Entra ID Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 44 51 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 14 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.12% 1.39% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.48% 4.00% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 7
10th Percentile - £390 -
25th Percentile - £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £230 £540 £350
Median % change year-on-year -57.41% +54.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £413 £680 £520
90th Percentile £425 - £525
North West median daily rate £413 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -21.38% +7.69% +11.43%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Cheshire

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Cheshire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Cheshire

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire 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
Warrington +4 11 £315 -41.62% 12
Runcorn - 1 £210 - 2
Entra ID
North West

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 13 (92.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (85.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (92.86%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (64.29%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) MSI
General
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) ITSM
3 5 (35.71%) Problem Management
4 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Application Packaging
7 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (7.14%) DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Line Management
7 1 (7.14%) RBAC
7 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) VMware