Entra ID Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 155 149
Rank change year-on-year +32 -6 +87
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 1,178 731 1,580
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.59% 2.00% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 5.34% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 963 628 1,279
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £25,952
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £62,571 £68,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,200 £87,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +20.00% -15.42%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,806 13,677 29,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.06% 37.34% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,861 10,200 24,163
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in England

Entra ID
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in England over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the England region over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
London +30 380 £65,000 - 104
North of England +16 198 £47,500 +11.76% 62
Midlands +28 166 £34,250 -11.04% 39
South East +22 161 £42,500 -10.53% 88
East of England 0 128 £39,576 +21.77% 26
South West +10 126 £32,500 -27.78% 39
North West +17 113 £45,000 - 39
West Midlands +41 102 £37,500 -16.67% 21
Yorkshire -21 78 £47,500 +26.67% 16
East Midlands -23 64 £32,500 +13.04% 18
North East -26 7 £51,000 +36.00% 7
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 347 (29.46%) SharePoint
2 309 (26.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.76%) Confluence
4 5 (0.42%) IIS
5 4 (0.34%) CMS
5 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (0.17%) Moodle
6 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.085%) Apache
7 1 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.085%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 72 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.085%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.34%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (0.34%) Exchequer
2 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.34%) Primavera
3 2 (0.17%) Shopify
4 1 (0.085%) Carpe Diem
4 1 (0.085%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.085%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 946 (80.31%) Azure
2 805 (68.34%) Microsoft 365
3 135 (11.46%) OneDrive
4 101 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 90 (7.64%) SaaS
6 89 (7.56%) AWS
7 78 (6.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 61 (5.18%) Azure Monitor
9 60 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
10 59 (5.01%) PaaS
11 54 (4.58%) Google Workspace
12 51 (4.33%) IaaS
13 42 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
14 37 (3.14%) Mimecast
14 37 (3.14%) PowerApps
15 36 (3.06%) Azure AKS
16 32 (2.72%) GCP
17 30 (2.55%) Power Automate
18 29 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
19 26 (2.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 306 (25.98%) Firewall
2 278 (23.60%) DNS
3 246 (20.88%) DHCP
4 223 (18.93%) VPN
5 118 (10.02%) Wi-Fi
6 117 (9.93%) TCP/IP
7 114 (9.68%) WAN
8 89 (7.56%) VLAN
9 82 (6.96%) LAN
10 65 (5.52%) Network Security
11 51 (4.33%) VoIP
12 32 (2.72%) Broadband
12 32 (2.72%) Wireless
13 23 (1.95%) SD-WAN
14 18 (1.53%) Internet
15 17 (1.44%) SAN
16 14 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (1.19%) IPsec
17 12 (1.02%) WinSCP
18 9 (0.76%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.35%) Power BI
2 41 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 14 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (0.93%) Relational Database
6 9 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (0.68%) GIS
7 8 (0.68%) MySQL
7 8 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.085%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.085%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.085%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.085%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.085%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.085%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (3.23%) JIRA
2 34 (2.89%) Git
3 8 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.51%) GitLab
5 4 (0.34%) NUnit
5 4 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.34%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.17%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 455 (38.62%) Social Skills
2 156 (13.24%) Finance
3 81 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (5.77%) Legal
5 64 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
6 61 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (3.82%) Law
8 38 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 23 (1.95%) Retail
11 17 (1.44%) Marketing
12 16 (1.36%) Billing
13 14 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.19%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.93%) Advertising
15 9 (0.76%) Banking
16 7 (0.59%) Automotive
17 6 (0.51%) Local Government
18 5 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 345 (29.29%) IT Support
2 258 (21.90%) Support Engineer
3 239 (20.29%) IT Engineer
4 193 (16.38%) IT Support Engineer
5 137 (11.63%) Senior
6 126 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 123 (10.44%) Analyst
8 111 (9.42%) Lead
9 93 (7.89%) Support Analyst
10 92 (7.81%) 2nd Line Support
11 77 (6.54%) Support Technician
12 68 (5.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 66 (5.60%) Architect
14 64 (5.43%) IT Technician
15 63 (5.35%) Azure Engineer
16 62 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
17 60 (5.09%) 3rd Line Support
18 59 (5.01%) IT Support Technician
19 55 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
20 52 (4.41%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.09%) OAuth
