Identity Access Management Contracts in the North of England

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 122 132 158
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +37
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 44 53 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.34% 1.11% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.30% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 38
10th Percentile £400 £406 £403
25th Percentile £445 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £614 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +9.07% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £750 £672
90th Percentile £675 £837 £723
England median daily rate £600 £600 £625
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate - £23.80 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -63.94% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the North of England

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the North of England

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the North of England

Identity Access Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the North of England

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +14 25 £525 -19.23% 70
Yorkshire +2 18 £450 -21.74% 63
North East 0 1 £430 -28.33% 18
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (6.82%) Confluence
1 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
3 7 (15.91%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
4 6 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.82%) Lucidchart
7 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.27%) Akamai
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.27%) GCP
8 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Kerberos
2 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) HTTPS
3 2 (4.55%) SMTP
4 1 (2.27%) DNS
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.27%) Power BI
2 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 29 (65.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Legal
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Aviation
5 2 (4.55%) Fire and Rescue
5 2 (4.55%) Police
5 2 (4.55%) Swedish Language
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Architect
2 9 (20.45%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) Security Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Integration Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.82%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) SailPoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) OAuth
2 11 (25.00%) OpenID
3 9 (20.45%) SAML
4 8 (18.18%) OAuth2
5 5 (11.36%) Kafka
6 4 (9.09%) SailPoint
6 4 (9.09%) SOAP
7 3 (6.82%) JDBC
7 3 (6.82%) LDAP
7 3 (6.82%) REST
8 1 (2.27%) CSS
8 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.27%) HTML
8 1 (2.27%) React
8 1 (2.27%) RESTful
8 1 (2.27%) SPFx
8 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.82%) PKI
2 3 (6.82%) Taxonomies
3 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Robotics
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.27%) CMDB
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Android
4 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Identity Management
2 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (22.73%) RBAC
4 9 (20.45%) Analytics
4 9 (20.45%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (15.91%) Privileged Access Management
5 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (13.64%) Agile
6 6 (13.64%) Information Security
6 6 (13.64%) Migration
6 6 (13.64%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 5 (11.36%) Business Analysis
7 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.36%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.36%) Data Protection
7 5 (11.36%) Data Security
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.36%) Privileged Identity Management
7 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
7 5 (11.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) Java
2 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.82%) VBA
4 2 (4.55%) Python
5 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) SQL
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) VB
5 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) CISSP
3 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) CISM
4 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) CISA
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) MCP
5 1 (2.27%) MCSA
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) NCSC
3 2 (4.55%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.27%) GRC
4 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.27%) Docker
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.36%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
3 3 (6.82%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Ping Identity
3 3 (6.82%) ForgeRock
3 3 (6.82%) VMware
4 2 (4.55%) Okta
4 2 (4.55%) Ribbon
4 2 (4.55%) Tenable
5 1 (2.27%) Centrify
5 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.27%) F5
5 1 (2.27%) Google
5 1 (2.27%) McAfee
5 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.27%) Symantec
5 1 (2.27%) Thycotic