Identity Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Identity Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Identity Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 603 687 778
Rank change year-on-year +84 +91 -154
Permanent jobs citing Identity Management 291 296 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.31% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 228 199 289
10th Percentile £48,375 £38,300 £42,374
25th Percentile £56,809 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £84,919 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.19% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Identity Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 2024. 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 +85 256 £67,000 +3.08% 67
UK excluding London +61 162 £62,783 +9.19% 33
Work from Home +93 135 £62,783 -6.99% 30
London +52 103 £75,000 +11.11% 30
South East +34 53 £65,000 - 13
North of England +89 43 £65,000 - 7
North West +28 27 £65,000 -13.33% 5
Midlands -3 27 £60,000 +26.32% 6
West Midlands +20 25 £60,000 +26.32% 3
South West -10 23 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Yorkshire - 9 £79,842 - 2
Wales +19 7 £50,685 +40.79% 1
North East +2 7 £79,842 +45.17%
Scotland -51 5 £54,750 -36.52% 4
East of England +14 4 £42,500 -22.73% 1
East Midlands -11 2 £55,000 -4.35% 3

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 44 (15.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (6.53%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (3.44%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.41%) Confluence
5 3 (1.03%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.34%) HFM
1 1 (0.34%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.34%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 198 (68.04%) Azure
2 116 (39.86%) AWS
3 85 (29.21%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (23.02%) Entra ID
5 40 (13.75%) Azure Monitor
6 32 (11.00%) PaaS
7 31 (10.65%) IaaS
8 25 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (7.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 22 (7.56%) SaaS
11 21 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.19%) Azure Storage
13 16 (5.50%) Serverless
14 15 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
14 15 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (4.12%) AWS KMS
15 12 (4.12%) Power Platform
16 11 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (3.78%) Google Workspace
16 11 (3.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 72 (24.74%) DNS
2 64 (21.99%) Firewall
3 40 (13.75%) DHCP
4 37 (12.71%) WAN
5 35 (12.03%) SD-WAN
6 31 (10.65%) VPN
7 21 (7.22%) LAN
8 16 (5.50%) HTTP
8 16 (5.50%) TCP/IP
9 12 (4.12%) Wireless
10 11 (3.78%) Broadband
10 11 (3.78%) NAS
11 7 (2.41%) Network Security
12 6 (2.06%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (2.06%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (1.72%) VoIP
14 4 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
15 2 (0.69%) IPv4
15 2 (0.69%) SSL
15 2 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (1.03%) MySQL
3 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.03%) Power BI
3 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.34%) Redis
5 1 (0.34%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.19%) Git
2 13 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.78%) JIRA
4 8 (2.75%) Bitbucket
4 8 (2.75%) Subversion
5 7 (2.41%) GitLab
6 5 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.03%) JUnit
7 3 (1.03%) Selenium
7 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.03%) TestNG
7 3 (1.03%) Travis CI
General
1 90 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.59%) Public Sector
3 52 (17.87%) Finance
4 31 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.12%) Games
8 11 (3.78%) Banking
9 10 (3.44%) Law
10 8 (2.75%) Retail
11 7 (2.41%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.06%) Legal
12 6 (2.06%) Police
13 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
15 1 (0.34%) Front Office
15 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (28.52%) Architect
2 66 (22.68%) Senior
3 55 (18.90%) Security Architect
4 44 (15.12%) Lead
5 29 (9.97%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (9.62%) Consultant
6 28 (9.62%) Lead Architect
7 27 (9.28%) Lead Security Architect
8 25 (8.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (7.90%) Technical Architect
10 22 (7.56%) Azure Engineer
11 19 (6.53%) Senior Architect
12 17 (5.84%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 16 (5.50%) Developer
13 16 (5.50%) Security Technical Architect
14 15 (5.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.81%) Active Directory Specialist
15 14 (4.81%) Active Directory Support
15 14 (4.81%) Azure Specialist
15 14 (4.81%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.59%) ARM Templates
1 25 (8.59%) SAML
2 24 (8.25%) OpenID
3 19 (6.53%) HTML
4 18 (6.19%) .NET
5 10 (3.44%) OAuth
6 8 (2.75%) LDAP
7 7 (2.41%) RESTful
7 7 (2.41%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (1.37%) Keycloak
8 4 (1.37%) React
8 4 (1.37%) Spring
8 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.03%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.03%) ASP.NET
9 3 (1.03%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
9 3 (1.03%) CSS
9 3 (1.03%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 64 (21.99%) Management Information System
2 54 (18.56%) PKI
3 48 (16.49%) Cyberattack
4 33 (11.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 30 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (9.97%) Onboarding
7 23 (7.90%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (7.56%) Cloud Native
9 19 (6.53%) Data Centre
10 15 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (4.47%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (4.12%) iPhone
12 12 (4.12%) Public Cloud
13 10 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (2.75%) Product Ownership
15 6 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
15 6 (2.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 5 (1.72%) Security Posture
17 4 (1.37%) Cyber Security Posture
17 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.68%) Windows
2 39 (13.40%) Windows Server
3 35 (12.03%) Linux
4 15 (5.15%) Mac OS
5 14 (4.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (4.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.75%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.41%) Android
7 7 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.72%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) Debian
9 1 (0.34%) Unix
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.90%) CI/CD
2 72 (24.74%) Cybersecurity
3 70 (24.05%) DevOps
4 64 (21.99%) Information Security
5 61 (20.96%) Security Architecture
6 59 (20.27%) Roadmaps
7 54 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 50 (17.18%) Analytics
9 46 (15.81%) Application Security
10 41 (14.09%) Agile
11 40 (13.75%) ITIL
11 40 (13.75%) Log Analytics
12 35 (12.03%) Coaching
12 35 (12.03%) OWASP
13 33 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (11.34%) Secure Coding
14 32 (11.00%) Mentoring
15 31 (10.65%) Privileged Identity Management
16 29 (9.97%) Service Management
17 27 (9.28%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.75%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.00%) Bash
3 30 (10.31%) C#
4 23 (7.90%) Bicep
4 23 (7.90%) SQL
5 17 (5.84%) Python
6 14 (4.81%) VB
6 14 (4.81%) VBScript
7 10 (3.44%) Java
8 7 (2.41%) Perl
9 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.37%) C
10 4 (1.37%) C++
10 4 (1.37%) Go
10 4 (1.37%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.37%) Scala
11 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.69%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (32.99%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.68%) AWS Certification
3 59 (20.27%) SC Cleared
4 58 (19.93%) CISSP
5 52 (17.87%) CISM
6 50 (17.18%) Azure Certification
7 46 (15.81%) Degree
8 38 (13.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 38 (13.06%) CCSP
8 38 (13.06%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (12.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (11.34%) CCSK
10 33 (11.34%) DV Cleared
11 19 (6.53%) Master's Degree
12 16 (5.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (4.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (4.12%) OSCP
15 8 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (2.41%) CREST Certified
17 5 (1.72%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.71%) NIST
2 30 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (4.81%) SOC 2
5 10 (3.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 6 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.06%) GDPR
6 6 (2.06%) IASME
7 5 (1.72%) QA
8 4 (1.37%) SLA
9 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.03%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.69%) COBIT
10 2 (0.69%) GRC
11 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 108 (37.11%) Active Directory
2 52 (17.87%) Docker
3 31 (10.65%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (10.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (5.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.03%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (28.52%) Single Sign-On
2 76 (26.12%) Kubernetes
3 57 (19.59%) Terraform
4 49 (16.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (8.93%) Ansible
6 25 (8.59%) SCCM
7 20 (6.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (6.19%) Puppet
8 18 (6.19%) SCOM
9 14 (4.81%) WSUS
10 12 (4.12%) CA Single Sign-On
11 8 (2.75%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.72%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.72%) Packer
12 5 (1.72%) Salt
13 4 (1.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (1.37%) Nagios
13 4 (1.37%) Oracle Identity Management
13 4 (1.37%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 123 (42.27%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.40%) VMware
3 16 (5.50%) CyberArk
4 15 (5.15%) ServiceNow
5 13 (4.47%) CA
5 13 (4.47%) Oracle
5 13 (4.47%) Red Hat
6 12 (4.12%) Cisco
6 12 (4.12%) Google
7 11 (3.78%) Apple
8 8 (2.75%) Splunk
9 7 (2.41%) Atlassian
10 6 (2.06%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.06%) Okta
10 6 (2.06%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.37%) Citrix
11 4 (1.37%) SAP
11 4 (1.37%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.03%) F5
12 3 (1.03%) New Relic