Identity Access Management Contracts

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Identity Access Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 203 304
Rank change year-on-year +12 +101 -17
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 544 781 799
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.31% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.46% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 489 528
10th Percentile £413 £462 £437
25th Percentile £500 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £633 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
10th Percentile - £61.50 £41.50
25th Percentile - £63.75 £43.75
Median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +22.22% +8.00%
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year - -10.81% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Identity Access Management 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 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Identity Access Management within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +21 427 £600 -4.00% 134
UK excluding London +51 224 £633 +10.00% 71
London +8 222 £573 -11.92% 65
Work from Home -26 181 £615 -1.60% 58
North of England +20 53 £614 +9.07% 5
South East -3 49 £575 - 41
South West +21 48 £700 +6.06% 6
Scotland +45 32 £650 +45.74% 6
Midlands +35 31 £635 +10.43% 8
North West +28 28 £650 +18.18%
Yorkshire +10 24 £575 +4.55% 5
West Midlands +27 19 £650 +6.12% 3
East Midlands +29 10 £622 +24.40% 5
Northern Ireland +13 5 £650 -
Wales +11 5 £700 +21.74%
East of England +6 4 £605 -21.94% 6
North East +20 1 £600 -14.29%

Identity Access Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 21 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.94%) Confluence
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.92%) IIS
4 5 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.18%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (1.84%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.29%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 167 (30.70%) Azure
2 110 (20.22%) Entra ID
3 100 (18.38%) AWS
4 43 (7.90%) GCP
5 32 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (4.41%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.68%) GitHub
8 19 (3.49%) PaaS
9 17 (3.13%) SaaS
9 17 (3.13%) Serverless
10 16 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.57%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (2.57%) IaaS
13 13 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.21%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.02%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (2.02%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.40%) Firewall
2 58 (10.66%) Network Security
3 28 (5.15%) DNS
4 21 (3.86%) WAN
5 19 (3.49%) VPN
6 13 (2.39%) SD-WAN
7 11 (2.02%) LAN
8 10 (1.84%) DHCP
8 10 (1.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 10 (1.84%) Kerberos
9 8 (1.47%) HTTPS
9 8 (1.47%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.29%) SSL
10 7 (1.29%) Wireless
11 6 (1.10%) HTTP
11 6 (1.10%) SMTP
12 5 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.31%) Power BI
2 17 (3.13%) BigQuery
3 15 (2.76%) Data Lake
4 11 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.92%) Metadata
7 5 (0.92%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.92%) OLAP
7 5 (0.92%) OLTP
7 5 (0.92%) Oracle Database
7 5 (0.92%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (0.74%) MySQL
9 3 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.37%) Data Mart
10 2 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (5.33%) JIRA
2 10 (1.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.10%) Maven
3 6 (1.10%) Robot Framework
3 6 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.92%) Git
5 4 (0.74%) GitLab
6 3 (0.55%) gulp
7 2 (0.37%) JUnit
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 149 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 109 (20.04%) Finance
3 61 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 56 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (9.01%) Banking
6 11 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (2.02%) Retail
7 8 (1.47%) Financial Institution
7 8 (1.47%) Legal
8 7 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.29%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.74%) Law
11 3 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.55%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.55%) Marketing
11 3 (0.55%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 151 (27.76%) Architect
2 71 (13.05%) Consultant
3 51 (9.38%) Analyst
3 51 (9.38%) Lead
4 40 (7.35%) Security Architect
5 35 (6.43%) Senior
6 30 (5.51%) Lead Architect
7 29 (5.33%) Security Consultant
8 27 (4.96%) Project Manager
9 23 (4.23%) Developer
9 23 (4.23%) Security Analyst
10 22 (4.04%) IAM Consultant
10 22 (4.04%) Security Engineer
10 22 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
11 19 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 15 (2.76%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.57%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (2.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 13 (2.39%) Identity Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (15.63%) OAuth
2 81 (14.89%) SailPoint
3 73 (13.42%) SAML
4 68 (12.50%) OpenID
5 35 (6.43%) LDAP
6 19 (3.49%) RESTful
7 18 (3.31%) .NET
8 16 (2.94%) OAuth2
9 15 (2.76%) SOAP
10 14 (2.57%) REST
11 10 (1.84%) React
12 9 (1.65%) JSON
12 9 (1.65%) Node.js
12 9 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.65%) Web Services
13 7 (1.29%) .NET Core
13 7 (1.29%) Kafka
13 7 (1.29%) Spring
14 6 (1.10%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.10%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.93%) Management Information System
2 39 (7.17%) PKI
3 26 (4.78%) Security Posture
4 19 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 16 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 13 (2.39%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.65%) Operational Technology
9 8 (1.47%) Clustering
10 7 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.10%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.10%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) DataPower
12 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.92%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 53 (9.74%) Windows
2 25 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 18 (3.31%) Linux
4 14 (2.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (1.65%) Unix
6 7 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.10%) Android
7 6 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (25.37%) Cybersecurity
2 91 (16.73%) DevOps
3 81 (14.89%) Agile
3 81 (14.89%) Information Security
4 72 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (12.68%) Privileged Access Management
5 69 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
6 65 (11.95%) Cloud Security
7 60 (11.03%) Identity Management
8 58 (10.66%) Project Management
8 58 (10.66%) Risk Management
9 52 (9.56%) Migration
10 46 (8.46%) SIEM
11 43 (7.90%) Application Security
12 41 (7.54%) Roadmaps
13 40 (7.35%) Computer Science
14 36 (6.62%) CI/CD
14 36 (6.62%) Incident Response
14 36 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 34 (6.25%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 59 (10.85%) Python
2 42 (7.72%) PowerShell
3 30 (5.51%) SQL
4 24 (4.41%) Java
5 19 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 15 (2.76%) JavaScript
7 13 (2.39%) Bash
8 7 (1.29%) C#
9 3 (0.55%) Perl
10 2 (0.37%) Go
10 2 (0.37%) PHP
10 2 (0.37%) Ruby
11 1 (0.18%) ABAP
11 1 (0.18%) Bicep
11 1 (0.18%) Groovy
11 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 63 (11.58%) Degree
4 53 (9.74%) CISSP
5 32 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (4.78%) CISM
7 24 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (4.04%) Azure Certification
9 17 (3.13%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.39%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (1.84%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.47%) ISACA
13 8 (1.47%) PMP
14 7 (1.29%) CISA
15 6 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 6 (1.10%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.92%) APMP
17 4 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 43 (7.90%) NIST
2 32 (5.88%) QA
3 25 (4.60%) GDPR
3 25 (4.60%) JSP 440
4 16 (2.94%) COBIT
4 16 (2.94%) GRC
4 16 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 9 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.18%) ISA99
10 1 (0.18%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (21.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.57%) Docker
4 13 (2.39%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.47%) BitLocker
5 8 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.10%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.74%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.37%) XenApp
10 1 (0.18%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (10.48%) Single Sign-On
2 51 (9.38%) Terraform
3 21 (3.86%) Ansible
4 18 (3.31%) PingFederate
5 14 (2.57%) Kubernetes
6 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (1.47%) vCenter Server
8 6 (1.10%) vMotion
9 5 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.92%) SCCM
10 4 (0.74%) Oracle Identity Management
10 4 (0.74%) SCOM
11 3 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.55%) Nessus
11 3 (0.55%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.55%) SCVMM
12 2 (0.37%) Grafana
12 2 (0.37%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.37%) Puppet
12 2 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 166 (30.51%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.48%) CyberArk
3 31 (5.70%) Oracle
4 29 (5.33%) VMware
5 26 (4.78%) Ping Identity
6 23 (4.23%) ForgeRock
7 20 (3.68%) Google
8 17 (3.13%) Okta
8 17 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.57%) Cisco
10 10 (1.84%) Citrix
11 9 (1.65%) IBM
12 8 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
12 8 (1.47%) CheckPoint
12 8 (1.47%) NetIQ
12 8 (1.47%) WALLIX
13 7 (1.29%) F5
13 7 (1.29%) NEC
14 6 (1.10%) Infoblox
14 6 (1.10%) SAP