Identity Access Management Jobs

Identity and Access Management (IDAM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Identity Access Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Identity Access Management over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 258 635
Rank change year-on-year -127 +377 -153
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 712 1,313 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.39% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.45% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 381 401 511
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £54,814 £53,970 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Identity Access 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 88,012 90,290 162,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.51% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,295 54,552 83,502
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 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 3 June 2024.

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 3 June 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 -136 507 £72,500 +4.40% 154
UK excluding London -158 432 £65,000 +8.33% 88
Work from Home -15 239 £70,000 -6.67% 57
London +38 236 £75,000 -10.16% 73
Scotland -35 156 £55,000 -4.86% 10
South East -99 72 £72,500 +20.33% 23
North of England -106 72 £45,000 -30.77% 25
Midlands -89 55 £61,000 -3.56% 17
South West -95 53 £65,000 +25.20% 11
West Midlands -43 42 £57,500 -17.86% 12
North West -98 35 £35,000 -39.46% 18
Yorkshire -3 29 £56,500 -13.08% 6
East of England -30 16 £75,000 -6.25% 3
East Midlands -50 13 £67,250 +28.10% 5
North East -6 8 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Wales -30 6 - -
Northern Ireland +10 4 £72,500 +2.84% 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 28 (3.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.53%) Apache
3 15 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.83%) Confluence
6 11 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.84%) JBoss
7 6 (0.84%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.70%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Cognos Controller
2 1 (0.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 290 (40.73%) Azure
2 222 (31.18%) AWS
3 148 (20.79%) Entra ID
4 90 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (9.97%) GCP
6 59 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 58 (8.15%) Datadog
8 50 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (5.62%) PaaS
10 34 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
11 32 (4.49%) IaaS
12 31 (4.35%) SaaS
13 27 (3.79%) Azure AKS
14 25 (3.51%) GitHub
15 22 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
15 22 (3.09%) Serverless
16 16 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
17 15 (2.11%) Azure API Management
18 12 (1.69%) Amazon S3
19 10 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 120 (16.85%) Firewall
2 70 (9.83%) Kerberos
3 68 (9.55%) Network Security
4 65 (9.13%) DNS
5 37 (5.20%) VPN
6 36 (5.06%) WAN
7 27 (3.79%) TCP/IP
8 26 (3.65%) LAN
9 19 (2.67%) DHCP
10 15 (2.11%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (1.97%) Wireshark
12 12 (1.69%) Internet
12 12 (1.69%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.69%) Unified Communications
13 8 (1.12%) SSL
14 6 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (0.84%) WLAN
15 5 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
16 4 (0.56%) HTTP
16 4 (0.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (9.41%) Metadata
2 26 (3.65%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.54%) Apache Hive
3 11 (1.54%) Presto
3 11 (1.54%) Redis
4 10 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 8 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.84%) Big Data
9 4 (0.56%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.56%) MySQL
9 4 (0.56%) Power BI
10 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.14%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 95 (13.34%) Jenkins
2 85 (11.94%) Bitbucket
3 78 (10.96%) Git
4 65 (9.13%) Artifactory
5 21 (2.95%) GitLab
6 16 (2.25%) JIRA
7 9 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.98%) Katalon Studio
9 7 (0.98%) Subversion
10 5 (0.70%) Postman
10 5 (0.70%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.42%) JUnit
13 2 (0.28%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.28%) Maven
13 2 (0.28%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.28%) Selenium
14 1 (0.14%) Gatling
General
1 295 (41.43%) Finance
2 183 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 158 (22.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 130 (18.26%) Law
5 92 (12.92%) Marketing
6 91 (12.78%) Banking
7 70 (9.83%) Legal
8 38 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
9 36 (5.06%) Public Sector
10 27 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.81%) Games
12 13 (1.83%) Electronics
13 11 (1.54%) Retail
14 10 (1.40%) Retail Banking
15 9 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
16 8 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.98%) Advertising
18 6 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
19 4 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (20.93%) Senior
2 143 (20.08%) Architect
3 137 (19.24%) Software Engineer
4 133 (18.68%) Analyst
5 124 (17.42%) Lead
6 95 (13.34%) Lead Software Engineer
7 70 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 56 (7.87%) Senior Analyst
9 53 (7.44%) Governance Analyst
10 52 (7.30%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 42 (5.90%) Security Engineer
11 42 (5.90%) Senior Software Engineer
12 39 (5.48%) Security Architect
13 33 (4.63%) Consultant
14 30 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
15 29 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.79%) Security Analyst
17 25 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
17 25 (3.51%) Technical Architect
