Identity Management Architect Contracts

Identity Management Architect
UK

The median Identity Management Architect daily rate in the UK is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 577 708
Rank change year-on-year +63 +131 +137
Contract jobs requiring an Identity Management Architect 6 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.011% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.012% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £518 £603 £513
25th Percentile £525 £606 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +4.41%
75th Percentile £775 £656 £725
90th Percentile £805 £668 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £588

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Identity Management Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management Architect in the UK

Identity Management Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Management Architect.

Daily rate trend for Identity Management Architect in the UK

Identity Management Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management Architect in the UK

Identity Management Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Identity Management Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +60 5 £588 - 9
London +42 5 £588 - 3
Work from Home +42 4 £625 -3.85% 3

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Identity Management Architect 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 Management Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (33.33%) RBAC
4 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) CISSP
4 2 (33.33%) B2C
4 2 (33.33%) Information Security
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
5 1 (16.67%) Kafka
5 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (16.67%) SABSA
5 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy

Identity Management Architect 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) Couchbase
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (33.33%) B2C
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SABSA
4 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity