Entra ID Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Entra ID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Entra ID over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 149 212
Rank change year-on-year -11 +63 +13
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 545 924 995
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.47% 1.83% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.63% 4.99% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 682 719
10th Percentile £214 £265 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +8.47%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £594
90th Percentile £729 £742 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 4
10th Percentile - - £16.14
25th Percentile - £25.00 £17.11
Median hourly rate £17.80 £33.25 £18.91
Median % change year-on-year -46.47% +75.81% -48.18%
75th Percentile £23.80 £59.25 £25.44
90th Percentile £34.28 £81.00 £34.18
UK median hourly rate £17.80 £54.00 £27.59
% change year-on-year -67.04% +95.71% -41.91%

All Cloud Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in England.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in England.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Entra ID in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Entra ID within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +17 321 £500 -9.09% 115
South East -37 69 £605 +0.83% 54
North of England +8 55 £500 +2.56% 53
South West +22 45 £439 +3.35% 32
Midlands -17 33 £369 -4.84% 45
North West -16 27 £500 +2.56% 30
West Midlands +2 25 £369 -14.24% 32
Yorkshire +23 22 £500 +32.45% 19
East Midlands +1 8 £469 +50.00% 13
North East +21 4 £500 -28.57% 5
East of England -16 3 £450 -5.26% 23
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 112 (20.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 75 (13.76%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.02%) IIS
4 10 (1.83%) Skype for Business
5 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.73%) Apache
7 3 (0.55%) Confluence
7 3 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.18%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 43 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (3.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 516 (94.68%) Azure
2 247 (45.32%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (10.09%) AWS
5 49 (8.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 47 (8.62%) IaaS
7 46 (8.44%) PaaS
7 46 (8.44%) Power Platform
8 45 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
9 42 (7.71%) OneDrive
10 36 (6.61%) Azure Storage
11 26 (4.77%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (4.77%) SaaS
12 25 (4.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 22 (4.04%) Serverless
14 20 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (3.67%) Azure Sentinel
15 19 (3.49%) Azure Functions
15 19 (3.49%) PowerApps
16 18 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 99 (18.17%) DNS
2 92 (16.88%) Firewall
3 37 (6.79%) DHCP
4 25 (4.59%) VPN
5 18 (3.30%) Network Security
6 16 (2.94%) LAN
7 14 (2.57%) WAN
8 11 (2.02%) HTTP
8 11 (2.02%) Skype
9 10 (1.83%) MPLS
10 7 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
10 7 (1.28%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.28%) Unified Communications
10 7 (1.28%) Wireless
11 6 (1.10%) SAN
12 5 (0.92%) SMTP
12 5 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.73%) Internet
14 3 (0.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (15.23%) SQL Server
2 37 (6.79%) Power BI
3 23 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 21 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.20%) Big Data
6 9 (1.65%) Tableau
7 8 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.47%) Apache Hive
7 8 (1.47%) Impala
8 7 (1.28%) Redis
9 5 (0.92%) Metadata
10 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.18%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.18%) MySQL
11 1 (0.18%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (4.04%) Git
2 18 (3.30%) Selenium
3 14 (2.57%) Visual Studio
4 12 (2.20%) SpecFlow
5 11 (2.02%) WebDriver
6 10 (1.83%) Postman
7 4 (0.73%) JIRA
8 3 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.55%) GitLab
8 3 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.18%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.18%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.18%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.18%) Moq
9 1 (0.18%) MSI
9 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 134 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 103 (18.90%) Finance
3 47 (8.62%) Public Sector
4 37 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.50%) Banking
6 22 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.83%) French Language
8 10 (1.83%) Local Government
8 10 (1.83%) Marketing
9 9 (1.65%) Law
9 9 (1.65%) Retail
10 8 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.47%) Legal
11 7 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.92%) Billing
13 5 (0.92%) Electronics
13 5 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (13.94%) Architect
2 69 (12.66%) Developer
3 65 (11.93%) Senior
4 54 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (8.26%) Analyst
5 45 (8.26%) Consultant
6 43 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
7 37 (6.79%) Senior Developer
8 33 (6.06%) Azure Developer
8 33 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 24 (4.40%) Backend Developer
10 23 (4.22%) Active Directory Engineer
11 22 (4.04%) Active Directory Support
11 22 (4.04%) Lead
12 21 (3.85%) IT Support
12 21 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 21 (3.85%) Security Engineer
13 19 (3.49%) Azure Specialist
13 19 (3.49%) IT Engineer
14 18 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (12.48%) .NET
2 63 (11.56%) XML
3 37 (6.79%) SAML
4 34 (6.24%) AngularJS
5 29 (5.32%) .NET Framework
6 27 (4.95%) .NET Core
6 27 (4.95%) OAuth
6 27 (4.95%) React
7 25 (4.59%) SailPoint
8 23 (4.22%) ARM Templates
9 19 (3.49%) OpenID
10 16 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
10 16 (2.94%) REST
11 15 (2.75%) LDAP
11 15 (2.75%) Web Services
12 14 (2.57%) JSON
13 13 (2.39%) ASP.NET
14 12 (2.20%) CSS
15 10 (1.83%) HTML
15 10 (1.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 36 (6.61%) PKI
3 29 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.12%) Cloud Native
6 16 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 9 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.65%) Replication
10 8 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.47%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.28%) iPhone
12 6 (1.10%) Digital Signage
13 5 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.92%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.73%) Client/Server
14 4 (0.73%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 225 (41.28%) Windows
2 101 (18.53%) Windows Server
3 74 (13.58%) Windows 10
4 43 (7.89%) Linux
5 35 (6.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 28 (5.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (2.94%) Android
8 15 (2.75%) VMS
9 13 (2.39%) Windows 7
9 13 (2.39%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (1.83%) Mac OS
11 8 (1.47%) Mac OS X
12 7 (1.28%) Unix
13 6 (1.10%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.55%) CentOS
14 3 (0.55%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (23.30%) CI/CD
2 123 (22.57%) Agile
3 119 (21.83%) DevOps
4 90 (16.51%) Migration
5 80 (14.68%) Identity Access Management
6 71 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 66 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
8 64 (11.74%) Scrum
9 63 (11.56%) B2C
10 61 (11.19%) ITIL
11 56 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
13 45 (8.26%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 41 (7.52%) RBAC
15 39 (7.16%) Identity Management
16 35 (6.42%) Customer Service
17 34 (6.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 33 (6.06%) Cloud Security
18 33 (6.06%) Project Delivery
19 31 (5.69%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 167 (30.64%) PowerShell
2 79 (14.50%) C#
3 53 (9.72%) Python
3 53 (9.72%) SQL
4 43 (7.89%) Bicep
5 22 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 21 (3.85%) VB
7 16 (2.94%) VBScript
8 11 (2.02%) Java
9 8 (1.47%) Bash
9 8 (1.47%) Scala
10 7 (1.28%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.92%) PHP
12 3 (0.55%) C
13 2 (0.37%) Ruby
13 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.18%) DataFlex
14 1 (0.18%) Korn
14 1 (0.18%) tcsh
14 1 (0.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 64 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 58 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.91%) Degree
4 33 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 24 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (4.22%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (2.75%) CISSP
9 8 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 8 (1.47%) CISM
9 8 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.73%) CCNP
12 4 (0.73%) CISA
13 3 (0.55%) CCIE
13 3 (0.55%) MCP
14 2 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.37%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (3.30%) QA
1 18 (3.30%) SLA
2 11 (2.02%) NIST
3 10 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.10%) GDPR
4 6 (1.10%) GRC
4 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.73%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.37%) COBIT
8 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.18%) GxP
9 1 (0.18%) NCSC
9 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 461 (84.59%) Active Directory
2 49 (8.99%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
4 27 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (3.67%) Hyper-V
6 15 (2.75%) Docker
7 7 (1.28%) vSphere
8 3 (0.55%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.18%) Firmware
10 1 (0.18%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 125 (22.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (13.58%) SCCM
3 61 (11.19%) Single Sign-On
4 47 (8.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 33 (6.06%) Kubernetes
6 27 (4.95%) Terraform
7 18 (3.30%) SCOM
7 18 (3.30%) WSUS
8 17 (3.12%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (1.65%) Ansible
10 8 (1.47%) Puppet
11 7 (1.28%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.92%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.73%) VxRail
14 3 (0.55%) CA Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.55%) Netcool
14 3 (0.55%) Packer
15 2 (0.37%) Consul
15 2 (0.37%) NetBackup
15 2 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 353 (64.77%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.54%) VMware
3 30 (5.50%) Okta
4 28 (5.14%) CA
5 26 (4.77%) Cisco
6 25 (4.59%) CyberArk
7 24 (4.40%) Citrix
8 19 (3.49%) Apple
8 19 (3.49%) ServiceNow
9 18 (3.30%) Oracle
10 13 (2.39%) Talend
11 9 (1.65%) Google
11 9 (1.65%) Mitel
12 8 (1.47%) Ping Identity
12 8 (1.47%) SAP
13 7 (1.28%) Dell
13 7 (1.28%) Progress
13 7 (1.28%) Qualys
13 7 (1.28%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.10%) F5