Identity Access Management Jobs

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 387 271
Rank change year-on-year -69 -116 +358
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 273 699 1,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.68% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.81% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 182 376 397
10th Percentile £45,800 £41,250 £46,895
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,313 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £106,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Identity Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Identity Access Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Identity Access Management.

Salary trend for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Identity Access Management in the UK

Identity Access Management
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England -23 259 £75,000 +3.45% 255
UK excluding London -28 139 £65,000 - 124
London +36 128 £82,500 +10.00% 148
Work from Home -7 99 £75,000 +7.14% 144
South East +57 40 £77,500 +6.90% 33
North of England +11 34 £65,000 +30.00% 34
South West +89 21 £60,000 -7.69% 19
East of England +46 19 £45,000 -40.00% 7
Yorkshire +50 16 £54,000 -4.42% 11
Midlands +22 16 £57,500 -5.74% 14
West Midlands +36 13 £57,500 +2.22% 6
North West -17 12 £65,000 +85.71% 20
Scotland -11 8 £62,500 +14.68% 12
North East +48 6 £57,500 +15.00% 3
East Midlands +29 3 - - 8
Wales +43 2 £53,750 - 2
Northern Ireland +40 1 - - 1

Identity Access Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (11.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (6.96%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.30%) IIS
4 3 (1.10%) Confluence
4 3 (1.10%) nginx
5 2 (0.73%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.73%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.73%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.37%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 104 (38.10%) Azure
2 86 (31.50%) AWS
3 48 (17.58%) Entra ID
4 39 (14.29%) GCP
5 30 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (7.33%) Serverless
7 13 (4.76%) GitHub
8 11 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.66%) Amazon S3
9 10 (3.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.66%) SaaS
10 9 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.20%) AWS Control Tower
11 6 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.20%) IaaS
11 6 (2.20%) PaaS
11 6 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 54 (19.78%) Firewall
2 41 (15.02%) Network Security
3 21 (7.69%) DNS
3 21 (7.69%) VPN
4 15 (5.49%) DHCP
5 8 (2.93%) Kerberos
5 8 (2.93%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.83%) Intrusion Detection
6 5 (1.83%) LAN
6 5 (1.83%) WAN
7 4 (1.47%) VLAN
8 3 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.10%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.10%) iSCSI
8 3 (1.10%) SAN
8 3 (1.10%) Wireless
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.73%) DKIM
9 2 (0.73%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.40%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.10%) Metadata
4 3 (1.10%) Power BI
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.37%) HBase
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Git
2 5 (1.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.47%) JIRA
4 3 (1.10%) Babel
4 3 (1.10%) gulp
4 3 (1.10%) webpack
5 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.37%) GitLab
6 1 (0.37%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.37%) Postman
6 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 67 (24.54%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.98%) Finance
3 33 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.72%) Retail
5 25 (9.16%) Legal
6 22 (8.06%) Banking
7 21 (7.69%) German Language
8 15 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.93%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.83%) Electronics
11 5 (1.83%) Law
11 5 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.47%) Advertising
12 4 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 3 (1.10%) Back Office
13 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (21.25%) Senior
2 47 (17.22%) Architect
3 22 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
3 22 (8.06%) Security Engineer
3 22 (8.06%) Security Specialist
4 21 (7.69%) Information Security Specialist
4 21 (7.69%) Information Specialist
4 21 (7.69%) Lead
4 21 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 19 (6.96%) Analyst
6 18 (6.59%) Developer
7 17 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 10 (3.66%) Identity Management Engineer
11 10 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.66%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.66%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.65%) SailPoint
2 26 (9.52%) REST
3 23 (8.42%) OAuth
4 21 (7.69%) Node.js
5 14 (5.13%) Web Services
6 13 (4.76%) OpenID
6 13 (4.76%) SAML
7 12 (4.40%) LDAP
8 9 (3.30%) .NET
9 8 (2.93%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.20%) SOAP
