Identity Access Management Job Trends in the North West

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 196 174
Rank change year-on-year +38 -22 +116
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 21 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.34% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.19% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 10
10th Percentile - - £42,225
25th Percentile £32,500 £62,500 £61,215
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £65,000 £67,762
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% -4.08% +17.22%
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,500 £91,154
90th Percentile £62,500 - £96,539
England median annual salary £70,000 £82,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.15% +13.79% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,116 4,694 3,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.01% 90.27% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,462 2,311 2,675
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,320 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
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 West

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the North West over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in the North West

Identity Access Management
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +31 20 £53,500 -17.69% 10
Cheshire - 1 - - 1
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (61.90%) SharePoint
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) JBoss
3 1 (4.76%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
1 15 (71.43%) Entra ID
2 13 (61.90%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (61.90%) Microsoft Purview
3 11 (52.38%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (38.10%) OneDrive
4 8 (38.10%) Power Platform
4 8 (38.10%) SaaS
5 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (9.52%) AWS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.76%) Subversion
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (61.90%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (38.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Applications Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Applications Support
2 5 (23.81%) Applications Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Support
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Applications Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) CyberArk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
1 2 (9.52%) React
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) CSS3
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
2 1 (4.76%) HTML5
2 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (23.81%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Incident Response
4 10 (47.62%) Observability
5 8 (38.10%) AI
5 8 (38.10%) BPR
5 8 (38.10%) Change Management
5 8 (38.10%) Cost Optimisation
5 8 (38.10%) Data Loss Prevention
5 8 (38.10%) E-Discovery
5 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (38.10%) Proactive Monitoring
5 8 (38.10%) RBAC
5 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (38.10%) User Experience
6 5 (23.81%) Client Onboarding
6 5 (23.81%) Knowledge Management
6 5 (23.81%) Task Automation
7 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) Bicep
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 9 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.76%) Nagios
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (42.86%) New Relic
2 9 (42.86%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat