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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 78 74
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +47
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 33 50 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.75% 2.44% 2.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.19% 5.90% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 31 52
10th Percentile £268 £375 £349
25th Percentile £453 £441 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +0.92% +3.81%
75th Percentile £564 £614 £600
90th Percentile £713 £688 £738
Central London median daily rate £536 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +7.20% -7.19% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

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 788 848 1,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.72% 41.35% 41.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 594 898
10th Percentile £363 £375 £313
25th Percentile £454 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £667 £675 £700
90th Percentile £762 £763 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 6
10th Percentile £24.02 - £16.75
25th Percentile £25.18 - £24.69
Median hourly rate £38.58 £27.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -36.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £59.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £96.63 £79.40 £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.33% -22.86% -15.66%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 12 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (9.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (60.61%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (21.21%) AWS
4 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 5 (15.15%) Power Automate
5 5 (15.15%) PowerApps
6 4 (12.12%) GitHub
6 4 (12.12%) OneDrive
6 4 (12.12%) PaaS
6 4 (12.12%) ShareGate
7 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (6.06%) GCP
8 2 (6.06%) IaaS
8 2 (6.06%) Mimecast
8 2 (6.06%) SaaS
9 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) WAN
3 4 (12.12%) DNS
3 4 (12.12%) SD-WAN
4 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.03%) DHCP
5 1 (3.03%) LAN
5 1 (3.03%) MPLS
5 1 (3.03%) Network Security
5 1 (3.03%) SMTP
5 1 (3.03%) SSH
5 1 (3.03%) VoIP
5 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Power BI
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.03%) Power Query
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 17 (51.52%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) International Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Law
5 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (15.15%) IT Support
1 5 (15.15%) Lead
1 5 (15.15%) Support Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory Support
2 4 (12.12%) Architect
2 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (12.12%) IT Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Consultant
4 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Graph
1 4 (12.12%) RESTful
2 3 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) Kafka
2 3 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (9.09%) OAuth
2 3 (9.09%) OpenID
2 3 (9.09%) Web Services
3 2 (6.06%) NumPy
3 2 (6.06%) OAuth2
3 2 (6.06%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (6.06%) Pandas
3 2 (6.06%) REST
4 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) CMDB
2 1 (3.03%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) iPad
2 1 (3.03%) iPhone
2 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (3.03%) PKI
2 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
2 1 (3.03%) Replication
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.03%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.03%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.06%) Linux
3 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.18%) ITIL
2 6 (18.18%) Migration
2 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 5 (15.15%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (15.15%) ITSM
3 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
4 4 (12.12%) Agile
4 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
4 4 (12.12%) Network Management
5 3 (9.09%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (9.09%) Backlog Management
5 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.09%) SDLC
5 3 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.18%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Python
4 1 (3.03%) Bicep
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.03%) Perl
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) MCSE
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 3 (9.09%) COBIT
3 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.03%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (15.15%) Terraform
3 4 (12.12%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 2 (6.06%) Ansible
6 1 (3.03%) QRadar
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
3 5 (15.15%) Palo Alto
4 3 (9.09%) Databricks
4 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 3 (9.09%) Workday
5 2 (6.06%) VMware
6 1 (3.03%) Bloomberg
6 1 (3.03%) Citrix
6 1 (3.03%) Confluent
6 1 (3.03%) Exabeam
6 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.03%) NetApp
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (3.03%) Zscaler