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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 195 301
Rank change year-on-year +13 +106 -9
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 552 763 808
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.28% 1.36% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.52% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 477 527
10th Percentile £419 £475 £425
25th Percentile £500 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £613 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% +5.60% +6.23%
75th Percentile £712 £719 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile - £61.50 £48.30
25th Percentile - £63.75 £53.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £66.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.94% +4.76% +93.85%
75th Percentile - - £70.25
90th Percentile - - £73.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year - -10.81% +393.33%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +20 452 £600 -4.00% 149
London +12 233 £561 -13.77% 67
UK excluding London +37 229 £650 +13.04% 84
Work from Home -48 170 £600 - 58
South East +8 65 £665 +15.65% 22
North of England +10 54 £620 +18.10% 23
South West +20 50 £675 - 14
Midlands +34 35 £650 +16.33% 15
North West +23 30 £665 +33.20% 16
Scotland +45 23 £600 +29.73% 9
Yorkshire +3 23 £575 -2.13% 6
West Midlands +17 22 £650 +13.79% 10
East Midlands +18 10 £622 +23.17% 5
Wales +16 5 £700 +19.15%
Northern Ireland +1 4 £650 -
East of England +1 2 £493 -10.45% 3
North East +12 1 £600 -14.29% 1

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 29 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.90%) Confluence
4 10 (1.81%) IIS
5 6 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (5.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.27%) NEC Housing
2 7 (1.27%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Aareon QL
5 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 169 (30.62%) Azure
2 119 (21.56%) Entra ID
3 101 (18.30%) AWS
4 50 (9.06%) GCP
5 30 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.62%) PaaS
8 18 (3.26%) GitHub
9 17 (3.08%) SaaS
10 16 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (2.72%) IaaS
11 15 (2.72%) Serverless
12 14 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.36%) Power Automate
14 12 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.17%) Google Compute Engine
15 10 (1.81%) Amazon S3
15 10 (1.81%) Apigee
15 10 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.05%) Network Security
2 58 (10.51%) Firewall
3 23 (4.17%) DNS
4 21 (3.80%) VPN
4 21 (3.80%) WAN
5 15 (2.72%) Kerberos
5 15 (2.72%) SD-WAN
6 11 (1.99%) HTTPS
7 10 (1.81%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (1.81%) LAN
8 8 (1.45%) Wireless
9 7 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (1.09%) SSL
10 6 (1.09%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.91%) DHCP
11 5 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.72%) HTTP
12 4 (0.72%) Internet
12 4 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.26%) BigQuery
2 17 (3.08%) Power BI
3 15 (2.72%) Data Lake
4 12 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 8 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.27%) OLAP
6 7 (1.27%) OLTP
7 6 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.09%) Oracle OLAP
8 5 (0.91%) Metadata
8 5 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.72%) MySQL
10 3 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.36%) Tableau
12 1 (0.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.18%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 33 (5.98%) JIRA
2 12 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.99%) Git
4 8 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (1.27%) Robot Framework
6 6 (1.09%) Maven
7 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.54%) GitLab
8 3 (0.54%) gulp
8 3 (0.54%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.36%) JUnit
9 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 135 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 111 (20.11%) Finance
3 56 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 52 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (8.88%) Banking
6 11 (1.99%) Legal
6 11 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (1.81%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.81%) Retail
8 6 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.72%) Law
10 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.18%) Danish Language
13 1 (0.18%) Local Government
13 1 (0.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 141 (25.54%) Architect
2 81 (14.67%) Consultant
3 49 (8.88%) Analyst
4 46 (8.33%) Lead
5 40 (7.25%) Security Architect
5 40 (7.25%) Senior
6 36 (6.52%) Security Consultant
7 29 (5.25%) Lead Architect
8 27 (4.89%) Security Engineer
9 26 (4.71%) Project Manager
10 25 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (4.53%) IAM Consultant
11 23 (4.17%) Security Analyst
12 22 (3.99%) Developer
13 18 (3.26%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 17 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
16 14 (2.54%) Business Analyst
16 14 (2.54%) Security Manager
17 13 (2.36%) Identity Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (14.86%) OAuth
