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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 179 155
Rank change year-on-year +44 -24 +136
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 193 176 416
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.15% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.31% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 133 248
10th Percentile £406 £426 £471
25th Percentile £480 £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 £706
90th Percentile £690 £750 £777
UK median daily rate £600 £612 £625
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.08% +7.76%
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 9,020 13,413 23,039
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.92% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,197 8,959 16,290
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% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 580 529
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.38 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

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 3 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 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.55%) Confluence
4 2 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.55%) 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 75 (38.86%) Azure
2 53 (27.46%) Entra ID
3 32 (16.58%) AWS
4 16 (8.29%) GCP
4 16 (8.29%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.66%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.66%) SaaS
5 9 (4.66%) Serverless
6 8 (4.15%) IaaS
6 8 (4.15%) PaaS
7 7 (3.63%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (3.11%) GitHub
9 5 (2.59%) Azure AKS
9 5 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.07%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.81%) Network Security
2 8 (4.15%) Firewall
3 5 (2.59%) HTTPS
4 4 (2.07%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (2.07%) VPN
5 3 (1.55%) DNS
5 3 (1.55%) Internet
5 3 (1.55%) NAS
5 3 (1.55%) 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 (4.15%) Power BI
2 5 (2.59%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.55%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.55%) Parquet
3 3 (1.55%) 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 (2.07%) GitLab
1 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.55%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (0.52%) Snyk
4 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 71 (36.79%) Social Skills
2 49 (25.39%) Finance
3 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.84%) Banking
5 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.07%) Aviation
7 4 (2.07%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.55%) Retail
9 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.04%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (1.04%) French Language
9 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
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 45 (23.32%) Architect
2 41 (21.24%) Senior
3 27 (13.99%) Analyst
4 15 (7.77%) Consultant
4 15 (7.77%) Security Architect
5 12 (6.22%) Technical Engineer
6 11 (5.70%) Cloud Architect
6 11 (5.70%) Developer
7 10 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (5.18%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 9 (4.66%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.66%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (4.15%) IAM Specialist
9 8 (4.15%) Lead
9 8 (4.15%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Senior Architect
10 7 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Security Manager
10 7 (3.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (14.51%) OAuth
2 26 (13.47%) SAML
3 23 (11.92%) SailPoint
4 21 (10.88%) OpenID
5 18 (9.33%) LDAP
6 10 (5.18%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.59%) SOAP
7 5 (2.59%) XACML
8 4 (2.07%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.07%) JDBC
8 4 (2.07%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.55%) 802.1X
9 3 (1.55%) AWS CDK
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (1.55%) JSON
9 3 (1.55%) Kafka
10 2 (1.04%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.04%) REST
10 2 (1.04%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.74%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.74%) Security Posture
3 12 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.22%) PKI
4 11 (5.70%) Private Cloud
5 10 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.66%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.15%) Data Centre
7 8 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.07%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.55%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.04%) BYOD
10 2 (1.04%) Insider Threat
10 2 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.88%) Windows
2 14 (7.25%) Linux
3 11 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.63%) 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 51 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (20.73%) RBAC
3 36 (18.65%) Cloud Security
4 30 (15.54%) Cybersecurity
5 27 (13.99%) Identity Management
5 27 (13.99%) Migration
6 23 (11.92%) Privileged Access Management
7 22 (11.40%) Agile
7 22 (11.40%) DevOps
7 22 (11.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (9.33%) Information Security
10 15 (7.77%) Security Architecture
10 15 (7.77%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (7.25%) DevSecOps
11 14 (7.25%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.74%) Data Loss Prevention
12 13 (6.74%) Incident Response
12 13 (6.74%) Knowledge Transfer
12 13 (6.74%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 42 (21.76%) PowerShell
2 23 (11.92%) Python
3 18 (9.33%) SQL
4 14 (7.25%) Java
5 6 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.59%) Bicep
7 3 (1.55%) 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 31 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (11.92%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.29%) CISSP
4 14 (7.25%) Degree
5 9 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.63%) CISM
8 5 (2.59%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (2.07%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.07%) CCSP
9 4 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.07%) GCIH
10 3 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.04%) CISA
11 2 (1.04%) CRISC
11 2 (1.04%) OSCP
11 2 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.51%) NIST
2 25 (12.95%) GDPR
3 21 (10.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 18 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (6.74%) HIPAA
6 7 (3.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.63%) SOC 2
7 6 (3.11%) GRC
8 3 (1.55%) 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%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.52%) ITGC
10 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (32.12%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.74%) Docker
3 6 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.59%) 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 (16.06%) Single Sign-On
2 23 (11.92%) Ansible
3 16 (8.29%) Terraform
4 14 (7.25%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (2.59%) OPNET
6 4 (2.07%) Grafana
7 3 (1.55%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.04%) SCCM
8 2 (1.04%) Tivoli Identity Manager
9 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.52%) Automic
9 1 (0.52%) Nessus
9 1 (0.52%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.52%) Puppet
9 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 59 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.40%) CyberArk
3 20 (10.36%) Okta
4 11 (5.70%) Ping Identity
5 9 (4.66%) Oracle
6 8 (4.15%) ForgeRock
6 8 (4.15%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.11%) VMware
8 4 (2.07%) Google
8 4 (2.07%) IBM
9 3 (1.55%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.55%) Cisco
9 3 (1.55%) SAP
9 3 (1.55%) Splunk
10 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.04%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.04%) Ribbon
10 2 (1.04%) Tenable
11 1 (0.52%) Intel