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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 169 190
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 +5
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 822 479 546
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.68% 1.66% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 1.83% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 348 376
10th Percentile £401 £406 £416
25th Percentile £482 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £586 £606
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% -3.26% -1.06%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £705
90th Percentile £750 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £565 £650
% change year-on-year -2.65% -13.08% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 3
10th Percentile £51.25 £61.75 -
25th Percentile - £68.13 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £82.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +246.64% -63.94%
75th Percentile £74.26 £93.13 -
90th Percentile £87.96 £97.25 -
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 41,432 26,234 36,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 91.00% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,858 16,712 23,486
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,493 1,127 2,523
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +1 703 £575 -2.13% 229
UK excluding London +17 397 £550 -2.65% 139
London -7 317 £588 -2.08% 110
Work from Home +20 283 £550 -1.35% 121
North of England +11 137 £546 +4.00% 41
South East -9 106 £578 -11.08% 56
Yorkshire +12 92 £538 +14.61% 17
Midlands -28 70 £550 - 9
South West -3 58 £600 +9.09% 12
West Midlands -27 54 £538 -9.70% 4
North West -13 44 £575 +9.52% 20
Scotland +12 30 £540 +1.12% 9
East Midlands -26 14 £619 +42.32% 5
East of England -39 5 £608 -6.54% 7
Wales - 5 £468 - 5
North East -28 1 £400 -6.98% 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 25 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.55%) Confluence
2 21 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.85%) Apache
4 6 (0.73%) Apache Superset
5 4 (0.49%) IIS
6 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.12%) Mendix
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.61%) Maximo
2 5 (0.61%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 403 (49.03%) Azure
2 263 (32.00%) Entra ID
3 184 (22.38%) AWS
4 113 (13.75%) GCP
5 73 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 49 (5.96%) Azure AKS
8 46 (5.60%) GitHub
9 44 (5.35%) Power Platform
10 39 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
11 37 (4.50%) SaaS
12 30 (3.65%) Serverless
13 29 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
14 27 (3.28%) IaaS
14 27 (3.28%) PaaS
15 18 (2.19%) Power Automate
16 17 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
16 17 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (2.07%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 80 (9.73%) DNS
2 79 (9.61%) Firewall
2 79 (9.61%) Network Security
3 48 (5.84%) DHCP
4 47 (5.72%) WAN
5 31 (3.77%) VPN
6 28 (3.41%) LAN
7 26 (3.16%) BGP
7 26 (3.16%) OSPF
8 24 (2.92%) BIG-IP
8 24 (2.92%) Ethernet VPN
8 24 (2.92%) Junos
8 24 (2.92%) VXLAN
9 21 (2.55%) Kerberos
10 19 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
11 18 (2.19%) SD-WAN
12 17 (2.07%) SSL
13 8 (0.97%) Internet
14 7 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.80%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.19%) Power BI
3 11 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.09%) Neo4j
4 9 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 9 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.09%) Tableau
5 6 (0.73%) MySQL
6 5 (0.61%) DocumentDB
7 3 (0.36%) Big Data
7 3 (0.36%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.24%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.24%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (7.91%) JIRA
2 55 (6.69%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.65%) Git
4 24 (2.92%) GitLab
5 17 (2.07%) Postman
6 14 (1.70%) Selenium
7 10 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.22%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.09%) Gatling
9 8 (0.97%) Jaeger
10 5 (0.61%) Maven
10 5 (0.61%) TestRail
11 4 (0.49%) JMeter
11 4 (0.49%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.49%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.36%) JUnit
12 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.36%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.24%) git-flow
General
1 205 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 147 (17.88%) Finance
3 106 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 60 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (6.81%) Banking
6 37 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (3.16%) Legal
8 23 (2.80%) Retail
9 12 (1.46%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.85%) Police
13 6 (0.73%) Military
13 6 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.49%) Local Government
15 3 (0.36%) Aviation
15 3 (0.36%) Law
15 3 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (27.62%) Architect
2 80 (9.73%) Senior
3 74 (9.00%) Analyst
4 72 (8.76%) Lead
5 60 (7.30%) Developer
5 60 (7.30%) Security Architect
6 37 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
7 35 (4.26%) Java Developer
8 31 (3.77%) Project Manager
9 30 (3.65%) Consultant
10 29 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (3.53%) Security Engineer
11 27 (3.28%) Business Analyst
12 26 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.04%) Technical Architect
14 23 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 23 (2.80%) Identity and Access Management Analyst
14 23 (2.80%) Identity Management Analyst
15 22 (2.68%) Cloud Architect
16 19 (2.31%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (11.92%) SailPoint
