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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 172 194
Rank change year-on-year +42 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 1,167 534 495
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.13% 1.61% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.78% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 847 356 321
10th Percentile £413 £367 £425
25th Percentile £475 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £500 £635
% change year-on-year +6.00% -21.26% +13.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 5 5
10th Percentile £14.85 £51.50 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £90.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +278.15% -66.24%
75th Percentile £83.02 £95.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.72 £98.00 -
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 46,382 30,011 32,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.62% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 18,637 19,780
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,269 1,869 1,352
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +38 947 £550 +0.92% 764
UK excluding London +51 545 £530 +6.00% 372
London +28 462 £575 -1.71% 434
Work from Home +45 365 £550 +5.26% 374
North of England +11 191 £500 +5.26% 95
South East +13 135 £575 +15.00% 129
Yorkshire +30 120 £538 +13.16% 29
Scotland +27 74 £480 -20.08% 35
North West -23 58 £488 +7.62% 61
South West -4 55 £600 +20.00% 38
Midlands -52 51 £580 +16.00% 46
West Midlands -26 40 £518 -5.91% 31
East of England 0 39 £550 -8.33% 22
North East -36 12 £500 -2.91% 5
East Midlands -28 10 £625 +53.94% 15
Wales -4 9 £475 -32.14% 3
Northern Ireland +7 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 39 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.26%) Confluence
3 34 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.60%) Apache
5 4 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
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%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.17%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.086%) Drupal
8 1 (0.086%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.03%) 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 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.086%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 480 (41.13%) Azure
2 351 (30.08%) Entra ID
3 292 (25.02%) AWS
4 164 (14.05%) GCP
5 91 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
6 65 (5.57%) GitHub
7 61 (5.23%) SaaS
8 51 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (3.51%) Power Platform
10 39 (3.34%) Azure AKS
10 39 (3.34%) OCI
10 39 (3.34%) Serverless
11 36 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 33 (2.83%) Azure Monitor
13 31 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
14 27 (2.31%) Azure Key Vault
15 25 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
16 23 (1.97%) PaaS
17 22 (1.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 96 (8.23%) Network Security
2 87 (7.46%) Firewall
3 60 (5.14%) DNS
4 41 (3.51%) VPN
5 22 (1.89%) DHCP
6 18 (1.54%) WAN
7 15 (1.29%) Kerberos
8 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.86%) IPsec
10 9 (0.77%) SSL
11 8 (0.69%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.60%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.60%) Internet
13 6 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.51%) X.509
14 5 (0.43%) LAN
15 4 (0.34%) MQTT
15 4 (0.34%) VLAN
16 3 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
16 3 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.94%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.66%) Metadata
3 28 (2.40%) Relational Database
4 18 (1.54%) Power BI
5 11 (0.94%) Neo4j
6 10 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 10 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 8 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.34%) Big Data
10 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
10 4 (0.34%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 58 (4.97%) Git
2 54 (4.63%) JIRA
3 41 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.80%) GitLab
5 20 (1.71%) Selenium
6 11 (0.94%) Gatling
7 8 (0.69%) JMeter
8 7 (0.60%) NeoLoad
9 5 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 5 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.34%) Postman
10 4 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.34%) 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
1 349 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 252 (21.59%) Finance
3 148 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 129 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.86%) Banking
6 66 (5.66%) Retail
7 60 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
9 21 (1.80%) Legal
10 20 (1.71%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.37%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.77%) Law
13 9 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.69%) Local Government
14 8 (0.69%) Military
14 8 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.43%) Automotive
16 4 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 293 (25.11%) Architect
2 104 (8.91%) Lead
3 98 (8.40%) Analyst
4 97 (8.31%) Security Architect
5 75 (6.43%) Developer
6 70 (6.00%) Senior
7 60 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
8 59 (5.06%) Consultant
9 54 (4.63%) Business Analyst
10 53 (4.54%) Security Engineer
11 48 (4.11%) Support Engineer
12 45 (3.86%) Java Developer
12 45 (3.86%) Project Manager
13 44 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 42 (3.60%) Technical Architect
