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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 178 190
Rank change year-on-year +51 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,150 524 494
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.09% 1.59% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.76% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 349 327
10th Percentile £413 £367 £425
25th Percentile £475 £447 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £739 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +7.50% -20.00% +12.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £50.50 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £83.02 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -3.14% - -

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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 24 September 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 24 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 18 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 24 September 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 +36 935 £555 +0.91% 741
UK excluding London +48 545 £538 +7.50% 375
London +26 450 £575 -2.13% 425
Work from Home +29 360 £550 +5.77% 377
North of England +20 193 £500 +6.16% 92
South East +18 134 £575 +15.00% 136
Yorkshire +33 118 £538 +14.36% 25
Scotland +32 73 £480 -20.08% 43
North West -21 62 £508 +12.03% 61
South West -10 55 £600 +17.07% 33
Midlands -46 51 £525 +3.45% 38
West Midlands -30 41 £510 -7.27% 25
East of England -4 39 £550 -15.38% 15
North East -38 12 £500 -2.91% 6
Wales -3 9 £475 -32.14% 4
East Midlands -33 9 £600 +47.78% 13
Northern Ireland +4 1 - - 16
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 37 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.04%) Confluence
3 33 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.61%) Apache
5 5 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.26%) IIS
6 3 (0.26%) nginx
7 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.087%) Drupal
8 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.70%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.43%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.17%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.087%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 478 (41.57%) Azure
2 341 (29.65%) Entra ID
3 287 (24.96%) AWS
4 161 (14.00%) GCP
5 89 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
6 63 (5.48%) SaaS
7 61 (5.30%) GitHub
8 48 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 45 (3.91%) Power Platform
10 40 (3.48%) Serverless
11 38 (3.30%) Azure AKS
12 37 (3.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 33 (2.87%) OCI
14 32 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
15 28 (2.43%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
16 26 (2.26%) Azure Key Vault
17 24 (2.09%) PaaS
18 23 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (8.43%) Network Security
2 88 (7.65%) Firewall
3 61 (5.30%) DNS
4 39 (3.39%) VPN
5 21 (1.83%) DHCP
5 21 (1.83%) WAN
6 12 (1.04%) Kerberos
6 12 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.96%) SSL
8 10 (0.87%) IPsec
8 10 (0.87%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.61%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.61%) Internet
10 6 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.52%) LAN
10 6 (0.52%) X.509
11 4 (0.35%) BGP
11 4 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.35%) MQTT
11 4 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.70%) Metadata
3 27 (2.35%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.65%) Power BI
5 11 (0.96%) Neo4j
5 11 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 9 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.61%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.43%) Big Data
11 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.35%) SAP HANA
11 4 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 56 (4.87%) Git
2 50 (4.35%) JIRA
3 41 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.83%) GitLab
5 20 (1.74%) Selenium
6 11 (0.96%) Gatling
7 8 (0.70%) JMeter
8 7 (0.61%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.35%) Postman
10 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.26%) MSBuild
11 3 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.17%) JUnit
12 2 (0.17%) Maven
General
1 341 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 248 (21.57%) Finance
3 146 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 126 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (7.04%) Banking
6 63 (5.48%) Retail
7 57 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.57%) Legal
11 16 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.78%) Law
13 9 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.70%) Local Government
15 7 (0.61%) Military
16 6 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.52%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.43%) Automotive
18 4 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 290 (25.22%) Architect
2 104 (9.04%) Lead
3 94 (8.17%) Analyst
3 94 (8.17%) Security Architect
4 72 (6.26%) Developer
5 71 (6.17%) Senior
6 60 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
7 55 (4.78%) Consultant
8 52 (4.52%) Security Engineer
9 50 (4.35%) Business Analyst
10 46 (4.00%) Support Engineer
11 44 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (3.83%) Java Developer
11 44 (3.83%) Project Manager
12 43 (3.74%) Technical Architect
13 42 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.04%) Service Manager
15 34 (2.96%) Service Transition Manager
15 34 (2.96%) Transition Manager
16 31 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (15.91%) Terraform
2 115 (10.00%) OAuth
