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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 172 181
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,065 529 521
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.99% 1.61% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.78% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 368 353
10th Percentile £424 £375 £425
25th Percentile £481 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £557 £585
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% -4.74% -2.50%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £675
90th Percentile £750 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £622
% change year-on-year +4.76% -15.59% +8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 5
10th Percentile £37.30 £50.50 -
25th Percentile - £55.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £77.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +225.63% -63.94%
75th Percentile £84.34 £96.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.88 £98.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.46 £82.50 -
% change year-on-year -0.05% - -

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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +17 874 £575 +4.17% 237
UK excluding London +42 501 £550 +4.76% 174
London +25 423 £575 -1.92% 84
Work from Home +36 347 £560 +6.67% 100
North of England +31 167 £538 +13.76% 50
South East +9 134 £589 -7.65% 65
Yorkshire +30 104 £544 +15.94% 23
Scotland +33 60 £478 -20.33% 6
South West -10 56 £575 +12.20% 27
Midlands -49 55 £625 +27.03% 18
North West -10 52 £550 +18.92% 24
West Midlands -41 38 £500 -9.09% 11
East of England 0 29 £550 -8.33% 9
East Midlands -25 15 £638 +57.02% 7
Wales -6 10 £471 -32.68% 1
North East -32 10 £500 -9.09% 4
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 36 (3.38%) Confluence
2 33 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.85%) Apache
5 6 (0.56%) Apache Superset
6 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.38%) IIS
8 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.19%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.19%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.094%) Drupal
10 1 (0.094%) nginx
10 1 (0.094%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.094%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 17 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.56%) SAP GRC
3 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.094%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 470 (44.13%) Azure
2 323 (30.33%) Entra ID
3 234 (21.97%) AWS
4 139 (13.05%) GCP
5 78 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (6.10%) GitHub
7 56 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (4.88%) SaaS
9 49 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (4.60%) Power Platform
10 48 (4.51%) Azure AKS
11 42 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
12 35 (3.29%) Azure Sentinel
12 35 (3.29%) Serverless
13 31 (2.91%) OCI
14 30 (2.82%) PaaS
15 28 (2.63%) IaaS
16 25 (2.35%) Azure Key Vault
17 23 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 97 (9.11%) Network Security
2 85 (7.98%) Firewall
3 72 (6.76%) DNS
4 38 (3.57%) WAN
5 36 (3.38%) VPN
6 29 (2.72%) DHCP
7 19 (1.78%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.50%) LAN
9 13 (1.22%) BGP
10 12 (1.13%) OSPF
10 12 (1.13%) SSL
11 11 (1.03%) BIG-IP
11 11 (1.03%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (1.03%) Junos
11 11 (1.03%) VXLAN
12 9 (0.85%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.85%) TCP/IP
13 8 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (0.75%) Internet
14 7 (0.66%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.13%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.69%) Power BI
3 14 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.03%) Metadata
6 10 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.94%) Relational Database
7 9 (0.85%) Neo4j
8 8 (0.75%) NoSQL
9 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (0.47%) Big Data
10 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (0.47%) Tableau
11 4 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.28%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (0.19%) Trino
Development Applications
1 58 (5.45%) JIRA
2 43 (4.04%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.66%) Git
4 21 (1.97%) GitLab
5 12 (1.13%) Gatling
6 7 (0.66%) JMeter
6 7 (0.66%) NeoLoad
7 5 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.47%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.38%) Postman
8 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.28%) MSBuild
9 3 (0.28%) Selenium
9 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.19%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.19%) Maven
General
1 289 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 228 (21.41%) Finance
3 140 (13.15%) Public Sector
4 108 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (6.85%) Banking
6 63 (5.92%) Retail
7 56 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.88%) Legal
10 16 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.66%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.66%) Local Government
13 7 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.47%) Law
15 5 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 266 (24.98%) Architect
2 110 (10.33%) Lead
3 91 (8.54%) Security Architect
4 89 (8.36%) Analyst
5 76 (7.14%) Developer
5 76 (7.14%) Senior
6 51 (4.79%) Business Analyst
7 47 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
7 47 (4.41%) Support Engineer
8 46 (4.32%) Consultant
8 46 (4.32%) Java Developer
9 43 (4.04%) Project Manager
10 41 (3.85%) Technical Architect
11 39 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
13 34 (3.19%) Service Manager
