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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 672 787
Rank change year-on-year +50 +115 -141
Permanent jobs citing Identity Management 272 313 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 225 193 287
10th Percentile £48,000 £36,500 £42,249
25th Percentile £56,809 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £66,123
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -1.70% +1.73%
75th Percentile £84,919 £83,750 £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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +37 238 £65,000 - 73
UK excluding London +32 147 £62,783 +9.19% 39
Work from Home +72 134 £62,783 -6.99% 32
London +44 101 £75,000 +11.11% 34
South East +36 54 £65,000 - 13
North of England +69 43 £65,000 - 10
North West +19 27 £62,783 -16.29% 7
Midlands -9 27 £60,000 +26.32% 9
West Midlands +16 25 £60,000 +26.32% 8
Yorkshire +89 9 £79,842 - 3
Wales +14 7 £50,685 +40.79% 1
North East +5 7 £79,842 +45.17%
South West -42 7 £52,500 +10.53% 2
Scotland -61 5 £54,750 -36.52% 3
East of England +3 4 £42,500 -22.73% 2
East Midlands -23 2 £55,000 -4.35% 1

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 (16.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (6.99%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (3.31%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.94%) Confluence
5 3 (1.10%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Cognos Controller
1 1 (0.37%) HFM
1 1 (0.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle FAH
1 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 196 (72.06%) Azure
2 100 (36.76%) AWS
3 83 (30.51%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (24.26%) Entra ID
5 40 (14.71%) Azure Monitor
6 32 (11.76%) PaaS
7 30 (11.03%) IaaS
8 26 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (8.46%) Azure Key Vault
10 22 (8.09%) SaaS
11 18 (6.62%) Azure Storage
12 16 (5.88%) Serverless
13 15 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (4.41%) AWS KMS
16 11 (4.04%) Google Workspace
16 11 (4.04%) Power Platform
16 11 (4.04%) PowerApps
17 10 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
18 9 (3.31%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 63 (23.16%) Firewall
2 57 (20.96%) DNS
3 37 (13.60%) WAN
4 35 (12.87%) SD-WAN
5 31 (11.40%) VPN
6 24 (8.82%) DHCP
7 20 (7.35%) LAN
8 12 (4.41%) Wireless
9 11 (4.04%) Broadband
9 11 (4.04%) NAS
10 7 (2.57%) Network Security
11 6 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (2.21%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (1.84%) VoIP
13 4 (1.47%) OpenLDAP
14 2 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
14 2 (0.74%) IPv4
14 2 (0.74%) SSL
14 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
15 1 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.57%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.10%) Power BI
4 3 (1.10%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.74%) MySQL
5 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.37%) Redis
6 1 (0.37%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.62%) Git
2 13 (4.78%) Jenkins
3 12 (4.41%) JIRA
4 9 (3.31%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.94%) GitLab
5 8 (2.94%) Subversion
6 5 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.10%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.10%) JUnit
7 3 (1.10%) Selenium
7 3 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.10%) TestNG
7 3 (1.10%) Travis CI
General
1 71 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.59%) Public Sector
3 35 (12.87%) Finance
4 26 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.41%) Banking
7 12 (4.41%) Games
8 10 (3.68%) Law
9 8 (2.94%) Retail
10 7 (2.57%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.21%) Legal
11 6 (2.21%) Police
12 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Billing
14 1 (0.37%) French Language
14 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (27.21%) Architect
2 53 (19.49%) Security Architect
3 50 (18.38%) Senior
4 44 (16.18%) Lead
5 28 (10.29%) Lead Architect
6 27 (9.93%) Lead Security Architect
7 25 (9.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (9.19%) Consultant
7 25 (9.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (8.46%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (7.72%) Technical Architect
10 16 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 15 (5.51%) Developer
11 15 (5.51%) Security Technical Architect
11 15 (5.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (5.15%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (5.15%) Active Directory Support
12 14 (5.15%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (5.15%) Senior Architect
12 14 (5.15%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.19%) ARM Templates
2 17 (6.25%) .NET
3 10 (3.68%) OAuth
3 10 (3.68%) SAML
4 8 (2.94%) LDAP
4 8 (2.94%) OpenID
5 7 (2.57%) RESTful
5 7 (2.57%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web API
6 4 (1.47%) Keycloak
6 4 (1.47%) React
6 4 (1.47%) Spring
6 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.10%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.10%) CSS
7 3 (1.10%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.10%) HTML
7 3 (1.10%) HTML5
