Identity Management Contracts in the North West

Identity Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Identity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Identity 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 111 119 119
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +43
Contract jobs citing Identity Management 9 18 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.65% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.76% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 32
10th Percentile £400 £528 £473
25th Percentile £400 £568 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £620 £681
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -8.99% +26.74%
75th Percentile £492 £675 £700
90th Percentile £569 £914 -
England median daily rate £575 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -4.96% +0.83% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Identity Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Identity 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 Management in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Identity Management in the North West

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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 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
Cheshire +3 5 £484 -22.02% 4
Manchester +8 3 £400 -33.33% 5
Merseyside +4 1 £450 - 1
Identity Management
England

Identity 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 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) OneDrive
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) JDBC
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth
1 3 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 3 (33.33%) OpenID
1 3 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) cloud-init
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 3 (33.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) CentOS
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) API Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Coaching
3 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 3 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Go
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (11.11%) Consul
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Istio
3 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) linkerd
3 1 (11.11%) Packer
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) ForgeRock
2 3 (33.33%) Ping Identity
3 1 (11.11%) Okta
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk