Privileged Identity Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 290 329 468
Rank change year-on-year +39 +139 +150
Contract jobs citing Privileged Identity Management 14 16 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.10% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.12% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 7
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile £400 £603 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +0.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £556 £608 £700
90th Percentile £629 - £800
UK median daily rate £450 £605 £538
% change year-on-year -25.62% +12.56% -4.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Privileged Identity Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Privileged 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 Privileged Identity Management.

Privileged Identity Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

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

Privileged 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
1 14 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (14.29%) Mimecast
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Support
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) IAM Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Management Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Identity Management
2 9 (64.29%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 7 (50.00%) RBAC
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Response
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) B2B
6 2 (14.29%) B2C
6 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 2 (14.29%) Resource Management
6 2 (14.29%) Security Auditing
6 2 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 2 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bicep
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) C
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) VB
2 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
3 1 (7.14%) SCOM
3 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 2 (14.29%) NetApp
3 2 (14.29%) Proofpoint
3 2 (14.29%) Pure Storage
3 2 (14.29%) Veritas
3 2 (14.29%) Zscaler