Identity Access Management Job Trends in the North of England

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 245 256
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +90
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 35 36 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.32% 0.40% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.44% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 21 12 23
10th Percentile £32,500 £51,325 £41,300
25th Percentile £46,750 £52,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,750 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +0.44% -18.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £73,125 £74,052
England median annual salary £70,000 £84,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.86% -2.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in the North of England

Identity Access Management
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +29 19 £53,500 -17.69% 22
North East +5 9 £90,000 +63.64% 1
Yorkshire -16 7 £48,000 -14.29% 29
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (31.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (14.29%) Confluence
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (2.86%) JBoss
4 1 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (45.71%) Entra ID
4 13 (37.14%) SaaS
5 11 (31.43%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (25.71%) AWS
6 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
7 8 (22.86%) OneDrive
8 7 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (11.43%) Azure AKS
11 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (5.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (5.71%) Azure Storage
12 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (5.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) Network Security
1 2 (5.71%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.57%) Finance
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Head of IT
3 4 (11.43%) Head of IT Security
3 4 (11.43%) Head of Security
4 3 (8.57%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Applications Support
4 3 (8.57%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Systems Support
4 3 (8.57%) Systems Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
1 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.71%) OAuth
1 2 (5.71%) React
1 2 (5.71%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) CSS3
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) HTML5
2 1 (2.86%) JWT
2 1 (2.86%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.86%) OpenID
2 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.43%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Incident Response
2 17 (48.57%) DevOps
3 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (40.00%) Observability
6 13 (37.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (34.29%) Cost Optimisation
8 11 (31.43%) Agile
8 11 (31.43%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (28.57%) RBAC
10 8 (22.86%) AI
10 8 (22.86%) BPR
10 8 (22.86%) Change Management
10 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
10 8 (22.86%) Data Loss Prevention
10 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (22.86%) E-Discovery
10 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (22.86%) Proactive Monitoring
10 8 (22.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 8 (22.86%) Bicep
3 7 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) C#
6 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 4 (11.43%) Master's Degree
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) CISM
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.86%) GRC
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (25.71%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.86%) Nagios
5 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Splunk
3 9 (25.71%) New Relic
4 5 (14.29%) Atlassian
5 3 (8.57%) Forcepoint
5 3 (8.57%) Proofpoint
5 3 (8.57%) Zscaler
6 2 (5.71%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (2.86%) Centrify
7 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.86%) Thycotic