NetIQ Contract Job Trends

NetIQ
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of NetIQ products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NetIQ over the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the NetIQ Corporation.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 520 576
Rank change year-on-year -88 +56 +134
Contract jobs citing NetIQ 13 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.003% 0.021%
As % of the Vendors category 0.066% 0.007% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile £599 - £615
25th Percentile £675 £605 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.08% +10.64%
75th Percentile £725 £655 £813
90th Percentile - - £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +10.64%

All Vendors
UK

NetIQ falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,700 13,950 18,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.59% 47.38% 42.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,604 8,784 11,562
10th Percentile £313 £295 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -0.87% -1.33%
75th Percentile £600 £616 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 986 538 1,082
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.99 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.97 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +24.29% -47.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.83 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £24.66 £21.46
% change year-on-year +7.46% +14.91% -44.26%

NetIQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NetIQ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

NetIQ job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetIQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetIQ

NetIQ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NetIQ over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetIQ in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetIQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NetIQ

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Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetIQ within the UK over the 6 months to 20 April 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
England -110 12 £700 +11.11%
UK excluding London - 10 £700 -
South East - 10 £700 -
London -49 2 £595 -5.56%
Work from Home - 2 £600 -

NetIQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) HTTP
1 1 (7.69%) SSL
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Governance Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (92.31%) SailPoint
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
2 2 (15.38%) OAuth
2 2 (15.38%) OpenID
2 2 (15.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Identity Access Management
2 11 (84.62%) RBAC
3 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 10 (76.92%) DevOps
3 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security
4 2 (15.38%) Password Management
4 2 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (7.69%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) NDS
2 1 (7.69%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 10 (76.92%) NetIQ Identity Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) CyberArk
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) OpenText
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle