Entra ID Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 161 112
Rank change year-on-year +54 -49 +24
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 95 45 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.33% 1.14% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.95% 4.11% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 79 36 74
10th Percentile £29,400 £28,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £31,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.58% +0.67% -34.22%
75th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £58,938
90th Percentile £56,500 £77,500 £65,125
South East median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -5.88% -22.73%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,596 1,094 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.37% 27.64% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 479 732
10th Percentile £32,400 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -4.85% -10.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -0.09%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Entra ID
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in the Thames Valley

Entra ID
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Berkshire +72 53 £45,000 -5.26% 16
Buckinghamshire -3 27 £38,750 +3.33% 6
Oxfordshire -28 15 £51,000 +22.89% 10
Entra ID
South East

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 52 (54.74%) SharePoint
2 47 (49.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (78.95%) Azure
2 73 (76.84%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (16.84%) Google Workspace
4 10 (10.53%) IaaS
5 7 (7.37%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 6 (6.32%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.16%) PaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.05%) AWS
9 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.05%) SaaS
9 1 (1.05%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 50 (52.63%) DNS
2 43 (45.26%) DHCP
3 39 (41.05%) Firewall
4 29 (30.53%) VPN
5 24 (25.26%) VLAN
6 21 (22.11%) SSL
7 19 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (18.95%) TCP/IP
9 14 (14.74%) VoIP
10 6 (6.32%) WAN
10 6 (6.32%) Wireless
11 4 (4.21%) LAN
11 4 (4.21%) Network Security
12 1 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (1.05%) DKIM
12 1 (1.05%) DMARC
12 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 1 (1.05%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) JIRA
General
1 44 (46.32%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.32%) Retail
4 2 (2.11%) Advertising
4 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.11%) Legal
4 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.05%) Automotive
5 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (33.68%) IT Engineer
2 31 (32.63%) IT Support
3 29 (30.53%) IT Support Engineer
3 29 (30.53%) Support Engineer
4 26 (27.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (16.84%) Senior
6 14 (14.74%) Analyst
7 11 (11.58%) Senior IT Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) Senior IT Support
7 11 (11.58%) Senior Support Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (9.47%) Security Analyst
9 8 (8.42%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (7.37%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (7.37%) Active Directory Specialist
10 7 (7.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.37%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) 3rd Line Support
11 6 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.26%) HTML
1 5 (5.26%) ODBC
2 2 (2.11%) OpenID
2 2 (2.11%) Terraform
3 1 (1.05%) OAuth
3 1 (1.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Driving Licence
2 9 (9.47%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.37%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (6.32%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (5.26%) Replication
5 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (2.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 62 (65.26%) Windows
2 27 (28.42%) Windows Server
3 16 (16.84%) Mac OS
4 13 (13.68%) Linux
5 11 (11.58%) Windows 10
6 10 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (5.26%) Rocky
7 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.11%) Android
10 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (30.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (28.42%) Customer Service
3 27 (28.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (24.21%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (20.00%) ITIL
6 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (16.84%) Project Delivery
7 15 (15.79%) SIEM
8 14 (14.74%) Migration
9 12 (12.63%) Business Continuity
10 11 (11.58%) Data Privacy
10 11 (11.58%) High Availability
10 11 (11.58%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (11.58%) Mobile Device Management
11 10 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
11 10 (10.53%) Incident Response
11 10 (10.53%) Runbook
11 10 (10.53%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 9 (9.47%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 51 (53.68%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.42%) Kusto Query Language
3 6 (6.32%) Python
4 2 (2.11%) Bicep
4 2 (2.11%) SQL
5 1 (1.05%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (26.32%) CompTIA Security+
3 24 (25.26%) Degree
4 16 (16.84%) Network+ Certification
5 13 (13.68%) Security Cleared
6 11 (11.58%) DBS Check
7 8 (8.42%) CCNA
7 8 (8.42%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (7.37%) Azure Certification
8 7 (7.37%) DV Cleared
9 6 (6.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
10 4 (4.21%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.05%) CISM
11 1 (1.05%) CISSP
11 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.05%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.05%) GIAC
11 1 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (33.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (14.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.26%) NCSC
5 3 (3.16%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) SLA
7 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (76.84%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.89%) Hyper-V
3 15 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.05%) Firmware
5 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (52.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (13.68%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (6.32%) Graylog
4 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.05%) Autotask
5 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 83 (87.37%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.11%) VMware
3 19 (20.00%) Apple
4 16 (16.84%) Google
4 16 (16.84%) Veeam
5 14 (14.74%) Cisco
6 12 (12.63%) Datto
7 11 (11.58%) SonicWALL
8 5 (5.26%) Dell
9 4 (4.21%) ConnectWise
10 3 (3.16%) Meraki
11 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
12 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
12 1 (1.05%) Okta
12 1 (1.05%) Sophos