Identity Management Architect Contract Job Trends

Identity Management Architect
UK

The median Identity Management Architect daily rate in the UK is £531, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 555 623
Rank change year-on-year -26 +68 +198
Contract jobs requiring an Identity Management Architect 5 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.025% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.026% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £444 £595 -
25th Percentile £473 £625 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £738 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% - -
75th Percentile £598 £788 -
90th Percentile £633 £799 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £725 -
% change year-on-year -12.07% - -

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 32,121 33,965 44,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.87% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,371 20,492 29,993
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,875 1,270 1,571
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.10 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%

Identity Management Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Identity Management Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Identity Management Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Identity Management Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Identity Management Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Identity Management Architect job vacancies in the UK

Identity Management Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management Architect over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management Architect in the UK

Identity Management Architect
Top 6 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 Management Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 16 November 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 -22 5 £531 -27.97% 3
London -7 4 £425 -43.33% 3
Work from Home +15 1 £638 - 3
UK excluding London -29 1 £638 -12.07% 2
North of England - 1 £638 -
North West - 1 £638 -

Identity Management Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 November 2025, Identity Management Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Identity Management Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (20.00%) Okta
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving

Identity Management Architect Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
General
1 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) RBAC
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Okta