Identity and Access Management Engineer Contracts

Identity & Access Management Engineer
UK

The median Identity & Access Management Engineer daily rate in the UK is £408, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 - 653
Rank change year-on-year - - +199
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Identity and Access Management Engineer 10 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% - 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% - 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £363 - £488
25th Percentile £366 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £429 - £663
90th Percentile £549 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -26.92%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,134 36,051 48,460
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.97% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,011 23,015 33,428
10th Percentile £280 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.57%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,572 1,954 1,495
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.16 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.52 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.89 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.58
% change year-on-year -41.51% +8.65% +86.24%

Identity and Access Management Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Identity and Access Management Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Identity and Access Management Engineer in the UK

Identity and Access Management Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Identity and Access Management Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Identity and Access Management Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Identity and Access Management Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity and Access Management Engineer over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity and Access Management Engineer in the UK

Identity and Access Management Engineer
Top 6 DemandTrendContract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Identity and Access Management Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 10 £408 - 8
UK excluding London - 7 £400 - 2
East Midlands - 7 £400 -
Midlands - 7 £400 -
London - 3 £600 - 7
Work from Home - 3 £429 - 1

Identity and Access Management Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 August 2025, Identity and Access Management Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Identity and Access Management Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (90.00%) RBAC
3 7 (70.00%) Ping Identity
3 7 (70.00%) GDPR
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (70.00%) Java
3 7 (70.00%) LDAP
3 7 (70.00%) SAML
3 7 (70.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 7 (70.00%) IBM
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) Hibernate
3 7 (70.00%) Spring
3 7 (70.00%) OAuth
3 7 (70.00%) HIPAA
3 7 (70.00%) AWS
3 7 (70.00%) OpenID
3 7 (70.00%) GCP
4 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (40.00%) Docker
6 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (40.00%) Azure
6 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
8 2 (20.00%) Active Directory

Identity and Access Management Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (70.00%) LDAP
1 7 (70.00%) OAuth
1 7 (70.00%) OpenID
1 7 (70.00%) SAML
1 7 (70.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (90.00%) RBAC
3 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (10.00%) API Integration
7 1 (10.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
7 1 (10.00%) Information Security
7 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) GDPR
1 7 (70.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) IBM
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (70.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (10.00%) Okta
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow