Privileged Access Management Jobs

Privileged Access Management (PAM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Privileged Access Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Privileged Access 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 664 787 740
Rank change year-on-year +123 -47 +353
Permanent jobs citing Privileged Access Management 45 125 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.15% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11 47 128
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £37,907
25th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £53,696
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +12.44% -19.71%
75th Percentile £96,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £81,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £56,500 £57,810
% change year-on-year +15.04% -2.27% -17.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Privileged 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 51,121 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%

Privileged Access Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Privileged Access Management in the UK

Privileged Access Management
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Privileged Access 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 +109 30 £66,250 +13.73% 361
UK excluding London +142 29 £65,000 +15.04% 356
London +80 14 £92,500 +27.59% 40
Scotland +108 10 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Work from Home +66 9 £85,000 +17.24% 117
North of England +24 8 - - 85
North West -8 5 - - 41
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 4
South East +82 3 £88,750 +52.36% 87
Midlands +58 3 £60,000 +67.83% 65
Yorkshire +52 3 - - 31
South West +102 2 - - 49
West Midlands +64 2 £63,750 +87.50% 36
East Midlands +35 1 £37,500 - 25

Privileged 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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
1 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.44%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) AWS
3 14 (31.11%) GCP
4 13 (28.89%) IaaS
4 13 (28.89%) PaaS
5 7 (15.56%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub
7 2 (4.44%) SaaS
8 1 (2.22%) Lucidchart
8 1 (2.22%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) Network Security
2 5 (11.11%) VPN
3 4 (8.89%) DNS
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (4.44%) DHCP
4 2 (4.44%) FCoE
4 2 (4.44%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (4.44%) iSCSI
4 2 (4.44%) LAN
4 2 (4.44%) Multicast
4 2 (4.44%) NAS
4 2 (4.44%) SAN
4 2 (4.44%) WAN
5 1 (2.22%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 1 (2.22%) Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.22%) Law
4 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Senior
2 12 (26.67%) Auditor
2 12 (26.67%) Security Auditor
2 12 (26.67%) Senior Auditor
3 5 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Analyst
4 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.22%) Security Analyst
6 1 (2.22%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Security Consultant
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (2.22%) Team Leader
6 1 (2.22%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) Middleware
2 2 (4.44%) LDAP
2 2 (4.44%) OAuth
2 2 (4.44%) SAML
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.22%) OpenID
3 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Clustering
2 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.44%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Life Science
3 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.89%) Linux
4 2 (4.44%) Solaris
5 1 (2.22%) Android
5 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (62.22%) Risk Management
3 27 (60.00%) Coaching
4 24 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (37.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (35.56%) Information Security
7 15 (33.33%) Security Operations
7 15 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
8 14 (31.11%) CI/CD
8 14 (31.11%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (31.11%) Decision-Making
9 13 (28.89%) Configuration Management
9 13 (28.89%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
10 12 (26.67%) Cryptography
10 12 (26.67%) DevOps
11 5 (11.11%) Identity Management
11 5 (11.11%) Incident Response
11 5 (11.11%) SIEM
12 4 (8.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 2 (4.44%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.22%) Python
4 1 (2.22%) VB
4 1 (2.22%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) CRISC
2 5 (11.11%) CISM
2 5 (11.11%) CISSP
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.44%) MCSA
4 2 (4.44%) MCSE
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.22%) CASP
5 1 (2.22%) CCNP
5 1 (2.22%) CCSP
5 1 (2.22%) CISA
5 1 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) ISACA
5 1 (2.22%) SANS
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.11%) NIST
2 12 (26.67%) COBIT
3 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (4.44%) GDPR
4 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.22%) GRC
5 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.22%) NCSC
5 1 (2.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.44%) KVM
4 2 (4.44%) NFS
4 2 (4.44%) SRDF
4 2 (4.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (4.44%) Xen
5 1 (2.22%) BitLocker
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) Puppet
3 2 (4.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.22%) CASB
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (2.22%) DatAdvantage
4 1 (2.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.33%) VMware
3 4 (8.89%) Cisco
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.44%) EMC
5 2 (4.44%) F5
5 2 (4.44%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) McAfee
5 2 (4.44%) NetApp
6 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk
6 1 (2.22%) Symantec
6 1 (2.22%) Varonis