Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 42 44
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 18 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.74% 1.90% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 2.21% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 0
10th Percentile £340 £620 -
25th Percentile £413 £665 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £726 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.02% - -
75th Percentile £492 £788 -
90th Percentile £570 - -
North West median daily rate £462 £725 £486
% change year-on-year -36.28% +49.18% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
North West median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 593 452 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.12% 85.77% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 280 195
10th Percentile £302 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £634
North West median daily rate £454 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +59.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in Cheshire

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Identity Access Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Identity Access Management

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 20 September 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 -15 12 £453 -38.78% 1
Macclesfield - 1 £375 - 1
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 7 (38.89%) Apache
1 7 (38.89%) IIS
1 7 (38.89%) iPlanet
1 7 (38.89%) JBoss
1 7 (38.89%) WebSphere
1 7 (38.89%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
1 8 (44.44%) OpenShift
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) Kerberos
2 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (5.56%) Internet
3 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Bitbucket Server
1 7 (38.89%) CA Release Automation
1 7 (38.89%) Git
1 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
1 7 (38.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Solution Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) OAuth
1 10 (55.56%) OpenID
2 7 (38.89%) LDAP
2 7 (38.89%) SAML
3 3 (16.67%) JDBC
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth2
3 3 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
1 3 (16.67%) Taxonomies
2 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.56%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
1 7 (38.89%) Unix
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 4 (22.22%) Identity Management
3 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) API Integration
4 3 (16.67%) Coaching
4 3 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Open Source
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Groovy
1 7 (38.89%) Shell Script
2 4 (22.22%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA CyberOps
2 1 (5.56%) CCSA
2 1 (5.56%) CCSE
2 1 (5.56%) Check Point Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CISSP
2 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (38.89%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) CA Single Sign-On
1 7 (38.89%) CA Wily
1 7 (38.89%) Progress Chef
1 7 (38.89%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (38.89%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) AppDynamics
2 7 (38.89%) Broadcom
2 7 (38.89%) IBM
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) Splunk
3 3 (16.67%) ForgeRock
3 3 (16.67%) Ping Identity
4 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler