IAM Specialist Contracts

Identity and Access Management Specialist (IAM Specialist)
UK

The median Identity and Access Management Specialist (IAM Specialist) daily rate in the UK is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 669 825
Rank change year-on-year +99 +156 -108
Contract jobs requiring an IAM Specialist 9 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.027% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.028% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 12
10th Percentile £477 £325 £510
25th Percentile £610 £469 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £578
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.23% +15.85%
75th Percentile - £650 £638
90th Percentile £730 £663 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £558
% change year-on-year - -10.31% +11.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IAM Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IAM Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IAM Specialist in the UK

IAM Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IAM Specialist.

Daily rate trend for IAM Specialist in the UK

IAM Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IAM Specialist over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IAM Specialist in the UK

IAM Specialist
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 IAM Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +98 9 £700 +69.70% 4
London +104 7 £700 +47.37% 1
Work from Home +103 2 £540 -13.60% 1
UK excluding London +47 1 - - 3
North of England +29 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

IAM Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, IAM Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IAM Specialist in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Legal
3 4 (44.44%) Ping Identity
3 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
4 3 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (22.22%) CISM
5 2 (22.22%) CISSP
5 2 (22.22%) Information Security
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) SailPoint
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
6 1 (11.11%) Coaching
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared

IAM Specialist Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Legal
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SailPoint
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (11.11%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISM
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Ping Identity
2 1 (11.11%) Ariba
2 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (11.11%) Concur
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Thycotic