Entra ID Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 159 133
Rank change year-on-year +24 -26 +89
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 215 133 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 1.75% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.85% 5.20% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 173 84 270
10th Percentile £29,300 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,188 £29,446
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £57,239 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £61,000 £63,750 £63,875
England median annual salary £46,500 £46,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +9.41% -15.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,579 2,556 5,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 30.27% 33.72% 35.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,896 1,700 4,980
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,188
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.04% +6.52% -11.54%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the North of England

Entra ID
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
North West +62 123 £43,500 -3.33% 30
Yorkshire -20 85 £47,500 +35.71% 22
North East -62 7 £51,000 +36.00% 3
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 74 (34.42%) SharePoint
2 58 (26.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 163 (75.81%) Azure
2 156 (72.56%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (17.21%) Microsoft Purview
4 33 (15.35%) OneDrive
5 28 (13.02%) Power Platform
6 23 (10.70%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (9.30%) AWS
8 17 (7.91%) SaaS
9 12 (5.58%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (5.12%) Power Automate
11 9 (4.19%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (2.79%) GitHub
13 6 (2.79%) IaaS
13 6 (2.79%) PowerApps
14 5 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (2.33%) Intacct
14 5 (2.33%) OCI
15 4 (1.86%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 87 (40.47%) Firewall
2 47 (21.86%) VPN
3 36 (16.74%) DNS
4 35 (16.28%) DHCP
5 34 (15.81%) VLAN
6 21 (9.77%) LAN
7 20 (9.30%) WAN
8 11 (5.12%) VoIP
9 9 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (3.72%) TCP/IP
11 5 (2.33%) WLAN
12 4 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (1.86%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (1.40%) SD-WAN
13 3 (1.40%) Wireless
13 3 (1.40%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.93%) Network Security
14 2 (0.93%) WPA
15 1 (0.47%) NetScaler
15 1 (0.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.58%) Power BI
2 5 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Git
1 4 (1.86%) NUnit
2 3 (1.40%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 113 (52.56%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.58%) Finance
3 12 (5.58%) Public Sector
4 8 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.33%) Retail
6 4 (1.86%) Legal
6 4 (1.86%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.40%) Tech for Good
8 2 (0.93%) Games
8 2 (0.93%) Social Housing
8 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.47%) Back Office
9 1 (0.47%) Electronics
9 1 (0.47%) Law
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
9 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (22.33%) IT Support
2 45 (20.93%) Support Engineer
3 43 (20.00%) IT Engineer
4 37 (17.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 34 (15.81%) Lead
6 32 (14.88%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (8.37%) Senior
8 15 (6.98%) Analyst
9 14 (6.51%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Security Engineer
11 11 (5.12%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
11 11 (5.12%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.12%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.65%) 2nd Line Support
12 10 (4.65%) Desktop Support
12 10 (4.65%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.65%) IT Manager
13 9 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.19%) Desktop Engineer
13 9 (4.19%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.79%) .NET
2 5 (2.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (1.86%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.86%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.86%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (1.86%) Entity Framework
3 4 (1.86%) RESTful
3 4 (1.86%) Vitest
4 3 (1.40%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.93%) Middleware
5 2 (0.93%) OAuth
5 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.93%) OpenID
5 2 (0.93%) Playwright
5 2 (0.93%) RxJS
5 2 (0.93%) Swagger
6 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.47%) Google Maps API
6 1 (0.47%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.77%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (6.98%) Driving Licence
2 15 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 12 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.79%) PACS
7 5 (2.33%) iPad
7 5 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.33%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.86%) iPhone
9 3 (1.40%) Cyber Security Posture
9 3 (1.40%) EPoS
9 3 (1.40%) Social Media
10 2 (0.93%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.47%) Lidar
Operating Systems
1 99 (46.05%) Windows
2 48 (22.33%) Windows Server
3 34 (15.81%) Windows 10
4 13 (6.05%) Mac OS
5 11 (5.12%) Android
6 10 (4.65%) Apple iOS
7 7 (3.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.86%) Linux
10 3 (1.40%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.40%) VMS
11 2 (0.93%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (32.09%) Cybersecurity
2 56 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (24.65%) Customer Service
3 53 (24.65%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (24.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (20.00%) ITIL
6 34 (15.81%) Incident Response
7 33 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (14.42%) Security Architecture
9 29 (13.49%) Business Continuity
10 28 (13.02%) Data Protection
10 28 (13.02%) Decision-Making
11 26 (12.09%) Migration
11 26 (12.09%) User Experience
12 25 (11.63%) Risk Management
12 25 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (11.16%) BCP
14 23 (10.70%) DevOps
15 21 (9.77%) Business Continuity Planning
15 21 (9.77%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 39 (18.14%) PowerShell
2 18 (8.37%) Python
3 17 (7.91%) Bash
4 16 (7.44%) SQL
5 7 (3.26%) Bicep
6 5 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.63%) Degree
2 18 (8.37%) Azure Certification
3 15 (6.98%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.19%) Network+ Certification
5 6 (2.79%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.79%) DBS Check
6 5 (2.33%) CCNA
6 5 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.40%) MCSA
8 2 (0.93%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ACSP
9 1 (0.47%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 34 (15.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (12.56%) GDPR
4 21 (9.77%) NIST
5 7 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.79%) DICOM
7 5 (2.33%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.40%) QA
8 3 (1.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.47%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 118 (54.88%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.12%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.86%) Docker
7 2 (0.93%) Firmware
7 2 (0.93%) vSphere
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.47%) XenApp
8 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 112 (52.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (9.30%) Terraform
3 17 (7.91%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.72%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (2.79%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.40%) Autotask
8 2 (0.93%) Ansible
8 2 (0.93%) SCCM
9 1 (0.47%) Grafana
9 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 176 (81.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.44%) VMware
3 12 (5.58%) Apple
4 11 (5.12%) Cisco
5 9 (4.19%) HP
5 9 (4.19%) Meraki
6 8 (3.72%) New Relic
6 8 (3.72%) Splunk
6 8 (3.72%) Ubiquiti
7 7 (3.26%) Veeam
8 6 (2.79%) Samsung
9 5 (2.33%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.33%) Sage
10 4 (1.86%) DevExpress
10 4 (1.86%) ProCurve
11 3 (1.40%) Datto
12 2 (0.93%) Netskope
12 2 (0.93%) Okta
12 2 (0.93%) WatchGuard