Identity Access Management Job Trends in England

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 457 349
Rank change year-on-year +204 -108 -34
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 751 184 488
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.43% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.48% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 474 147 230
10th Percentile £46,000 £32,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,438 £90,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £73,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.44% +1.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Identity Access Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,488 38,338 53,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.64% 88.97% 82.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,556 21,844 28,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Identity Access Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in England

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Identity Access Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in England

Identity Access Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Identity Access Management within the England region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +128 344 £83,000 +0.61% 471
South East +87 173 £85,000 +9.68% 117
North of England +15 114 £57,000 +6.54% 101
North West +42 82 £60,000 +12.15% 57
East of England 0 47 £60,000 +84.62% 19
South West -44 37 £67,500 -22.86% 40
Midlands -20 31 £77,500 +31.91% 44
Yorkshire -14 24 £50,000 -16.67% 40
West Midlands -36 19 £82,500 +37.50% 23
East Midlands -24 12 £77,500 +55.78% 21
North East -77 8 £50,000 - 4
Identity Access Management
UK

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 55 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (6.39%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.93%) nginx
3 7 (0.93%) SAS
4 6 (0.80%) Confluence
5 5 (0.67%) Apache
5 5 (0.67%) JBoss
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.67%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 338 (45.01%) Azure
2 252 (33.56%) Entra ID
3 172 (22.90%) AWS
4 168 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (9.32%) GCP
6 67 (8.92%) SaaS
7 37 (4.93%) PaaS
8 33 (4.39%) Serverless
9 31 (4.13%) IaaS
10 27 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
11 26 (3.46%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.40%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (2.40%) GitHub
15 18 (2.40%) Microsoft Purview
16 17 (2.26%) Power Platform
17 16 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 95 (12.65%) Network Security
2 85 (11.32%) Firewall
3 59 (7.86%) VPN
4 50 (6.66%) DNS
5 30 (3.99%) DHCP
6 23 (3.06%) Kerberos
7 22 (2.93%) TCP/IP
8 19 (2.53%) SSL
9 10 (1.33%) BGP
10 9 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (1.07%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (1.07%) Wireless
12 6 (0.80%) VLAN
13 5 (0.67%) IPsec
13 5 (0.67%) NAS
13 5 (0.67%) WAN
14 4 (0.53%) DMARC
15 3 (0.40%) DKIM
15 3 (0.40%) Internet
15 3 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (0.93%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.67%) Metadata
5 4 (0.53%) Big Data
5 4 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (0.40%) Power BI
6 3 (0.40%) Redis
6 3 (0.40%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.27%) GIS
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (2.40%) JIRA
2 17 (2.26%) Git
3 14 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.46%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.80%) GitLab
7 5 (0.67%) Maven
7 5 (0.67%) Yeoman
8 4 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.53%) Subversion
9 2 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.27%) Gatling
9 2 (0.27%) git-flow
9 2 (0.27%) Selenium
10 1 (0.13%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.13%) JMeter
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 260 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 135 (17.98%) Finance
3 80 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.59%) Aerospace
6 47 (6.26%) Legal
7 42 (5.59%) Law
8 41 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 40 (5.33%) Banking
10 35 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (4.66%) Retail
11 19 (2.53%) Games
12 18 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.40%) Manufacturing
13 16 (2.13%) Back Office
14 12 (1.60%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.93%) Advertising
16 7 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.80%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 207 (27.56%) Architect
2 107 (14.25%) Consultant
3 94 (12.52%) Senior
4 83 (11.05%) Security Architect
5 59 (7.86%) Lead
6 56 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 48 (6.39%) IAM Consultant
8 42 (5.59%) Cloud Engineer
9 37 (4.93%) Analyst
10 33 (4.39%) Security Engineer
11 32 (4.26%) Support Engineer
12 29 (3.86%) Security Consultant
13 25 (3.33%) Azure Architect
13 25 (3.33%) Identity Management Architect
14 24 (3.20%) Senior Architect
15 23 (3.06%) Security Manager
16 21 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (2.66%) Microsoft Engineer
18 19 (2.53%) Senior Consultant
19 17 (2.26%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (11.45%) Terraform
2 59 (7.86%) OpenID
