Entra ID Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Entra ID skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Entra ID over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 80 62
Rank change year-on-year +19 -18 +37
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 32 44 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.73% 2.22% 2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.08% 7.99% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 46
10th Percentile £325 £501 £480
25th Percentile £425 £603 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -3.20% +0.81%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £722
90th Percentile £675 £686 £750
South East median daily rate £545 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.92% +0.83% +15.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £53.40
25th Percentile - - £54.75
Median hourly rate - - £59.00
75th Percentile - - £62.75
90th Percentile - - £63.80
South East median hourly rate - £17.80 £59.00
% change year-on-year - -69.83% -

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

Entra ID falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Berkshire

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Berkshire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Berkshire

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in Berkshire

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +8 17 £650 +7.00% 18
Wokingham 0 11 £350 -22.22% 5
Windsor - 2 £575 - 2
Entra ID
South East

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (93.75%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) Azure Monitor
3 8 (25.00%) Azure API Management
4 7 (21.88%) Serverless
5 6 (18.75%) SaaS
6 5 (15.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (15.63%) Azure Functions
6 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (15.63%) PaaS
7 4 (12.50%) Azure AKS
7 4 (12.50%) IaaS
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.25%) Azure App Service
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
9 2 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) DHCP
1 5 (15.63%) DNS
2 3 (9.38%) FTP
2 3 (9.38%) SMTP
2 3 (9.38%) Telnet
3 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 2 (6.25%) NGFW
3 2 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (3.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless
4 1 (3.13%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.38%) SSDT
4 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Metasploit
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Architect
2 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Lead
5 4 (12.50%) Python Developer
5 4 (12.50%) React Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) OAuth
2 7 (21.88%) SAML
3 6 (18.75%) React
4 4 (12.50%) OpenID
5 3 (9.38%) YAML
6 2 (6.25%) .NET
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
6 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
6 2 (6.25%) REST
7 1 (3.13%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.13%) Entity Framework
7 1 (3.13%) JSON
7 1 (3.13%) RESTful
7 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
7 1 (3.13%) SPML
7 1 (3.13%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.25%) Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) DevOps
2 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) RBAC
4 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (28.13%) Identity Management
6 7 (21.88%) Microservices
7 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) Release Management
8 5 (15.63%) B2B
8 5 (15.63%) B2C
8 5 (15.63%) ETL
8 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
9 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (12.50%) Product Backlog
9 4 (12.50%) SDLC
9 4 (12.50%) TOGAF
10 3 (9.38%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) Bicep
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) C
7 1 (3.13%) C++
7 1 (3.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.13%) Ruby
7 1 (3.13%) VB
7 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CISM
3 2 (6.25%) CISSP
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) GPEN
4 1 (3.13%) GWAPT
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) MCSE
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.13%) OSCE
4 1 (3.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) GDPR
1 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) NFS
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.13%) Docker
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (9.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
6 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.13%) SCCM
6 1 (3.13%) SCOM
6 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) VMware
3 3 (9.38%) UiPath
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Okta
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Zscaler