Entra ID Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 167 149
Rank change year-on-year +58 -18 +83
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 1,013 583 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.51% 1.96% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.24% 6.83% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 787 424 1,069
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £28,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -13.98%
75th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £69,006 £70,500 £63,050
UK median annual salary £47,000 £46,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.17% +8.24% -19.05%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,244 8,533 23,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.14% 28.67% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10,361 5,863 18,004
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,840 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.45%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +61 250 £47,500 +18.75% 69
South East +56 203 £42,500 +2.41% 117
Midlands +18 184 £40,000 +14.29% 59
East of England +17 134 £40,000 +22.95% 34
North West +85 132 £48,445 +4.18% 38
South West -31 120 £35,000 -14.11% 44
Yorkshire +13 109 £47,500 +35.71% 27
West Midlands +8 107 £47,500 +16.88% 27
Scotland +88 105 £28,000 -65.00% 19
East Midlands +2 77 £35,000 +22.27% 32
Wales -38 12 £69,973 +85.44% 7
North East -71 9 £45,500 +36.84% 5
Northern Ireland -33 5 £32,000 -26.44% 8
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 319 (31.49%) SharePoint
2 266 (26.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.79%) IIS
4 6 (0.59%) Confluence
5 5 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.39%) CMS
7 3 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.099%) Apache
Applications
1 85 (8.39%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.099%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.099%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.099%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 15 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.39%) Exchequer
3 4 (0.39%) Primavera
4 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.099%) SAP EHS
6 1 (0.099%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 773 (76.31%) Microsoft 365
2 767 (75.72%) Azure
3 98 (9.67%) OneDrive
4 92 (9.08%) SaaS
5 71 (7.01%) AWS
6 68 (6.71%) Power Platform
7 57 (5.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 48 (4.74%) IaaS
8 48 (4.74%) PaaS
9 46 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (4.44%) Google Workspace
11 35 (3.46%) Mimecast
12 33 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
13 30 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
14 26 (2.57%) Power Automate
15 22 (2.17%) Azure AKS
16 21 (2.07%) PowerApps
17 20 (1.97%) Serverless
18 17 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 303 (29.91%) Firewall
2 223 (22.01%) DNS
3 187 (18.46%) DHCP
4 177 (17.47%) VPN
5 114 (11.25%) Wi-Fi
6 96 (9.48%) VLAN
7 90 (8.88%) TCP/IP
8 79 (7.80%) LAN
9 77 (7.60%) WAN
10 50 (4.94%) VoIP
11 42 (4.15%) Network Security
12 37 (3.65%) Broadband
13 29 (2.86%) Wireless
14 18 (1.78%) Internet
15 15 (1.48%) SAN
16 13 (1.28%) SSL
17 11 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
18 9 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
18 9 (0.89%) WLAN
19 8 (0.79%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.26%) Power BI
2 32 (3.16%) SQL Server
3 21 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.79%) GIS
5 8 (0.79%) MySQL
5 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (0.49%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.20%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.099%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.099%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.099%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.099%) KNIME
9 1 (0.099%) Metadata
9 1 (0.099%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.099%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (3.55%) JIRA
2 8 (0.79%) Git
3 5 (0.49%) GitLab
4 4 (0.39%) NUnit
4 4 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.30%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.20%) MSI
6 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.20%) Yeoman
7 1 (0.099%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 419 (41.36%) Social Skills
2 80 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (6.91%) Finance
4 64 (6.32%) Legal
5 62 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (3.26%) Games
8 32 (3.16%) Back Office
9 29 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (2.17%) Retail
11 21 (2.07%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.09%) Billing
14 9 (0.89%) Automotive
14 9 (0.89%) Law
15 7 (0.69%) Marketing
16 6 (0.59%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.59%) Local Government
17 5 (0.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 350 (34.55%) IT Support
2 294 (29.02%) Support Engineer
3 258 (25.47%) IT Engineer
4 209 (20.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 114 (11.25%) Analyst
6 107 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 107 (10.56%) Senior
7 81 (8.00%) Support Analyst
8 73 (7.21%) Lead
9 71 (7.01%) 2nd Line Support
10 69 (6.81%) IT Analyst
11 59 (5.82%) IT Support Analyst
12 58 (5.73%) Support Technician
13 57 (5.63%) IT Technician
14 53 (5.23%) Systems Engineer
15 52 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 49 (4.84%) Desktop Support
16 49 (4.84%) IT Support Technician
17 47 (4.64%) Desktop Engineer
17 47 (4.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.75%) LDAP
2 37 (3.65%) OpenID
2 37 (3.65%) SAML
3 36 (3.55%) REST
4 35 (3.46%) OAuth
5 33 (3.26%) SOAP
6 32 (3.16%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.89%) .NET
7 9 (0.89%) ARM Templates
