Identity Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Identity Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 229 240 302
Rank change year-on-year +11 +62 +107
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 75 105 179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.68% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.78% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 74 121
10th Percentile £400 £504 £413
25th Percentile £438 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £644 £652 £700
90th Percentile £730 £727 £750
UK median daily rate £566 £610 £585
% change year-on-year -7.17% +4.27% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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 Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Identity 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 Management.

Identity Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Identity Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Identity 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 Management.

Identity Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Identity 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 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (14.67%) SharePoint
3 5 (6.67%) nginx
3 5 (6.67%) Traefik
4 1 (1.33%) CMS
4 1 (1.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 41 (54.67%) Azure
3 18 (24.00%) AWS
4 16 (21.33%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (10.67%) OneDrive
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (9.33%) AWS Fargate
6 7 (9.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (6.67%) Mimecast
8 4 (5.33%) Asana
8 4 (5.33%) Azure API Management
8 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.33%) GCP
8 4 (5.33%) SaaS
8 4 (5.33%) Slack
9 3 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) DNS
2 7 (9.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.00%) Firewall
4 4 (5.33%) HTTPS
4 4 (5.33%) VPN
5 3 (4.00%) Network Security
6 2 (2.67%) Internet
6 2 (2.67%) Kerberos
6 2 (2.67%) VoIP
6 2 (2.67%) WAN
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.33%) DHCP
7 1 (1.33%) HTTP
7 1 (1.33%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.33%) Skype
7 1 (1.33%) Softphone
7 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.33%) VSAN
7 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.67%) Power BI
2 2 (2.67%) RDBMS
2 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (1.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (10.67%) GitLab
1 8 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.33%) JIRA
General
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Finance
3 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.67%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 15 (20.00%) Architect
2 14 (18.67%) Senior
3 9 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 8 (10.67%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) IAM Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Consultant
6 6 (8.00%) Lead
6 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
7 5 (6.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) AWS Specialist
8 4 (5.33%) IT Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) IT Support
8 4 (5.33%) Senior Applications Support
8 4 (5.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) OAuth
2 10 (13.33%) OpenID
3 8 (10.67%) Kafka
3 8 (10.67%) SAML
4 7 (9.33%) cloud-init
4 7 (9.33%) Keycloak
4 7 (9.33%) SailPoint
5 5 (6.67%) Middleware
5 5 (6.67%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.33%) JDBC
6 4 (5.33%) SOAP
7 2 (2.67%) Web Services
8 1 (1.33%) .NET
8 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.33%) JWT
8 1 (1.33%) LDAP
8 1 (1.33%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) PKI
2 11 (14.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.33%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.33%) BYOD
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Linux
2 15 (20.00%) Windows
3 10 (13.33%) Unix
4 7 (9.33%) CentOS
4 7 (9.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.33%) Android
5 4 (5.33%) Apple iOS
6 3 (4.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.00%) Identity Access Management
2 20 (26.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (24.00%) RBAC
4 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.67%) DevOps
5 16 (21.33%) Cloud Security
6 14 (18.67%) Privileged Identity Management
7 12 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (16.00%) Migration
8 11 (14.67%) Agile
9 10 (13.33%) B2C
10 9 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (12.00%) ITIL
11 8 (10.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (10.67%) Secrets Management
12 7 (9.33%) Cost Optimisation
12 7 (9.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 7 (9.33%) Observability
12 7 (9.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
1 12 (16.00%) Python
2 7 (9.33%) Bash
2 7 (9.33%) Go
3 6 (8.00%) Java
4 5 (6.67%) SQL
5 4 (5.33%) Bicep
5 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.33%) C
6 1 (1.33%) C#
6 1 (1.33%) Scala
6 1 (1.33%) VB
6 1 (1.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.33%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.33%) Degree
6 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) CEH
8 1 (1.33%) CISM
8 1 (1.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) GCIA
8 1 (1.33%) GCIH
8 1 (1.33%) GIAC
8 1 (1.33%) GSEC
8 1 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) GDPR
1 7 (9.33%) NCSC
2 5 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 4 (5.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.67%) NIST
5 2 (2.67%) QA
6 1 (1.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (42.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.00%) Docker
3 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (21.33%) Terraform
2 14 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (17.33%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (10.67%) Grafana
5 8 (10.67%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.33%) Consul
6 7 (9.33%) Istio
6 7 (9.33%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (9.33%) linkerd
6 7 (9.33%) Packer
6 7 (9.33%) Rancher
6 7 (9.33%) ZABBIX
7 5 (6.67%) HAProxy
8 4 (5.33%) SCCM
9 2 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.67%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.67%) QRadar
10 1 (1.33%) Automic
10 1 (1.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 29 (38.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) Okta
3 9 (12.00%) Splunk
4 8 (10.67%) Ping Identity
5 6 (8.00%) VMware
6 5 (6.67%) Apple
6 5 (6.67%) ESET
6 5 (6.67%) ForgeRock
7 4 (5.33%) Oracle
8 3 (4.00%) Cisco
8 3 (4.00%) Google
8 3 (4.00%) NetApp
8 3 (4.00%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.67%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.67%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.67%) Databricks
9 2 (2.67%) LogRhythm
9 2 (2.67%) Proofpoint
9 2 (2.67%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow