Identity Access Management Contracts in Manchester

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 70 82 101
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +36
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 9 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.97% 0.92% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.06% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile £400 £463 £458
25th Percentile £441 £663 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile - £829 £747
90th Percentile £530 £930 £776
North West median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
North West median hourly rate - - £66.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in Manchester

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) OAuth
1 4 (44.44%) OAuth2
1 4 (44.44%) OpenID
1 4 (44.44%) SAML
2 2 (22.22%) SailPoint
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
3 4 (44.44%) Architectural Design
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (44.44%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Digital Twin
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) RBAC
3 4 (44.44%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (22.22%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Google