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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 363 498
Rank change year-on-year +15 +135 -51
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 235 371 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.65% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.72% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 245 284
10th Percentile £422 £450 £413
25th Percentile £523 £506 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £673 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £569 £500
% change year-on-year +6.37% +13.75% +2.56%
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
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% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +25 190 £605 +2.98% 73
UK excluding London 0 126 £605 +6.37% 40
Work from Home +45 107 £605 +10.00% 33
London +47 76 £600 - 34
South East +3 27 £605 +0.83% 14
North of England 0 22 £620 +14.81% 10
Midlands +19 20 £625 +4.17% 9
North West +15 19 £623 +13.18% 7
East of England +10 19 £595 +3.48% 2
South West +14 18 £670 -4.29% 2
Scotland +28 11 £575 +9.52% 3
East Midlands +24 10 £622 +3.67% 1
Wales +27 9 £700 - 1
West Midlands +13 8 £625 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire -9 3 £300 -44.44% 3

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 40 (17.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.68%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) IIS
4 3 (1.28%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.45%) Azure
2 45 (19.15%) Entra ID
3 42 (17.87%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (13.62%) AWS
5 20 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (7.23%) Azure Storage
7 12 (5.11%) IaaS
7 12 (5.11%) Power Platform
8 11 (4.68%) GCP
9 10 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (4.26%) PaaS
10 6 (2.55%) Mimecast
10 6 (2.55%) SaaS
11 5 (2.13%) GitHub
11 5 (2.13%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 42 (17.87%) Firewall
2 25 (10.64%) DNS
3 17 (7.23%) DHCP
4 15 (6.38%) VPN
5 7 (2.98%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.55%) Network Security
7 4 (1.70%) MPLS
8 3 (1.28%) Internet
8 3 (1.28%) WAN
9 2 (0.85%) DKIM
9 2 (0.85%) DMARC
9 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.43%) LAN
10 1 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
10 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.91%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.40%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.28%) DB2
7 2 (0.85%) MySQL
7 2 (0.85%) Power BI
7 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.43%) Big Data
8 1 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 14 (5.96%) JIRA
2 7 (2.98%) GitLab
3 4 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.85%) Git
5 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.43%) Gradle
5 1 (0.43%) JUnit
5 1 (0.43%) Maven
5 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.43%) TestNG
General
1 60 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 35 (14.89%) Finance
3 30 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.53%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.68%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.98%) Electronics
7 7 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.98%) Marketing
8 6 (2.55%) Banking
9 4 (1.70%) Automotive
9 4 (1.70%) French Language
10 3 (1.28%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Danish Language
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) German Language
12 1 (0.43%) Law
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.28%) Architect
2 28 (11.91%) Consultant
3 20 (8.51%) Active Directory Support
4 17 (7.23%) Active Directory Specialist
4 17 (7.23%) Developer
4 17 (7.23%) Support Specialist
5 16 (6.81%) Senior
6 15 (6.38%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (5.96%) Analyst
7 14 (5.96%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.11%) ForgeRock Architect
9 10 (4.26%) Administrator
9 10 (4.26%) IAM Consultant
9 10 (4.26%) SharePoint Administrator
10 9 (3.83%) Exchange Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Full Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Identity Management Consultant
10 9 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.40%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.40%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.74%) OAuth
2 35 (14.89%) SAML
3 32 (13.62%) OpenID
4 24 (10.21%) HTML
5 23 (9.79%) LDAP
6 19 (8.09%) ARM Templates
6 19 (8.09%) React
7 17 (7.23%) CSS
8 14 (5.96%) SailPoint
9 10 (4.26%) XML
10 9 (3.83%) Middleware
10 9 (3.83%) Web Services
11 7 (2.98%) HTML5
11 7 (2.98%) REST
12 6 (2.55%) JSON
12 6 (2.55%) SOAP
13 5 (2.13%) .NET
14 4 (1.70%) Kafka
14 4 (1.70%) Servlets
15 3 (1.28%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) PKI
2 19 (8.09%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 6 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.13%) CMDB
8 5 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.85%) IoT
12 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.83%) Windows
2 43 (18.30%) Linux
3 31 (13.19%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.66%) Unix
4 18 (7.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (7.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.98%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.85%) Android
8 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.43%) VMS
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.94%) Agile
2 60 (25.53%) Identity Access Management
3 56 (23.83%) DevOps
4 52 (22.13%) CI/CD
5 46 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (14.89%) Migration
7 30 (12.77%) Analytics
7 30 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (12.34%) Roadmaps
9 28 (11.91%) ITIL
10 26 (11.06%) RBAC
10 26 (11.06%) Service Management
11 25 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (10.21%) Software Engineering
13 23 (9.79%) Privileged Identity Management
14 22 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (8.51%) Full Stack Development
15 20 (8.51%) Log Analytics
15 20 (8.51%) Multi-Factor Authentication
16 18 (7.66%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (20.85%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.74%) SQL
3 33 (14.04%) Java
4 21 (8.94%) C#
5 19 (8.09%) Bicep
6 17 (7.23%) VB
6 17 (7.23%) VBScript
7 15 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.68%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.98%) Python
10 4 (1.70%) Scala
11 3 (1.28%) Go
12 1 (0.43%) Bash
12 1 (0.43%) DataFlex
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 43 (18.30%) Degree
4 21 (8.94%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (5.11%) CISSP
7 10 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.55%) CISM
9 4 (1.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.70%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.28%) CAPM
10 3 (1.28%) SANS
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.85%) PMP
12 1 (0.43%) CISA
12 1 (0.43%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.40%) QA
3 7 (2.98%) NIST
4 6 (2.55%) GDPR
4 6 (2.55%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.70%) NCSC
6 3 (1.28%) COBIT
6 3 (1.28%) GRC
7 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) GxP
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 81 (34.47%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (8.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.13%) Docker
6 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.43%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 38 (16.17%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (12.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (12.34%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.79%) SCCM
4 22 (9.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (7.23%) SCOM
5 17 (7.23%) WSUS
6 11 (4.68%) Terraform
7 10 (4.26%) PingFederate
8 6 (2.55%) Ansible
9 3 (1.28%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.85%) CASB
10 2 (0.85%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 2 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.85%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) Consul
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 92 (39.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.21%) CyberArk
3 17 (7.23%) Oracle
4 14 (5.96%) Okta
5 13 (5.53%) ForgeRock
6 11 (4.68%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.68%) Ping Identity
7 10 (4.26%) SAP
8 9 (3.83%) Citrix
8 9 (3.83%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.98%) Google
9 7 (2.98%) VMware
10 4 (1.70%) WALLIX
11 3 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.28%) Workday
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%) Sophos