Identity Management Contracts

Identity Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Identity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 360 384
Rank change year-on-year +38 +24 +106
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 209 227 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.71% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.60% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 171 253
10th Percentile £400 £425 £415
25th Percentile £471 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £610 £585
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +4.27% +6.36%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £700
90th Percentile £755 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £605 £588
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.98% +17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Identity 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Identity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Identity Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Management.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Top 15 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 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 +58 188 £575 -4.96% 457
London +74 102 £575 -8.00% 134
UK excluding London +12 77 £550 -9.09% 371
Work from Home +11 75 £537 -11.24% 120
North of England +27 31 £484 -22.02% 83
South East +40 22 £650 +7.44% 100
Yorkshire +23 20 £600 +100.00% 34
Midlands +16 14 £525 -16.00% 62
West Midlands +19 13 £556 -11.00% 33
North West +8 9 £463 -25.40% 26
South West +33 7 £563 -14.77% 38
Scotland +8 5 £531 -9.57% 21
North East - 2 £750 - 25
East Midlands +1 1 £400 -35.69% 25
Wales -7 1 - - 9

Identity Management
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 26 (12.44%) SharePoint
2 25 (11.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (6.70%) nginx
4 12 (5.74%) Traefik
5 7 (3.35%) Confluence
6 5 (2.39%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (1.91%) IIS
8 3 (1.44%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.48%) Apache
9 1 (0.48%) CMS
9 1 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.48%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.48%) JBoss
9 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.48%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.48%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (2.39%) InfoPath
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (2.39%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (53.11%) Azure
2 101 (48.33%) Entra ID
3 54 (25.84%) AWS
4 47 (22.49%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (11.00%) OneDrive
6 15 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (7.18%) Azure Monitor
6 15 (7.18%) SaaS
7 14 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (6.70%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (6.70%) AWS Fargate
7 14 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (6.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 12 (5.74%) GCP
8 12 (5.74%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.31%) Power Automate
10 8 (3.83%) Mimecast
11 7 (3.35%) Azure API Management
12 6 (2.87%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.53%) DNS
2 20 (9.57%) Firewall
3 15 (7.18%) TCP/IP
4 12 (5.74%) Network Security
5 7 (3.35%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.87%) HTTPS
7 5 (2.39%) VPN
8 4 (1.91%) DHCP
8 4 (1.91%) SSL
8 4 (1.91%) WAN
9 3 (1.44%) Skype
10 2 (0.96%) DMZ
10 2 (0.96%) HTTP
10 2 (0.96%) Internet
10 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.96%) VoIP
10 2 (0.96%) Wireless
10 2 (0.96%) X.509
11 1 (0.48%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.48%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.18%) MongoDB
2 6 (2.87%) Power BI
2 6 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.44%) SSDT
5 2 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.96%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.96%) Power Query
5 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
5 2 (0.96%) Redis
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.48%) MySQL
6 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 17 (8.13%) GitLab
1 17 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 10 (4.78%) JIRA
3 2 (0.96%) Git
4 1 (0.48%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (0.48%) Poetry
4 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.31%) Finance
3 30 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.22%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.39%) Banking
6 5 (2.39%) Military
7 3 (1.44%) Law
7 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.48%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (22.01%) Architect
2 27 (12.92%) Senior
3 20 (9.57%) Analyst
3 20 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (7.66%) Consultant
4 16 (7.66%) Lead
5 15 (7.18%) Senior DevOps