15 39 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
16 35 (3.00%) Service Manager
17 34 (2.91%) Service Transition Manager
17 34 (2.91%) Transition Manager
18 32 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (16.02%) Terraform
2 117 (10.03%) OAuth
3 102 (8.74%) OpenID
4 90 (7.71%) SailPoint
5 83 (7.11%) SAML
6 63 (5.40%) LDAP
7 61 (5.23%) REST
8 44 (3.77%) OAuth2
9 34 (2.91%) .NET
10 28 (2.40%) ARM Templates
11 26 (2.23%) Kafka
12 24 (2.06%) React
13 20 (1.71%) JSON
14 18 (1.54%) .NET Framework
15 16 (1.37%) Node.js
15 16 (1.37%) Spring
15 16 (1.37%) Web Services
15 16 (1.37%) XML
16 15 (1.29%) RESTful
17 14 (1.20%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 135 (11.57%) Onboarding
2 130 (11.14%) Cloud Native
3 97 (8.31%) PKI
4 72 (6.17%) Security Posture
5 47 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 46 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
7 40 (3.43%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (3.08%) Product Ownership
9 32 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (2.57%) Operational Technology
11 29 (2.49%) Data Centre
11 29 (2.49%) Public Cloud
12 24 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
16 16 (1.37%) CMDB
16 16 (1.37%) IoT
17 14 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (10.20%) Windows
2 87 (7.46%) Linux
3 57 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.77%) Unix
6 8 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.60%) VMS
7 7 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.43%) Debian
8 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.26%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.17%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.086%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (24.94%) Cybersecurity
2 265 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 236 (20.22%) CI/CD
4 212 (18.17%) Agile
5 205 (17.57%) DevOps
6 203 (17.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 187 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 186 (15.94%) RBAC
9 175 (15.00%) Cloud Security
10 168 (14.40%) Security Architecture
11 164 (14.05%) Zero Trust
12 159 (13.62%) Privileged Access Management
13 158 (13.54%) Roadmaps
14 146 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
15 144 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 139 (11.91%) Migration
17 126 (10.80%) AI
18 124 (10.63%) Technical Leadership
19 119 (10.20%) Identity Management
20 115 (9.85%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (16.37%) PowerShell
2 186 (15.94%) Python
3 96 (8.23%) Java
4 77 (6.60%) SQL
5 76 (6.51%) Bash
6 50 (4.28%) Bicep
7 28 (2.40%) C#
8 17 (1.46%) Go
9 14 (1.20%) Rust
10 9 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.69%) Scala
12 7 (0.60%) JavaScript
13 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.26%) Cypher
15 3 (0.26%) Groovy
16 2 (0.17%) DAML
16 2 (0.17%) Solidity
17 1 (0.086%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 339 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 256 (21.94%) SC Cleared
3 99 (8.48%) CISSP
4 68 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 65 (5.57%) Degree
6 62 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 58 (4.97%) CISM
8 48 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
10 36 (3.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 34 (2.91%) AWS Certification
11 34 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (2.49%) CCSP
13 20 (1.71%) PMP
14 19 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (1.20%) PMI Certification
16 13 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.94%) CISA
18 11 (0.94%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (10.88%) NIST
2 122 (10.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (5.23%) GDPR
4 45 (3.86%) NCSC
5 41 (3.51%) GRC
6 23 (1.97%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.63%) QA
7 19 (1.63%) SLA
8 18 (1.54%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.77%) COBIT
12 9 (0.77%) ITGC
13 6 (0.51%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.51%) PMO
13 6 (0.51%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 289 (24.76%) Active Directory
2 100 (8.57%) Docker
3 29 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.34%) vSphere
9 3 (0.26%) KVM
9 3 (0.26%) zsh
10 2 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.086%) IAG
11 1 (0.086%) Squid
11 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.086%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 136 (11.65%) Kubernetes
2 126 (10.80%) Single Sign-On
3 68 (5.83%) Ansible
4 46 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (3.00%) Grafana
6 19 (1.63%) Argo
7 17 (1.46%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.77%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.60%) Istio
11 5 (0.43%) HAProxy
11 5 (0.43%) Podman
11 5 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.34%) SCCM
13 3 (0.26%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Management
13 3 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Manager
13 3 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 413 (35.39%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.91%) Okta
3 94 (8.05%) CyberArk
4 79 (6.77%) Google
5 53 (4.54%) BeyondTrust
5 53 (4.54%) Oracle
6 50 (4.28%) ServiceNow
7 46 (3.94%) VMware
8 34 (2.91%) Zscaler
9 29 (2.49%) SAP
10 24 (2.06%) ForgeRock
11 19 (1.63%) Cisco
11 19 (1.63%) Ping Identity
11 19 (1.63%) Splunk
12 16 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
12 16 (1.37%) Databricks
13 14 (1.20%) Workday
14 13 (1.11%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.94%) Palo Alto
16 9 (0.77%) Citrix