1 82 (14.86%) SailPoint
2 72 (13.04%) SAML
3 64 (11.59%) OpenID
4 35 (6.34%) LDAP
5 19 (3.44%) RESTful
6 18 (3.26%) .NET
7 16 (2.90%) OAuth2
7 16 (2.90%) REST
8 13 (2.36%) SOAP
8 13 (2.36%) Web Services
9 10 (1.81%) React
10 9 (1.63%) Node.js
10 9 (1.63%) Spring
11 8 (1.45%) JSON
11 8 (1.45%) Kafka
11 8 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (1.45%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.27%) .NET Core
12 7 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 45 (8.15%) PKI
3 25 (4.53%) Security Posture
4 17 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 16 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 13 (2.36%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.99%) Security Operations Centre
9 8 (1.45%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.27%) DataPower
10 7 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.27%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.09%) Clustering
11 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.09%) IoT
11 6 (1.09%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (9.42%) Windows
2 23 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 15 (2.72%) Linux
4 13 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (1.81%) Unix
6 7 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.54%) Android
9 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.36%) 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
1 131 (23.73%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (15.76%) DevOps
3 84 (15.22%) Agile
4 76 (13.77%) Information Security
4 76 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 75 (13.59%) Privileged Access Management
6 70 (12.68%) Cloud Security
7 66 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (11.05%) Identity Management
8 61 (11.05%) Risk Management
9 58 (10.51%) Project Management
10 53 (9.60%) Migration
11 47 (8.51%) Application Security
12 44 (7.97%) Roadmaps
13 42 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 39 (7.07%) SIEM
15 37 (6.70%) DevSecOps
16 35 (6.34%) Computer Science
17 33 (5.98%) CI/CD
18 32 (5.80%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 65 (11.78%) Python
2 44 (7.97%) PowerShell
3 32 (5.80%) SQL
4 30 (5.43%) Java
5 15 (2.72%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.36%) Bash
6 13 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (1.45%) C#
8 5 (0.91%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.54%) Go
9 3 (0.54%) Perl
9 3 (0.54%) PHP
9 3 (0.54%) Ruby
10 2 (0.36%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.36%) Bicep
11 1 (0.18%) ABAP
11 1 (0.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 131 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.51%) Degree
4 49 (8.88%) CISSP
5 26 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (4.35%) CISM
7 23 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.26%) Azure Certification
8 18 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.63%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.63%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (1.27%) CISA
11 7 (1.27%) ISACA
11 7 (1.27%) PMP
12 6 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (1.09%) OSCP
12 6 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 5 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.33%) NIST
2 42 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (6.16%) QA
4 25 (4.53%) GDPR
4 25 (4.53%) JSP 440
5 16 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 14 (2.54%) GRC
7 13 (2.36%) COBIT
8 9 (1.63%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
10 5 (0.91%) SLA
11 4 (0.72%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.54%) ISA99
12 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.36%) NCSC
13 2 (0.36%) RMADS
14 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 134 (24.28%) Active Directory
2 21 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (3.08%) Docker
4 13 (2.36%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.72%) Shibboleth
7 4 (0.72%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.36%) XenApp
9 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (11.41%) Single Sign-On
2 56 (10.14%) Terraform
3 22 (3.99%) Ansible
4 21 (3.80%) Kubernetes
5 19 (3.44%) PingFederate
6 10 (1.81%) NetIQ Identity Manager
7 8 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.09%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.91%) Oracle Identity Management
9 5 (0.91%) SCCM
10 4 (0.72%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.72%) SCOM
10 4 (0.72%) SCVMM
10 4 (0.72%) vMotion
11 3 (0.54%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.54%) Nessus
11 3 (0.54%) VxRail
12 2 (0.36%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 159 (28.80%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.41%) CyberArk
3 36 (6.52%) Oracle
4 27 (4.89%) VMware
5 24 (4.35%) ForgeRock
5 24 (4.35%) Ping Identity
6 19 (3.44%) Google
7 18 (3.26%) Okta
8 16 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 15 (2.72%) NetIQ
10 14 (2.54%) Cisco
11 11 (1.99%) IBM
12 10 (1.81%) CA
12 10 (1.81%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.81%) F5
13 8 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
14 7 (1.27%) Citrix
14 7 (1.27%) SAP
14 7 (1.27%) TSYS
14 7 (1.27%) Zscaler