Privileged Access Management Job Trends in the North West

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 192 235
Rank change year-on-year +1 +43 +63
Permanent jobs citing Privileged Access Management 3 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.040% 0.088% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.095% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,446 - £60,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 - £65,524
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.34%
75th Percentile £73,222 - £70,262
90th Percentile £86,889 - -
England median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +17.86% -3.45% +9.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Privileged 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 5,818 4,223 5,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 77.81% 93.24% 85.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,089 2,110 4,683
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Privileged Access Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Privileged Access Management
Salary Trend in the North West

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

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

Privileged Access Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Privileged Access Management in the North West over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Privileged Access Management in the North West

Privileged 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 Privileged Access Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Lancashire - 2 £48,445 -
Manchester +2 1 £94,000 - 4
Privileged Access Management
England

Privileged 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Coaching
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) RBAC
1 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Okta