Digital Identity Contracts

Digital Identity
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Digital Identity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Digital Identity over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 674 822
Rank change year-on-year +126 +148 -142
Contract jobs citing Digital Identity 31 27 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.047% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.053% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 21
10th Percentile - £209 £500
25th Percentile £625 £383 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.58% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £719 £588 £700
90th Percentile £753 £594 £963
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Digital Identity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Digital Identity
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Digital Identity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Identity.

Daily rate trend for Digital Identity in the UK

Digital Identity
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Identity within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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 +123 29 £675 +42.11% 17
UK excluding London +73 28 £650 +18.18% 13
South West +25 26 £650 +13.04% 2
Work from Home +110 2 - - 7
London +84 2 £750 +114.29% 5
Scotland +43 2 - - 1

Digital Identity
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (12.90%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
General
1 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.23%) Banking
2 1 (3.23%) Finance
2 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (87.10%) Architect
2 25 (80.65%) Lead
2 25 (80.65%) Lead Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Security Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (3.23%) Identity Management Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Operational Security Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) OpenID
1 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
2 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (90.32%) Identity Access Management
2 25 (80.65%) Project Management
2 25 (80.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (77.42%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (12.90%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Security
5 3 (9.68%) Data Security
5 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.45%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (6.45%) Incident Response
6 2 (6.45%) Programme Delivery
6 2 (6.45%) SDLC
6 2 (6.45%) Security Operations
6 2 (6.45%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (6.45%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (3.23%) Secrets Management
7 1 (3.23%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 26 (83.87%) Security Cleared
2 25 (80.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CISM
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (80.65%) JSP 440
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.45%) NCSC
3 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
2 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
2 1 (3.23%) Ping Identity