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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 338 361
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +130
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 184 236 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.64% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 181 244
10th Percentile £400 £422 £450
25th Percentile £475 £517 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +6.14% +5.56%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £605 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +6.46%

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 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 19 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 19 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 +30 169 £550 -9.09% 184
London +66 96 £566 -5.63% 108
UK excluding London -12 63 £550 -9.09% 115
Work from Home +4 59 £537 -11.24% 99
South East +33 24 £628 +3.72% 34
North of England +14 19 £475 -23.39% 25
Yorkshire +21 11 £535 +78.17% 10
Midlands +9 11 £506 -19.00% 15
West Midlands +7 10 £525 -16.00% 5
North West +3 8 £475 -23.69% 15
South West +29 7 £563 -16.04% 14
Scotland -2 3 £606 +5.43% 16
East of England +4 1 £550 -7.56% 9
East Midlands +3 1 £400 -35.69% 10
Wales -6 1 - - 3

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 22 (11.96%) SharePoint
2 21 (11.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.80%) Confluence
4 5 (2.72%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (2.17%) IIS
5 4 (2.17%) nginx
6 3 (1.63%) Traefik
7 1 (0.54%) Apache
7 1 (0.54%) CMS
7 1 (0.54%) Gunicorn
7 1 (0.54%) JBoss
7 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.54%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.54%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.72%) InfoPath
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (55.43%) Azure
2 84 (45.65%) Entra ID
3 46 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (22.83%) AWS
5 19 (10.33%) OneDrive
6 16 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 15 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.15%) SaaS
8 13 (7.07%) Power Platform
9 11 (5.98%) GCP
10 10 (5.43%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.80%) Azure API Management
11 7 (3.80%) Mimecast
12 6 (3.26%) Asana
12 6 (3.26%) Azure Functions
12 6 (3.26%) PowerApps
12 6 (3.26%) Serverless
13 5 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.72%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.72%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.15%) Firewall
2 12 (6.52%) Network Security
3 11 (5.98%) DNS
4 7 (3.80%) Kerberos
5 6 (3.26%) HTTPS
6 5 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.72%) VPN
7 4 (2.17%) DHCP
7 4 (2.17%) WAN
8 3 (1.63%) SSL
9 2 (1.09%) DMZ
9 2 (1.09%) HTTP
9 2 (1.09%) Internet
9 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.09%) VoIP
9 2 (1.09%) Wireless
9 2 (1.09%) X.509
10 1 (0.54%) MPLS
10 1 (0.54%) Softphone
10 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.80%) Power BI
2 6 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.63%) SSDT
6 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.09%) Power Query
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.54%) MySQL
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
7 1 (0.54%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (6.52%) JIRA
2 7 (3.80%) GitLab
2 7 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.54%) Git
3 1 (0.54%) Poetry
General
1 50 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (12.50%) Finance
4 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.63%) Law
5 3 (1.63%) Legal
5 3 (1.63%) Military
5 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Banking
7 1 (0.54%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.54%) Local Government
7 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (21.20%) Architect
2 19 (10.33%) Analyst
3 15 (8.15%) Consultant
4 14 (7.61%) Senior
5 13 (7.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.07%) IAM Specialist
6 11 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (5.98%) Lead
7 10 (5.43%) AWS Specialist
7 10 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.89%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.89%) Security Architect
9 8 (4.35%) Azure Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Developer
10 7 (3.80%) ForgeRock Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.72%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.02%) OAuth
2 30 (16.30%) OpenID
3 26 (14.13%) SAML
4 19 (10.33%) SailPoint
5 11 (5.98%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.26%) .NET
6 6 (3.26%) JDBC
6 6 (3.26%) Kafka
6 6 (3.26%) SOAP
7 5 (2.72%) Keycloak
7 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (2.72%) Middleware
8 4 (2.17%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.17%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.17%) cloud-init
8 4 (2.17%) JWT
8 4 (2.17%) LDAP
9 3 (1.63%) ADO
9 3 (1.63%) YAML
10 2 (1.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.15%) PKI
2 13 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.89%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.80%) Taxonomies
6 6 (3.26%) Private Cloud
6 6 (3.26%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.72%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.17%) NHS
8 4 (2.17%) Replication
9 3 (1.63%) CMDB
9 3 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.93%) Windows
2 16 (8.70%) Linux
3 14 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.26%) Unix
5 4 (2.17%) Android
5 4 (2.17%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.17%) CentOS
5 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.70%) Identity Access Management
2 50 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (21.20%) Migration
4 33 (17.93%) RBAC
5 28 (15.22%) Agile
5 28 (15.22%) DevOps
5 28 (15.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 27 (14.67%) CI/CD
7 25 (13.59%) Cloud Security
8 21 (11.41%) ITIL
9 20 (10.87%) Roadmaps
10 19 (10.33%) Privileged Identity Management
11 18 (9.78%) Task Automation
12 15 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
12 15 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 14 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (7.07%) Service Management
15 12 (6.52%) Change Management
15 12 (6.52%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.17%) PowerShell
2 27 (14.67%) Python
3 18 (9.78%) Java
4 9 (4.89%) Bash
4 9 (4.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.89%) SQL
5 8 (4.35%) Bicep
6 7 (3.80%) C#
7 4 (2.17%) Go
8 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.54%) C
9 1 (0.54%) Groovy
9 1 (0.54%) Scala
9 1 (0.54%) VB
9 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.24%) Degree
4 13 (7.07%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.26%) CISM
7 6 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.17%) CEH
8 4 (2.17%) CISSP
9 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.09%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) CCNP
10 1 (0.54%) CISA
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.54%) GCIA
10 1 (0.54%) GIAC
10 1 (0.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.87%) GDPR
2 13 (7.07%) HIPAA
3 12 (6.52%) NIST
4 11 (5.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.26%) NCSC
7 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.09%) QA
9 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (35.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.17%) Docker
5 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) LXC
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (22.28%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (12.50%) Terraform
3 17 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.89%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.35%) Grafana
6 6 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (3.26%) Ansible
7 5 (2.72%) SCCM
8 4 (2.17%) Consul
8 4 (2.17%) Istio
8 4 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (2.17%) linkerd
8 4 (2.17%) Packer
8 4 (2.17%) Rancher
8 4 (2.17%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.63%) Automic
9 3 (1.63%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.63%) Puppet
10 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.87%) Okta
3 18 (9.78%) Ping Identity
4 12 (6.52%) ForgeRock
5 11 (5.98%) VMware
6 6 (3.26%) Google
6 6 (3.26%) Splunk
7 5 (2.72%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.72%) Oracle
8 4 (2.17%) Cisco
8 4 (2.17%) Citrix
8 4 (2.17%) Proofpoint
9 3 (1.63%) Apple
9 3 (1.63%) AVEVA
9 3 (1.63%) ESET
9 3 (1.63%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.63%) NetApp
9 3 (1.63%) UiPath
9 3 (1.63%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.09%) Pure Storage