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 21 January 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 525 605
Rank change year-on-year -42 +80 +146
Contract jobs citing NetIQ 16 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.003% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.092% 0.007% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 5
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £503 £605 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £630 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £725 £655 £950
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 - £900
% change year-on-year - - +53.19%

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 17,309 14,431 19,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.94% 45.84% 44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 8,535 12,047
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 811 425 806
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.93 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -21.43% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -28.57% +34.62%

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

NetIQ
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 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NetIQ in the UK

NetIQ
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

NetIQ
Top 6 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 21 January 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 -51 13 £595 -5.56% 1
UK excluding London - 10 £700 - 1
South East - 8 £700 - 1
Work from Home - 5 £600 -
London -23 2 £595 -5.56%
South West - 2 £450 -

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 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) HTTP
1 5 (31.25%) SSL
1 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Looker
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Governance Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Identity and Access Management Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Management Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) SailPoint
2 2 (12.50%) LDAP
2 2 (12.50%) OAuth
2 2 (12.50%) OpenID
2 2 (12.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 8 (50.00%) RBAC
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
5 2 (12.50%) Behavioural Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Information Security
5 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (43.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) Degree
4 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
1 4 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 4 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
1 5 (31.25%) NDS
1 5 (31.25%) NetIQ eDirectory
2 2 (12.50%) UAG
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Forefront Identity Manager
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 5 (31.25%) NetIQ Identity Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) OpenText
3 2 (12.50%) CyberArk
3 2 (12.50%) ForgeRock
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Micro Focus
3 2 (12.50%) Okta
3 2 (12.50%) VMware