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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 272 643
Rank change year-on-year -110 +371 -189
Permanent jobs citing Identity Access Management 706 1,294 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 1.32% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.38% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 376 395 508
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,200 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,970 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £90,313 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% -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 85,719 93,735 157,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 95.58% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 60,185 55,235 82,763
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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 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 24 May 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 24 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 -119 498 £72,500 +3.57% 202
UK excluding London -166 422 £65,000 +6.12% 137
Work from Home +31 243 £70,000 -6.67% 74
London +35 238 £75,000 -11.76% 107
Scotland -25 156 £54,500 -7.10% 11
South East -99 73 £72,500 +16.00% 65
North of England -86 64 £50,000 -15.25% 24
Midlands -81 55 £61,000 -12.86% 20
South West -91 49 £65,000 +12.44% 9
West Midlands -23 41 £56,250 -19.64% 14
North West -81 30 £35,000 -39.46% 14
Yorkshire +17 28 £56,500 -13.08% 8
East of England -9 16 £75,000 -6.25% 11
East Midlands -45 14 £67,250 +28.10% 6
Wales -22 7 - -
North East -3 6 £50,000 -2.44% 2
Northern Ireland +17 4 £72,500 -

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 26 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.55%) Apache
3 15 (2.12%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.98%) Confluence
5 11 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.85%) JBoss
6 6 (0.85%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.28%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.71%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) 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
1 293 (41.50%) Azure
2 221 (31.30%) AWS
3 149 (21.10%) Entra ID
4 90 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (9.92%) GCP
6 60 (8.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 58 (8.22%) Datadog
8 54 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
9 42 (5.95%) PaaS
10 36 (5.10%) Cloud Computing
10 36 (5.10%) SaaS
11 34 (4.82%) IaaS
12 29 (4.11%) Azure AKS
13 26 (3.68%) GitHub
14 24 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
15 23 (3.26%) Serverless
16 18 (2.55%) Microsoft Purview
17 16 (2.27%) Azure API Management
18 14 (1.98%) Amazon S3
19 11 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 123 (17.42%) Firewall
2 71 (10.06%) Network Security
3 70 (9.92%) Kerberos
4 65 (9.21%) DNS
5 38 (5.38%) VPN
5 38 (5.38%) WAN
6 29 (4.11%) TCP/IP
7 28 (3.97%) LAN
8 18 (2.55%) DHCP
9 16 (2.27%) Wireshark
10 15 (2.12%) Intrusion Detection
11 13 (1.84%) Internet
12 12 (1.70%) SD-WAN
12 12 (1.70%) Unified Communications
13 8 (1.13%) SSL
14 6 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (0.85%) WLAN
15 4 (0.57%) HTTP
15 4 (0.57%) NAS
15 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (9.63%) Metadata
2 26 (3.68%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (1.56%) Apache Hive
3 11 (1.56%) Presto
3 11 (1.56%) Redis
4 10 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (1.13%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.99%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.85%) Big Data
8 4 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.57%) MySQL
8 4 (0.57%) Power BI
9 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.42%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 96 (13.60%) Jenkins
2 86 (12.18%) Bitbucket
3 78 (11.05%) Git
4 65 (9.21%) Artifactory
5 21 (2.97%) GitLab
6 17 (2.41%) JIRA
7 10 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.13%) Subversion
9 7 (0.99%) Katalon Studio
9 7 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.71%) Postman
10 5 (0.71%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.57%) 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
1 294 (41.64%) Finance
2 185 (26.20%) Social Skills
3 157 (22.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 130 (18.41%) Law
5 92 (13.03%) Banking
5 92 (13.03%) Marketing
6 69 (9.77%) Legal
7 38 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
8 35 (4.96%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (3.12%) Games
11 13 (1.84%) Electronics
12 11 (1.56%) Retail
13 9 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.27%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.99%) Advertising
14 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.71%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (21.39%) Senior
2 141 (19.97%) Architect
3 135 (19.12%) Software Engineer
4 130 (18.41%) Analyst
5 123 (17.42%) Lead
6 93 (13.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 73 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 56 (7.93%) Senior Analyst
9 53 (7.51%) Governance Analyst
10 52 (7.37%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 45 (6.37%) Security Engineer
12 42 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (5.81%) Security Architect
14 33 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
14 33 (4.67%) Consultant
15 30 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.82%) Security Analyst
17 26 (3.68%) Cloud Architect
18 24 (3.40%) Security Manager
