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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 72 96
Rank change year-on-year -1 +24 +32
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 50 53 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.85% 2.43% 2.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.56% 6.18% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 44
10th Percentile £249 £425 £402
25th Percentile £313 £459 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £613 £738 £600
90th Percentile £722 £775 £746
Central London median daily rate £531 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +6.10% -4.76% -

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 762 857 1,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.39% 39.28% 37.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 609 926
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% +3.26%
75th Percentile £669 £670 £713
90th Percentile £750 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +3.49% -6.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

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 4 May 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 4 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
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 11 (22.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) Skype for Business
4 1 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (96.00%) Azure
2 28 (56.00%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 9 (18.00%) AWS
5 5 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 5 (10.00%) GitHub
5 5 (10.00%) IaaS
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (6.00%) SaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.00%) GCP
8 2 (4.00%) Mimecast
8 2 (4.00%) PaaS
8 2 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Firewall
2 11 (22.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) DHCP
4 3 (6.00%) MPLS
5 2 (4.00%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.00%) Skype
5 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.00%) SMTP
6 1 (2.00%) VoIP
6 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 25 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.00%) Advertising
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) International Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (14.00%) Architect
2 7 (14.00%) IT Support
2 7 (14.00%) Senior
3 6 (12.00%) Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Support
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) IT Security Officer
6 3 (6.00%) Security Officer
6 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (4.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) OAuth
2 5 (10.00%) OpenID
3 4 (8.00%) Kafka
3 4 (8.00%) REST
3 4 (8.00%) SAML
4 3 (6.00%) LDAP
4 3 (6.00%) NumPy
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.00%) Pandas
5 2 (4.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (4.00%) SailPoint
6 1 (2.00%) EDI
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) SOAP
6 1 (2.00%) WCF
6 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.00%) BYOD
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.00%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.00%) CMDB
3 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.00%) iPad
4 1 (2.00%) iPhone
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (42.00%) Windows
2 12 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (12.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.00%) Android
4 3 (6.00%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.00%) Linux
5 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) ITIL
2 9 (18.00%) Identity Management
3 8 (16.00%) Agile
3 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (16.00%) Migration
4 7 (14.00%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (12.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (12.00%) ITSM
6 5 (10.00%) DevOps
6 5 (10.00%) High Availability
6 5 (10.00%) Security Management
6 5 (10.00%) Service Management
7 4 (8.00%) Change Management
7 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (8.00%) RBAC
7 4 (8.00%) Time Management
7 4 (8.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (14.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) SQL
4 5 (10.00%) C#
5 3 (6.00%) Bicep
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.00%) Java
6 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.00%) MCSE
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.00%) NIST
1 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
1 2 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (76.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (36.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (16.00%) SCCM
2 8 (16.00%) Terraform
3 6 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (4.00%) Ansible
6 2 (4.00%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 2 (4.00%) PingFederate
7 1 (2.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) Citrix
3 4 (8.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.00%) Cisco
4 3 (6.00%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.00%) VMware
5 2 (4.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.00%) Commvault
5 2 (4.00%) Okta
5 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.00%) Ping Identity
5 2 (4.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.00%) Apple
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) NetApp
6 1 (2.00%) Nexthink
6 1 (2.00%) Remedy
6 1 (2.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) Zscaler