Identity Access Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Identity Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Access 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 133 174 157
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 +140
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 192 180 417
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.94% 1.17% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.34% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 137 247
10th Percentile £406 £429 £463
25th Percentile £481 £500 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -1.60% +6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £704
90th Percentile £691 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £614 £625
% change year-on-year -2.20% -1.84% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -63.94% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Identity Access 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Identity Access Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Identity Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Identity Access Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Identity Access Management.

Identity Access Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Identity Access Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Identity Access Management.

Identity Access Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.56%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.52%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 76 (39.58%) Azure
2 54 (28.13%) Entra ID
3 29 (15.10%) AWS
4 17 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.29%) GCP
6 9 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.69%) SaaS
6 9 (4.69%) Serverless
7 8 (4.17%) IaaS
7 8 (4.17%) PaaS
8 7 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (3.13%) GitHub
9 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (2.60%) Azure AKS
10 5 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (2.08%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.38%) Network Security
2 8 (4.17%) Firewall
3 5 (2.60%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (2.08%) VPN
5 3 (1.56%) DNS
5 3 (1.56%) Internet
5 3 (1.56%) NAS
5 3 (1.56%) SSL
6 2 (1.04%) DHCP
6 2 (1.04%) Skype
6 2 (1.04%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.52%) HTTP
7 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.52%) VSAN
7 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.17%) Power BI
2 5 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.56%) Parquet
3 3 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.52%) DocumentDB
5 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.56%) GitLab
2 3 (1.56%) JIRA
2 3 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Snyk
4 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 70 (36.46%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.52%) Finance
3 27 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.90%) Banking
5 13 (6.77%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.08%) Aviation
7 4 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.04%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.04%) French Language
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Police
9 2 (1.04%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (22.92%) Architect
2 41 (21.35%) Senior
3 28 (14.58%) Analyst
4 15 (7.81%) Consultant
5 14 (7.29%) Security Architect
6 12 (6.25%) Developer
6 12 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Business Analyst
9 9 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
10 8 (4.17%) IAM Specialist
10 8 (4.17%) Lead
10 8 (4.17%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) Senior Architect
11 7 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Security Manager
11 7 (3.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.54%) OAuth
2 25 (13.02%) SAML
3 23 (11.98%) SailPoint
4 19 (9.90%) OpenID
5 16 (8.33%) LDAP
6 10 (5.21%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.60%) SOAP
7 5 (2.60%) XACML
8 4 (2.08%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.08%) JDBC
8 4 (2.08%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.56%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.56%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (1.56%) JSON
9 3 (1.56%) Kafka
10 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.04%) REST
10 2 (1.04%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 14 (7.29%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.77%) Cloud Native
3 13 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.77%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.73%) PKI
4 11 (5.73%) Private Cloud
5 10 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.69%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.08%) Taxonomies
10 3 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.56%) Reinsurance
10 3 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (1.04%) BYOD
11 2 (1.04%) Insider Threat
11 2 (1.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.94%) Windows
2 14 (7.29%) Linux
3 11 (5.73%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.65%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (19.79%) RBAC
3 36 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 31 (16.15%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (14.06%) Identity Management
5 27 (14.06%) Migration
6 23 (11.98%) DevOps
6 23 (11.98%) Privileged Access Management
7 22 (11.46%) Agile
7 22 (11.46%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (9.90%) Information Security
10 16 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.29%) Data Loss Prevention
11 14 (7.29%) Mentoring
11 14 (7.29%) Security Architecture
12 13 (6.77%) Risk Management
12 13 (6.77%) Security Operations
12 13 (6.77%) SIEM
12 13 (6.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.88%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.98%) Python
3 18 (9.38%) SQL
4 12 (6.25%) Java
5 6 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.60%) Bicep
7 3 (1.56%) VBA
8 2 (1.04%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.52%) Bash
9 1 (0.52%) C
9 1 (0.52%) Groovy
9 1 (0.52%) PHP
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 22 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.85%) CISSP
4 15 (7.81%) Degree
5 9 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.17%) CISM
6 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.08%) CCSP
8 4 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.08%) GCIH
9 3 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.04%) CRISC
10 2 (1.04%) OSCP
10 2 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.58%) NIST
2 23 (11.98%) GDPR
3 21 (10.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 19 (9.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (5.73%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.65%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.65%) SOC 2
7 6 (3.13%) GRC
8 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
9 2 (1.04%) PMO
9 2 (1.04%) SLA
10 1 (0.52%) COBIT
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.52%) ITGC
10 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (32.29%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.21%) Docker
3 6 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.04%) RACF
6 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (16.15%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (11.98%) Ansible
3 16 (8.33%) Terraform
4 13 (6.77%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.60%) OPNET
6 4 (2.08%) Grafana
7 3 (1.56%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.04%) SCCM
9 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.52%) Automic
9 1 (0.52%) CASB
9 1 (0.52%) Istio
9 1 (0.52%) Nessus
9 1 (0.52%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 58 (30.21%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.46%) CyberArk
3 21 (10.94%) Okta
4 9 (4.69%) Oracle
4 9 (4.69%) Ping Identity
5 8 (4.17%) ForgeRock
5 8 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.13%) VMware
7 4 (2.08%) Google
8 3 (1.56%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.56%) Cisco
8 3 (1.56%) SAP
8 3 (1.56%) Splunk
9 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.04%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.04%) Ribbon
9 2 (1.04%) Tenable
10 1 (0.52%) Centrify