6 14 (6.70%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (5.74%) IAM Specialist
9 11 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 11 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.78%) Business Analyst
11 9 (4.31%) AWS Specialist
12 8 (3.83%) Azure Architect
12 8 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.35%) Infrastructure Architect
13 7 (3.35%) Microsoft 365 Architect
14 6 (2.87%) Administrator
14 6 (2.87%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.79%) OAuth
2 28 (13.40%) OpenID
3 25 (11.96%) SAML
4 21 (10.05%) SailPoint
5 16 (7.66%) Kafka
6 15 (7.18%) Keycloak
7 14 (6.70%) cloud-init
8 10 (4.78%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.35%) Middleware
10 6 (2.87%) .NET
10 6 (2.87%) JDBC
10 6 (2.87%) SOAP
11 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (1.91%) JWT
13 3 (1.44%) .NET Core
13 3 (1.44%) ARM Templates
13 3 (1.44%) LDAP
13 3 (1.44%) YAML
14 2 (0.96%) React
14 2 (0.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.96%) PKI
2 16 (7.66%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.22%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.83%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.35%) Taxonomies
6 6 (2.87%) Private Cloud
6 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.91%) BYOD
8 4 (1.91%) Replication
9 3 (1.44%) CMDB
9 3 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.44%) NHS
10 2 (0.96%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.18%) Windows
2 28 (13.40%) Linux
3 20 (9.57%) Unix
4 14 (6.70%) CentOS
4 14 (6.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (6.22%) Windows Server
6 5 (2.39%) Android
6 5 (2.39%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.91%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (33.49%) Identity Access Management
2 53 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (19.62%) Migration
4 39 (18.66%) CI/CD
4 39 (18.66%) DevOps
5 37 (17.70%) Cloud Security
6 36 (17.22%) RBAC
7 34 (16.27%) Agile
8 32 (15.31%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 24 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (11.00%) ITIL
11 19 (9.09%) Privileged Identity Management
11 19 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 17 (8.13%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (8.13%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 17 (8.13%) Static Application Security Testing
12 17 (8.13%) Task Automation
13 16 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (7.66%) Observability
13 16 (7.66%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (23.92%) PowerShell
2 37 (17.70%) Python
3 19 (9.09%) Bash
4 17 (8.13%) Java
5 14 (6.70%) Go
6 10 (4.78%) SQL
7 9 (4.31%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.35%) Bicep
9 6 (2.87%) C#
10 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.48%) C
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
11 1 (0.48%) VB
11 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.09%) Degree
4 14 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.74%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.35%) CISSP
9 6 (2.87%) CISM
9 6 (2.87%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.91%) CEH
11 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.96%) CCSP
12 2 (0.96%) CISA
12 2 (0.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.96%) PMP
13 1 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.57%) GDPR
2 14 (6.70%) NCSC
3 13 (6.22%) HIPAA
4 12 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (5.26%) NIST
6 8 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.91%) QA
8 3 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (34.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.35%) Docker
4 6 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.96%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.48%) LXC
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (19.14%) Single Sign-On
2 34 (16.27%) Terraform
3 28 (13.40%) Kubernetes
4 20 (9.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (8.61%) Prometheus
6 17 (8.13%) Grafana
7 15 (7.18%) Istio
8 14 (6.70%) Consul
8 14 (6.70%) Jamf Pro
8 14 (6.70%) linkerd
8 14 (6.70%) Packer
8 14 (6.70%) Rancher
8 14 (6.70%) ZABBIX
9 12 (5.74%) HAProxy
10 9 (4.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (3.83%) SCCM
12 5 (2.39%) Ansible
13 3 (1.44%) Automic
13 3 (1.44%) Forefront Identity Manager
13 3 (1.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (32.54%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.31%) Okta
3 17 (8.13%) Splunk
4 16 (7.66%) Ping Identity
5 13 (6.22%) Apple
6 12 (5.74%) ESET
7 11 (5.26%) ForgeRock
8 10 (4.78%) VMware
9 9 (4.31%) Oracle
10 7 (3.35%) CyberArk
11 6 (2.87%) Google
12 5 (2.39%) Cisco
13 4 (1.91%) Proofpoint
14 3 (1.44%) AVEVA
14 3 (1.44%) Citrix
14 3 (1.44%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.44%) NetApp
14 3 (1.44%) UiPath
14 3 (1.44%) Zscaler
15 2 (0.96%) Pure Storage