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identity and access management jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills

As of 2026-09-30, identity and access management appears in 937 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Security Engineer has the most postings mentioning identity and access management, with demand share up 11.9% vs the prior 4 weeks.

Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30

Postings · last 90 days
937
Demand vs prior month
up 11.9% vs the prior 4 weeks
Top role · 10.6% of skill postings
Security Engineer
Top hiring metro
San Francisco

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Frequently asked questions about identity and access management

+Is identity and access management in demand in 2026?

Yes. identity and access management appears in 937 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Security Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning identity and access management (10.6% of all postings mentioning identity and access management).

+What jobs require identity and access management?

According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning identity and access management are Business Information Security Officer (21.7% of that role’s postings mention identity and access management), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) (20.7% of that role’s postings mention identity and access management), Cybersecurity Director (18.5% of that role’s postings mention identity and access management).

+What skills are commonly paired with identity and access management?

Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), identity and access management most often appears alongside AWS, incident response, vulnerability management, Python, Cloud Security.

+Where is identity and access management most in demand?

As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring identity and access management are San Francisco, New York City, London, Austin, Bengaluru, according to the Skillenai jobs index.

+How can I keep up with new identity and access management content and jobs?

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+Which skills come before and after identity and access management?

The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.

Weekly indexed postings requiring identity and access management — last 90 days

Salary distribution

Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized

Career paths around identity and access management

Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.

Historical career profiles · all locations

Skills before identity and access management

Before identity and access managementFirewalls → identity and access management: 3 observed employer moves with this skill pairPowerShell → identity and access management: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairSOAR → identity and access management: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairAWS → identity and access management: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairincident response → identity and access management: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairthreat hunting pipeline → identity and access management: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairSOC 2 → identity and access management: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairsuitability procedural interviews → identity and access management: 1 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity andaccessmanagementFirewalls: 3 movesFirewalls3 movesPowerShell: 2 movesPowerShell2 movesSOAR: 2 movesSOAR2 movesAWS: 2 movesAWS2 movesincident response: 2 movesincident response2 movesthreat hunting pipeline: 1 movesthreat huntingpipeline1 movesSOC 2: 1 movesSOC 21 movessuitability procedural interviews: 1 movessuitabilityproceduralinterviews1 moves

Skills after identity and access management

After identity and access managementidentity and access management → RDS: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → docker: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → EC2: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → NIST: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → auto-scaling: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → Qualys: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → S3: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity and access management → Azure DevOps: 2 observed employer moves with this skill pairidentity andaccessmanagementRDS: 2 movesRDS2 movesdocker: 2 movesdocker2 movesEC2: 2 movesEC22 movesNIST: 2 movesNIST2 movesauto-scaling: 2 movesauto-scaling2 movesQualys: 2 movesQualys2 movesS3: 2 movesS32 movesAzure DevOps: 2 movesAzure DevOps2 moves
How to read this chart · view counts

Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.

The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.

Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.

Observed connections and move counts
ConnectionMoves
Before: Firewalls3
Before: PowerShell2
Before: SOAR2
Before: AWS2
Before: incident response2
Before: threat hunting pipeline1
Before: SOC 21
Before: suitability procedural interviews1
After: RDS2
After: docker2
After: EC22
After: NIST2
After: auto-scaling2
After: Qualys2
After: S32
After: Azure DevOps2

Roles most likely to require identity and access management

Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.

RolePostings mentioning skill% of role postings mentioning skill
Business Information Security Officer521.7%
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)620.7%
Cybersecurity Director518.5%
Chief Information Security Officer1118.3%
Information Security Director717.5%
Cyber Security Architect514.7%
Cloud Security Architect612.5%
IT Systems Engineer1812.4%
IT Engineer610.5%
IT Security Engineer610.2%

Roles with the most identity and access management postings

RolePostings mentioning skillShare of skill postings
Security Engineer9910.6%
Software Engineer626.6%
Product Manager394.2%
Security Architect252.7%
IT Systems Engineer181.9%
Technical Program Manager171.8%
Cloud Engineer151.6%
Cloud Security Engineer141.5%
Cloud Architect131.4%
DevOps Engineer121.3%

Top companies posting jobs requiring identity and access management

Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.

Top companies posting jobs requiring identity and access management
CompanyPostings · 90 days
Okta15
Accenture Federal Services9
JPMorgan Chase & Co.9
Anthropic8
Nimble Storage8
Fiserv7
Ping Identity7
General Dynamics Information Technology7
Accenture7
State Street6

Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.

Top metros hiring for identity and access management

NamePostingsShare
San Francisco384.1%
New York City373.9%
London353.7%
Austin192.0%
Bengaluru121.3%
Singapore121.3%
Toronto121.3%
Boston111.2%
Chicago111.2%

Skills commonly paired with identity and access management

AWS (219)incident response (208)vulnerability management (158)Python (154)Cloud Security (147)CI/CD (142)Azure (135)Kubernetes (128)Terraform (122)Encryption (104)

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How this was computed

Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning identity and access management by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s identity and access management postings by all identity and access management postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.3% to 0.4%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,596 identified employers and covers 68% of earlier and 72% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-06-02 to 2026-08-31 and 2026-06-30 to 2026-09-28 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.

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Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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