Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Entra ID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Entra ID over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 225 325
Rank change year-on-year +74 +100 -96
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 1,929 1,616 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 1.64% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.42% 3.81% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 1,307 1,430
10th Percentile £25,760 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £30,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,206 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,875 £80,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.22% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Entra ID is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Entra ID.

Salary trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +87 1,749 £42,500 -16.67% 396
UK excluding London +95 1,325 £39,500 -12.22% 315
Work from Home +81 889 £51,000 -3.13% 177
London +46 524 £60,000 +4.35% 147
North of England +97 358 £40,000 -15.79% 64
South East +94 338 £39,000 -13.33% 110
Midlands +75 269 £35,000 -22.22% 46
West Midlands +61 161 £35,000 -17.65% 23
North West +43 148 £40,000 -21.57% 35
South West +47 143 £41,206 +4.88% 44
Yorkshire +85 132 £40,000 - 22
East Midlands +55 107 £37,500 -34.78% 23
East of England -22 97 £32,000 -24.71% 31
Scotland -26 84 £37,500 -28.57% 16
North East +43 78 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Wales +5 30 £28,290 -37.13% 8
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Northern Ireland +4 3 £42,500 -15.00% 1

Entra ID
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
1 493 (25.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 447 (23.17%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.98%) IIS
4 15 (0.78%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.67%) Confluence
6 10 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.21%) CMS
10 3 (0.16%) WordPress
11 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
12 1 (0.052%) Apache
12 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.052%) WebSphere
Applications
1 190 (9.85%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.26%) Trello
5 1 (0.052%) 1Password
5 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.052%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.31%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.052%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.052%) Eikon
5 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,753 (90.88%) Azure
2 1,260 (65.32%) Microsoft 365
3 265 (13.74%) OneDrive
4 126 (6.53%) AWS
5 105 (5.44%) Power Platform
6 99 (5.13%) IaaS
7 98 (5.08%) PaaS
8 87 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 74 (3.84%) SaaS
10 68 (3.53%) PowerApps
11 61 (3.16%) Power Automate
12 55 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
13 53 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
14 52 (2.70%) Azure Storage
15 44 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
16 42 (2.18%) Azure Logic Apps
17 41 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
18 38 (1.97%) Azure AKS
18 38 (1.97%) Serverless
19 35 (1.81%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 417 (21.62%) Firewall
2 365 (18.92%) DNS
3 265 (13.74%) DHCP
4 230 (11.92%) WAN
5 221 (11.46%) Broadband
6 212 (10.99%) 5G
7 205 (10.63%) LAN
8 177 (9.18%) VPN
9 153 (7.93%) Wi-Fi
10 140 (7.26%) TCP/IP
11 98 (5.08%) VLAN
12 76 (3.94%) Wireless
13 74 (3.84%) SAN
14 61 (3.16%) VoIP
15 59 (3.06%) Network Security
15 59 (3.06%) Remote Desktop
16 57 (2.95%) SD-WAN
17 44 (2.28%) NAS
18 34 (1.76%) WLAN
19 32 (1.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 59 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 49 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (2.33%) Power BI
5 27 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (0.93%) MySQL
7 13 (0.67%) MariaDB
8 12 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.47%) Big Data
9 9 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.47%) Redis
10 7 (0.36%) Ingres
10 7 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.26%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.21%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (2.13%) JIRA
2 29 (1.50%) Git
3 9 (0.47%) GitLab
4 7 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
5 5 (0.26%) Moq
5 5 (0.26%) Postman
5 5 (0.26%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.10%) JUnit
8 2 (0.10%) MSTest
8 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.10%) webpack
9 1 (0.052%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.052%) Chocolatey
General
1 547 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 319 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
3 279 (14.46%) Finance
4 252 (13.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 131 (6.79%) Legal
6 125 (6.48%) Law
7 73 (3.78%) Banking
8 68 (3.53%) Manufacturing
9 56 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 48 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 34 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (1.76%) Retail
12 32 (1.66%) Marketing
13 31 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (1.30%) Games
14 25 (1.30%) Local Government
15 22 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.67%) Advertising
17 12 (0.62%) General Ledger
18 9 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 391 (20.27%) Senior
2 304 (15.76%) Support Engineer
3 288 (14.93%) IT Support
4 233 (12.08%) Analyst
5 230 (11.92%) IT Engineer
6 220 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 216 (11.20%) Technical Specialist
8 210 (10.89%) Linux Specialist
9 156 (8.09%) IT Support Engineer
10 129 (6.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 128 (6.64%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 128 (6.64%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 127 (6.58%) Senior Linux Specialist
13 108 (5.60%) 2nd Line Support
14 94 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
15 88 (4.56%) Consultant
16 86 (4.46%) Lead
17 81 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 80 (4.15%) IT Technician
19 78 (4.04%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.28%) .NET
2 34 (1.76%) ARM Templates
3 25 (1.30%) SAML
4 20 (1.04%) OAuth
5 19 (0.98%) YAML
6 17 (0.88%) CSS
6 17 (0.88%) LDAP
7 15 (0.78%) React
8 13 (0.67%) 802.1X
8 13 (0.67%) HTML
9 12 (0.62%) Web Services
10 11 (0.57%) JSON
10 11 (0.57%) REST
11 10 (0.52%) RESTful
11 10 (0.52%) SailPoint
12 9 (0.47%) EDI
13 8 (0.41%) ASP.NET
14 7 (0.36%) .NET Framework
14 7 (0.36%) ASP.NET MVC
15 6 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 213 (11.04%) Social Media
2 120 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 80 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (4.10%) Data Centre
5 72 (3.73%) Driving Licence
6 64 (3.32%) PKI
7 59 (3.06%) Onboarding
8 46 (2.38%) Replication
9 42 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 34 (1.76%) Clustering
11 31 (1.61%) CCTV
12 24 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
13 20 (1.04%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.04%) Smartphone
14 17 (0.88%) iPhone
15 16 (0.83%) iPad
16 15 (0.78%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.78%) Video Conferencing
17 14 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,069 (55.42%) Windows
2 599 (31.05%) Windows Server
3 336 (17.42%) Linux
4 297 (15.40%) Windows 10
5 227 (11.77%) Ubuntu
6 115 (5.96%) Windows Server 2012
7 110 (5.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 101 (5.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 77 (3.99%) Apple iOS
10 66 (3.42%) Android
11 46 (2.38%) Mac OS
12 29 (1.50%) VMS
13 17 (0.88%) CentOS
14 14 (0.73%) Debian
15 11 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
16 9 (0.47%) Mac OS X
16 9 (0.47%) SUSE
16 9 (0.47%) Unix
17 5 (0.26%) Windows 7
17 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (24.36%) Cybersecurity
2 316 (16.38%) ITIL
3 314 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 302 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (13.53%) Customer Service
6 252 (13.06%) IT Strategy
7 238 (12.34%) CRM
8 232 (12.03%) Artificial Intelligence
9 231 (11.98%) Technology Strategy
10 192 (9.95%) DevOps
11 159 (8.24%) Agile
12 158 (8.19%) Roadmaps
13 148 (7.67%) Information Security
14 147 (7.62%) Identity Access Management
14 147 (7.62%) Migration
15 130 (6.74%) Mentoring
16 116 (6.01%) Service Management
17 106 (5.50%) Coaching
18 99 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
18 99 (5.13%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 401 (20.79%) PowerShell
2 253 (13.12%) Bash
3 218 (11.30%) SQL
4 56 (2.90%) C#
5 47 (2.44%) Python
6 27 (1.40%) Bicep
7 23 (1.19%) VB
8 21 (1.09%) VBScript
9 16 (0.83%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.36%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.21%) Go
14 4 (0.21%) Java
14 4 (0.21%) VBA
15 3 (0.16%) AWK
15 3 (0.16%) sed
16 1 (0.052%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.052%) R
Qualifications
1 173 (8.97%) Degree
2 113 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 88 (4.56%) Azure Certification
4 87 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 42 (2.18%) SC Cleared
6 39 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
7 38 (1.97%) A+ Certification
8 35 (1.81%) MCSE
9 33 (1.71%) CCNA
10 28 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 28 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (1.40%) MCP
12 22 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (0.98%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.98%) MCSA
14 18 (0.93%) CISSP
15 17 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (0.78%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 79 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 60 (3.11%) SLA
4 52 (2.70%) GDPR
5 27 (1.40%) NIST
6 22 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (0.52%) PMO
7 10 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.47%) GRC
9 7 (0.36%) NCSC
10 6 (0.31%) COBIT
10 6 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.31%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.16%) WCAG
13 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.10%) QA
14 1 (0.052%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1,702 (88.23%) Active Directory
2 254 (13.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 251 (13.01%) Hyper-V
4 113 (5.86%) VMware ESXi
5 88 (4.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 82 (4.25%) Virtual Machines
7 48 (2.49%) RACF
8 44 (2.28%) vSphere
9 39 (2.02%) Docker
10 16 (0.83%) XenApp
11 14 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.52%) Terminal Services
12 10 (0.52%) XenDesktop
13 8 (0.41%) pfSense
14 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.31%) NFS
16 4 (0.21%) Firmware
17 2 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 1 (0.052%) Terminal Server
18 1 (0.052%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 836 (43.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 234 (12.13%) Jamf Pro
3 158 (8.19%) SCCM
4 97 (5.03%) Single Sign-On
5 81 (4.20%) Terraform
6 75 (3.89%) vCenter Server
7 73 (3.78%) Kubernetes
8 71 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 40 (2.07%) WSUS
10 26 (1.35%) FortiGate
11 25 (1.30%) SCOM
12 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
13 17 (0.88%) Ansible
14 12 (0.62%) CA Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.57%) Autotask
16 10 (0.52%) Backup Exec
16 10 (0.52%) ZABBIX
17 9 (0.47%) vRealize
18 7 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
19 6 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 1,418 (73.51%) Microsoft
2 392 (20.32%) VMware
3 276 (14.31%) CyberArk
4 210 (10.89%) Tanium
5 143 (7.41%) Citrix
6 137 (7.10%) Cisco
6 137 (7.10%) Veeam
7 77 (3.99%) ServiceNow
8 59 (3.06%) Apple
8 59 (3.06%) Meraki
9 45 (2.33%) HP
10 39 (2.02%) Sophos
11 37 (1.92%) Draytek
12 34 (1.76%) Google
13 31 (1.61%) iManage
14 30 (1.56%) Commvault
15 29 (1.50%) Acronis
15 29 (1.50%) Dell
16 26 (1.35%) Aruba
16 26 (1.35%) CA