3 56 (7.46%) SAML
4 53 (7.06%) LDAP
5 52 (6.92%) OAuth
6 45 (5.99%) SailPoint
7 26 (3.46%) REST
8 16 (2.13%) AWS CDK
9 15 (2.00%) ARM Templates
10 14 (1.86%) ModSecurity
10 14 (1.86%) OAuth2
11 11 (1.46%) .NET
11 11 (1.46%) RESTful
12 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
13 9 (1.20%) Keycloak
14 8 (1.07%) React
15 7 (0.93%) LangGraph
16 6 (0.80%) LangChain
17 5 (0.67%) CSS
17 5 (0.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.92%) Security Posture
2 80 (10.65%) Cloud Native
3 68 (9.05%) Onboarding
4 57 (7.59%) Enterprise Software
5 53 (7.06%) Management Information System
6 31 (4.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (3.60%) PKI
8 23 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.93%) Enterprise Cloud
10 20 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.40%) Blog
11 18 (2.40%) Social Media
12 17 (2.26%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (2.26%) Data Centre
13 16 (2.13%) Product Ownership
14 13 (1.73%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.73%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.60%) Driving Licence
16 11 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
16 11 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 98 (13.05%) Windows
2 56 (7.46%) Linux
3 47 (6.26%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.73%) Mac OS
5 8 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (35.15%) Cybersecurity
2 181 (24.10%) Cloud Security
3 176 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 138 (18.38%) Security Architecture
5 133 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (17.71%) RBAC
6 128 (17.04%) Incident Response
7 122 (16.25%) Zero Trust
8 117 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 113 (15.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 105 (13.98%) AI
10 105 (13.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 101 (13.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 101 (13.45%) Roadmaps
12 94 (12.52%) Vulnerability Management
13 90 (11.98%) Data Protection
14 88 (11.72%) CI/CD
15 83 (11.05%) Information Security
16 82 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
16 82 (10.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 125 (16.64%) PowerShell
2 92 (12.25%) Python
3 57 (7.59%) Bash
4 34 (4.53%) SQL
5 30 (3.99%) Java
6 25 (3.33%) Bicep
7 16 (2.13%) Go
7 16 (2.13%) Ruby
8 14 (1.86%) Perl
8 14 (1.86%) PHP
9 7 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 7 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.80%) Rust
11 4 (0.53%) ABAP
12 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.27%) C#
13 2 (0.27%) Scala
13 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 201 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 162 (21.57%) CISSP
3 108 (14.38%) Degree
3 108 (14.38%) SC Cleared
4 102 (13.58%) CISM
5 61 (8.12%) DV Cleared
6 57 (7.59%) Azure Certification
7 51 (6.79%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (6.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (6.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 39 (5.19%) AWS Certification
10 36 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 35 (4.66%) CCSP
12 28 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.13%) CISA
16 12 (1.60%) CRISC
17 10 (1.33%) CEH
18 9 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (19.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 122 (16.25%) NIST
3 62 (8.26%) GDPR
4 43 (5.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 35 (4.66%) PCI DSS
6 32 (4.26%) GRC
6 32 (4.26%) SOC 2
7 30 (3.99%) NCSC
8 15 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 15 (2.00%) SLA
9 14 (1.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 12 (1.60%) NIST 800
11 9 (1.20%) COBIT
12 8 (1.07%) Data Quality
12 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.80%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.53%) Accessibility
14 4 (0.53%) QA
15 3 (0.40%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.40%) ISAE 3402
System Software
1 217 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 35 (4.66%) Docker
3 26 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 16 (2.13%) IAG
7 10 (1.33%) NDS
8 3 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (12.78%) Single Sign-On
2 72 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 51 (6.79%) Kubernetes
4 23 (3.06%) Ansible
5 18 (2.40%) Grafana
6 14 (1.86%) SCCM
7 11 (1.46%) CASB
8 10 (1.33%) Nagios
8 10 (1.33%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.07%) Puppet
11 7 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.80%) Cilium
13 5 (0.67%) McAfee ePO
14 3 (0.40%) Istio
14 3 (0.40%) Podman
15 2 (0.27%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.27%) HAProxy
16 1 (0.13%) Forefront Identity Manager
16 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 295 (39.28%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.99%) Okta
3 49 (6.52%) CyberArk
4 39 (5.19%) Google
5 36 (4.79%) SAP
6 30 (3.99%) VMware
7 28 (3.73%) ForgeRock
8 27 (3.60%) Cisco
9 20 (2.66%) Meraki
9 20 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.53%) Zscaler
11 16 (2.13%) Splunk
12 14 (1.86%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.73%) BeyondTrust
13 13 (1.73%) OpenText
14 10 (1.33%) Foundry
14 10 (1.33%) NetIQ
14 10 (1.33%) YouTube
15 9 (1.20%) Ping Identity
15 9 (1.20%) Thales