Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Derby

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 6.54% 1.15% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.03% 4.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £488 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.75 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £25.75 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37 23 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 24.18% 26.44% 24.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 25
10th Percentile £200 £264 £160
25th Percentile £459 £405 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year +15.68% +23.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £590 £719 £588
90th Percentile £645 £733 £620
Derbyshire median daily rate £518 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +11.89% +15.63% -16.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £21.77 - -
25th Percentile £22.44 - -
Median hourly rate £24.28 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% - -
75th Percentile £25.39 - -
90th Percentile £25.60 - -
Derbyshire median hourly rate £24.28 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year +5.57% - -

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entra ID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Derby

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Entra ID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (40.00%) IaaS
3 4 (40.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure AKS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (30.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) Network Security
3 5 (50.00%) VLAN
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
4 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) CMDB
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (20.00%) VMS
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (70.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (60.00%) RBAC
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 5 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Log Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (30.00%) High Availability
7 2 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
7 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 1 (10.00%) Digital Engineering
8 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks