Entra ID Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 165 148 202
Rank change year-on-year -17 +54 -9
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 272 391 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 1.71% 1.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.12% 5.21% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 308 307
10th Percentile £213 £229 £246
25th Percentile £370 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +17.65% -4.82%
75th Percentile £638 £627 £538
90th Percentile £705 £700 £633
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.10% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile - £21.19 £16.14
25th Percentile - £26.48 £17.11
Median hourly rate £17.80 £29.49 £18.91
Median % change year-on-year -39.64% +55.93% +2.23%
75th Percentile - £41.81 £25.44
90th Percentile £37.12 £54.50 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,316 7,509 10,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.80% 32.87% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,760 5,529 7,404
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 217 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.12 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +34.93% -1.88%
75th Percentile £34.20 £64.50 £31.69
90th Percentile £67.85 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.20
% change year-on-year -41.45% +64.41% -0.22%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -20 83 £605 +0.83% 105
North of England +1 53 £550 +15.79% 69
Scotland +49 51 £420 -11.58% 17
South West +23 45 £445 -1.20% 46
Midlands -21 31 £350 -9.68% 44
North West -2 30 £588 +22.08% 32
West Midlands -26 22 £350 -18.60% 20
Yorkshire +9 19 £525 +40.00% 25
East Midlands -2 8 £469 +56.25% 23
Wales +10 6 £513 +20.59% 6
East of England -18 3 £450 +5.88% 29
North East +11 2 £550 -21.43% 14
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 68 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (15.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.37%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (9.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 247 (90.81%) Azure
2 118 (43.38%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (18.01%) Azure Monitor
4 27 (9.93%) AWS
5 24 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 24 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (8.82%) Power Platform
6 23 (8.46%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (6.99%) Azure Functions
7 19 (6.99%) Azure Storage
7 19 (6.99%) OneDrive
7 19 (6.99%) Serverless
8 14 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 14 (5.15%) PowerApps
9 13 (4.78%) IaaS
10 12 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.04%) Power Automate
12 10 (3.68%) PaaS
13 9 (3.31%) Azure API Management
13 9 (3.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (19.12%) DNS
2 48 (17.65%) Firewall
3 28 (10.29%) DHCP
4 19 (6.99%) VPN
5 11 (4.04%) Network Security
6 7 (2.57%) SAN
7 6 (2.21%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (2.21%) Unified Communications
8 4 (1.47%) NAS
8 4 (1.47%) SMTP
8 4 (1.47%) WAN
8 4 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.10%) LAN
10 2 (0.74%) Skype
11 1 (0.37%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.37%) FTP
11 1 (0.37%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.37%) PBX
11 1 (0.37%) VoIP
11 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.72%) Power BI
2 20 (7.35%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.57%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.47%) SSDT
7 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.37%) MySQL
7 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (8.82%) Git
2 5 (1.84%) Selenium
3 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 89 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (9.93%) Public Sector
3 19 (6.99%) Banking
4 18 (6.62%) Finance
5 8 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.84%) Retail
7 4 (1.47%) Local Government
7 4 (1.47%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.10%) Automotive
8 3 (1.10%) Legal
9 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) Back Office
10 1 (0.37%) French Language
10 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (11.40%) Analyst
2 29 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (9.56%) Architect
4 25 (9.19%) Developer
5 22 (8.09%) Active Directory Support
6 21 (7.72%) Full Stack Developer
7 20 (7.35%) Azure Developer
7 20 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (7.35%) Consultant
8 19 (6.99%) Support Engineer
9 18 (6.62%) Azure Specialist
10 17 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 17 (6.25%) Security Analyst
11 15 (5.51%) Active Directory Engineer
12 14 (5.15%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (5.15%) Support Specialist
13 13 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.78%) Python Developer
14 11 (4.04%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 11 (4.04%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.82%) SailPoint
