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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 409 236
Rank change year-on-year -35 -173 +327
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 139 405 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.56% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.68% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 88 169 188
10th Percentile £44,250 £35,000 £42,964
25th Percentile £52,375 £47,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -5.77%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £94,400 £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 36,156 59,884 56,282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.91% 83.47% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 17,178 41,267 29,022
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +63 41 £77,500 +6.90% 268
North of England +29 34 £65,000 +30.00% 195
South West +78 21 £60,000 -4.00% 103
East of England +43 19 £45,000 -40.00% 113
Yorkshire +57 16 £54,000 -4.42% 82
Midlands +20 15 £57,500 -2.95% 162
West Midlands +42 12 £57,500 +4.55% 80
North West -15 12 £65,000 +85.71% 93
Scotland -8 8 £62,500 +14.68% 51
North East +46 6 £57,500 +15.00% 20
East Midlands +18 3 - - 72
Wales +38 2 £53,750 - 23
Northern Ireland +38 1 - - 10
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 22 (15.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.19%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) Confluence
4 2 (1.44%) IIS
4 2 (1.44%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.44%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.44%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 35 (25.18%) Azure
2 34 (24.46%) AWS
3 24 (17.27%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.91%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (7.19%) Serverless
6 9 (6.47%) SaaS
7 8 (5.76%) GCP
8 7 (5.04%) GitHub
9 5 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.60%) IaaS
9 5 (3.60%) PaaS
10 4 (2.88%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.44%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.44%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.83%) Firewall
2 14 (10.07%) Network Security
3 13 (9.35%) VPN
4 10 (7.19%) DNS
5 7 (5.04%) DHCP
6 5 (3.60%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (3.60%) LAN
6 5 (3.60%) WAN
7 4 (2.88%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.88%) VLAN
8 3 (2.16%) Wireless
9 2 (1.44%) FCoE
9 2 (1.44%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (1.44%) HTTPS
9 2 (1.44%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.44%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.44%) Multicast
9 2 (1.44%) NAS
9 2 (1.44%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.32%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Jenkins
1 4 (2.88%) JIRA
2 2 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.72%) Git
General
1 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (13.67%) Finance
3 15 (10.79%) German Language
4 9 (6.47%) Legal
5 8 (5.76%) Retail
6 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.60%) Electronics
6 5 (3.60%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.88%) Banking
7 4 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Law
8 3 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.44%) Advertising
9 2 (1.44%) Automotive
10 1 (0.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (20.14%) Architect
2 20 (14.39%) Senior
3 16 (11.51%) Security Specialist
4 15 (10.79%) Information Security Specialist
4 15 (10.79%) Information Specialist
4 15 (10.79%) Security Engineer
5 13 (9.35%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Developer
7 9 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.76%) Consultant
9 7 (5.04%) Analyst
9 7 (5.04%) AWS Software Engineer
9 7 (5.04%) Lead
10 6 (4.32%) IAM Specialist
11 5 (3.60%) Active Directory Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Identity Management Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.11%) SailPoint
2 14 (10.07%) REST
3 11 (7.91%) Node.js
3 11 (7.91%) OAuth
4 8 (5.76%) .NET
5 7 (5.04%) OpenID
6 6 (4.32%) OAuth2
6 6 (4.32%) SAML
6 6 (4.32%) Web Services
7 5 (3.60%) LDAP
8 4 (2.88%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.88%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.88%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.88%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.88%) SOAP
9 3 (2.16%) JSON
10 2 (1.44%) JDBC
10 2 (1.44%) JWT
10 2 (1.44%) Keycloak
10 2 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.83%) Management Information System
2 17 (12.23%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.04%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.32%) PKI
5 5 (3.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.88%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.88%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.27%) Windows
2 12 (8.63%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.47%) Apple iOS
3 9 (6.47%) Linux
4 5 (3.60%) Android
5 4 (2.88%) Mac OS
5 4 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.44%) Solaris
7 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.74%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (20.86%) Information Security
3 26 (18.71%) Risk Management
4 25 (17.99%) Agile
5 24 (17.27%) Identity Management
5 24 (17.27%) Software Engineering
6 23 (16.55%) Cloud Security
7 22 (15.83%) Mentoring
8 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.67%) Collaborative Working
9 19 (13.67%) SIEM
10 15 (10.79%) Risk Assessment
11 14 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (7.91%) ITIL
12 11 (7.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (7.19%) Business Continuity
13 10 (7.19%) Computer Science
13 10 (7.19%) Incident Management
13 10 (7.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (23.74%) PowerShell
2 19 (13.67%) Python
3 12 (8.63%) Java
4 11 (7.91%) SQL
4 11 (7.91%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.88%) C#
6 4 (2.88%) C++
6 4 (2.88%) Perl
6 4 (2.88%) PHP
7 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.44%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) Go
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
9 1 (0.72%) VB
9 1 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (25.18%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.71%) Degree
3 17 (12.23%) SC Cleared
4 16 (11.51%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.76%) CISSP
5 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.04%) CISM
7 6 (4.32%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.88%) GIAC
9 4 (2.88%) SANS
10 3 (2.16%) MCSE
11 2 (1.44%) CASP
11 2 (1.44%) CEH
11 2 (1.44%) CISA
11 2 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.44%) ISACA
11 2 (1.44%) ISSAP
11 2 (1.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (12.23%) NIST
3 16 (11.51%) GDPR
4 6 (4.32%) NCSC
5 5 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.88%) GRC
6 4 (2.88%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.16%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.44%) COBIT
8 2 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.44%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.72%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 55 (39.57%) Active Directory
2 14 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.32%) Docker
4 2 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.44%) KVM
4 2 (1.44%) NFS
4 2 (1.44%) SRDF
4 2 (1.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (1.44%) Xen
5 1 (0.72%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.72%) NDS
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (14.39%) Single Sign-On
2 14 (10.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (4.32%) Ansible
3 6 (4.32%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.88%) Terraform
5 2 (1.44%) Argo
5 2 (1.44%) Graylog
5 2 (1.44%) PingFederate
5 2 (1.44%) Puppet
5 2 (1.44%) QRadar
6 1 (0.72%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (21.58%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.55%) Okta
3 15 (10.79%) Salesforce
4 14 (10.07%) VMware
5 10 (7.19%) Google
6 8 (5.76%) Ping Identity
7 7 (5.04%) Cisco
8 5 (3.60%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (2.88%) ForgeRock
9 4 (2.88%) Splunk
10 3 (2.16%) Apple
10 3 (2.16%) Samsung
11 2 (1.44%) EMC
11 2 (1.44%) F5
11 2 (1.44%) NetApp
11 2 (1.44%) NetIQ
11 2 (1.44%) Oracle
11 2 (1.44%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.72%) Fortinet