Entra ID Contracts in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 74 90
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 +43
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 66 63 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.30% 2.58% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.64% 6.58% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 46 54
10th Percentile £256 £388 £370
25th Percentile £356 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £628
90th Percentile £643 £775 £776
London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 864 958 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.24% 39.25% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 693 1,015
10th Percentile £365 £351 £313
25th Percentile £458 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £665 £650 £700
90th Percentile £739 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Central London

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Central London

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Central London

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in Central London

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +5 53 £536 -2.55% 14
Southwark - 3 - -
West End of London -2 2 £513 -18.00% 4
City of Westminster - 1 £630 - 3
Entra ID
London

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 18 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 18 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.55%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.52%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.52%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (95.45%) Azure
2 39 (59.09%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (25.76%) OneDrive
4 11 (16.67%) AWS
5 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 6 (9.09%) IaaS
7 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
7 5 (7.58%) GitHub
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.06%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.55%) GCP
9 3 (4.55%) Mimecast
9 3 (4.55%) SaaS
10 2 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Firewall
2 11 (16.67%) DNS
3 5 (7.58%) DHCP
4 4 (6.06%) Network Security
5 3 (4.55%) MPLS
5 3 (4.55%) Skype
6 2 (3.03%) SAN
6 2 (3.03%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.03%) VPN
6 2 (3.03%) WAN
6 2 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.52%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.52%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.52%) SMTP
7 1 (1.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.52%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.52%) Power BI
3 1 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 32 (48.48%) Finance
2 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Banking
4 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Law
6 2 (3.03%) Legal
6 2 (3.03%) Retail
6 2 (3.03%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.52%) Advertising
7 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.52%) International Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (19.70%) Support Engineer
2 9 (13.64%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 9 (13.64%) Senior
3 8 (12.12%) Analyst
3 8 (12.12%) Architect
4 7 (10.61%) IT Support
5 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Lead
5 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) IT Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Consultant
7 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) IT Security Officer
7 3 (4.55%) Security Officer
7 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.15%) OAuth
2 6 (9.09%) OpenID
3 5 (7.58%) SAML
4 4 (6.06%) Kafka
4 4 (6.06%) REST
5 3 (4.55%) LDAP
5 3 (4.55%) NumPy
5 3 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (4.55%) Pandas
6 2 (3.03%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.03%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (3.03%) Node.js
6 2 (3.03%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (3.03%) SailPoint
7 1 (1.52%) JSON
7 1 (1.52%) RESTful
7 1 (1.52%) SPML
7 1 (1.52%) WCF
7 1 (1.52%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.06%) BYOD
2 4 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.55%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.03%) CMDB
4 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) iPhone
4 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Licensing
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) iPad
5 1 (1.52%) PKI
5 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (37.88%) Windows
2 14 (21.21%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.61%) Windows 10
4 4 (6.06%) Apple iOS
5 3 (4.55%) Android
5 3 (4.55%) Linux
6 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.52%) Unix
6 1 (1.52%) VMS
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.21%) ITIL
2 13 (19.70%) Migration
3 11 (16.67%) Identity Management
4 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (13.64%) Agile
5 9 (13.64%) Cloud Security
5 9 (13.64%) High Availability
5 9 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (10.61%) Service Delivery
7 6 (9.09%) ITSM
8 5 (7.58%) Change Management
8 5 (7.58%) DevOps
8 5 (7.58%) RBAC
8 5 (7.58%) Security Management
8 5 (7.58%) Service Management
9 4 (6.06%) Cost Management
9 4 (6.06%) Customer Service
9 4 (6.06%) Roadmaps
9 4 (6.06%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.61%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) SQL
3 5 (7.58%) C#
4 3 (4.55%) Bicep
4 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.03%) Java
5 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Degree
2 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.03%) MCSE
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) GDPR
1 3 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.03%) NIST
2 2 (3.03%) SLA
2 2 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.03%) BitLocker
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (42.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (15.15%) SCCM
3 8 (12.12%) Terraform
4 7 (10.61%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (6.06%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.55%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 2 (3.03%) Ansible
7 2 (3.03%) PingFederate
8 1 (1.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 36 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Citrix
3 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 4 (6.06%) VMware
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco
5 3 (4.55%) Commvault
5 3 (4.55%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.55%) Okta
6 2 (3.03%) Apple
6 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.03%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.52%) Confluent
7 1 (1.52%) NetApp
7 1 (1.52%) Nexthink
7 1 (1.52%) Remedy
7 1 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (1.52%) Zscaler