Entra ID Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 71 81
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +46
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 36 53 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.05% 2.50% 2.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 6.08% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 53
10th Percentile £255 £368 £384
25th Percentile £275 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £748
Central London median daily rate £536 £513 £533
% change year-on-year +4.59% -3.76% +1.43%

All Cloud Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 750 872 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.66% 41.17% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 610 907
10th Percentile £363 £363 £285
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the City of London

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the City of London

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the City of London

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the City of London

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
London Bridge - 3 - -
Entra ID
Central London

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (19.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (5.56%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 35 (97.22%) Azure
2 22 (61.11%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (13.89%) IaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 4 (11.11%) PaaS
5 4 (11.11%) SaaS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (5.56%) Mimecast
7 2 (5.56%) Serverless
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (36.11%) Firewall
2 7 (19.44%) DNS
3 4 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 4 (11.11%) WAN
4 3 (8.33%) MPLS
5 2 (5.56%) DHCP
5 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.78%) Network Security
6 1 (2.78%) SMTP
6 1 (2.78%) SSH
6 1 (2.78%) VoIP
6 1 (2.78%) VPN
6 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
General
1 20 (55.56%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) International Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
2 6 (16.67%) IT Support
3 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Active Directory Support
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Lead
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Kafka
1 3 (8.33%) OAuth
1 3 (8.33%) OpenID
1 3 (8.33%) RESTful
2 2 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (5.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (5.56%) NumPy
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (5.56%) Pandas
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (8.33%) Reinsurance
2 2 (5.56%) CMDB
2 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) iPad
3 1 (2.78%) iPhone
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Windows
2 9 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.56%) Linux
5 1 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.78%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (19.44%) ITIL
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 6 (16.67%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (13.89%) Agile
4 5 (13.89%) ITSM
4 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
5 4 (11.11%) High Availability
5 4 (11.11%) Identity Management
5 4 (11.11%) Network Management
5 4 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.11%) Time Management
5 4 (11.11%) Zero Trust
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (8.33%) Patch Management
6 3 (8.33%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
1 7 (19.44%) SQL
2 6 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Bicep
3 2 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Perl
4 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.78%) MCSE
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) COBIT
2 2 (5.56%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (19.44%) Terraform
3 5 (13.89%) SCCM
4 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) Ansible
6 1 (2.78%) QRadar
6 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.56%) Databricks
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) Workday
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) Confluent
5 1 (2.78%) Exabeam
5 1 (2.78%) NetApp
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) VMware
5 1 (2.78%) Zscaler