Identity Access Management Job Trends in the South East

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 251 250 259
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +61
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 19 56 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.62% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.71% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13 32 16
10th Percentile £43,800 £47,500 -
25th Percentile - £49,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £83,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.27% +19.64% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £73,000 - £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £84,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +15.86% -2.03%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,324 7,915 7,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.21% 88.16% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,975 3,773 5,421
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 South East

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Identity Access Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in the South East

Identity Access Management
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley 0 7 £77,500 +24.00% 5
Berkshire -14 5 - - 5
East Sussex - 5 £45,000 -
Hampshire +5 3 £45,000 -47.06% 8
West Sussex - 2 £71,250 -
Oxfordshire +16 1 £90,000 +44.00%
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £65,000 -
Surrey +2 1 - - 10
Identity Access Management
England

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.79%) IaaS
3 3 (15.79%) PaaS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.26%) GitHub
5 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) VPN
2 1 (5.26%) Broadband
2 1 (5.26%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) Power Query
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Games
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
1 5 (26.32%) Integration Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IAM Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) LDAP
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) RBAC
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) SIEM
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (10.53%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (10.53%) FinOps
7 2 (10.53%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
5 2 (10.53%) Bicep
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) CISSP
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) CISM
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CEH
3 1 (5.26%) CISA
3 1 (5.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) NIST
2 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.26%) GRC
4 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.26%) NCSC
4 1 (5.26%) NIST 800
4 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Talend
2 1 (5.26%) Thales