Privileged Access Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 118 127
Rank change year-on-year -32 +9 +42
Contract jobs citing Privileged Access Management 3 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.11% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.49% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile £325 £500 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £502 £581
Median % change year-on-year -30.28% -13.63% -3.13%
75th Percentile £375 £531 £598
90th Percentile - £580 £600
England median daily rate £576 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -3.96% -4.00% +9.84%

All Process & 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 2,399 1,846 2,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 88.96% 86.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 1,105 1,613
10th Percentile £220 £265 £306
25th Percentile £358 £378 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £567 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 104 222
10th Percentile £16.37 £18.04 £12.52
25th Percentile £22.72 £23.36 £15.76
Median hourly rate £42.84 £31.64 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.41% +11.80% -24.53%
75th Percentile £62.94 £56.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.98 £79.66 £53.75
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Privileged Access Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Privileged Access Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Privileged Access Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Privileged Access Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Privileged Access Management

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 20 February 2026. 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 -22 3 £350 -30.28% 4
Privileged Access Management
England

Privileged Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) IAM Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Okta
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk