Privileged Access Management Contracts in the North West

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Privileged Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 136 162
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 +9
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 13 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £591 £358 -
25th Percentile £597 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £788 £609
90th Percentile £649 £908 £626
England median daily rate £625 £620 £600
% change year-on-year +0.81% +3.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Privileged 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 1,774 2,370 2,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.37% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,513 2,045
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 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 246 142
10th Percentile £16.03 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.56 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% -38.41% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.51 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Privileged Access Management in the North West

Privileged Access Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Privileged Access Management in the North West

Privileged 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 Privileged Access Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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 +21 7 £625 +40.85% 4
Lancashire +3 1 £600 -38.46% 2
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
Privileged Access Management
England

Privileged 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 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
3 4 (30.77%) Google Workspace
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Security Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (46.15%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
2 5 (38.46%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) User Experience
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) RBAC
2 5 (38.46%) Vulnerability Management
3 4 (30.77%) Release Management
4 3 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Architectural Design
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Information Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Service Design
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (7.69%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Release Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) VB
2 1 (7.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) MCP
2 1 (7.69%) MCSA
2 1 (7.69%) MCSE
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) BitLocker
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (38.46%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) CyberArk
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
3 4 (30.77%) Citrix
3 4 (30.77%) Google
3 4 (30.77%) Zscaler
4 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.69%) Imperva
4 1 (7.69%) McAfee
4 1 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (7.69%) Symantec
4 1 (7.69%) Thycotic
4 1 (7.69%) Virgin Media
4 1 (7.69%) VMware