Entra ID Job Trends in Kent

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 63 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 26 12 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 2.48% 1.69% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.34% 5.50% 5.97%
Number of salaries quoted 24 6 12
10th Percentile - £32,500 -
25th Percentile £27,500 £35,625 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,750 £50,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.50% +29.03% -18.42%
75th Percentile £41,250 £55,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £60,125 £71,875 £53,875
South East median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 410 218 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 39.12% 30.62% 31.26%
Number of salaries quoted 169 66 189
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,250 £21,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,594 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,250 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +13.59% -8.00%
75th Percentile £63,375 £69,375 £60,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Kent

Entra ID
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Kent over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in Kent

Entra ID
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the Kent region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Chatham -3 2 £67,000 -23.43%
Maidstone - 1 £28,000 - 4
Canterbury - 1 £40,000 -
Entra ID
South East

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 16 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (46.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 24 (92.31%) Azure
1 24 (92.31%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.69%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) DHCP
1 13 (50.00%) DNS
2 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 12 (46.15%) VPN
3 11 (42.31%) TCP/IP
4 10 (38.46%) VLAN
4 10 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (30.77%) Wireless
6 7 (26.92%) VoIP
7 3 (11.54%) SAN
8 2 (7.69%) LAN
8 2 (7.69%) NetScaler
8 2 (7.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Automotive
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) IT Support
2 6 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (23.08%) Systems Support
3 5 (19.23%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (3.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (3.85%) IT Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.69%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) iPhone
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
2 15 (57.69%) Windows Server
3 11 (42.31%) Windows 10
4 2 (7.69%) Linux
5 1 (3.85%) Android
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
4 6 (23.08%) Asset Management
4 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (23.08%) ITSM
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) Preventative Maintenance
7 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
7 2 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (7.69%) Patch Management
7 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.69%) Storage Management
7 2 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) PCI DSS
1 2 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 11 (42.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 2 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 25 (96.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Cisco
2 10 (38.46%) Meraki
3 6 (23.08%) Zoho
4 5 (19.23%) Citrix
5 4 (15.38%) VMware
6 2 (7.69%) Dell
6 2 (7.69%) NetApp
6 2 (7.69%) Veeam
7 1 (3.85%) Ivanti
7 1 (3.85%) Okta
7 1 (3.85%) WatchGuard