3 101 (8.78%) OpenID
4 93 (8.09%) SailPoint
5 81 (7.04%) SAML
6 60 (5.22%) LDAP
6 60 (5.22%) REST
7 41 (3.57%) OAuth2
8 32 (2.78%) .NET
9 26 (2.26%) ARM Templates
9 26 (2.26%) Kafka
10 22 (1.91%) React
11 18 (1.57%) JSON
12 17 (1.48%) Web Services
13 16 (1.39%) .NET Framework
13 16 (1.39%) Node.js
13 16 (1.39%) Spring
13 16 (1.39%) XML
14 14 (1.22%) Keycloak
15 13 (1.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 135 (11.74%) Onboarding
2 121 (10.52%) Cloud Native
3 98 (8.52%) PKI
4 67 (5.83%) Security Posture
5 47 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 44 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
8 35 (3.04%) Product Ownership
9 31 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.70%) Operational Technology
10 30 (2.61%) Public Cloud
11 28 (2.43%) Data Centre
12 25 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
13 22 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
14 21 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (1.39%) CMDB
15 16 (1.39%) IoT
16 14 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (10.26%) Windows
2 90 (7.83%) Linux
3 53 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.13%) Unix
5 10 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.61%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.61%) VMS
8 6 (0.52%) Debian
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.35%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.35%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.26%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.087%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (24.70%) Cybersecurity
2 251 (21.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 227 (19.74%) CI/CD
4 210 (18.26%) Agile
5 208 (18.09%) DevOps
6 194 (16.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 183 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 183 (15.91%) RBAC
8 176 (15.30%) Cloud Security
9 168 (14.61%) Zero Trust
10 164 (14.26%) Security Architecture
11 156 (13.57%) Privileged Access Management
12 148 (12.87%) Roadmaps
13 147 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 142 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
15 138 (12.00%) Migration
16 127 (11.04%) AI
17 122 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
18 119 (10.35%) Identity Management
19 109 (9.48%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (16.26%) PowerShell
2 180 (15.65%) Python
3 96 (8.35%) Java
4 77 (6.70%) SQL
5 71 (6.17%) Bash
6 50 (4.35%) Bicep
7 27 (2.35%) C#
8 16 (1.39%) Go
9 14 (1.22%) Rust
10 9 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.70%) Scala
12 7 (0.61%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.26%) Cypher
16 3 (0.26%) Groovy
17 2 (0.17%) DAML
17 2 (0.17%) Solidity
18 1 (0.087%) Swift
Qualifications
1 336 (29.22%) Security Cleared
2 252 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 102 (8.87%) CISSP
4 67 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 66 (5.74%) Azure Certification
6 64 (5.57%) Degree
7 59 (5.13%) CISM
8 47 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (3.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 35 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (2.87%) AWS Certification
13 29 (2.52%) CCSP
14 20 (1.74%) PMP
15 18 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.22%) PMI Certification
17 13 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (1.04%) CISA
19 11 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 11 (0.96%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (11.65%) NIST
2 127 (11.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (5.48%) GDPR
4 47 (4.09%) NCSC
5 41 (3.57%) GRC
6 23 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.65%) QA
7 19 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.57%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.57%) SLA
9 14 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.78%) COBIT
11 9 (0.78%) ITGC
12 8 (0.70%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.61%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.52%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.52%) PMO
15 5 (0.43%) HIPAA
System Software
1 282 (24.52%) Active Directory
2 93 (8.09%) Docker
3 29 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.96%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.17%) KVM
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.17%) zsh
10 1 (0.087%) IAG
10 1 (0.087%) RACF
10 1 (0.087%) Squid
10 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.087%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 133 (11.57%) Kubernetes
2 124 (10.78%) Single Sign-On
3 67 (5.83%) Ansible
4 43 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (2.70%) Grafana
6 16 (1.39%) Argo
6 16 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.78%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.61%) Istio
10 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.43%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.43%) HAProxy
10 5 (0.43%) Podman
10 5 (0.43%) Puppet
11 3 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Management
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Manager
11 3 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 399 (34.70%) Microsoft
2 100 (8.70%) Okta
3 93 (8.09%) CyberArk
4 75 (6.52%) Google
5 53 (4.61%) BeyondTrust
5 53 (4.61%) ServiceNow
6 48 (4.17%) Oracle
6 48 (4.17%) VMware
7 33 (2.87%) Zscaler
8 29 (2.52%) SAP
9 24 (2.09%) ForgeRock
10 21 (1.83%) Splunk
11 20 (1.74%) Cisco
12 17 (1.48%) Workday
13 16 (1.39%) Databricks
13 16 (1.39%) Ping Identity
14 15 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
15 13 (1.13%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.96%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.87%) Citrix