Entra ID Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Entra ID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Entra ID over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 199 324
Rank change year-on-year +85 +125 -108
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 902 710 814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.63% 1.79% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.07% 3.69% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 530 567 662
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,837 £42,115
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £52,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.27% -7.95%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,196 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,875 £80,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% - -4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Entra ID is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,850 19,261 39,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.23% 48.43% 53.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,043 14,020 22,023
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,193 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%

Entra ID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Entra ID trend for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entra ID.

Entra ID salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Entra ID over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Entra ID salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 242 (26.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 161 (17.85%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.89%) Confluence
3 8 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2013
4 6 (0.67%) IIS
5 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (0.22%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 58 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.55%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) 1Password
4 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.44%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 800 (88.69%) Azure
2 457 (50.67%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (7.87%) OneDrive
4 56 (6.21%) Power Platform
5 50 (5.54%) Azure Storage
6 49 (5.43%) IaaS
7 45 (4.99%) AWS
8 43 (4.77%) PaaS
9 42 (4.66%) SaaS
10 41 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
11 39 (4.32%) Azure Monitor
12 38 (4.21%) PowerApps
13 34 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (3.55%) Power Automate
15 28 (3.10%) Microsoft Purview
16 26 (2.88%) Serverless
17 22 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
18 17 (1.88%) Azure Key Vault
18 17 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
19 15 (1.66%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 218 (24.17%) Broadband
2 210 (23.28%) 5G
3 148 (16.41%) DNS
4 138 (15.30%) Firewall
5 105 (11.64%) DHCP
6 67 (7.43%) WAN
7 52 (5.76%) Wi-Fi
8 49 (5.43%) LAN
9 48 (5.32%) VPN
10 42 (4.66%) TCP/IP
11 25 (2.77%) VoIP
11 25 (2.77%) Wireless
12 24 (2.66%) VLAN
13 23 (2.55%) Network Security
13 23 (2.55%) SAN
14 22 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
14 22 (2.44%) SD-WAN
15 18 (2.00%) Internet
16 13 (1.44%) FTP
16 13 (1.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 30 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 30 (3.33%) Power BI
3 15 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.78%) Redis
7 5 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.55%) MongoDB
7 5 (0.55%) PowerPivot
8 4 (0.44%) MySQL
8 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.33%) Ingres
9 3 (0.33%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.22%) Big Data
10 2 (0.22%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (2.99%) JIRA
2 16 (1.77%) Git
3 3 (0.33%) Moq
3 3 (0.33%) Postman
3 3 (0.33%) Selenium
3 3 (0.33%) SoapUI
3 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
3 3 (0.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.22%) GitLab
4 2 (0.22%) JUnit
4 2 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 254 (28.16%) Analytical Skills
2 226 (25.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 223 (24.72%) Social Skills
4 138 (15.30%) Finance
5 76 (8.43%) Legal
6 62 (6.87%) Banking
7 43 (4.77%) Law
8 33 (3.66%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.44%) Marketing
10 12 (1.33%) General Ledger
10 12 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.22%) Retail
12 10 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.89%) Advertising
15 5 (0.55%) Automotive
15 5 (0.55%) Electronics
15 5 (0.55%) Games
15 5 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 274 (30.38%) Senior
2 210 (23.28%) Linux Specialist
2 210 (23.28%) Technical Specialist
3 128 (14.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 127 (14.08%) Senior Linux Specialist
4 127 (14.08%) Senior Technical Specialist
4 127 (14.08%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 108 (11.97%) Analyst
6 97 (10.75%) Support Engineer
7 93 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 77 (8.54%) IT Engineer
9 68 (7.54%) IT Support
10 66 (7.32%) Consultant
11 52 (5.76%) Senior Analyst
12 50 (5.54%) Governance Analyst
13 44 (4.88%) Lead
14 43 (4.77%) IT Support Engineer
15 39 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
