Identity Access Management Job Trends in South Wales

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Identity Access Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.26% - 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £56,250 - -
25th Percentile £58,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £71,649
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.41%
75th Percentile £68,125 - £110,825
90th Percentile £70,750 - £134,330
Wales median annual salary £62,500 - £71,649
% change year-on-year - - +60.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 524 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 75.19% 83.17% 90.24%
Number of salaries quoted 403 266 428
10th Percentile £24,977 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £39,820
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,375 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,149 £79,600 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Identity Access Management job vacancy trend in South Wales

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Identity Access Management

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in South Wales over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in South Wales

Identity Access Management
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 13 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
Cardiff - 2 £62,500 - 3
Identity Access Management
Wales

Identity Access Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Security Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft