Entra ID Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 175 131
Rank change year-on-year +53 -44 +73
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 198 114 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.35% 1.46% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.63% 5.64% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 173 80 261
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,200 £25,760
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,250 £39,747
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% +8.81% -16.32%
75th Percentile £58,750 £64,063 £56,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.26% +8.24% -19.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,515 2,023 5,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.96% 25.88% 29.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2,369 1,240 4,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,025
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,880 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the South East

Entra ID
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the South East over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in the South East

Entra ID
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Surrey +32 69 £42,500 -26.09% 10
Thames Valley +11 47 £39,000 -6.02% 37
Hampshire -23 34 £45,000 - 16
Kent -22 20 £47,500 +53.23% 11
Buckinghamshire -7 17 £42,500 +13.33% 16
Berkshire +18 15 £39,000 -39.06% 9
Oxfordshire -7 15 £34,000 -18.07% 12
West Sussex -9 13 £70,000 +133.33% 1
East Sussex -2 11 £29,500 -
Sussex - 2 £31,500 - 1
Middlesex +41 1 £97,500 - 1
Home Counties - 1 £60,000 -
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 69 (34.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (24.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (8.59%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 164 (82.83%) Azure
2 143 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (22.73%) SaaS
4 20 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.60%) Mimecast
6 18 (9.09%) AWS
7 17 (8.59%) IaaS
8 15 (7.58%) Azure AKS
8 15 (7.58%) PaaS
9 12 (6.06%) Power Platform
10 11 (5.56%) Serverless
11 10 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.54%) OneDrive
13 6 (3.03%) Google Workspace
14 5 (2.53%) Azure Functions
14 5 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.53%) Cloudflare
14 5 (2.53%) Datadog
15 3 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.52%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 49 (24.75%) DNS
2 44 (22.22%) Firewall
3 35 (17.68%) DHCP
4 31 (15.66%) VPN
5 25 (12.63%) TCP/IP
6 22 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (10.61%) VLAN
8 13 (6.57%) Wireless
9 12 (6.06%) WAN
10 11 (5.56%) LAN
11 10 (5.05%) SSL
12 7 (3.54%) VoIP
13 5 (2.53%) Network Security
14 4 (2.02%) BGP
14 4 (2.02%) IPsec
15 3 (1.52%) Internet
15 3 (1.52%) MQTT
16 2 (1.01%) Broadband
16 2 (1.01%) SAN
17 1 (0.51%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.57%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.04%) MySQL
2 8 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.04%) Power BI
2 8 (4.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.51%) Metadata
6 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (10.10%) JIRA
2 4 (2.02%) Git
3 3 (1.52%) GitLab
3 3 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.01%) MSI
General
1 70 (35.35%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.62%) Legal
3 19 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.60%) Finance
4 11 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.04%) Billing
7 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.53%) Local Government
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.51%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 74 (37.37%) IT Support
2 59 (29.80%) Support Engineer
3 49 (24.75%) IT Engineer
4 45 (22.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 30 (15.15%) Senior
6 29 (14.65%) 3rd Line Support
7 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure Support
8 21 (10.61%) Analyst
9 20 (10.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 20 (10.10%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 20 (10.10%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 14 (7.07%) Senior IT Support
11 13 (6.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (6.57%) Support Technician
12 12 (6.06%) Senior IT Engineer
12 12 (6.06%) Senior Support Engineer
13 11 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 10 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.04%) JSON
1 8 (4.04%) XML
2 5 (2.53%) ARM Templates
2 5 (2.53%) OpenID
2 5 (2.53%) REST
2 5 (2.53%) YAML
3 4 (2.02%) SAML
4 3 (1.52%) gRPC
4 3 (1.52%) Kafka
4 3 (1.52%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.52%) LDAP
4 3 (1.52%) Loki
4 3 (1.52%) OAuth
4 3 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.52%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (1.01%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.01%) ADO
5 2 (1.01%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (13.13%) Driving Licence
2 12 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.05%) Data Structures
4 8 (4.04%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.54%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.53%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.02%) Replication
7 4 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.01%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.01%) PKI
10 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.51%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 93 (46.97%) Windows
2 68 (34.34%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.61%) Mac OS
4 19 (9.60%) Linux
5 17 (8.59%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.55%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.01%) Android
9 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (20.20%) Cybersecurity
2 39 (19.70%) ITIL
3 38 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (17.17%) Customer Service
5 31 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.12%) Project Delivery
7 23 (11.62%) Identity Management
7 23 (11.62%) Technical Leadership
8 22 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (10.61%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.61%) DevOps
9 21 (10.61%) Incident Management
9 21 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (10.10%) Workflow
11 18 (9.09%) Change Management
11 18 (9.09%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.08%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (7.07%) Migration
14 12 (6.06%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (17.68%) PowerShell
2 24 (12.12%) Python
3 23 (11.62%) SQL
4 18 (9.09%) R
5 10 (5.05%) T-SQL
6 8 (4.04%) Bash
7 6 (3.03%) Bicep
8 3 (1.52%) Rust
9 2 (1.01%) C#
10 1 (0.51%) C
10 1 (0.51%) C++
10 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (12.63%) Degree
2 19 (9.60%) Security Cleared
3 15 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (5.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (4.55%) DBS Check
7 8 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 5 (2.53%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (2.02%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.52%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.52%) GIAC
11 1 (0.51%) CCA
11 1 (0.51%) CCIE
11 1 (0.51%) CCNA
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.51%) CISM
11 1 (0.51%) CISSP
11 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (9.60%) SLA
3 15 (7.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
6 5 (2.53%) NIST
7 4 (2.02%) GDPR
7 4 (2.02%) NCSC
8 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.51%) GRC
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 156 (78.79%) Active Directory
2 31 (15.66%) Hyper-V
3 19 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (3.54%) vSphere
5 6 (3.03%) Docker
6 4 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 80 (40.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (11.11%) Terraform
3 12 (6.06%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (4.55%) Backup Exec
5 8 (4.04%) Grafana
5 8 (4.04%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.54%) vCenter Server
7 6 (3.03%) SCCM
8 5 (2.53%) Graylog
8 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
8 5 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.52%) Ansible
9 3 (1.52%) Podman
9 3 (1.52%) Puppet
9 3 (1.52%) Scalr
10 2 (1.01%) Argo
11 1 (0.51%) Autotask
11 1 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 147 (74.24%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.63%) VMware
3 19 (9.60%) CrowdStrike
4 16 (8.08%) Veeam
5 14 (7.07%) Cisco
6 13 (6.57%) Meraki
7 11 (5.56%) Apple
8 8 (4.04%) ServiceNow
9 6 (3.03%) Citrix
9 6 (3.03%) Ubiquiti
10 5 (2.53%) Datto
10 5 (2.53%) SonicWALL
11 4 (2.02%) Google
11 4 (2.02%) HP
12 3 (1.52%) NVIDIA
12 3 (1.52%) Tenable
13 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 1 (0.51%) ConnectWise
14 1 (0.51%) Dell
14 1 (0.51%) Okta