Identity Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Identity Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Identity Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 78 86
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +23
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 8 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.52% 0.31% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.34% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 10
10th Percentile £546 - £525
25th Percentile £610 - £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £400 £594
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -32.63% +7.95%
75th Percentile £639 £575 £669
90th Percentile £650 £680 £858
North West median daily rate £630 £401 £600
% change year-on-year +57.18% -33.25% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Identity 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 1,309 886 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.44% 91.06% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 604 964
10th Percentile £301 £308 £313
25th Percentile £382 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £638 £679 £688
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 36 75
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.98 £12.44
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -30.67%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £73.13 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.86
% change year-on-year +40.63% +34.14% -36.39%

Identity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Identity Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Identity Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Identity Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Management in Manchester

Identity Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Identity 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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (37.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) IAM Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
1 4 (50.00%) Log Correlation
1 4 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Ticket Management
1 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 4 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CISSP
2 4 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (50.00%) MCSA
2 4 (50.00%) MCSE
3 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 1 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) CASB
1 4 (50.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) CyberArk
2 4 (50.00%) Remedy
2 4 (50.00%) Tenable
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Okta
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow