Entra ID Jobs

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 226 338
Rank change year-on-year +77 +112 -111
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 1,983 1,567 2,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 1.67% 1.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.44% 3.87% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,452 1,285 1,423
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,747 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36,434 40,499 83,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.05% 43.14% 48.68%
Number of salaries quoted 27,132 27,203 41,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,452 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,140 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +2.62% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 6 June 2024.

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 6 June 2024. 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 +87 1,799 £42,500 -15.00% 321
UK excluding London +89 1,363 £39,747 -11.67% 244
Work from Home +79 917 £52,500 -0.28% 156
London +32 538 £60,459 +5.15% 87
North of England +83 367 £40,000 -18.09% 57
South East +91 358 £39,500 -16.84% 62
Midlands +79 276 £35,000 -22.22% 43
West Midlands +40 165 £35,000 -17.65% 21
North West +43 154 £40,000 -25.58% 22
South West +33 140 £42,000 +12.00% 45
Yorkshire +74 135 £40,000 -3.03% 26
East Midlands +43 111 £34,418 -40.14% 22
East of England -28 97 £32,000 -24.71% 17
Scotland -39 87 £38,750 -17.99% 19
North East +33 78 £42,500 -17.21% 11
Wales +7 32 £28,290 -37.13% 6
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Northern Ireland -1 3 £42,500 -15.00%

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
1 504 (25.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 467 (23.55%) SharePoint
3 19 (0.96%) IIS
4 15 (0.76%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (0.66%) Confluence
6 10 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.35%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
9 4 (0.20%) CMS
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (0.050%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 193 (9.73%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.25%) Trello
5 1 (0.050%) 1Password
5 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.050%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.050%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.050%) Eikon
5 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.050%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,802 (90.87%) Azure
2 1,300 (65.56%) Microsoft 365
3 276 (13.92%) OneDrive
4 129 (6.51%) AWS
5 108 (5.45%) Power Platform
6 99 (4.99%) IaaS
7 95 (4.79%) PaaS
8 89 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (3.68%) SaaS
10 72 (3.63%) PowerApps
11 64 (3.23%) Power Automate
12 62 (3.13%) Azure Storage
13 60 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
14 55 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
15 49 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
16 47 (2.37%) Azure Logic Apps
17 40 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
18 38 (1.92%) Serverless
19 34 (1.71%) Azure AKS
20 33 (1.66%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 428 (21.58%) Firewall
2 376 (18.96%) DNS
3 274 (13.82%) DHCP
4 232 (11.70%) WAN
5 221 (11.14%) Broadband
6 212 (10.69%) 5G
7 208 (10.49%) LAN
8 175 (8.83%) VPN
9 159 (8.02%) Wi-Fi
10 146 (7.36%) TCP/IP
11 98 (4.94%) VLAN
12 83 (4.19%) Wireless
13 73 (3.68%) SAN
14 62 (3.13%) VoIP
15 59 (2.98%) Network Security
16 58 (2.92%) Remote Desktop
17 57 (2.87%) SD-WAN
18 46 (2.32%) NAS
19 36 (1.82%) WLAN
20 34 (1.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 60 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 51 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (2.37%) Power BI
5 28 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (0.96%) MySQL
7 13 (0.66%) MariaDB
7 13 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (0.45%) Big Data
8 9 (0.45%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.45%) NoSQL
8 9 (0.45%) Redis
9 8 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.40%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.35%) Ingres
11 5 (0.25%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.20%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (0.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (2.07%) JIRA
2 36 (1.82%) Git
3 9 (0.45%) GitLab
4 7 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
5 5 (0.25%) Moq
5 5 (0.25%) Postman
5 5 (0.25%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.25%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.15%) Selenium
7 3 (0.15%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) JUnit
8 2 (0.10%) MSTest
8 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.10%) webpack
9 1 (0.050%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.050%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.050%) MSI
General
1 563 (28.39%) Social Skills
2 320 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
3 289 (14.57%) Finance
4 252 (12.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 139 (7.01%) Legal
6 124 (6.25%) Law
7 74 (3.73%) Banking
7 74 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 50 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 36 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (1.71%) Marketing
12 33 (1.66%) Retail
13 32 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.36%) Games
15 25 (1.26%) Local Government
16 22 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.71%) Advertising
18 12 (0.61%) General Ledger
19 7 (0.35%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 392 (19.77%) Senior
2 309 (15.58%) Support Engineer
3 289 (14.57%) IT Support
4 242 (12.20%) Analyst
5 231 (11.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 230 (11.60%) IT Engineer
7 217 (10.94%) Technical Specialist
8 210 (10.59%) Linux Specialist
9 156 (7.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 129 (6.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 128 (6.45%) Senior Technical Specialist
11 128 (6.45%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
12 127 (6.40%) Senior Linux Specialist
13 115 (5.80%) 2nd Line Support
14 99 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
15 91 (4.59%) Consultant
15 91 (4.59%) Lead
16 87 (4.39%) IT Technician
17 81 (4.08%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 80 (4.03%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.22%) .NET
2 40 (2.02%) ARM Templates
3 24 (1.21%) SAML
4 21 (1.06%) OAuth
4 21 (1.06%) YAML
5 20 (1.01%) LDAP
6 18 (0.91%) CSS
7 17 (0.86%) Web Services
8 15 (0.76%) React
9 14 (0.71%) 802.1X
9 14 (0.71%) HTML
10 11 (0.55%) REST
11 10 (0.50%) JSON
11 10 (0.50%) RESTful
12 9 (0.45%) EDI
12 9 (0.45%) SailPoint
13 7 (0.35%) .NET Framework
13 7 (0.35%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.30%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (0.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 213 (10.74%) Social Media
2 125 (6.30%) Management Information System
3 82 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
4 80 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 71 (3.58%) Driving Licence
6 66 (3.33%) PKI
7 61 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 49 (2.47%) Replication
9 42 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.66%) Clustering
11 32 (1.61%) CCTV
12 27 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 24 (1.21%) Cloud Native
15 22 (1.11%) Smartphone
16 18 (0.91%) iPhone
17 17 (0.86%) iPad
18 15 (0.76%) Security Posture
18 15 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
19 13 (0.66%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 1,092 (55.07%) Windows
2 606 (30.56%) Windows Server
3 347 (17.50%) Linux
4 307 (15.48%) Windows 10
5 230 (11.60%) Ubuntu
6 115 (5.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 114 (5.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 107 (5.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 78 (3.93%) Apple iOS
10 68 (3.43%) Android
11 47 (2.37%) Mac OS
12 29 (1.46%) VMS
13 18 (0.91%) CentOS
14 14 (0.71%) Debian
15 11 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.50%) Mac OS X
17 9 (0.45%) SUSE
18 8 (0.40%) Unix
19 5 (0.25%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (23.95%) Cybersecurity
2 326 (16.44%) ITIL
3 325 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 307 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
5 273 (13.77%) Customer Service
6 252 (12.71%) IT Strategy
7 238 (12.00%) CRM
8 231 (11.65%) Artificial Intelligence
8 231 (11.65%) Technology Strategy
9 199 (10.04%) DevOps
10 166 (8.37%) Agile
11 165 (8.32%) Roadmaps
12 153 (7.72%) Information Security
13 150 (7.56%) Migration
14 149 (7.51%) Identity Access Management
15 128 (6.45%) Mentoring
16 122 (6.15%) Service Management
17 109 (5.50%) Coaching
18 106 (5.35%) RBAC
19 102 (5.14%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 417 (21.03%) PowerShell
2 254 (12.81%) Bash
3 216 (10.89%) SQL
4 59 (2.98%) C#
5 48 (2.42%) Python
6 35 (1.77%) Bicep
7 26 (1.31%) VB
8 24 (1.21%) VBScript
9 17 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
10 11 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.25%) Java
14 4 (0.20%) Go
15 3 (0.15%) AWK
15 3 (0.15%) sed
15 3 (0.15%) VBA
16 1 (0.050%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.050%) R
Qualifications
1 176 (8.88%) Degree
2 113 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 93 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 89 (4.49%) Azure Certification
5 46 (2.32%) SC Cleared
6 40 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
8 36 (1.82%) A+ Certification
9 34 (1.71%) CCNA
10 33 (1.66%) MCSE
11 31 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 27 (1.36%) MCP
14 23 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
15 21 (1.06%) AWS Certification
16 17 (0.86%) CISSP
16 17 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
16 17 (0.86%) MCSA
17 15 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 81 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 67 (3.38%) SLA
4 53 (2.67%) GDPR
5 27 (1.36%) NIST
6 22 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 11 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.45%) GRC
8 9 (0.45%) PMO
9 8 (0.40%) NCSC
10 7 (0.35%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.30%) COBIT
11 6 (0.30%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.30%) Web Application Security Consortium
12 4 (0.20%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.15%) QA
13 3 (0.15%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.15%) WCAG
14 1 (0.050%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1,749 (88.20%) Active Directory
2 254 (12.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 253 (12.76%) Hyper-V
4 114 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
5 93 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 90 (4.54%) Virtual Machines
7 50 (2.52%) RACF
8 45 (2.27%) vSphere
9 37 (1.87%) Docker
10 15 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
11 14 (0.71%) XenApp
12 11 (0.55%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 8 (0.40%) pfSense
13 8 (0.40%) XenDesktop
14 6 (0.30%) NFS
15 4 (0.20%) Firmware
16 2 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 1 (0.050%) DFS Replication
17 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 860 (43.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 234 (11.80%) Jamf Pro
3 157 (7.92%) SCCM
4 94 (4.74%) Single Sign-On
5 82 (4.14%) Terraform
6 78 (3.93%) vCenter Server
7 74 (3.73%) Kubernetes
8 71 (3.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 44 (2.22%) WSUS
10 26 (1.31%) FortiGate
10 26 (1.31%) SCOM
11 21 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
12 16 (0.81%) Ansible
13 12 (0.61%) CA Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.55%) Autotask
15 10 (0.50%) Backup Exec
15 10 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 8 (0.40%) vRealize
17 6 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
17 6 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,461 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 394 (19.87%) VMware
3 278 (14.02%) CyberArk
4 210 (10.59%) Tanium
5 143 (7.21%) Citrix
6 140 (7.06%) Cisco
7 138 (6.96%) Veeam
8 76 (3.83%) ServiceNow
9 60 (3.03%) Apple
10 58 (2.92%) Meraki
11 41 (2.07%) HP
12 38 (1.92%) Sophos
13 37 (1.87%) Draytek
14 36 (1.82%) Google
15 30 (1.51%) Acronis
16 29 (1.46%) Commvault
17 28 (1.41%) Dell
17 28 (1.41%) iManage
18 27 (1.36%) Aruba
19 26 (1.31%) CA