Identity Access Management Contracts in Cheshire

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Identity Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 48 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 7 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 1.98% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 2.35% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile £474 £417 -
25th Percentile - £484 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £492 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +9.28% -18.18%
75th Percentile £496 £620 -
90th Percentile £513 £680 -
North West median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Identity Access Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in Cheshire

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in Cheshire

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -6 5 £492 +0.61% 3
Warrington -4 2 £525 -22.79% 7
Identity Access Management
North West

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTPS
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JDBC
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth2
1 3 (42.86%) OpenID
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
1 3 (42.86%) Taxonomies
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) API Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Entry
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) MCSA
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) BitLocker
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Ping Identity
2 3 (42.86%) ForgeRock
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec