Multi-Factor Authentication Job Trends

Multi-Factor Authentication
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Multi-Factor Authentication skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 610 636 613
Rank change year-on-year +26 -23 +333
Permanent jobs citing Multi-Factor Authentication 37 78 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.15% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 45 73
10th Percentile £27,950 £37,500 £43,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,500 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £137,250 £105,500 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £53,050 £56,525
% change year-on-year -8.11% -6.15% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Multi-Factor Authentication 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 49,042 50,361 46,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.17% 89.77% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,825 25,280 35,250
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -3.67%

Multi-Factor Authentication
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Multi-Factor Authentication relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Multi-Factor Authentication job vacancy trend in the UK

Multi-Factor Authentication
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Multi-Factor Authentication.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-Factor Authentication
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Multi-Factor Authentication over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Multi-Factor Authentication in the UK

Multi-Factor Authentication
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Multi-Factor Authentication within the UK over the 6 months to 25 December 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 +46 32 £55,000 -26.67% 25
UK excluding London +26 18 £48,750 -8.11% 21
London +54 17 £62,500 -28.57% 8
West Midlands +26 5 £57,500 - 2
Midlands +20 5 £57,500 - 2
North of England +19 4 £51,000 +20.00% 7
Work from Home +52 3 £28,500 -48.18% 9
North West +21 3 £51,000 +20.00% 4
East of England - 3 £35,000 - 3
South East +21 2 £70,000 +31.95% 8
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
South West 0 1 £36,500 -43.85% 2
Scotland -1 1 £28,500 -28.75%
Yorkshire -7 1 - - 3

Multi-Factor Authentication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) CMS
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
4 1 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) Azure
2 20 (54.05%) Entra ID
3 16 (43.24%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (16.22%) AWS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) SaaS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure AKS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Storage
5 4 (10.81%) Datadog
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (10.81%) PaaS
5 4 (10.81%) Serverless
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) VPN
2 7 (18.92%) DNS
2 7 (18.92%) Firewall
3 6 (16.22%) Network Security
4 5 (13.51%) WAN
5 4 (10.81%) DHCP
6 3 (8.11%) Kerberos
7 2 (5.41%) HTTP
7 2 (5.41%) IPv4
8 1 (2.70%) BGP
8 1 (2.70%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.70%) DMZ
8 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.70%) Internet
8 1 (2.70%) IPsec
8 1 (2.70%) MPLS
8 1 (2.70%) OSPF
8 1 (2.70%) VLAN
8 1 (2.70%) VPLS
8 1 (2.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.41%) Metadata
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Legal
4 3 (8.11%) Law
4 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Operations Support Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Platform Support Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Developer
4 3 (8.11%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Identity Management Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) IT Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Digital Product Manager
5 2 (5.41%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.41%) IT Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) OAuth
1 13 (35.14%) SAML
2 8 (21.62%) OpenID
3 6 (16.22%) OAuth2
4 4 (10.81%) ADO
4 4 (10.81%) RESTful
4 4 (10.81%) YAML
5 3 (8.11%) LDAP
6 2 (5.41%) .NET
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.41%) Blazor
6 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
7 1 (2.70%) JWT
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (2.70%) REST
7 1 (2.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.41%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.70%) e-Health
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
2 4 (10.81%) VMS
3 2 (5.41%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Identity Access Management
2 12 (32.43%) Identity Management
2 12 (32.43%) RBAC
3 10 (27.03%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (24.32%) Task Automation
5 8 (21.62%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (18.92%) Incident Management
6 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (18.92%) Privileged Access Management
6 7 (18.92%) Privileged Identity Management
6 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (16.22%) Analytics
7 6 (16.22%) Business Continuity
7 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (16.22%) Runbook
8 5 (13.51%) High Availability
8 5 (13.51%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.92%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.81%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (10.81%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) Groovy
5 2 (5.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) CISM
1 4 (10.81%) CISSP
2 3 (8.11%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.41%) CCNA
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) MCSA
3 2 (5.41%) MCSE
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) CCNP
4 1 (2.70%) CISA
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) GDPR
2 5 (13.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (10.81%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.70%) GRC
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 21 (56.76%) Active Directory
2 8 (21.62%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
4 2 (5.41%) BitLocker
4 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.70%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (18.92%) Ansible
4 6 (16.22%) Terraform
5 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
6 2 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.70%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (2.70%) Nagios
7 1 (2.70%) PingFederate
7 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 26 (70.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Apple
2 5 (13.51%) Palo Alto
2 5 (13.51%) Zscaler
3 3 (8.11%) CyberArk
3 3 (8.11%) ForgeRock
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) ConnectWise
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Proofpoint
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) Webroot
4 2 (5.41%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.70%) Adobe
5 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.70%) Dell
5 1 (2.70%) F5
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds