Entra ID Job Trends in Wales

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Entra ID skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 63 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 14 17 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.30% 1.87% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 5.67% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 10
10th Percentile £27,179 £35,250 £36,959
25th Percentile £39,163 £37,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -3.26% +19.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £54,799 £59,688
90th Percentile - £56,238 £71,649
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 242 300 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 22.45% 32.97% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 136 188 283
10th Percentile £28,125 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,791 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £72,625 £65,000 £67,438
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,689
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.69%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Wales

Entra ID
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Entra ID.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Wales over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Entra ID in Wales

Entra ID
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales -6 8 £80,000 +53.11% 1
West Wales - 3 £68,958 -
Mid Wales - 2 £38,750 -
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Stack
3 4 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Internet
1 3 (21.43%) VoIP
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
1 3 (21.43%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
2 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Technology
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Support
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 4 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Rocky
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Email Migration
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Kanban
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Argo
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Dell
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) PagerDuty