Entra ID Jobs

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Entra ID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Entra ID over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 148 222
Rank change year-on-year -60 +74 +111
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 856 1,951 1,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.53% 1.88% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 5.42% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 649 1,436 1,297
10th Percentile £26,850 £25,760 £29,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £42,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -18.27% -0.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £39,747 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.64% -11.67% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Entra ID.

Salary trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
England -57 811 £46,000 +8.24% 574
UK excluding London -62 542 £40,000 +0.64% 422
London -16 281 £64,500 +5.88% 211
Work from Home -117 270 £50,000 -3.85% 293
North of England -103 123 £40,000 - 97
South East -75 110 £45,000 +13.22% 112
Midlands -48 108 £31,000 -11.43% 70
East of England +46 102 £32,533 +1.67% 45
South West +58 77 £41,500 -1.19% 51
West Midlands -24 65 £35,000 - 41
Yorkshire -10 53 £35,000 -12.50% 27
East Midlands -17 43 £28,750 -17.47% 29
North West -107 36 £46,500 +16.25% 60
North East +5 34 £33,250 -21.76% 10
Scotland +51 12 £67,500 +80.00% 15
Wales +16 6 £32,500 +14.88% 24
Northern Ireland +44 5 £78,750 +85.29% 11
Isle of Man +11 1 - -

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 240 (28.04%) SharePoint
2 225 (26.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.22%) IIS
4 9 (1.05%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.58%) Liferay
6 3 (0.35%) Apache
6 3 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.35%) WordPress
7 2 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.12%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 84 (9.81%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.58%) Elite 3E
2 3 (0.35%) Sage 50
3 2 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.23%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.12%) Eikon
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 722 (84.35%) Azure
2 552 (64.49%) Microsoft 365
3 120 (14.02%) OneDrive
4 88 (10.28%) AWS
5 73 (8.53%) SaaS
6 70 (8.18%) Power Platform
7 59 (6.89%) Power Automate
8 48 (5.61%) IaaS
9 46 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
10 45 (5.26%) PaaS
11 41 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
13 32 (3.74%) Microsoft Copilot
14 27 (3.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 27 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
16 24 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
17 20 (2.34%) PowerApps
18 19 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
19 18 (2.10%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 226 (26.40%) Firewall
2 186 (21.73%) DNS
3 137 (16.00%) VPN
4 111 (12.97%) WAN
5 106 (12.38%) DHCP
6 94 (10.98%) LAN
7 71 (8.29%) VLAN
8 47 (5.49%) SD-WAN
9 42 (4.91%) VoIP
10 39 (4.56%) TCP/IP
11 34 (3.97%) Wireless
12 30 (3.50%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (3.04%) Network Security
14 24 (2.80%) SAN
15 22 (2.57%) SSL
16 19 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
17 14 (1.64%) PBX
18 13 (1.52%) Structured Cabling
19 12 (1.40%) DMARC
19 12 (1.40%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.61%) Power BI
3 20 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 18 (2.10%) Data Lake
5 16 (1.87%) MySQL
6 13 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.47%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.23%) Metadata
11 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.23%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.23%) Tableau
12 1 (0.12%) GIS
12 1 (0.12%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.22%) Git
1 19 (2.22%) JIRA
2 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
3 4 (0.47%) GitLab
3 4 (0.47%) WiX
4 1 (0.12%) Babel
4 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.12%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.12%) Selenium
4 1 (0.12%) webpack
General
1 310 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 102 (11.92%) Finance
3 67 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (6.19%) Law
5 50 (5.84%) Legal
6 41 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (2.57%) Public Sector
9 20 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.29%) Automotive
10 11 (1.29%) Back Office
11 9 (1.05%) Czech Language
12 7 (0.82%) Games
13 6 (0.70%) Local Government
14 5 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.47%) Retail
15 4 (0.47%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.35%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 151 (17.64%) IT Support
2 134 (15.65%) Analyst
3 100 (11.68%) Support Engineer
4 84 (9.81%) IT Engineer
5 82 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 81 (9.46%) Senior
7 75 (8.76%) Support Analyst
8 74 (8.64%) Technology Specialist
9 64 (7.48%) 2nd Line Support
10 58 (6.78%) IT Support Engineer
11 49 (5.72%) Architect
12 45 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (5.02%) Lead
14 42 (4.91%) Technical Support
15 40 (4.67%) Identity Management Specialist
16 39 (4.56%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (4.21%) Desktop Support
18 34 (3.97%) 1st Line Support
18 34 (3.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 32 (3.74%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.80%) SailPoint
2 16 (1.87%) JSON
2 16 (1.87%) SAML
3 15 (1.75%) REST
4 13 (1.52%) SOAP
5 12 (1.40%) OAuth
6 11 (1.29%) LDAP
6 11 (1.29%) OpenID
6 11 (1.29%) YAML
7 10 (1.17%) React
8 9 (1.05%) .NET
8 9 (1.05%) XML
9 8 (0.93%) ARM Templates
9 8 (0.93%) CSS
9 8 (0.93%) HTML
10 6 (0.70%) Blazor
11 5 (0.58%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.58%) 802.1X
11 5 (0.58%) Entity Framework
12 4 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.86%) NHS
2 50 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 35 (4.09%) Driving Licence
3 35 (4.09%) Management Information System
4 29 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 27 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.80%) Security Posture
6 24 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 20 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
9 18 (2.10%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (1.64%) PKI
11 11 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.17%) Clustering
12 10 (1.17%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (0.93%) Replication
13 8 (0.93%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 416 (48.60%) Windows
2 217 (25.35%) Windows Server
3 112 (13.08%) Windows 10
4 63 (7.36%) Mac OS
5 59 (6.89%) Linux
6 53 (6.19%) Apple iOS
7 34 (3.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 30 (3.50%) Android
8 30 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 12 (1.40%) Unix
11 9 (1.05%) VMS
12 3 (0.35%) CentOS
12 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.23%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.12%) Debian
14 1 (0.12%) SUSE
14 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (31.19%) ITIL
2 179 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
3 163 (19.04%) Customer Service
4 129 (15.07%) Identity Management
5 106 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 87 (10.16%) Roadmaps
8 85 (9.93%) DevOps
9 81 (9.46%) Migration
10 80 (9.35%) Agile
11 75 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (8.41%) Mentoring
13 69 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 66 (7.71%) Disaster Recovery
15 65 (7.59%) ITSM
16 64 (7.48%) CI/CD
17 59 (6.89%) Project Management
18 57 (6.66%) Analytics
19 54 (6.31%) Service Delivery
20 53 (6.19%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 244 (28.50%) PowerShell
2 96 (11.21%) SQL
3 63 (7.36%) Python
4 26 (3.04%) Bicep
5 17 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.64%) Bash
7 12 (1.40%) Java
8 9 (1.05%) VBA
9 8 (0.93%) C#
9 8 (0.93%) Perl
10 4 (0.47%) C++
10 4 (0.47%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.35%) PHP
11 3 (0.35%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.35%) VB
12 2 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.23%) R
12 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.12%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 212 (24.77%) Degree
2 122 (14.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 109 (12.73%) DBS Check
4 70 (8.18%) Azure Certification
5 53 (6.19%) Security Cleared
6 41 (4.79%) SC Cleared
7 33 (3.86%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (3.15%) CISSP
10 25 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (2.10%) CCNA
12 16 (1.87%) MCITP
13 15 (1.75%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.52%) MCSA
14 13 (1.52%) PMI Certification
14 13 (1.52%) PMP
15 12 (1.40%) CISM
16 10 (1.17%) MCP
16 10 (1.17%) MCSE
17 8 (0.93%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (8.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (5.37%) NIST
3 42 (4.91%) GDPR
4 35 (4.09%) SLA
5 33 (3.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (0.70%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.58%) GRC
8 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.58%) QA
8 5 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
9 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.35%) COBIT
10 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 14001
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.35%) NCSC
10 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 657 (76.75%) Active Directory
2 90 (10.51%) Hyper-V
3 88 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
5 40 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.52%) vSphere
8 9 (1.05%) Docker
9 8 (0.93%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.58%) Firmware
11 4 (0.47%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.35%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.35%) Postfix
12 3 (0.35%) XenApp
13 1 (0.12%) NDS
13 1 (0.12%) RHEV
13 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 318 (37.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (9.11%) Single Sign-On
3 64 (7.48%) SCCM
4 48 (5.61%) Terraform
5 23 (2.69%) Jamf Pro
6 20 (2.34%) Kubernetes
7 18 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 12 (1.40%) WSUS
9 8 (0.93%) Ansible
10 7 (0.82%) SmoothWall
11 6 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.58%) QRadar
13 4 (0.47%) Autotask
13 4 (0.47%) CASB
13 4 (0.47%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.35%) Iperf
14 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.35%) Puppet
14 3 (0.35%) SCOM
15 2 (0.23%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 655 (76.52%) Microsoft
2 116 (13.55%) VMware
3 91 (10.63%) Cisco
4 66 (7.71%) Meraki
5 53 (6.19%) Citrix
6 41 (4.79%) Okta
7 39 (4.56%) Apple
8 27 (3.15%) Veeam
9 26 (3.04%) Databricks
10 22 (2.57%) Palo Alto
10 22 (2.57%) ServiceNow
11 19 (2.22%) Google
12 17 (1.99%) Fortinet
13 16 (1.87%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.87%) SolarWinds
14 14 (1.64%) WatchGuard
14 14 (1.64%) Zscaler
15 12 (1.40%) iManage
15 12 (1.40%) Oracle
16 10 (1.17%) Dell