19 22 (3.12%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (16.01%) SAML
2 98 (13.88%) OpenID
3 82 (11.61%) LDAP
4 71 (10.06%) RESTful
4 71 (10.06%) Web Services
5 67 (9.49%) XML
6 65 (9.21%) JSON
6 65 (9.21%) JSON-LD
7 58 (8.22%) OAuth
8 52 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
9 27 (3.82%) SailPoint
10 26 (3.68%) REST
11 17 (2.41%) http4s
11 17 (2.41%) Lambda Expressions
11 17 (2.41%) Middleware
12 11 (1.56%) React
13 10 (1.42%) .NET
13 10 (1.42%) ARM Templates
13 10 (1.42%) Node.js
13 10 (1.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 219 (31.02%) Management Information System
2 91 (12.89%) Cloud Native
2 91 (12.89%) Public Cloud
3 72 (10.20%) Enterprise Cloud
4 65 (9.21%) Reference Data
5 36 (5.10%) Security Posture
6 32 (4.53%) Data Centre
7 31 (4.39%) Onboarding
8 30 (4.25%) Product Ownership
9 25 (3.54%) PKI
10 24 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
11 18 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
12 15 (2.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 14 (1.98%) Cloud Security Posture
13 14 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 12 (1.70%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (1.27%) SCADA
16 9 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 113 (16.01%) Windows
2 64 (9.07%) Linux
3 42 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 22 (3.12%) Apple iOS
5 21 (2.97%) Android
6 20 (2.83%) Unix
7 15 (2.12%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.84%) Solaris
9 10 (1.42%) Windows 10
10 9 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.99%) CentOS
11 7 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.71%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.57%) VMS
14 4 (0.57%) zOS
15 2 (0.28%) OpenVMS
15 2 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (49.43%) Agile
2 273 (38.67%) Cybersecurity
3 206 (29.18%) CI/CD
4 190 (26.91%) Roadmaps
5 159 (22.52%) Information Security
6 151 (21.39%) Software Engineering
7 140 (19.83%) SDLC
8 130 (18.41%) Security Operations
9 123 (17.42%) DevOps
10 122 (17.28%) Cloud Security
11 120 (17.00%) Architectural Design
12 119 (16.86%) Information Architecture
13 117 (16.57%) Community of Practice
13 117 (16.57%) Continuous Delivery
13 117 (16.57%) Operational Stability
14 94 (13.31%) Privileged Access Management
15 91 (12.89%) SIEM
16 90 (12.75%) RBAC
17 89 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
18 87 (12.32%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (16.86%) Java
2 117 (16.57%) PowerShell
3 89 (12.61%) SQL
4 77 (10.91%) Python
5 71 (10.06%) Go
6 65 (9.21%) Prolog
6 65 (9.21%) SPARQL
7 20 (2.83%) Kotlin
8 19 (2.69%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.69%) Scala
9 15 (2.12%) Bash
10 13 (1.84%) C#
11 8 (1.13%) Bicep
12 5 (0.71%) Ruby
13 4 (0.57%) Lua
13 4 (0.57%) Rust
14 3 (0.42%) BeanShell
14 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.28%) Perl
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.03%) CISSP
3 66 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 63 (8.92%) Degree
5 44 (6.23%) Azure Certification
6 37 (5.24%) CISM
7 32 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (4.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 29 (4.11%) CCSP
10 27 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (3.54%) AWS Certification
11 25 (3.54%) CEH
12 22 (3.12%) CISA
13 20 (2.83%) SANS
14 15 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.98%) SSCP
16 12 (1.70%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (1.27%) CCNP
19 8 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (11.19%) NIST
2 70 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (5.52%) PCI DSS
4 27 (3.82%) QA
5 22 (3.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 21 (2.97%) GDPR
7 16 (2.27%) SOC 2
8 10 (1.42%) HIPAA
8 10 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 10 (1.42%) NCSC
9 8 (1.13%) SLA
10 7 (0.99%) COBIT
11 6 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.85%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.57%) GRC
13 3 (0.42%) COSO
13 3 (0.42%) ITGC
14 2 (0.28%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.28%) ISO 31000
15 1 (0.14%) Def Stans
System Software
1 228 (32.29%) Active Directory
2 59 (8.36%) Docker
3 50 (7.08%) RACF
4 36 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
7 21 (2.97%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (1.70%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.85%) XenApp
10 5 (0.71%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.57%) vSphere
12 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 140 (19.83%) Terraform
2 81 (11.47%) Kubernetes
3 63 (8.92%) Single Sign-On
4 57 (8.07%) Grafana
5 43 (6.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 36 (5.10%) Ansible
7 19 (2.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 18 (2.55%) Puppet
9 17 (2.41%) Progress Chef
10 14 (1.98%) Nmap
11 12 (1.70%) QRadar
11 12 (1.70%) SCCM
12 9 (1.27%) Nessus
12 9 (1.27%) Packer
13 7 (0.99%) Prometheus
14 6 (0.85%) Istio
14 6 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.85%) Nagios
15 5 (0.71%) Kibana
15 5 (0.71%) Suricata
Vendors
1 248 (35.13%) Microsoft
2 98 (13.88%) Splunk
3 67 (9.49%) CyberArk
4 53 (7.51%) Dynatrace
5 33 (4.67%) Google
5 33 (4.67%) VMware
6 29 (4.11%) Oracle
6 29 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 26 (3.68%) Qualys
8 25 (3.54%) Cisco
8 25 (3.54%) Zscaler
9 19 (2.69%) Rapid7
10 16 (2.27%) Atlassian
11 15 (2.12%) Adobe
11 15 (2.12%) Apple
12 14 (1.98%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.98%) Thycotic
13 11 (1.56%) Databricks
13 11 (1.56%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.42%) Red Hat