Identity Access Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 76 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +43
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 14 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.16% 0.47% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.53% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 15
10th Percentile £346 - £480
25th Percentile £436 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £678 £465 £609
90th Percentile £686 £561 £676
North West median daily rate £464 £533 £563
% change year-on-year -12.96% -5.33% +12.50%

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 1,083 950 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.73% 89.45% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 566 985
10th Percentile £309 £294 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £595
90th Percentile £650 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 36 49
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.42 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.82 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% +8.33% -21.36%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.56 £61.25
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.00 £75.90
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £30.95 £35.73
% change year-on-year +3.39% -13.37% +34.66%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Identity Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in Manchester

Identity Access Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) iPlanet
1 1 (7.14%) JBoss
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) SailPoint Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) GCP Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) SailPoint
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth
2 2 (14.29%) OpenID
2 2 (14.29%) SAML
3 1 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Mac OS
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 7 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (42.86%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Data Protection
3 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) Architectural Design
4 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Service Design
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) Zero Trust
5 3 (21.43%) Application Packaging
5 3 (21.43%) Business Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Information Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Release Management
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Bash
1 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Groovy
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
3 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (7.14%) CA Wily
4 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 1 (7.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Google
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Citrix
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) Broadcom
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk