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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 226 324
Rank change year-on-year +74 +98 -102
Permanent jobs citing Entra ID 1,906 1,646 2,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 1.65% 1.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.38% 3.84% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 1,321 1,437
10th Percentile £25,760 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -7.08%
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 35,439 42,907 78,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.11% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,676 28,199 41,290
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £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 19 May 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 19 May 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 +81 1,729 £42,500 -15.00% 372
UK excluding London +86 1,300 £39,747 -11.67% 280
Work from Home +73 863 £51,000 -3.13% 164
London +37 527 £60,000 +4.35% 116
North of England +84 344 £40,000 -20.00% 64
South East +91 336 £39,250 -12.78% 67
Midlands +88 268 £35,000 -22.22% 53
West Midlands +64 161 £35,000 -17.65% 26
North West +40 141 £40,000 -21.57% 39
South West +46 140 £41,206 +9.88% 42
Yorkshire +88 127 £40,000 -11.11% 20
East Midlands +43 106 £37,500 -32.89% 27
East of England -22 95 £32,000 -24.71% 29
Scotland -38 82 £40,000 -25.58% 14
North East +46 76 £42,500 -24.44% 6
Wales +2 29 £28,290 -40.13% 11
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Northern Ireland 0 3 £42,500 -15.00% 2

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
1 496 (26.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 444 (23.29%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.05%) IIS
4 15 (0.79%) Exchange Server 2013
5 14 (0.73%) Confluence
6 10 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
10 4 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.16%) WordPress
12 2 (0.10%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
13 1 (0.052%) Apache
13 1 (0.052%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.052%) WebSphere
Applications
1 192 (10.07%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.31%) Trello
5 1 (0.052%) 1Password
5 1 (0.052%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.052%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.052%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.31%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.052%) Carpe Diem
5 1 (0.052%) Eikon
5 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 1,753 (91.97%) Azure
2 1,267 (66.47%) Microsoft 365
3 262 (13.75%) OneDrive
4 126 (6.61%) AWS
5 104 (5.46%) Power Platform
6 101 (5.30%) IaaS
7 100 (5.25%) PaaS
8 88 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (3.83%) SaaS
10 68 (3.57%) PowerApps
11 62 (3.25%) Power Automate
12 53 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
12 53 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
13 52 (2.73%) Azure Storage
14 44 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
15 41 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
15 41 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
16 39 (2.05%) Serverless
17 38 (1.99%) Azure AKS
18 36 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 420 (22.04%) Firewall
2 368 (19.31%) DNS
3 267 (14.01%) DHCP
4 229 (12.01%) WAN
5 221 (11.59%) Broadband
6 212 (11.12%) 5G
7 204 (10.70%) LAN
8 173 (9.08%) VPN
9 160 (8.39%) Wi-Fi
10 141 (7.40%) TCP/IP
11 99 (5.19%) VLAN
12 76 (3.99%) SAN
13 75 (3.93%) Wireless
14 64 (3.36%) VoIP
15 59 (3.10%) Network Security
16 58 (3.04%) Remote Desktop
17 57 (2.99%) SD-WAN
18 44 (2.31%) NAS
19 33 (1.73%) Internet
20 32 (1.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.14%) SQL Server
2 59 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 51 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (2.36%) Power BI
5 26 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (0.94%) MySQL
7 13 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 12 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.47%) Big Data
9 9 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.47%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.47%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.47%) Redis
10 7 (0.37%) Ingres
11 6 (0.31%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.26%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.21%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 42 (2.20%) JIRA
2 26 (1.36%) Git
3 9 (0.47%) GitLab
4 7 (0.37%) Katalon Studio
5 5 (0.26%) Moq
5 5 (0.26%) Postman
5 5 (0.26%) SpecFlow
5 5 (0.26%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.16%) Selenium
7 3 (0.16%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.10%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.10%) Hudson
8 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.10%) JUnit
8 2 (0.10%) MSTest
8 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.10%) webpack
9 1 (0.052%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.052%) MSI
General
1 547 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 319 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
3 252 (13.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 246 (12.91%) Finance
5 130 (6.82%) Law
6 108 (5.67%) Legal
7 69 (3.62%) Manufacturing
8 56 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 47 (2.47%) Public Sector
10 43 (2.26%) Banking
11 35 (1.84%) Retail
12 34 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (1.68%) Marketing
14 25 (1.31%) Games
14 25 (1.31%) Local Government
15 22 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.68%) Advertising
17 12 (0.63%) General Ledger
18 11 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 361 (18.94%) Senior
2 304 (15.95%) Support Engineer
3 288 (15.11%) IT Support
4 232 (12.17%) IT Engineer
5 219 (11.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 216 (11.33%) Technical Specialist
7 210 (11.02%) Linux Specialist
8 207 (10.86%) Analyst
9 156 (8.18%) IT Support Engineer
10 128 (6.72%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 128 (6.72%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 128 (6.72%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 127 (6.66%) Senior Linux Specialist
