Identity Management Jobs

Identity Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Identity Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Identity Management over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 642 655
Rank change year-on-year +158 +13 +144
Permanent jobs citing Identity Management 230 275 331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 110 228 184
10th Percentile £45,975 £47,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £56,809 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,919 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,050 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,688 £62,783 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.49% +9.19% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 85,992 93,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 84.40% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,076 60,364 55,438
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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Identity Management over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Identity Management in the UK

Identity Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Identity Management within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +155 216 £67,500 +3.85% 536
UK excluding London +190 155 £53,688 -14.49% 485
North of England +71 68 £57,500 -11.54% 105
London +74 63 £82,500 +10.00% 112
Work from Home +47 54 £47,500 -24.34% 182
East of England +68 36 £47,500 +11.76% 75
North East +71 30 - - 12
South East +54 24 £57,500 -11.54% 139
North West -6 24 £57,500 -8.41% 48
Yorkshire +68 14 £77,500 -2.93% 45
Midlands +54 14 £52,500 -12.50% 93
West Midlands +53 10 £53,688 -10.52% 47
South West +110 9 £53,750 +2.38% 55
East Midlands +42 4 £49,250 -10.45% 41
Scotland +111 2 £80,000 +46.12% 21
Wales +40 2 £88,750 +75.10% 10

Identity 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 53 (23.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (15.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.17%) Liferay
4 2 (0.87%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (62.17%) Azure
2 127 (55.22%) Entra ID
3 42 (18.26%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (11.30%) AWS
5 25 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
6 20 (8.70%) OneDrive
7 14 (6.09%) Power Automate
8 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 7 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (3.04%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.17%) GCP
12 4 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.74%) IaaS
12 4 (1.74%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.74%) Route 53
13 3 (1.30%) Copilot Studio
13 3 (1.30%) GitHub
13 3 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (25.65%) Firewall
2 25 (10.87%) DNS
3 19 (8.26%) DHCP
3 19 (8.26%) Network Security
3 19 (8.26%) TCP/IP
3 19 (8.26%) VPN
4 16 (6.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 12 (5.22%) WAN
6 8 (3.48%) Kerberos
6 8 (3.48%) SD-WAN
7 5 (2.17%) HTTP
7 5 (2.17%) NGFW
8 4 (1.74%) Cisco IOS
8 4 (1.74%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.74%) LAN
8 4 (1.74%) SSH
8 4 (1.74%) VLAN
8 4 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.30%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.87%) Power BI
4 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (2.17%) JIRA
2 4 (1.74%) Git
3 3 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.43%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (12.17%) Finance
3 21 (9.13%) German Language
3 21 (9.13%) Legal
4 12 (5.22%) Law
5 9 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.17%) Banking
8 4 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.30%) Marketing
9 3 (1.30%) Police
10 2 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.43%) Automotive
11 1 (0.43%) Aviation
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (32.17%) Technology Specialist
2 40 (17.39%) Identity Management Specialist
3 31 (13.48%) Architect
4 21 (9.13%) Information Security Specialist
4 21 (9.13%) Information Specialist
4 21 (9.13%) Security Specialist
5 20 (8.70%) Senior
6 19 (8.26%) Analyst
7 18 (7.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (7.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (7.39%) Security Architect
9 10 (4.35%) Security Analyst
10 9 (3.91%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.48%) Developer
12 6 (2.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.61%) Lead
13 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.17%) SailPoint
2 11 (4.78%) LDAP
3 10 (4.35%) SAML
4 9 (3.91%) OAuth
5 7 (3.04%) OpenID
6 6 (2.61%) CSS
6 6 (2.61%) React
7 5 (2.17%) HTML
8 4 (1.74%) JSON
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.87%) REST
9 2 (0.87%) Web Services
10 1 (0.43%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.43%) EDI
10 1 (0.43%) Middleware
10 1 (0.43%) Node.js
10 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.43%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.43%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (32.17%) NHS
2 63 (27.39%) Management Information System
3 21 (9.13%) Security Posture
3 21 (9.13%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (9.13%) Virtual Team
4 19 (8.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 15 (6.52%) Social Media
6 14 (6.09%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (4.78%) Onboarding
8 10 (4.35%) PKI
9 8 (3.48%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (1.74%) Anti-Spyware
11 4 (1.74%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 1 (0.43%) CSOC
13 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.43%) Embedded Systems
13 1 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.74%) Windows
2 21 (9.13%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.52%) Windows Vista
4 7 (3.04%) Linux
5 5 (2.17%) Android
6 3 (1.30%) CentOS
6 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
8 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (37.83%) ITIL
2 53 (23.04%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (23.04%) Information Security
3 49 (21.30%) Risk Management
4 44 (19.13%) Identity Access Management
5 40 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (15.65%) Collaborative Working
7 35 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (15.22%) Mentoring
8 34 (14.78%) SIEM
9 33 (14.35%) Incident Response
10 24 (10.43%) Computer Science
10 24 (10.43%) Data Protection
11 22 (9.57%) Cloud Security
11 22 (9.57%) Disaster Recovery
11 22 (9.57%) Security Architecture
12 21 (9.13%) Risk Assessment
13 20 (8.70%) Agile
13 20 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
14 19 (8.26%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 10 (4.35%) SQL
3 7 (3.04%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.74%) Python
5 3 (1.30%) Bash
5 3 (1.30%) Bicep
6 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.43%) Groovy
7 1 (0.43%) Java
7 1 (0.43%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 133 (57.83%) Degree
2 90 (39.13%) DBS Check
3 28 (12.17%) CISSP
4 25 (10.87%) CISM
5 23 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (8.70%) Azure Certification
8 18 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (7.39%) Master's Degree
10 16 (6.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 16 (6.96%) CEH
11 15 (6.52%) CISA
12 10 (4.35%) AWS Certification
13 8 (3.48%) CompTIA Security+
14 7 (3.04%) CCNP
15 4 (1.74%) A+ Certification
15 4 (1.74%) SC Cleared
15 4 (1.74%) Security Cleared
16 3 (1.30%) FFIEC
16 3 (1.30%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.74%) GDPR
2 24 (10.43%) NIST
3 20 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.48%) QA
5 5 (2.17%) HIPAA
5 5 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.30%) NCSC
7 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (67.39%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.17%) Docker
4 5 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.30%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.30%) Postfix
6 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) NDS
7 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
2 28 (12.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (6.52%) SCCM
4 14 (6.09%) Terraform
5 11 (4.78%) Ansible
6 9 (3.91%) Kubernetes
7 5 (2.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.17%) QRadar
8 4 (1.74%) CASB
9 3 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (0.87%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.43%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.43%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.43%) Nessus
11 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 152 (66.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.48%) Okta
3 21 (9.13%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.22%) VMware
5 9 (3.91%) Cisco
5 9 (3.91%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.91%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.17%) Fortinet
6 5 (2.17%) Ping Identity
6 5 (2.17%) Splunk
7 4 (1.74%) ForgeRock
7 4 (1.74%) Google
7 4 (1.74%) iManage
7 4 (1.74%) Meraki
7 4 (1.74%) Oracle
7 4 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.74%) Perforce
8 3 (1.30%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (1.30%) Juniper
8 3 (1.30%) Red Hat