Identity Management Contracts

Identity Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Identity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Identity 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 351 350 477
Rank change year-on-year -1 +127 -13
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 236 378 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.67% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.75% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 238 301
10th Percentile £417 £453 £413
25th Percentile £517 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% +6.36% +6.80%
75th Percentile £676 £679 £650
90th Percentile £746 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £588 £500
% change year-on-year +2.98% +17.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £52.75
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year - +16.18% -15.44%
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.75
% change year-on-year - +6.46% -2.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Identity 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Identity 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 -7 192 £605 +0.83% 81
UK excluding London -4 133 £605 +2.98% 48
Work from Home +40 108 £605 +10.00% 45
London +29 73 £585 -2.50% 27
South East -11 29 £605 +0.75% 13
Midlands +29 23 £625 -5.66% 11
North of England -9 21 £620 +14.81% 16
South West +15 20 £670 -4.29% 4
East of England +6 19 £595 +3.48% 4
North West +22 18 £623 +9.45% 11
Scotland +25 12 £575 +12.20% 1
East Midlands +20 10 £622 - 4
West Midlands +9 10 £625 -5.66% 7
Wales +25 9 £700 - 1
Yorkshire -14 3 £300 -44.44% 4

Identity 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 43 (18.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.66%) Confluence
4 3 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Apache
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
5 2 (0.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 96 (40.68%) Azure
2 53 (22.46%) Entra ID
3 45 (19.07%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (13.98%) AWS
5 25 (10.59%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (8.47%) Azure Storage
7 13 (5.51%) GCP
8 11 (4.66%) Power Platform
9 10 (4.24%) IaaS
10 9 (3.81%) PaaS
11 8 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.12%) GitHub
13 5 (2.12%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.12%) SaaS
14 4 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (1.69%) PowerApps
15 3 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 44 (18.64%) Firewall
2 28 (11.86%) DNS
3 20 (8.47%) DHCP
4 15 (6.36%) VPN
5 6 (2.54%) Kerberos
5 6 (2.54%) Network Security
6 3 (1.27%) WAN
7 2 (0.85%) DKIM
7 2 (0.85%) DMARC
7 2 (0.85%) Internet
7 2 (0.85%) MPLS
7 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.42%) FTP
8 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.08%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.81%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.85%) DB2
5 2 (0.85%) MySQL
5 2 (0.85%) Power BI
6 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.42%) Big Data
6 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.42%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 14 (5.93%) JIRA
2 7 (2.97%) GitLab
3 4 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.85%) Git
5 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.42%) Gradle
5 1 (0.42%) JUnit
5 1 (0.42%) Maven
5 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.42%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 63 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.83%) Finance
3 30 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.51%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.51%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.39%) Banking
7 7 (2.97%) Electronics
7 7 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.97%) Marketing
8 5 (2.12%) Automotive
9 4 (1.69%) Legal
10 2 (0.85%) French Language
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Retail
11 1 (0.42%) Danish Language
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) German Language
11 1 (0.42%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (22.03%) Architect
2 27 (11.44%) Consultant
3 23 (9.75%) Active Directory Support
4 17 (7.20%) Active Directory Specialist
4 17 (7.20%) Support Specialist
5 16 (6.78%) Developer
5 16 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (6.36%) Analyst
6 15 (6.36%) Azure Specialist
6 15 (6.36%) Senior
7 12 (5.08%) ForgeRock Architect
8 10 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.24%) IAM Consultant
8 10 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (3.81%) Active Directory Engineer
9 9 (3.81%) Administrator
9 9 (3.81%) Exchange Engineer
9 9 (3.81%) Identity Management Consultant
9 9 (3.81%) Security Architect
9 9 (3.81%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.10%) OAuth
2 37 (15.68%) SAML
3 33 (13.98%) OpenID
4 24 (10.17%) ARM Templates
4 24 (10.17%) HTML
5 20 (8.47%) LDAP
6 19 (8.05%) React
7 16 (6.78%) CSS
8 12 (5.08%) SailPoint
9 10 (4.24%) Middleware
10 8 (3.39%) HTML5
10 8 (3.39%) Web Services
10 8 (3.39%) XML
11 6 (2.54%) REST
12 5 (2.12%) JSON
12 5 (2.12%) SOAP
13 4 (1.69%) .NET
13 4 (1.69%) Kafka
14 3 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (1.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.02%) PKI
2 21 (8.90%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.12%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.69%) IoT
8 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.27%) CMDB
8 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.00%) Windows
2 47 (19.92%) Linux
3 34 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (8.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (7.20%) Unix
7 14 (5.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (2.97%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.42%) Android
10 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
10 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (31.78%) Agile
2 63 (26.69%) DevOps
3 61 (25.85%) Identity Access Management
4 54 (22.88%) CI/CD
5 48 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.25%) Analytics
7 35 (14.83%) Migration
8 31 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (13.14%) ITIL
8 31 (13.14%) Roadmaps
9 29 (12.29%) RBAC
10 28 (11.86%) Service Management
11 27 (11.44%) Privileged Identity Management
12 25 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (10.17%) Log Analytics
13 24 (10.17%) Software Engineering
14 22 (9.32%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 22 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (8.90%) Release Management
16 20 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.03%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.68%) SQL
3 32 (13.56%) Java
4 24 (10.17%) C#
5 23 (9.75%) Bicep
6 20 (8.47%) VB
6 20 (8.47%) VBScript
7 15 (6.36%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.81%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.97%) Python
10 4 (1.69%) Scala
11 3 (1.27%) Go
12 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.42%) DataFlex
13 1 (0.42%) Perl
13 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 70 (29.66%) Security Cleared
2 64 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 46 (19.49%) Degree
4 24 (10.17%) DV Cleared
5 20 (8.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.24%) CISSP
8 5 (2.12%) CISM
9 4 (1.69%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.85%) CAPM
11 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.85%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.85%) SANS
12 1 (0.42%) CISA
12 1 (0.42%) PMP
12 1 (0.42%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.39%) QA
3 7 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.54%) GDPR
4 6 (2.54%) NIST
5 4 (1.69%) NCSC
6 2 (0.85%) COBIT
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) GRC
6 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.85%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 91 (38.56%) Active Directory
2 26 (11.02%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (9.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.54%) Docker
5 5 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.42%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 36 (15.25%) Single Sign-On
2 34 (14.41%) Kubernetes
3 32 (13.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 26 (11.02%) SCCM
5 24 (10.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (8.90%) WSUS
7 20 (8.47%) SCOM
8 14 (5.93%) Terraform
9 9 (3.81%) PingFederate
10 7 (2.97%) Ansible
11 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.85%) CASB
12 2 (0.85%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 2 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.85%) SCOrch
13 1 (0.42%) Consul
13 1 (0.42%) HP SIM
13 1 (0.42%) Oracle Identity Management
13 1 (0.42%) SCDPM
13 1 (0.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 99 (41.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.32%) CyberArk
3 19 (8.05%) Oracle
4 13 (5.51%) ForgeRock
5 12 (5.08%) Okta
6 11 (4.66%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.81%) Citrix
7 9 (3.81%) Ping Identity
7 9 (3.81%) SAP
8 8 (3.39%) Google
9 7 (2.97%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.54%) VMware
11 3 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.27%) Workday
12 2 (0.85%) HP
12 2 (0.85%) Imperva
12 2 (0.85%) McAfee
12 2 (0.85%) Netskope
12 2 (0.85%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.85%) WALLIX