Entra ID Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 76 102
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -14
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 24 23 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.83% 1.54% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.78% 7.85% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 7
10th Percentile £356 £325 £320
25th Percentile £479 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +25.00% -3.03%
75th Percentile £561 £775 £481
90th Percentile £645 £788 £573
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% - -
England median hourly rate £23.00 £31.00 £19.99
% change year-on-year -25.81% +55.08% -63.65%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 354 293 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.00% 19.66% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 171 299
10th Percentile £225 £213 £200
25th Percentile £406 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £558 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £501 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -3.59% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 31
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.37% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £65.25 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £37.50 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +6.06% +46.67%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the East of England

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Entra ID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the East of England

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Entra ID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Hertfordshire +1 11 £560 -22.76% 25
Bedfordshire 0 11 £321 -17.23% 5
Suffolk +5 1 - - 1
Cambridgeshire - 1 £383 - 4
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 14 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 6 (25.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) IaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) DHCP
3 3 (12.50%) SAN
3 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.33%) Firewall
5 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
5 1 (4.17%) NAS
5 1 (4.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) MSI
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) French Language
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Security Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) IT Support
3 3 (12.50%) Support Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Packager
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) FIDO
1 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.33%) Smartphone
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) PRINCE2
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Customer Requirements
4 7 (29.17%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (29.17%) Identity Management
4 7 (29.17%) Mobile Device Management
4 7 (29.17%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 6 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 5 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (20.83%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (20.83%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (20.83%) Privileged Identity Management
6 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (16.67%) IT Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (12.50%) ITIL
9 2 (8.33%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bicep
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) Degree
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (33.33%) NIST
2 7 (29.17%) GDPR
2 7 (29.17%) HIPAA
3 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Apple
2 7 (29.17%) Samsung
2 7 (29.17%) SOTI
3 2 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (8.33%) Computacenter
3 2 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Aruba
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) Cribl.io
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) VMware