13 34 (3.19%) Service Transition Manager
13 34 (3.19%) Transition Manager
14 32 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (15.49%) Terraform
2 94 (8.83%) OAuth
3 89 (8.36%) SailPoint
4 84 (7.89%) OpenID
5 76 (7.14%) SAML
6 58 (5.45%) REST
7 57 (5.35%) LDAP
8 33 (3.10%) OAuth2
9 31 (2.91%) .NET
10 26 (2.44%) ARM Templates
11 18 (1.69%) React
12 17 (1.60%) Kafka
13 16 (1.50%) .NET Framework
13 16 (1.50%) JSON
13 16 (1.50%) Middleware
13 16 (1.50%) Node.js
14 15 (1.41%) Web Services
15 14 (1.31%) 802.1X
15 14 (1.31%) Spring
16 13 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 118 (11.08%) Onboarding
2 104 (9.77%) Cloud Native
3 97 (9.11%) PKI
4 50 (4.69%) Security Posture
5 41 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (3.38%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.00%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 30 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (2.72%) Public Cloud
11 28 (2.63%) Operational Technology
12 25 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (1.22%) Virtual Team
18 12 (1.13%) Clustering
19 11 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 118 (11.08%) Windows
2 83 (7.79%) Linux
3 45 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.03%) Unix
5 10 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.85%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.85%) VMS
7 6 (0.56%) Debian
8 5 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.38%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.28%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.094%) CentOS
12 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (23.94%) Cybersecurity
2 215 (20.19%) DevOps
3 212 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 209 (19.62%) CI/CD
5 186 (17.46%) Agile
6 169 (15.87%) RBAC
7 166 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 158 (14.84%) Cloud Security
8 158 (14.84%) Zero Trust
9 147 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 140 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
10 140 (13.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 136 (12.77%) Security Architecture
12 130 (12.21%) Privileged Access Management
13 124 (11.64%) Roadmaps
14 116 (10.89%) Identity Management
15 111 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
16 105 (9.86%) Migration
17 101 (9.48%) AI
18 97 (9.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 175 (16.43%) PowerShell
2 150 (14.08%) Python
3 87 (8.17%) Java
4 77 (7.23%) SQL
5 62 (5.82%) Bash
6 57 (5.35%) Bicep
7 25 (2.35%) C#
8 14 (1.31%) Rust
9 12 (1.13%) Go
10 9 (0.85%) Scala
11 6 (0.56%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.28%) Cypher
14 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.28%) Groovy
14 3 (0.28%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.19%) DAML
15 2 (0.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 306 (28.73%) Security Cleared
2 228 (21.41%) SC Cleared
3 94 (8.83%) CISSP
4 62 (5.82%) Degree
5 61 (5.73%) Azure Certification
6 58 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 56 (5.26%) CISM
8 43 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (2.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 30 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (2.54%) CCSP
13 22 (2.07%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.78%) PMP
15 15 (1.41%) PMI Certification
16 14 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (1.13%) FFIEC
17 12 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
18 8 (0.75%) CISA
19 7 (0.66%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (10.99%) NIST
2 108 (10.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (6.20%) GDPR
4 47 (4.41%) NCSC
5 39 (3.66%) GRC
6 23 (2.16%) QA
7 21 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.50%) SLA
9 14 (1.31%) PCI DSS
10 12 (1.13%) Data Quality
11 11 (1.03%) COBIT
11 11 (1.03%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.85%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.85%) PMO
13 8 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.75%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.56%) ITGC
14 6 (0.56%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 282 (26.48%) Active Directory
2 83 (7.79%) Docker
3 35 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (1.69%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.38%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) IAG
9 2 (0.19%) KVM
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.19%) RACF
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.19%) zsh
10 1 (0.094%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.094%) Squid
Systems Management
1 121 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 110 (10.33%) Single Sign-On
3 64 (6.01%) Ansible
4 31 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (2.72%) Grafana
6 15 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.31%) Argo
8 11 (1.03%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.66%) Istio
10 7 (0.66%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.56%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 6 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.47%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.38%) NetIQ Identity Manager
13 4 (0.38%) Podman
13 4 (0.38%) Puppet
14 3 (0.28%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 352 (33.05%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.67%) Okta
3 78 (7.32%) CyberArk
4 64 (6.01%) Google
5 54 (5.07%) VMware
6 48 (4.51%) Oracle
6 48 (4.51%) ServiceNow
7 44 (4.13%) BeyondTrust
8 37 (3.47%) SAP
9 29 (2.72%) ForgeRock
10 28 (2.63%) Splunk
11 27 (2.54%) Zscaler
12 25 (2.35%) Cisco
13 20 (1.88%) Workday
14 16 (1.50%) Ping Identity
15 15 (1.41%) Databricks
16 14 (1.31%) F5
17 12 (1.13%) Juniper
18 11 (1.03%) Red Hat
18 11 (1.03%) SolarWinds