2 77 (9.37%) SAML
3 71 (8.64%) OAuth
4 65 (7.91%) OpenID
5 62 (7.54%) LDAP
6 44 (5.35%) REST
7 28 (3.41%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.16%) 802.1X
9 25 (3.04%) OAuth2
10 23 (2.80%) Kafka
11 22 (2.68%) Middleware
12 21 (2.55%) Spring Boot
13 20 (2.43%) .NET
14 18 (2.19%) Node.js
15 15 (1.82%) Playwright
16 13 (1.58%) Spring
17 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
17 11 (1.34%) RESTful
18 10 (1.22%) YAML
19 9 (1.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 80 (9.73%) Onboarding
2 72 (8.76%) PKI
3 63 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 43 (5.23%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 29 (3.53%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.92%) Clustering
9 23 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (2.55%) Operational Technology
11 20 (2.43%) Replication
12 19 (2.31%) Product Ownership
13 16 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
17 8 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
17 8 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 115 (13.99%) Windows
2 58 (7.06%) Linux
3 35 (4.26%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.09%) Mac OS
4 9 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.09%) Unix
5 7 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.73%) Debian
6 6 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.49%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.49%) VMS
8 3 (0.36%) Android
9 1 (0.12%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (23.24%) DevOps
2 184 (22.38%) Cybersecurity
3 155 (18.86%) CI/CD
4 143 (17.40%) Agile
5 138 (16.79%) RBAC
6 136 (16.55%) Zero Trust
7 118 (14.36%) Cloud Security
8 105 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 104 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 103 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 85 (10.34%) Security Architecture
13 83 (10.10%) Identity Management
14 77 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 76 (9.25%) AI
16 75 (9.12%) High Availability
17 73 (8.88%) Privileged Access Management
18 71 (8.64%) Observability
19 70 (8.52%) Migration
19 70 (8.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 140 (17.03%) PowerShell
2 105 (12.77%) Python
3 94 (11.44%) Java
4 71 (8.64%) SQL
5 43 (5.23%) Bicep
6 26 (3.16%) Bash
7 16 (1.95%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.82%) Rust
9 14 (1.70%) Scala
10 9 (1.09%) Go
10 9 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.85%) C#
12 5 (0.61%) PHP
13 4 (0.49%) Cypher
13 4 (0.49%) Groovy
14 3 (0.36%) C++
14 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.36%) R
14 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 267 (32.48%) Security Cleared
2 193 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 70 (8.52%) CISSP
4 69 (8.39%) DV Cleared
5 48 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (5.23%) CISM
7 38 (4.62%) Degree
8 37 (4.50%) Azure Certification
9 27 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 26 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.92%) CCSP
12 20 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.58%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.46%) PMP
15 10 (1.22%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
17 7 (0.85%) CISA
17 7 (0.85%) JNCIA
17 7 (0.85%) JNCIP
17 7 (0.85%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (11.19%) NIST
2 89 (10.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (9.00%) GDPR
4 34 (4.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 28 (3.41%) GRC
6 27 (3.28%) NCSC
7 20 (2.43%) QA
8 13 (1.58%) PCI DSS
9 12 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 11 (1.34%) SLA
11 10 (1.22%) NIST 800
12 9 (1.09%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.09%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.73%) PMO
14 5 (0.61%) COBIT
14 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
16 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 3 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
16 3 (0.36%) GxP
System Software
1 220 (26.76%) Active Directory
2 66 (8.03%) Docker
3 27 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 15 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 11 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.22%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.36%) IAG
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.24%) RACF
9 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.12%) GPFS
10 1 (0.12%) KVM
10 1 (0.12%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.12%) Squid
10 1 (0.12%) vSphere
10 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 119 (14.48%) Terraform
2 103 (12.53%) Kubernetes
3 93 (11.31%) Single Sign-On
4 44 (5.35%) Ansible
5 28 (3.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 24 (2.92%) FortiGate
7 21 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (2.19%) Grafana
9 13 (1.58%) Prometheus
10 9 (1.09%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 9 (1.09%) NetIQ Identity Manager
10 9 (1.09%) SCCM
11 8 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.97%) Kiali
11 8 (0.97%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.61%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.61%) Istio
13 4 (0.49%) Argo
14 3 (0.36%) Podman
14 3 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 244 (29.68%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.34%) Okta
3 59 (7.18%) Google
4 49 (5.96%) Splunk
5 45 (5.47%) ServiceNow
6 36 (4.38%) CyberArk
7 35 (4.26%) VMware
8 34 (4.14%) Cisco
9 28 (3.41%) ForgeRock
10 27 (3.28%) SAP
11 26 (3.16%) F5
12 25 (3.04%) Oracle
13 24 (2.92%) Juniper
13 24 (2.92%) SolarWinds
14 22 (2.68%) Extreme Networks
15 20 (2.43%) Zscaler
16 19 (2.31%) Workday
17 16 (1.95%) BeyondTrust
18 14 (1.70%) Citrix
18 14 (1.70%) CrowdStrike