16 38 (4.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 34 (3.77%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.22%) ARM Templates
2 24 (2.66%) .NET
3 11 (1.22%) CSS
3 11 (1.22%) REST
3 11 (1.22%) Web Services
4 10 (1.11%) YAML
5 9 (1.00%) HTML
5 9 (1.00%) OAuth
6 8 (0.89%) ASP.NET
7 7 (0.78%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (0.78%) LDAP
7 7 (0.78%) React
8 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (0.67%) SOAP
8 6 (0.67%) SPFx
9 5 (0.55%) Entity Framework
9 5 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
9 5 (0.55%) SAML
10 4 (0.44%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.44%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 211 (23.39%) Social Media
2 73 (8.09%) Management Information System
3 60 (6.65%) Self-Motivation
4 55 (6.10%) PKI
5 38 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 32 (3.55%) Public Cloud
7 26 (2.88%) Driving Licence
8 20 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.11%) Clustering
10 18 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.33%) Replication
13 11 (1.22%) iPhone
14 9 (1.00%) iPad
14 9 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.00%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.89%) Cloud Native
15 8 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 428 (47.45%) Windows
2 268 (29.71%) Linux
3 261 (28.94%) Windows Server
4 213 (23.61%) Ubuntu
5 103 (11.42%) Windows 10
6 56 (6.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 50 (5.54%) Windows Server 2019
8 48 (5.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (1.88%) Apple iOS
10 12 (1.33%) Mac OS
11 11 (1.22%) Android
12 9 (1.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.78%) VMS
14 5 (0.55%) Unix
15 4 (0.44%) CentOS
15 4 (0.44%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.33%) Debian
16 3 (0.33%) SUSE
16 3 (0.33%) Windows 7
17 1 (0.11%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (37.47%) Cybersecurity
2 228 (25.28%) CRM
3 219 (24.28%) IT Strategy
4 216 (23.95%) Artificial Intelligence
5 213 (23.61%) Technology Strategy
6 142 (15.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 130 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (13.53%) ITIL
9 111 (12.31%) Roadmaps
10 108 (11.97%) Information Security
11 106 (11.75%) DevOps
12 99 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
13 98 (10.86%) Agile
14 81 (8.98%) Coaching
15 78 (8.65%) RBAC
16 74 (8.20%) Customer Service
17 61 (6.76%) Mentoring
17 61 (6.76%) Security Operations
18 55 (6.10%) Service Management
18 55 (6.10%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 228 (25.28%) Bash
2 201 (22.28%) PowerShell
3 119 (13.19%) SQL
4 50 (5.54%) C#
5 24 (2.66%) Bicep
5 24 (2.66%) VB
6 23 (2.55%) VBScript
7 10 (1.11%) Python
8 9 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.67%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.44%) Java
12 4 (0.44%) VBA
13 3 (0.33%) AWK
13 3 (0.33%) sed
Qualifications
1 92 (10.20%) Degree
2 49 (5.43%) Security Cleared
3 40 (4.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (2.66%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 22 (2.44%) SC Cleared
6 14 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.00%) MCSE
8 8 (0.89%) CISM
8 8 (0.89%) CISSP
9 7 (0.78%) MCP
10 6 (0.67%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.67%) GIAC
10 6 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.67%) SANS
11 4 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
2 43 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.66%) SLA
4 13 (1.44%) NIST
5 9 (1.00%) GDPR
6 8 (0.89%) GRC
7 7 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.67%) COBIT
8 6 (0.67%) Web Application Security Consortium
9 3 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.33%) WCAG
10 2 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.22%) PMO
10 2 (0.22%) QA
11 1 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.11%) NCSC
11 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 824 (91.35%) Active Directory
2 96 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (9.09%) Hyper-V
4 55 (6.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 50 (5.54%) RACF
6 45 (4.99%) Virtual Machines
7 44 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (2.00%) Docker
9 15 (1.66%) vSphere
10 5 (0.55%) NFS
10 5 (0.55%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.33%) Firmware
13 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 428 (47.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 216 (23.95%) Jamf Pro
3 66 (7.32%) SCCM
4 58 (6.43%) Single Sign-On
5 55 (6.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 39 (4.32%) vCenter Server
7 34 (3.77%) Kubernetes
8 29 (3.22%) Terraform
9 28 (3.10%) WSUS
10 20 (2.22%) SCOM
11 17 (1.88%) Microsoft Clustering
12 12 (1.33%) CA Single Sign-On
13 9 (1.00%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.55%) Ansible
16 4 (0.44%) PaperCut
17 3 (0.33%) Nessus
18 2 (0.22%) NetBackup
18 2 (0.22%) PowerCLI
18 2 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 728 (80.71%) Microsoft
2 273 (30.27%) CyberArk
3 210 (23.28%) Tanium
4 156 (17.29%) VMware
5 51 (5.65%) ServiceNow
6 42 (4.66%) Cisco
7 33 (3.66%) Veeam
8 28 (3.10%) Meraki
9 25 (2.77%) Apple
9 25 (2.77%) Citrix
10 19 (2.11%) Commvault
11 18 (2.00%) CA
11 18 (2.00%) HP
11 18 (2.00%) Sun
12 17 (1.88%) iManage
13 12 (1.33%) Adobe
13 12 (1.33%) Sophos
14 9 (1.00%) Aruba
14 9 (1.00%) Dell
14 9 (1.00%) Juniper