11 5 (1.83%) AWS CDK
12 4 (1.47%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.47%) .NET Framework
12 4 (1.47%) Django
12 4 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (1.47%) Entity Framework
12 4 (1.47%) Flask
12 4 (1.47%) JSON
12 4 (1.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 61 (22.34%) Management Information System
2 33 (12.09%) Security Posture
3 28 (10.26%) Virtual Team
4 16 (5.86%) Onboarding
5 14 (5.13%) PKI
6 12 (4.40%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (3.30%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (1.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.47%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.47%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.47%) Tandem
12 3 (1.10%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.38%) Windows
2 26 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 25 (9.16%) Linux
4 10 (3.66%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.83%) Android
5 5 (1.83%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.47%) Unix
7 3 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.10%) VMS
8 2 (0.73%) Solaris
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.97%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (24.54%) Information Security
3 55 (20.15%) SIEM
4 52 (19.05%) Agile
4 52 (19.05%) Cloud Security
5 51 (18.68%) Risk Management
6 50 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (16.12%) Identity Management
8 40 (14.65%) Mentoring
9 37 (13.55%) Security Architecture
10 35 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 35 (12.82%) Vulnerability Management
11 33 (12.09%) Incident Response
11 33 (12.09%) Security Operations
12 30 (10.99%) Disaster Recovery
13 29 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
15 27 (9.89%) Data Loss Prevention
15 27 (9.89%) Incident Management
16 26 (9.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (21.61%) PowerShell
2 47 (17.22%) Python
3 25 (9.16%) SQL
4 20 (7.33%) Java
4 20 (7.33%) JavaScript
4 20 (7.33%) TypeScript
5 15 (5.49%) Bash
6 6 (2.20%) C#
7 5 (1.83%) C++
7 5 (1.83%) Go
8 4 (1.47%) Perl
8 4 (1.47%) PHP
9 3 (1.10%) R
9 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.37%) Groovy
10 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) VB
10 1 (0.37%) VBA
10 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 52 (19.05%) Degree
2 45 (16.48%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.06%) CISSP
4 21 (7.69%) CISM
4 21 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 19 (6.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.86%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.93%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.83%) CCSP
10 5 (1.83%) CRISC
10 5 (1.83%) SANS
11 4 (1.47%) CEH
11 4 (1.47%) GIAC
11 4 (1.47%) ISSAP
11 4 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (16.85%) GDPR
2 44 (16.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 43 (15.75%) NIST
4 20 (7.33%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.30%) NCSC
7 7 (2.56%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (2.20%) GRC
8 6 (2.20%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.10%) COBIT
9 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.10%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.73%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.73%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.73%) SLA
11 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 97 (35.53%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.49%) Docker
4 6 (2.20%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.73%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.73%) KVM
6 2 (0.73%) NFS
6 2 (0.73%) SRDF
6 2 (0.73%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.73%) Xen
7 1 (0.37%) HDFS
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.37%) NDS
7 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (13.19%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (9.52%) Terraform
3 23 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (8.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (6.96%) Ansible
5 19 (6.96%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.56%) QRadar
7 6 (2.20%) SCCM
8 4 (1.47%) Grafana
9 3 (1.10%) Nessus
10 2 (0.73%) Argo
10 2 (0.73%) CASB
10 2 (0.73%) Graylog
10 2 (0.73%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) linkerd
10 2 (0.73%) PingFederate
10 2 (0.73%) Puppet
10 2 (0.73%) VxRail
11 1 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 71 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.72%) Okta
3 22 (8.06%) VMware
4 21 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.49%) Cisco
5 15 (5.49%) Google
5 15 (5.49%) Ping Identity
6 13 (4.76%) Splunk
7 8 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.93%) SolarWinds
8 7 (2.56%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.20%) ForgeRock
9 6 (2.20%) Oracle
10 5 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (1.83%) Dell
10 5 (1.83%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.47%) SimCorp
12 3 (1.10%) Apple
12 3 (1.10%) Palo Alto