2 54 (4.58%) SAML
3 44 (3.74%) OpenID
4 35 (2.97%) LDAP
5 33 (2.80%) REST
6 26 (2.21%) GraphQL
7 25 (2.12%) .NET
7 25 (2.12%) SOAP
8 22 (1.87%) SailPoint
9 15 (1.27%) YAML
10 12 (1.02%) ADO
10 12 (1.02%) CSS
11 11 (0.93%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.76%) RESTful
13 8 (0.68%) HTML
13 8 (0.68%) JSON
13 8 (0.68%) XML
14 7 (0.59%) ARM Templates
14 7 (0.59%) React
15 6 (0.51%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.49%) Onboarding
2 90 (7.64%) Driving Licence
3 59 (5.01%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (3.23%) Security Posture
6 35 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.89%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.63%) Cyberattack
9 30 (2.55%) Cloud Native
10 26 (2.21%) Cyber Threat
11 24 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
12 22 (1.87%) IoT
13 19 (1.61%) PKI
14 18 (1.53%) Mobile App
15 17 (1.44%) iPad
16 16 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
17 14 (1.19%) iPhone
18 13 (1.10%) CMDB
19 12 (1.02%) Data Centre
20 11 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 582 (49.41%) Windows
2 329 (27.93%) Windows Server
3 167 (14.18%) Windows 10
4 87 (7.39%) Apple iOS
5 82 (6.96%) Linux
6 77 (6.54%) Mac OS
7 69 (5.86%) Android
8 40 (3.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (1.87%) VMS
9 22 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.34%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.34%) Unix
12 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.17%) Debian
14 1 (0.085%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (25.13%) Cybersecurity
2 274 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
3 273 (23.17%) ITIL
4 211 (17.91%) Customer Service
5 170 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 167 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 146 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
8 135 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
9 130 (11.04%) Mentoring
10 126 (10.70%) Service Delivery
11 118 (10.02%) Roadmaps
12 100 (8.49%) DevOps
12 100 (8.49%) Identity Management
13 97 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 90 (7.64%) AI
14 90 (7.64%) Migration
15 88 (7.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 86 (7.30%) Project Delivery
17 82 (6.96%) RBAC
18 81 (6.88%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 278 (23.60%) PowerShell
2 111 (9.42%) SQL
3 61 (5.18%) Python
4 56 (4.75%) Bash
5 36 (3.06%) T-SQL
6 20 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 18 (1.53%) Bicep
8 17 (1.44%) C#
8 17 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (1.36%) R
10 8 (0.68%) VB.NET
11 6 (0.51%) C++
11 6 (0.51%) Java
11 6 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.17%) VB
14 1 (0.085%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.085%) PHP
14 1 (0.085%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 134 (11.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 126 (10.70%) Degree
3 76 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 60 (5.09%) SC Cleared
5 51 (4.33%) Azure Certification
6 39 (3.31%) CISSP
7 24 (2.04%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
10 18 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (1.44%) CISM
12 16 (1.36%) A+ Certification
12 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 15 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
14 14 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.10%) CCNA
16 12 (1.02%) GIAC
17 11 (0.93%) MCSA
18 10 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (15.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 129 (10.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 87 (7.39%) NIST
4 75 (6.37%) GDPR
5 68 (5.77%) SLA
6 38 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 31 (2.63%) NCSC
8 23 (1.95%) Data Quality
9 19 (1.61%) SOC 2
10 12 (1.02%) QA
11 11 (0.93%) GRC
12 6 (0.51%) DICOM
12 6 (0.51%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.17%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.17%) COBIT
14 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.085%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.085%) JSP 440
System Software
1 816 (69.27%) Active Directory
2 127 (10.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 112 (9.51%) Hyper-V
4 45 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 29 (2.46%) Docker
7 28 (2.38%) vSphere
8 14 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.93%) Firmware
10 8 (0.68%) BitLocker
11 5 (0.42%) XenDesktop
12 4 (0.34%) KVM
12 4 (0.34%) Terminal Services
12 4 (0.34%) XenApp
13 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.085%) Postfix
14 1 (0.085%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 497 (42.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (6.88%) Single Sign-On
2 81 (6.88%) Terraform
3 57 (4.84%) Jamf Pro
4 46 (3.90%) SCCM
5 35 (2.97%) Kubernetes
6 28 (2.38%) Ansible
7 16 (1.36%) vCenter Server
8 14 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (1.19%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.76%) Backup Exec
10 8 (0.68%) Autotask
10 8 (0.68%) Grafana
10 8 (0.68%) VxRail
11 4 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
12 3 (0.25%) CASB
12 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.25%) Scalr
13 2 (0.17%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.17%) DatAdvantage
Vendors
1 893 (75.81%) Microsoft
2 156 (13.24%) VMware
3 79 (6.71%) Apple
4 78 (6.62%) Cisco
5 52 (4.41%) ServiceNow
6 48 (4.07%) Meraki
7 39 (3.31%) Google
7 39 (3.31%) Veeam
8 31 (2.63%) Citrix
9 29 (2.46%) CrowdStrike
9 29 (2.46%) Okta
10 27 (2.29%) Samsung
11 26 (2.21%) CyberArk
11 26 (2.21%) HP
12 23 (1.95%) Dell
13 20 (1.70%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.53%) Freshdesk
15 17 (1.44%) Ubiquiti
16 16 (1.36%) SolarWinds
16 16 (1.36%) Zscaler