
6 5 (0.57%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.46%) Big Data
7 4 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.46%) Metadata
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.23%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.23%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.11%) Db2
10 1 (0.11%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 59 (6.74%) JIRA
2 50 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.66%) Git
4 23 (2.63%) GitLab
5 12 (1.37%) Postman
6 10 (1.14%) Gatling
7 5 (0.57%) JMeter
7 5 (0.57%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.57%) 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%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.23%) Snyk
9 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 219 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 167 (19.09%) Finance
3 115 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 72 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (6.17%) Banking
6 40 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (3.43%) Retail
8 25 (2.86%) Legal
9 13 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.26%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.03%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.80%) Police
14 6 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.69%) Military
15 5 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.57%) Local Government
16 3 (0.34%) Aviation
16 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (26.86%) Architect
2 78 (8.91%) Analyst
3 77 (8.80%) Senior
4 69 (7.89%) Lead
5 68 (7.77%) Security Architect
6 65 (7.43%) Developer
7 39 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
8 38 (4.34%) Consultant
8 38 (4.34%) Java Developer
9 34 (3.89%) Project Manager
10 29 (3.31%) Business Analyst
10 29 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.09%) Security Engineer
12 26 (2.97%) Technical Architect
13 24 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 24 (2.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (2.63%) Support Engineer
15 22 (2.51%) Cloud Architect
16 20 (2.29%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (11.66%) SailPoint
2 81 (9.26%) SAML
3 80 (9.14%) OAuth
4 67 (7.66%) OpenID
5 62 (7.09%) LDAP
6 46 (5.26%) REST
7 28 (3.20%) OAuth2
8 26 (2.97%) 802.1X
9 21 (2.40%) ARM Templates
10 20 (2.29%) Middleware
11 17 (1.94%) .NET
11 17 (1.94%) Kafka
12 16 (1.83%) Node.js
12 16 (1.83%) Playwright
12 16 (1.83%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.37%) JSON
13 12 (1.37%) Spring
13 12 (1.37%) Web Services
14 11 (1.26%) React
14 11 (1.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 92 (10.51%) Onboarding
2 82 (9.37%) PKI
3 70 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.91%) Data Centre
5 35 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 27 (3.09%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 25 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.74%) Clustering
9 24 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.06%) Replication
11 17 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
15 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 117 (13.37%) Windows
2 63 (7.20%) Linux
3 40 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.03%) Unix
5 7 (0.80%) Ubuntu
6 6 (0.69%) Debian
6 6 (0.69%) VMS
7 5 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.46%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.46%) Android
9 2 (0.23%) CentOS
9 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (21.49%) Cybersecurity
1 188 (21.49%) DevOps
2 153 (17.49%) Agile
2 153 (17.49%) CI/CD
3 142 (16.23%) RBAC
4 137 (15.66%) Zero Trust
5 125 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 120 (13.71%) Cloud Security
7 118 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 105 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 94 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (10.63%) Security Architecture
12 92 (10.51%) Identity Management
13 90 (10.29%) AI
14 82 (9.37%) Privileged Access Management
15 81 (9.26%) Migration
15 81 (9.26%) Roadmaps
16 76 (8.69%) Technical Leadership
17 73 (8.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 139 (15.89%) PowerShell
2 114 (13.03%) Python
3 85 (9.71%) Java
4 67 (7.66%) SQL
5 43 (4.91%) Bicep
6 21 (2.40%) Bash
7 16 (1.83%) Rust
8 14 (1.60%) Scala
9 13 (1.49%) Go
10 11 (1.26%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.14%) C#
12 5 (0.57%) Cypher
12 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.46%) Groovy
13 4 (0.46%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.34%) C++
14 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.34%) R
15 2 (0.23%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 272 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 198 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.34%) CISSP
4 64 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 50 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (5.26%) Degree
7 41 (4.69%) CISM
8 37 (4.23%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.86%) CCSP
11 24 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.60%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.49%) PMP
14 11 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.26%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.80%) CISA
15 7 (0.80%) JNCIA
15 7 (0.80%) JNCIP
15 7 (0.80%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (10.17%) NIST
2 86 (9.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 69 (7.89%) GDPR
4 35 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 32 (3.66%) NCSC
6 28 (3.20%) GRC
7 18 (2.06%) QA
8 15 (1.71%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.49%) SLA
10 11 (1.26%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.26%) SOC 2
11 9 (1.03%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.91%) PMO
13 7 (0.80%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.69%) COBIT
15 5 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.46%) Data Quality
16 4 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
17 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 243 (27.77%) Active Directory
2 63 (7.20%) Docker
3 25 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.71%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (1.14%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.34%) 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 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.11%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Squid
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 123 (14.06%) Terraform
2 109 (12.46%) Single Sign-On
3 100 (11.43%) Kubernetes
4 54 (6.17%) Ansible
5 27 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.74%) FortiGate
7 23 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.83%) Grafana
9 11 (1.26%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.91%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 8 (0.91%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.69%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 5 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.57%) Istio
14 4 (0.46%) Argo
14 4 (0.46%) Kiali
14 4 (0.46%) Podman
14 4 (0.46%) Puppet
14 4 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 266 (30.40%) Microsoft
2 103 (11.77%) Okta
3 61 (6.97%) Google
4 49 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 48 (5.49%) CyberArk
6 44 (5.03%) Splunk
7 34 (3.89%) Cisco
8 33 (3.77%) VMware
9 30 (3.43%) ForgeRock
10 29 (3.31%) Oracle
10 29 (3.31%) SAP
11 26 (2.97%) F5
12 24 (2.74%) Juniper
12 24 (2.74%) SolarWinds
13 22 (2.51%) BeyondTrust
13 22 (2.51%) Extreme Networks
13 22 (2.51%) Zscaler
14 20 (2.29%) Workday
15 14 (1.60%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (1.60%) Ping Identity