12 106 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
13 93 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
14 88 (4.62%) Consultant
14 88 (4.62%) Lead
15 81 (4.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 80 (4.20%) IT Technician
17 78 (4.09%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.31%) .NET
2 32 (1.68%) ARM Templates
3 25 (1.31%) SAML
4 20 (1.05%) OAuth
5 19 (1.00%) YAML
6 17 (0.89%) CSS
6 17 (0.89%) LDAP
7 15 (0.79%) React
8 13 (0.68%) 802.1X
8 13 (0.68%) HTML
9 12 (0.63%) Web Services
10 11 (0.58%) JSON
10 11 (0.58%) REST
10 11 (0.58%) SailPoint
11 10 (0.52%) RESTful
12 9 (0.47%) EDI
13 8 (0.42%) ASP.NET
14 7 (0.37%) .NET Framework
14 7 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
14 7 (0.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 213 (11.18%) Social Media
2 92 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 81 (4.25%) Data Centre
4 79 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 73 (3.83%) Driving Licence
6 66 (3.46%) PKI
7 59 (3.10%) Onboarding
8 47 (2.47%) Replication
9 42 (2.20%) Public Cloud
10 35 (1.84%) Clustering
11 31 (1.63%) CCTV
12 25 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.10%) Cloud Native
15 20 (1.05%) Smartphone
16 18 (0.94%) iPhone
17 16 (0.84%) iPad
18 15 (0.79%) Security Posture
18 15 (0.79%) Video Conferencing
19 14 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,074 (56.35%) Windows
2 611 (32.06%) Windows Server
3 335 (17.58%) Linux
4 291 (15.27%) Windows 10
5 226 (11.86%) Ubuntu
6 118 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 113 (5.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 103 (5.40%) Windows Server 2019
9 78 (4.09%) Apple iOS
10 68 (3.57%) Android
11 46 (2.41%) Mac OS
12 29 (1.52%) VMS
13 18 (0.94%) CentOS
14 13 (0.68%) Debian
15 11 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
16 10 (0.52%) Unix
17 9 (0.47%) Mac OS X
17 9 (0.47%) SUSE
18 5 (0.26%) Windows 7
18 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (23.40%) Cybersecurity
2 314 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 313 (16.42%) ITIL
4 304 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
5 260 (13.64%) Customer Service
6 253 (13.27%) IT Strategy
7 238 (12.49%) CRM
8 233 (12.22%) Artificial Intelligence
9 232 (12.17%) Technology Strategy
10 190 (9.97%) DevOps
11 148 (7.76%) Migration
12 132 (6.93%) Mentoring
13 131 (6.87%) Roadmaps
14 128 (6.72%) Agile
15 124 (6.51%) Information Security
16 121 (6.35%) Identity Access Management
17 117 (6.14%) Service Management
18 100 (5.25%) Disaster Recovery
19 99 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
20 92 (4.83%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 375 (19.67%) PowerShell
2 252 (13.22%) Bash
3 192 (10.07%) SQL
4 56 (2.94%) C#
5 44 (2.31%) Python
6 25 (1.31%) Bicep
7 22 (1.15%) VB
8 20 (1.05%) VBScript
9 16 (0.84%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.26%) Java
13 5 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.21%) VBA
15 3 (0.16%) AWK
15 3 (0.16%) Go
15 3 (0.16%) sed
16 2 (0.10%) PHP
17 1 (0.052%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 178 (9.34%) Degree
2 117 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 91 (4.77%) Azure Certification
4 85 (4.46%) Security Cleared
5 42 (2.20%) SC Cleared
6 41 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
8 38 (1.99%) A+ Certification
8 38 (1.99%) MCSE
9 35 (1.84%) CCNA
10 28 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 27 (1.42%) DV Cleared
11 27 (1.42%) MCP
12 23 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.10%) MCSA
14 19 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.00%) CISSP
15 18 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 17 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 82 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 61 (3.20%) SLA
4 54 (2.83%) GDPR
5 28 (1.47%) NIST
6 23 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (0.52%) PMO
7 10 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.47%) GRC
9 7 (0.37%) NCSC
10 6 (0.31%) COBIT
10 6 (0.31%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.31%) Web Application Security Consortium
11 4 (0.21%) Accessibility
12 3 (0.16%) QA
12 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.16%) WCAG
13 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.052%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1,674 (87.83%) Active Directory
2 257 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 254 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 114 (5.98%) VMware ESXi
5 86 (4.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 82 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
7 45 (2.36%) vSphere
8 39 (2.05%) Docker
9 20 (1.05%) RACF
10 16 (0.84%) XenApp
11 15 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (0.52%) Terminal Services
12 10 (0.52%) XenDesktop
13 8 (0.42%) pfSense
14 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.31%) NFS
16 5 (0.26%) Firmware
17 2 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 1 (0.052%) DFS Replication
18 1 (0.052%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 832 (43.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 235 (12.33%) Jamf Pro
3 161 (8.45%) SCCM
4 102 (5.35%) Single Sign-On
5 77 (4.04%) Terraform
6 76 (3.99%) vCenter Server
7 73 (3.83%) Kubernetes
8 71 (3.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 41 (2.15%) WSUS
10 26 (1.36%) FortiGate
10 26 (1.36%) SCOM
11 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
12 15 (0.79%) Ansible
13 12 (0.63%) CA Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.58%) Autotask
15 10 (0.52%) Backup Exec
15 10 (0.52%) vRealize
16 9 (0.47%) ZABBIX
17 8 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
18 6 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 1,393 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 397 (20.83%) VMware
3 248 (13.01%) CyberArk
4 210 (11.02%) Tanium
5 143 (7.50%) Citrix
6 138 (7.24%) Veeam
7 137 (7.19%) Cisco
8 78 (4.09%) ServiceNow
9 63 (3.31%) Meraki
10 60 (3.15%) Apple
11 46 (2.41%) HP
12 39 (2.05%) Sophos
13 37 (1.94%) Draytek
14 35 (1.84%) Google
15 31 (1.63%) Commvault
15 31 (1.63%) iManage
16 29 (1.52%) Acronis
16 29 (1.52%) Dell
17 26 (1.36%) Aruba
17 26 (1.36%) CA