Privileged Identity Management Contracts

Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Privileged Identity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Privileged Identity Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 538 635
Rank change year-on-year +18 +97 +216
Contract jobs citing Privileged Identity Management 29 34 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.087% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.10% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 22
10th Percentile £360 £559 £421
25th Percentile £400 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £605 £580
Median % change year-on-year -32.40% +4.31% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £738
90th Percentile £630 £629 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £409 £605 £580
% change year-on-year -32.40% +4.31% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Privileged 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 29,789 33,520 47,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.40% 85.51% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,650 21,482 32,791
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,662 1,872 1,553
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.92 £40.94 £39.60
% change year-on-year -44.02% +3.38% +84.19%

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 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Privileged Identity Management in the UK

Privileged Identity Management
Top 9 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 August 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 +26 29 £409 -32.40% 8
UK excluding London +3 15 £409 -32.40% 6
Work from Home +22 14 £406 -32.89% 3
London +5 14 £425 -29.17% 3
North of England -10 7 £406 -58.36% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £406 -
East of England - 5 £600 -
South East +12 2 £605 - 3
South West - 1 - -

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 11 (37.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (27.59%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (96.55%) Azure
2 27 (93.10%) Entra ID
3 20 (68.97%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Purview
4 8 (27.59%) SaaS
5 7 (24.14%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (24.14%) AWS
5 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (24.14%) Azure AKS
5 7 (24.14%) GCP
5 7 (24.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (20.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (20.69%) OneDrive
7 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (6.90%) Mimecast
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) VPN
2 2 (6.90%) DNS
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.90%) Internet
2 2 (6.90%) WAN
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) HTTP
3 1 (3.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Fiddler
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Business Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Design Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) IAM Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Identity Management Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) OAuth
2 10 (34.48%) OpenID
2 10 (34.48%) SAML
3 7 (24.14%) JSON
3 7 (24.14%) OAuth2
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (3.45%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) Identity Management
2 13 (44.83%) RBAC
3 12 (41.38%) GAP Analysis
3 12 (41.38%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (27.59%) Zero Trust
6 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (24.14%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (20.69%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (20.69%) Impact Analysis
7 6 (20.69%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (20.69%) Security Operations
8 5 (17.24%) Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 3 (10.34%) B2B
10 3 (10.34%) B2C
10 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (10.34%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) Bicep
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) VB
3 1 (3.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
2 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) GDPR
1 6 (20.69%) HIPAA
1 6 (20.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (20.69%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (89.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (37.93%) Terraform
2 10 (34.48%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.90%) NetBackup
6 1 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (3.45%) SCCM
6 1 (3.45%) SCOM
6 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (24.14%) Alibaba
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco
3 2 (6.90%) NetApp
3 2 (6.90%) Proofpoint
3 2 (6.90%) Pure Storage
3 2 (6.90%) Veritas
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
4 1 (3.45%) Okta