7 3 (1.10%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.16%) Management Information System
2 52 (19.12%) PKI
3 33 (12.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 30 (11.03%) Cyberattack
4 30 (11.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (10.29%) Onboarding
6 24 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (6.25%) Data Centre
8 15 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (4.78%) Video Conferencing
10 12 (4.41%) Public Cloud
11 11 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (4.04%) iPhone
12 9 (3.31%) Product Ownership
13 6 (2.21%) Cloud Native
13 6 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (2.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 5 (1.84%) Security Posture
15 4 (1.47%) Cyber Security Posture
15 4 (1.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 66 (24.26%) Windows
2 39 (14.34%) Windows Server
3 35 (12.87%) Linux
4 15 (5.51%) Mac OS
5 14 (5.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (5.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 8 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.57%) Android
8 5 (1.84%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.37%) Debian
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 70 (25.74%) DevOps
3 69 (25.37%) Cybersecurity
4 64 (23.53%) Information Security
5 59 (21.69%) Security Architecture
6 49 (18.01%) Analytics
7 46 (16.91%) Application Security
8 41 (15.07%) Roadmaps
9 40 (14.71%) ITIL
9 40 (14.71%) Log Analytics
10 39 (14.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (12.87%) OWASP
12 34 (12.50%) Coaching
13 33 (12.13%) Secure Coding
14 32 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 32 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (11.40%) Privileged Identity Management
16 29 (10.66%) Service Management
17 26 (9.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
18 25 (9.19%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.07%) PowerShell
2 32 (11.76%) Bash
3 29 (10.66%) C#
4 23 (8.46%) Bicep
5 22 (8.09%) SQL
6 19 (6.99%) Python
7 14 (5.15%) VB
7 14 (5.15%) VBScript
8 11 (4.04%) Java
9 8 (2.94%) Perl
10 5 (1.84%) Go
10 5 (1.84%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.47%) C
11 4 (1.47%) C++
11 4 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.47%) Scala
12 2 (0.74%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.74%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
13 1 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 58 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 57 (20.96%) CISSP
4 51 (18.75%) CISM
5 49 (18.01%) AWS Certification
5 49 (18.01%) Azure Certification
6 43 (15.81%) Degree
7 38 (13.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 38 (13.97%) CCSP
7 38 (13.97%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (12.13%) CCSK
10 17 (6.25%) DV Cleared
10 17 (6.25%) Master's Degree
11 14 (5.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 11 (4.04%) OSCP
13 7 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (2.57%) CREST Certified
14 5 (1.84%) ISACA
15 4 (1.47%) CCSAM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.97%) NIST
2 28 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 14 (5.15%) SOC 2
5 9 (3.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 7 (2.57%) GDPR
7 6 (2.21%) IASME
8 5 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.84%) QA
9 4 (1.47%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.47%) SLA
10 3 (1.10%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.74%) COBIT
11 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.37%) GRC
12 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 107 (39.34%) Active Directory
2 53 (19.49%) Docker
3 31 (11.40%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (11.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (6.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (5.51%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.10%) VirtualBox
7 2 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (30.51%) Single Sign-On
2 77 (28.31%) Kubernetes
3 49 (18.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 42 (15.44%) Terraform
5 28 (10.29%) Ansible
6 24 (8.82%) SCCM
7 20 (7.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (6.62%) Puppet
8 18 (6.62%) SCOM
9 14 (5.15%) WSUS
10 12 (4.41%) CA Single Sign-On
11 8 (2.94%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (1.84%) Nagios
12 5 (1.84%) Packer
12 5 (1.84%) Salt
13 4 (1.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 4 (1.47%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.10%) Kibana
14 3 (1.10%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 122 (44.85%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.97%) VMware
3 16 (5.88%) CyberArk
4 15 (5.51%) ServiceNow
5 14 (5.15%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.78%) CA
7 12 (4.41%) Cisco
7 12 (4.41%) Google
7 12 (4.41%) Oracle
8 11 (4.04%) Apple
9 8 (2.94%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.94%) Splunk
10 6 (2.21%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.21%) Okta
10 6 (2.21%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
11 4 (1.47%) Citrix
11 4 (1.47%) F5
11 4 (1.47%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.10%) New Relic