Identity Access Management Contracts in the North West

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 95 109 133
Rank change year-on-year +14 +24 +29
Contract jobs citing Identity Access Management 25 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.27% 1.02% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.18% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 14
10th Percentile £451 £432 £454
25th Percentile £492 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £750 £659
90th Percentile £743 £906 £775
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the North West

Identity Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Access Management in the North West

Identity Access Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Identity Access Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Identity Access Management in the North West

Identity Access Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +12 9 £525 -30.00% 38
Lancashire +8 8 £625 -3.85% 12
Cheshire -3 7 £492 +0.05% 18
Merseyside +4 1 £450 - 7
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Akamai
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Integration Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) OAuth
2 7 (28.00%) OAuth2
2 7 (28.00%) OpenID
3 5 (20.00%) Kafka
4 4 (16.00%) SAML
4 4 (16.00%) SOAP
5 3 (12.00%) JDBC
5 3 (12.00%) SailPoint
6 1 (4.00%) CSS
6 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.00%) HTML
6 1 (4.00%) React
6 1 (4.00%) REST
6 1 (4.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) SPFx
6 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
1 3 (12.00%) Taxonomies
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Analytics
1 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (28.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (24.00%) Identity Management
4 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.00%) Data Security
4 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (20.00%) RBAC
4 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (16.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.00%) Digital Twin
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Java
1 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.00%) VB
3 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) MCP
3 1 (4.00%) MCSA
3 1 (4.00%) MCSE
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.00%) GRC
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (4.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Ping Identity
3 3 (12.00%) ForgeRock
3 3 (12.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) McAfee
4 1 (4.00%) Okta
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Symantec