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

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 361 491
Rank change year-on-year +5 +130 -67
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 236 367 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.64% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.72% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 246 282
10th Percentile £421 £450 £413
25th Percentile £525 £501 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.14% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £645
90th Percentile £775 £738 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £563 £500
% change year-on-year +7.56% +12.50% +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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 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 16 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 +20 191 £605 +2.98% 64
UK excluding London +9 129 £605 +7.56% 33
Work from Home +53 107 £605 +10.00% 32
London +47 74 £600 - 28
South East -5 28 £605 +0.83% 13
North of England -1 24 £620 +14.81% 7
Midlands +28 20 £625 +4.17% 8
North West +17 19 £623 +13.18% 5
East of England +9 19 £595 +3.48% 1
South West +14 18 £670 +3.08% 1
Scotland +22 11 £575 +9.52% 3
East Midlands +20 10 £622 +3.67% 2
Wales +25 9 £700 - 1
West Midlands +18 8 £625 +4.17% 6
Yorkshire -10 5 £300 -44.44% 2

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 38 (16.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 11 (4.66%) Confluence
4 3 (1.27%) Apache
4 3 (1.27%) IIS
4 3 (1.27%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.02%) Azure
2 43 (18.22%) Entra ID
3 42 (17.80%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (13.56%) AWS
5 20 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (7.20%) Azure Storage
7 13 (5.51%) Power Platform
8 12 (5.08%) IaaS
9 11 (4.66%) GCP
10 10 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
10 10 (4.24%) PaaS
11 6 (2.54%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.54%) PowerApps
11 6 (2.54%) SaaS
12 5 (2.12%) GitHub
13 4 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (17.37%) Firewall
2 25 (10.59%) DNS
3 17 (7.20%) DHCP
4 15 (6.36%) VPN
5 7 (2.97%) Kerberos
6 6 (2.54%) Network Security
7 4 (1.69%) MPLS
8 2 (0.85%) DKIM
8 2 (0.85%) DMARC
9 1 (0.42%) Internet
9 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.42%) LAN
9 1 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
9 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 8 (3.39%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.12%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.27%) DB2
7 2 (0.85%) Metadata
7 2 (0.85%) MySQL
7 2 (0.85%) Power BI
7 2 (0.85%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.42%) Big Data
8 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 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 60 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.25%) Finance
3 30 (12.71%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.51%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.66%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.39%) Banking
8 7 (2.97%) Electronics
8 7 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.97%) Marketing
9 4 (1.69%) Automotive
9 4 (1.69%) French Language
10 3 (1.27%) Legal
11 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) Danish Language
12 1 (0.42%) German Language
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (21.19%) Architect
2 27 (11.44%) Consultant
3 20 (8.47%) Active Directory Support
4 17 (7.20%) Active Directory Specialist
4 17 (7.20%) Developer
4 17 (7.20%) Support Specialist
5 16 (6.78%) Senior
6 15 (6.36%) Analyst
6 15 (6.36%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.08%) ForgeRock Architect
9 11 (4.66%) Administrator
9 11 (4.66%) SharePoint Administrator
10 10 (4.24%) IAM Consultant
11 9 (3.81%) Exchange Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) Full Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) Identity Management Consultant
12 8 (3.39%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.39%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.68%) OAuth
2 35 (14.83%) SAML
3 32 (13.56%) OpenID
4 25 (10.59%) HTML
5 23 (9.75%) LDAP
6 19 (8.05%) ARM Templates
6 19 (8.05%) React
7 18 (7.63%) CSS
8 15 (6.36%) SailPoint
9 10 (4.24%) XML
10 9 (3.81%) Middleware
10 9 (3.81%) Web Services
11 7 (2.97%) HTML5
11 7 (2.97%) REST
12 6 (2.54%) JSON
12 6 (2.54%) SOAP
13 5 (2.12%) .NET
14 4 (1.69%) Kafka
14 4 (1.69%) Servlets
15 3 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.75%) PKI
2 19 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.81%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (2.97%) Security Posture
5 7 (2.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 6 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.12%) CMDB
7 5 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.85%) IoT
9 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.42%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 54 (22.88%) Windows
2 41 (17.37%) Linux
3 29 (12.29%) Windows Server
4 18 (7.63%) Unix
4 18 (7.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (7.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.97%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.85%) Android
8 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.42%) VMS
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (28.81%) Agile
2 60 (25.42%) Identity Access Management
3 56 (23.73%) DevOps
4 52 (22.03%) CI/CD
5 45 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (14.83%) Migration
7 30 (12.71%) Analytics
8 29 (12.29%) Cybersecurity
8 29 (12.29%) Roadmaps
9 28 (11.86%) ITIL
10 26 (11.02%) RBAC
10 26 (11.02%) Service Management
11 25 (10.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (10.17%) Software Engineering
13 23 (9.75%) Privileged Identity Management
14 22 (9.32%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
15 20 (8.47%) Log Analytics
15 20 (8.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
16 18 (7.63%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.19%) PowerShell
2 37 (15.68%) SQL
3 33 (13.98%) Java
4 21 (8.90%) C#
5 19 (8.05%) Bicep
6 17 (7.20%) VB
6 17 (7.20%) VBScript
7 15 (6.36%) TypeScript
8 11 (4.66%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.97%) Python
10 4 (1.69%) Scala
11 3 (1.27%) Go
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) DataFlex
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) Perl
12 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 66 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 43 (18.22%) Degree
4 21 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (5.08%) CISSP
7 10 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.54%) CISM
9 4 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.27%) CAPM
10 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.42%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (3.39%) QA
2 7 (2.97%) NIST
3 5 (2.12%) GDPR
3 5 (2.12%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.27%) GRC
5 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) COBIT
6 1 (0.42%) GxP
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (33.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.12%) Docker
6 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.42%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 36 (15.25%) Single Sign-On
2 29 (12.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (12.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (8.90%) SCCM
5 17 (7.20%) SCOM
5 17 (7.20%) WSUS
6 11 (4.66%) PingFederate
6 11 (4.66%) Terraform
7 6 (2.54%) Ansible
8 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.85%) Forefront Identity Manager
9 2 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) Consul
10 1 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 89 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.02%) CyberArk
3 17 (7.20%) Oracle
4 14 (5.93%) Okta
5 13 (5.51%) ForgeRock
6 11 (4.66%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.66%) Ping Identity
7 10 (4.24%) SAP
8 9 (3.81%) Citrix
9 8 (3.39%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.97%) Google
10 7 (2.97%) VMware
11 4 (1.69%) WALLIX
12 2 (0.85%) McAfee
12 2 (0.85%) Sophos
12 2 (0.85%) Workday
13 1 (0.42%) Ariba
13 1 (0.42%) BMC
13 1 (0.42%) HP
13 1 (0.42%) New Relic