Entra ID Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 57 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 -36 +44
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 10 8 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 1.02% 1.46% 6.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 4.60% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 20
10th Percentile £53,750 £42,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% +12.43% +2.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,000 £49,063
90th Percentile £64,125 £55,100 £50,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £37,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% +19.21% -16.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 375 174 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 38.11% 31.75% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 103 123 155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,200 £26,768
25th Percentile £38,125 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £65,750 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £63,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -7.41%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Entra ID
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in Staffordshire

Entra ID
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Stoke-on-Trent +15 1 £63,000 +80.00%
Tamworth - 1 £47,500 - 1
Entra ID
West Midlands

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (30.00%) Datadog
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) IaaS
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) Network Security
3 4 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (40.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Digital Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) IT Support
3 3 (30.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Junior
3 3 (30.00%) Junior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Junior IT Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Junior IT Support
3 3 (30.00%) Junior Support Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 4 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
3 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Information Security
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CTC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) DBS Check
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) CCSP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (40.00%) HP
3 4 (40.00%) Juniper
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 3 (30.00%) Google
4 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) Exabeam
5 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (10.00%) Meraki