Identity Management Job Trends in the South West

Identity Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Identity 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 172 178 160
Rank change year-on-year +6 -18 +98
Permanent jobs citing Identity Management 5 11 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.098% 0.27% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 27
10th Percentile £41,750 - £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £25,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £40,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.64% -37.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,500 - £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +11.54% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Identity 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Identity Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Identity Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Identity Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Identity Management

Identity Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Identity Management in the South West

Identity Management
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Identity Management within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +23 2 £68,750 +25.00%
Devon -1 1 £72,500 +173.58% 2
Dorset - 1 £32,500 -
Wiltshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Identity Management
England

Identity Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Information Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) CentOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) SABSA
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CEH
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) KVM
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SAP