7 9 (0.89%) JSON
7 9 (0.89%) XML
8 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.69%) Middleware
8 7 (0.69%) RESTful
9 6 (0.59%) ASP.NET
9 6 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (0.49%) .NET Framework
10 5 (0.49%) YAML
11 4 (0.39%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.39%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.97%) Driving Licence
2 90 (8.88%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (3.55%) Cyber Threat
5 34 (3.36%) Cyberattack
5 34 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (3.06%) Security Posture
7 24 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 24 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.68%) Clustering
10 16 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.58%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 13 (1.28%) Client/Server
13 10 (0.99%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.99%) PKI
13 10 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (0.89%) Replication
15 8 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 547 (54.00%) Windows
2 303 (29.91%) Windows Server
3 134 (13.23%) Windows 10
4 98 (9.67%) Mac OS
5 62 (6.12%) Linux
6 42 (4.15%) Apple iOS
7 38 (3.75%) Android
8 37 (3.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 27 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 13 (1.28%) VMS
11 10 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.20%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (29.71%) Cybersecurity
2 240 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
3 239 (23.59%) ITIL
4 210 (20.73%) Customer Service
5 208 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 136 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 135 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
8 99 (9.77%) Service Delivery
9 97 (9.58%) Mentoring
10 94 (9.28%) Roadmaps
11 93 (9.18%) Identity Access Management
12 86 (8.49%) Migration
13 74 (7.31%) DevOps
14 72 (7.11%) Project Delivery
15 70 (6.91%) Identity Management
16 65 (6.42%) Incident Management
17 64 (6.32%) Service Management
17 64 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
18 62 (6.12%) Analytics
19 57 (5.63%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 193 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 100 (9.87%) SQL
3 58 (5.73%) Bash
4 45 (4.44%) Python
5 42 (4.15%) T-SQL
6 19 (1.88%) Bicep
7 18 (1.78%) R
8 5 (0.49%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.39%) C#
9 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.30%) Rust
11 2 (0.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.20%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.20%) VB
12 1 (0.099%) C
12 1 (0.099%) C++
12 1 (0.099%) Java
12 1 (0.099%) PHP
12 1 (0.099%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.099%) XAML
Qualifications
1 156 (15.40%) Degree
2 108 (10.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 90 (8.88%) Security Cleared
4 81 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 56 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 37 (3.65%) CTC Cleared
7 23 (2.27%) DBS Check
8 22 (2.17%) A+ Certification
9 21 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
10 16 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.38%) CCNA
13 13 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.09%) CISSP
15 9 (0.89%) CISM
16 7 (0.69%) AWS Certification
17 5 (0.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 5 (0.49%) MCITP
17 5 (0.49%) MCSA
18 4 (0.39%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (12.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 119 (11.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 71 (7.01%) SLA
4 65 (6.42%) NIST
5 58 (5.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 53 (5.23%) GDPR
7 33 (3.26%) NCSC
8 21 (2.07%) Data Quality
9 14 (1.38%) QA
10 6 (0.59%) DICOM
11 5 (0.49%) GRC
12 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.30%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.099%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.099%) ISO 22301
14 1 (0.099%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.099%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 709 (69.99%) Active Directory
2 140 (13.82%) Hyper-V
3 91 (8.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (1.97%) Docker
7 19 (1.88%) vSphere
8 11 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.39%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.099%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.099%) Firmware
11 1 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.099%) XenApp
11 1 (0.099%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 397 (39.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (4.64%) Terraform
3 41 (4.05%) Jamf Pro
4 39 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 13 (1.28%) Kubernetes
6 13 (1.28%) SCCM
7 12 (1.18%) vCenter Server
8 10 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 9 (0.89%) Backup Exec
9 9 (0.89%) Grafana
10 8 (0.79%) Ansible
10 8 (0.79%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.59%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.49%) Autotask
12 5 (0.49%) Graylog
13 4 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (0.39%) SolarWinds Orion
14 3 (0.30%) Puppet
14 3 (0.30%) Scalr
Vendors
1 802 (79.17%) Microsoft
2 118 (11.65%) VMware
3 104 (10.27%) Cisco
4 59 (5.82%) Veeam
5 56 (5.53%) Apple
6 45 (4.44%) Meraki
7 33 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 29 (2.86%) HP
8 29 (2.86%) Ubiquiti
9 21 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
10 19 (1.88%) SonicWALL
11 15 (1.48%) Google
11 15 (1.48%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.18%) Okta
12 12 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.18%) Sage
13 11 (1.09%) Citrix
13 11 (1.09%) Datto
13 11 (1.09%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.09%) Juniper