Privileged Identity Management Contracts

Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Privileged Identity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Privileged Identity Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 700 828
Rank change year-on-year +122 +128 -150
Contract jobs citing Privileged Identity Management 22 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.027% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.030% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 26
10th Percentile £600 £478 £375
25th Percentile £603 £513 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £538 £578
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -6.93% +15.50%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £638
90th Percentile - £740 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £750 £638
% change year-on-year -19.33% +17.65% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.55
25th Percentile - - £64.13
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £73.13
90th Percentile - - £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £74.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Privileged Identity Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Privileged Identity Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Privileged Identity Management in the UK

Privileged Identity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Privileged Identity Management in the UK

Privileged Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Privileged Identity Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Privileged Identity Management in the UK

Privileged Identity Management
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Privileged Identity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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 +129 22 £605 +12.56% 3
UK excluding London +75 19 £605 -19.33% 1
Work from Home +136 17 £605 +0.83% 2
South East +38 17 £605 - 1
London +109 3 £575 +6.98% 2
North West - 2 £975 -
North of England - 2 £975 -

Privileged 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 16 (72.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 20 (90.91%) Azure
3 17 (77.27%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (77.27%) Azure Storage
4 16 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) DNS
2 17 (77.27%) DHCP
2 17 (77.27%) Firewall
3 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Axure RP
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (86.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (68.18%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (63.64%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (63.64%) Support Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Identity Management Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (72.73%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.64%) OAuth
2 3 (13.64%) OpenID
2 3 (13.64%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (81.82%) PKI
2 17 (77.27%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 16 (72.73%) Linux
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2016
2 16 (72.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Identity Management
2 18 (81.82%) RBAC
3 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 17 (77.27%) Analytics
3 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 17 (77.27%) DevOps
3 17 (77.27%) ITIL
3 17 (77.27%) Log Analytics
3 17 (77.27%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 17 (77.27%) Release Management
3 17 (77.27%) Service Management
4 16 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (4.55%) Cost Reduction
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (4.55%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.55%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (4.55%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (4.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) PowerShell
2 17 (77.27%) C#
2 17 (77.27%) VB
2 17 (77.27%) VBScript
3 16 (72.73%) Bicep
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 18 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) DV Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 16 (72.73%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (77.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (77.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (81.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (77.27%) Kubernetes
2 17 (77.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (77.27%) SCCM
2 17 (77.27%) SCOM
2 17 (77.27%) WSUS
3 1 (4.55%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) Consul
3 1 (4.55%) PingFederate
3 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) CA
2 1 (4.55%) CyberArk
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow