Entra ID Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 51 95
Rank change year-on-year +24 +44 +12
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 90 44 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 10.25% 3.43% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.56% 8.96% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 26 32 9
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,625 £26,600
25th Percentile £25,875 £42,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £53,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.34% +32.50% +6.26%
75th Percentile £35,000 £55,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £83,225 £60,000
Scotland median annual salary £31,000 £48,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year -35.75% +20.63% -5.88%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Entra ID falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 382 491 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.51% 38.30% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 131 205 375
10th Percentile £25,500 £36,250 £38,850
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £58,800 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% -9.54% +9.20%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £90,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £54,712 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.04% -0.52% -

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Entra ID relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Entra ID
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in Edinburgh

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 74 (82.22%) Azure
2 57 (63.33%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (25.56%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (17.78%) Microsoft Purview
5 13 (14.44%) AWS
5 13 (14.44%) GitHub
5 13 (14.44%) OCI
6 10 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (10.00%) SaaS
8 8 (8.89%) Mimecast
9 4 (4.44%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (4.44%) OneDrive
9 4 (4.44%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 4 (4.44%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Jenkins
1 13 (14.44%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (56.67%) Finance
2 9 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Senior
2 22 (24.44%) Applications Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Analyst
3 13 (14.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Support Analyst
4 9 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 9 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Consultant
5 8 (8.89%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 5 (5.56%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Help Desk Technician
6 5 (5.56%) IT Technician
7 4 (4.44%) 1st Line Support
7 4 (4.44%) 1st Line Support Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) JSON
1 13 (14.44%) RESTful
1 13 (14.44%) SOAP
1 13 (14.44%) XML
2 3 (3.33%) OAuth
2 3 (3.33%) OpenID
2 3 (3.33%) SailPoint
2 3 (3.33%) SAML
3 2 (2.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (37.78%) Product Ownership
2 21 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (17.78%) Security Posture
4 13 (14.44%) Cloud Native
5 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.44%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 4 (4.44%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.67%) Asset Management
1 51 (56.67%) Coaching
2 41 (45.56%) Agile
3 40 (44.44%) DevOps
3 40 (44.44%) ITIL
4 36 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 34 (37.78%) Technology Roadmap
6 31 (34.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (30.00%) Mentoring
8 26 (28.89%) AI
8 26 (28.89%) Analytics
8 26 (28.89%) FinOps
8 26 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (28.89%) Machine Learning
9 23 (25.56%) Business Strategy
10 18 (20.00%) Information Security
11 15 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
12 13 (14.44%) API Integration
12 13 (14.44%) CI/CD
12 13 (14.44%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.44%) Python
2 27 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 22 (24.44%) SQL
4 18 (20.00%) Bash
5 13 (14.44%) Java
5 13 (14.44%) PL/SQL
5 13 (14.44%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) NIST
2 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 50 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 31 (34.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (43.33%) Terraform
3 13 (14.44%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (8.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (52.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) Okta
2 13 (14.44%) Oracle
3 5 (5.56%) Apple
3 5 (5.56%) Citrix
3 5 (5.56%) Freshdesk
4 3 (3.33%) ForgeRock