Identity Access Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Identity Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 430 244
Rank change year-on-year +1 -186 +325
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 146 369 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.52% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.62% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 94 164 191
10th Percentile £43,775 £36,250 £43,162
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £96,025 £91,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,887 59,718 56,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.92% 83.64% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,036 41,241 29,108
10th Percentile £26,902 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,810 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Identity Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK excluding London

Identity Access Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. 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
South East +60 45 £77,500 +6.90% 37
North of England +39 35 £65,000 +18.18% 29
South West +91 21 £60,000 - 18
East of England +51 19 £46,250 -38.33% 6
Yorkshire +59 17 £55,750 -1.33% 11
Midlands +34 17 £55,000 -7.17% 20
West Midlands +36 14 £55,000 - 10
North West -6 12 £65,000 +85.71% 16
Scotland -9 7 £62,500 +14.68% 17
North East +46 6 £57,500 +15.00% 2
East Midlands +13 3 - - 10
Wales +35 2 £53,750 - 5
Northern Ireland +39 1 - - 2
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 -
Identity Access Management
UK

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (15.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (6.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.37%) IIS
4 2 (1.37%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.37%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.71%) Azure
2 33 (22.60%) AWS
3 24 (16.44%) Entra ID
4 14 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (7.53%) SaaS
6 9 (6.16%) Serverless
7 8 (5.48%) GCP
7 8 (5.48%) GitHub
8 6 (4.11%) IaaS
9 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.42%) PaaS
10 4 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.05%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.68%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.68%) Cloud Functions
13 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.44%) Firewall
2 14 (9.59%) Network Security
3 11 (7.53%) VPN
4 9 (6.16%) DNS
5 7 (4.79%) DHCP
6 5 (3.42%) LAN
6 5 (3.42%) WAN
7 4 (2.74%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (2.74%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.74%) VLAN
7 4 (2.74%) Wireless
8 3 (2.05%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.37%) FCoE
9 2 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.37%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.37%) Multicast
9 2 (1.37%) NAS
9 2 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.68%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.74%) JIRA
3 2 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 33 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.01%) Finance
4 16 (10.96%) German Language
5 9 (6.16%) Legal
6 8 (5.48%) Retail
7 5 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.42%) Electronics
8 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Banking
9 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Advertising
10 2 (1.37%) Automotive
10 2 (1.37%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Publishing
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (21.23%) Architect
2 20 (13.70%) Senior
3 17 (11.64%) Security Specialist
4 16 (10.96%) Information Security Specialist
4 16 (10.96%) Information Specialist
5 14 (9.59%) Security Engineer
6 12 (8.22%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 10 (6.85%) Developer
8 8 (5.48%) Analyst
8 8 (5.48%) Consultant
8 8 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Active Directory Architect
9 7 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Lead
10 6 (4.11%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) IAM Specialist
10 6 (4.11%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.07%) SailPoint
2 14 (9.59%) REST
3 11 (7.53%) Node.js
4 10 (6.85%) OAuth
5 9 (6.16%) .NET
6 6 (4.11%) OpenID
6 6 (4.11%) Web Services
7 5 (3.42%) LDAP
7 5 (3.42%) OAuth2
7 5 (3.42%) SAML
8 4 (2.74%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.74%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.74%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.74%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.74%) SOAP
9 3 (2.05%) JSON
10 2 (1.37%) JDBC
10 2 (1.37%) JWT
10 2 (1.37%) Keycloak
10 2 (1.37%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.44%) Management Information System
2 17 (11.64%) Virtual Team
3 8 (5.48%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.11%) PKI
5 5 (3.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.74%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.74%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.05%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.81%) Windows
2 12 (8.22%) Windows Server
3 10 (6.85%) Linux
4 8 (5.48%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.42%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.74%) Android
7 3 (2.05%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.37%) Solaris
9 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.29%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (21.92%) Information Security
3 29 (19.86%) Risk Management
4 26 (17.81%) Agile
5 25 (17.12%) Identity Management
6 23 (15.75%) Mentoring
6 23 (15.75%) Software Engineering
7 22 (15.07%) Cloud Security
8 21 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.01%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (12.33%) SIEM
11 16 (10.96%) Risk Assessment
12 13 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (8.22%) ITIL
14 11 (7.53%) CI/CD
14 11 (7.53%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.53%) Incident Management
14 11 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.97%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.33%) Python
3 12 (8.22%) Java
4 11 (7.53%) SQL
4 11 (7.53%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.85%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.42%) C#
7 4 (2.74%) C++
7 4 (2.74%) Perl
7 4 (2.74%) PHP
8 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) VB
9 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.86%) Degree
3 19 (13.01%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.96%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.16%) CISSP
7 8 (5.48%) CISM
8 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.74%) GIAC
10 4 (2.74%) SANS
11 3 (2.05%) MCSE
12 2 (1.37%) CCSP
12 2 (1.37%) CEH
12 2 (1.37%) CISA
12 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.37%) ISSAP
12 2 (1.37%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (12.33%) NIST
3 16 (10.96%) GDPR
4 6 (4.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (4.11%) NCSC
5 4 (2.74%) GRC
5 4 (2.74%) SOC 2
6 3 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.37%) COBIT
7 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.37%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.37%) SLA
8 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 60 (41.10%) Active Directory
2 18 (12.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.11%) Docker
4 4 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.05%) BitLocker
6 2 (1.37%) KVM
6 2 (1.37%) NFS
6 2 (1.37%) SRDF
6 2 (1.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (1.37%) Xen
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.68%) NDS
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (14.38%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (9.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 8 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (4.11%) Ansible
4 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.74%) Terraform
6 3 (2.05%) SCCM
7 2 (1.37%) Argo
7 2 (1.37%) Graylog
7 2 (1.37%) PingFederate
7 2 (1.37%) Puppet
7 2 (1.37%) QRadar
8 1 (0.68%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.81%) Okta
3 19 (13.01%) VMware
4 16 (10.96%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.16%) Cisco
5 9 (6.16%) Google
6 8 (5.48%) Ping Identity
7 5 (3.42%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.74%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (2.74%) ForgeRock
8 4 (2.74%) Splunk
9 2 (1.37%) Acronis
9 2 (1.37%) Apple
9 2 (1.37%) EMC
9 2 (1.37%) F5
9 2 (1.37%) HP
9 2 (1.37%) Meraki
9 2 (1.37%) NetApp
9 2 (1.37%) Samsung
9 2 (1.37%) ServiceNow