2 22 (8.09%) ARM Templates
3 21 (7.72%) SAML
4 20 (7.35%) React
5 13 (4.78%) OAuth
6 10 (3.68%) OpenID
7 9 (3.31%) LDAP
7 9 (3.31%) OAuth2
8 6 (2.21%) Keycloak
8 6 (2.21%) Web Services
9 5 (1.84%) .NET
9 5 (1.84%) YAML
10 3 (1.10%) CSS
11 2 (0.74%) Django
11 2 (0.74%) HTML
12 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.37%) HTML5 Canvas
12 1 (0.37%) J2EE
12 1 (0.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.76%) PKI
2 25 (9.19%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.41%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.21%) Clustering
7 6 (2.21%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.21%) NHS
8 5 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.84%) Replication
8 5 (1.84%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.10%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.74%) IoT
11 2 (0.74%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 114 (41.91%) Windows
2 53 (19.49%) Windows Server
3 41 (15.07%) Windows 10
4 39 (14.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 32 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (10.66%) Linux
7 11 (4.04%) VMS
8 6 (2.21%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.74%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.37%) Unix
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (20.96%) DevOps
2 53 (19.49%) CI/CD
3 49 (18.01%) Identity Access Management
4 44 (16.18%) Agile
5 42 (15.44%) ITIL
6 34 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 33 (12.13%) Cybersecurity
8 31 (11.40%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 29 (10.66%) Migration
9 29 (10.66%) RBAC
10 28 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (9.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (9.56%) Service Management
13 25 (9.19%) Customer Service
13 25 (9.19%) Identity Management
14 23 (8.46%) Analytics
14 23 (8.46%) Microservices
15 22 (8.09%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (8.09%) Cloud Security
16 21 (7.72%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 60 (22.06%) PowerShell
2 35 (12.87%) Python
3 25 (9.19%) C#
4 22 (8.09%) Bicep
5 19 (6.99%) VB
5 19 (6.99%) VBScript
6 15 (5.51%) SQL
7 9 (3.31%) Java
8 4 (1.47%) Bash
9 3 (1.10%) C
9 3 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.10%) PHP
9 3 (1.10%) Ruby
10 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.37%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 59 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.60%) Degree
4 32 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.99%) Azure Certification
5 19 (6.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.57%) CISSP
9 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.47%) CISM
11 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.74%) CISA
11 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CCNP
12 1 (0.37%) CCSP
12 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.88%) QA
2 6 (2.21%) SLA
3 4 (1.47%) NIST
4 3 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.10%) GDPR
4 3 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) GRC
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) COBIT
6 1 (0.37%) COSO
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 232 (85.29%) Active Directory
2 33 (12.13%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (11.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (6.99%) Hyper-V
5 16 (5.88%) Docker
6 13 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (2.21%) vSphere
8 4 (1.47%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (1.47%) Terminal Services
8 4 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.37%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.37%) NFS
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.37%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 68 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (16.54%) Single Sign-On
3 33 (12.13%) SCCM
4 32 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 28 (10.29%) Kubernetes
6 22 (8.09%) WSUS
7 20 (7.35%) SCOM
8 13 (4.78%) Terraform
9 4 (1.47%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.47%) vMotion
10 3 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.74%) Ansible
11 2 (0.74%) CA Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.74%) SCDPM
11 2 (0.74%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.74%) VxRail
12 1 (0.37%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.37%) Nessus
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 141 (51.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.56%) CyberArk
2 26 (9.56%) VMware
3 18 (6.62%) Okta
4 16 (5.88%) CA
5 15 (5.51%) Oracle
6 11 (4.04%) Citrix
7 9 (3.31%) Cisco
8 8 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.94%) Zscaler
9 7 (2.57%) HP
10 6 (2.21%) Apple
11 4 (1.47%) Dell
11 4 (1.47%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.10%) Google
13 2 (0.74%) Fortinet
13 2 (0.74%) SAP
13 2 (0.74%) Symantec
13 2 (0.74%) Veritas