18 24 (3.37%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (15.45%) SAML
2 99 (13.90%) OpenID
3 83 (11.66%) LDAP
4 72 (10.11%) Web Services
5 70 (9.83%) RESTful
6 66 (9.27%) XML
7 65 (9.13%) JSON
7 65 (9.13%) JSON-LD
8 56 (7.87%) OAuth
9 52 (7.30%) OpenTelemetry
10 28 (3.93%) SailPoint
11 26 (3.65%) REST
12 19 (2.67%) http4s
12 19 (2.67%) Lambda Expressions
13 16 (2.25%) Middleware
14 12 (1.69%) React
15 11 (1.54%) ARM Templates
16 10 (1.40%) Kafka
16 10 (1.40%) Node.js
16 10 (1.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 218 (30.62%) Management Information System
2 93 (13.06%) Cloud Native
3 90 (12.64%) Public Cloud
4 72 (10.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 65 (9.13%) Reference Data
6 33 (4.63%) Security Posture
7 32 (4.49%) Data Centre
8 31 (4.35%) Onboarding
9 30 (4.21%) Product Ownership
10 24 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
11 22 (3.09%) PKI
12 21 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 16 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
14 13 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
15 12 (1.69%) Operational Technology
16 10 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
17 9 (1.26%) SCADA
17 9 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
18 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 112 (15.73%) Windows
2 65 (9.13%) Linux
3 41 (5.76%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.81%) Unix
5 19 (2.67%) Apple iOS
6 18 (2.53%) Android
7 15 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.83%) Solaris
9 11 (1.54%) Windows 10
10 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.98%) CentOS
11 7 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.84%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.70%) Kali Linux
14 4 (0.56%) VMS
14 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.56%) zOS
15 2 (0.28%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (49.44%) Agile
2 269 (37.78%) Cybersecurity
3 206 (28.93%) CI/CD
4 188 (26.40%) Roadmaps
5 158 (22.19%) Information Security
6 153 (21.49%) Software Engineering
7 140 (19.66%) SDLC
8 128 (17.98%) Security Operations
9 120 (16.85%) Architectural Design
10 119 (16.71%) DevOps
11 118 (16.57%) Cloud Security
11 118 (16.57%) Information Architecture
12 117 (16.43%) Community of Practice
12 117 (16.43%) Continuous Delivery
12 117 (16.43%) Operational Stability
13 92 (12.92%) Privileged Access Management
13 92 (12.92%) Problem-Solving
14 89 (12.50%) RBAC
15 88 (12.36%) SIEM
16 85 (11.94%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (16.43%) Java
2 116 (16.29%) PowerShell
3 88 (12.36%) SQL
4 72 (10.11%) Python
5 68 (9.55%) Go
6 65 (9.13%) Prolog
6 65 (9.13%) SPARQL
7 21 (2.95%) Kotlin
7 21 (2.95%) Scala
8 17 (2.39%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.11%) Bash
10 9 (1.26%) Bicep
10 9 (1.26%) C#
11 3 (0.42%) BeanShell
11 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.28%) Perl
12 2 (0.28%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) C
13 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.64%) CISSP
3 68 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 63 (8.85%) Degree
5 45 (6.32%) Azure Certification
6 38 (5.34%) CISM
7 29 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (3.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 27 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (3.65%) CCSP
10 25 (3.51%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.23%) CEH
12 22 (3.09%) CISA
13 18 (2.53%) SANS
14 15 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.69%) DV Cleared
15 12 (1.69%) SSCP
16 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 8 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (1.12%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (10.96%) NIST
2 69 (9.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (5.20%) PCI DSS
4 30 (4.21%) QA
5 22 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (2.95%) GDPR
7 16 (2.25%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.54%) NCSC
9 10 (1.40%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 9 (1.26%) SLA
11 7 (0.98%) COBIT
12 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.84%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.56%) GRC
14 3 (0.42%) COSO
14 3 (0.42%) ITGC
15 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
15 2 (0.28%) ISO 31000
16 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 228 (32.02%) Active Directory
2 56 (7.87%) Docker
3 50 (7.02%) RACF
4 34 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 22 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (2.95%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (1.54%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.98%) XenApp
10 6 (0.84%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.56%) vSphere
12 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 138 (19.38%) Terraform
2 77 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 62 (8.71%) Single Sign-On
4 57 (8.01%) Grafana
5 43 (6.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (5.06%) Ansible
7 18 (2.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (2.39%) Puppet
9 16 (2.25%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.69%) Nmap
10 12 (1.69%) QRadar
10 12 (1.69%) SCCM
11 9 (1.26%) Nessus
12 8 (1.12%) Packer
13 7 (0.98%) Istio
13 7 (0.98%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.84%) Nagios
15 5 (0.70%) Kibana
15 5 (0.70%) Suricata
Vendors
1 247 (34.69%) Microsoft
2 96 (13.48%) Splunk
3 67 (9.41%) CyberArk
4 53 (7.44%) Dynatrace
5 34 (4.78%) Google
6 33 (4.63%) VMware
7 30 (4.21%) Oracle
8 29 (4.07%) ServiceNow
9 25 (3.51%) Zscaler
10 24 (3.37%) Cisco
10 24 (3.37%) Qualys
11 17 (2.39%) Rapid7
12 16 (2.25%) Adobe
13 15 (2.11%) Apple
13 15 (2.11%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.83%) Palo Alto
15 12 (1.69%) Thycotic
16 11 (1.54%) Databricks
16 11 (1.54%) ForgeRock
16 11 (1.54%) Salesforce