Forefront Identity Manager Contracts

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (Microsoft FIM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Forefront Identity Manager skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Forefront Identity Manager 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 517 580 703
Rank change year-on-year +63 +123 +141
Contract jobs citing Forefront Identity Manager 3 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.005% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.065% 0.039% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile £463 £613 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £445
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +40.45% -6.32%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £446
90th Percentile - - £446
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £445
% change year-on-year - - -6.32%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Forefront Identity Manager falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Forefront Identity Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Forefront Identity Manager as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Forefront Identity Manager in the UK

Forefront Identity Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Forefront Identity Manager.

Daily rate trend for Forefront Identity Manager in the UK

Forefront Identity Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Forefront Identity Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Forefront Identity Manager in the UK

Forefront Identity Manager
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Forefront Identity Manager within the UK 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
England +58 3 £475 -24.00% 1
London +39 3 £475 -24.00%
Work from Home +41 1 - - 2

Forefront Identity Manager
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Skype for Business
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Skype
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Messaging Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) BYOD
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) VMware