Entra ID Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 163 145
Rank change year-on-year +54 -18 +69
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 606 547 927
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.49% 1.47% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.69% 4.62% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 409 687
10th Percentile £250 £223 £271
25th Percentile £381 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £728 £739
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 15
10th Percentile £23.63 - -
25th Percentile £23.69 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £17.80 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.68% -45.23% +71.84%
75th Percentile £23.90 £23.80 £57.50
90th Percentile £23.96 £34.28 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £17.80 £54.00
% change year-on-year +32.53% -67.04% +95.71%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in England.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in England.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in England

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +13 299 £528 +5.50% 196
North of England +72 123 £400 -20.00% 120
North West +60 77 £413 -21.38% 63
South East +37 62 £545 -9.92% 158
Midlands +40 53 £500 +35.59% 76
West Midlands +35 47 £550 +49.15% 35
Yorkshire +30 44 £400 -20.00% 42
South West +36 34 £500 +13.84% 56
East of England +48 21 £500 +11.11% 48
East Midlands +8 6 £475 +1.33% 38
North East -2 2 £750 +50.00% 16
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 149 (24.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (20.79%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.15%) nginx
4 12 (1.98%) Traefik
5 7 (1.16%) Confluence
6 6 (0.99%) IIS
7 5 (0.83%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (0.66%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.33%) SAS
11 1 (0.17%) Apache
11 1 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.17%) Mattermost
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 46 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.83%) InfoPath
3 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) Notion
5 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Alphatax
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 493 (81.35%) Azure
2 311 (51.32%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (13.86%) AWS
4 82 (13.53%) OneDrive
5 55 (9.08%) IaaS
6 52 (8.58%) SaaS
7 45 (7.43%) Power Platform
8 28 (4.62%) Azure AKS
9 27 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (4.29%) Power Automate
11 25 (4.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 25 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (3.96%) GCP
12 24 (3.96%) PaaS
12 24 (3.96%) Serverless
13 23 (3.80%) GitHub
14 21 (3.47%) Google Workspace
15 20 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 92 (15.18%) DNS
2 75 (12.38%) Firewall
3 45 (7.43%) DHCP
4 34 (5.61%) VPN
5 32 (5.28%) TCP/IP
6 31 (5.12%) Network Security
7 24 (3.96%) WAN
8 17 (2.81%) LAN
9 16 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
11 13 (2.15%) MPLS
12 10 (1.65%) Skype
13 9 (1.49%) SAN
13 9 (1.49%) Wireless
14 8 (1.32%) VLAN
15 7 (1.16%) Internet
15 7 (1.16%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.99%) Kerberos
16 6 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.74%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.64%) MongoDB
3 15 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (2.15%) Power BI
5 8 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.50%) Redis
8 3 (0.50%) SSDT
9 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.17%) NonStop SQL
10 1 (0.17%) Parquet
10 1 (0.17%) Power Query
10 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (3.14%) Jenkins
2 18 (2.97%) GitLab
3 10 (1.65%) JIRA
4 8 (1.32%) Git
5 5 (0.83%) MSI
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.33%) Selenium
8 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.17%) JMeter
8 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.17%) Postman
8 1 (0.17%) Snyk
8 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 187 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 107 (17.66%) Finance
3 45 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 43 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (4.29%) Legal
6 23 (3.80%) Banking
7 16 (2.64%) Telecoms
8 15 (2.48%) Retail
9 14 (2.31%) Military
10 12 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.99%) Local Government
12 6 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.83%) Law
13 5 (0.83%) Spanish Language
14 4 (0.66%) Automotive
15 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.50%) French Language
15 3 (0.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (17.16%) Architect
2 67 (11.06%) Senior
3 66 (10.89%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 62 (10.23%) Support Engineer
5 59 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 42 (6.93%) IT Support
7 41 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
8 37 (6.11%) Analyst
9 32 (5.28%) Lead
10 28 (4.62%) IT Engineer
11 26 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
12 25 (4.13%) Support Manager
13 23 (3.80%) Consultant
13 23 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.63%) Developer
15 18 (2.97%) IT Support Engineer
16 17 (2.81%) Security Architect
17 16 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
17 16 (2.64%) IT Manager
17 16 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (9.90%) OAuth
2 39 (6.44%) OpenID
3 38 (6.27%) SAML
4 34 (5.61%) SailPoint
5 28 (4.62%) Kafka
6 25 (4.13%) .NET
7 22 (3.63%) LDAP
8 21 (3.47%) REST
9 15 (2.48%) OAuth2
9 15 (2.48%) React
10 14 (2.31%) cloud-init
10 14 (2.31%) Keycloak
10 14 (2.31%) Microsoft Graph
11 12 (1.98%) ARM Templates
12 9 (1.49%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.49%) NumPy
12 9 (1.49%) OpenTelemetry
12 9 (1.49%) Pandas
12 9 (1.49%) RESTful
13 8 (1.32%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.11%) PKI
2 35 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 27 (4.46%) Data Centre
3 27 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.81%) iPhone
6 16 (2.64%) Security Posture
6 16 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (2.48%) Smartphone
8 12 (1.98%) Driving Licence
9 11 (1.82%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.65%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.32%) Cloud Native
11 8 (1.32%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 5 (0.83%) Reinsurance
13 5 (0.83%) Replication
14 4 (0.66%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 242 (39.93%) Windows
2 112 (18.48%) Windows Server
3 52 (8.58%) Linux
4 51 (8.42%) Windows 10
5 28 (4.62%) Mac OS
6 21 (3.47%) Android
6 21 (3.47%) Unix
7 19 (3.14%) Apple iOS
8 16 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (2.64%) VMS
9 14 (2.31%) CentOS
10 13 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 11 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.66%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.17%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.17%) Rocky
14 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (22.94%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (21.45%) Migration
3 106 (17.49%) ITIL
4 101 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 100 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (15.84%) Identity Management
7 85 (14.03%) DevOps
8 83 (13.70%) Agile
9 76 (12.54%) RBAC
10 72 (11.88%) Cloud Security
11 57 (9.41%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 56 (9.24%) ITSM
13 55 (9.08%) CI/CD
14 49 (8.09%) Customer Service
15 45 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 44 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
17 39 (6.44%) Data Loss Prevention
18 37 (6.11%) High Availability
18 37 (6.11%) Mobile Device Management
19 35 (5.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 172 (28.38%) PowerShell
2 74 (12.21%) Python
3 44 (7.26%) SQL
4 33 (5.45%) C#
5 22 (3.63%) Bash
6 20 (3.30%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.64%) Bicep
8 14 (2.31%) Go
9 12 (1.98%) Java
10 5 (0.83%) Ruby
11 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.50%) VB
13 2 (0.33%) C
13 2 (0.33%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.17%) BeanShell
14 1 (0.17%) C++
14 1 (0.17%) Perl
14 1 (0.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 87 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.76%) Azure Certification
4 46 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 34 (5.61%) Degree
6 29 (4.79%) AWS Certification
7 22 (3.63%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.81%) CISSP
9 8 (1.32%) CISM
9 8 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.16%) MCSE
11 6 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.99%) PMP
12 5 (0.83%) A+ Certification
12 5 (0.83%) ACSP
12 5 (0.83%) ACTC
12 5 (0.83%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.66%) CISA
14 3 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.12%) GDPR
2 26 (4.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 19 (3.14%) NCSC
4 18 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.64%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.48%) NIST
7 9 (1.49%) SLA
8 6 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
9 5 (0.83%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 3 (0.50%) PMO
12 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.33%) QA
13 1 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
13 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 445 (73.43%) Active Directory
2 44 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.64%) vSphere
5 13 (2.15%) Hyper-V
6 11 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (1.32%) BitLocker
8 8 (1.32%) Docker
9 5 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.66%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.50%) NFS
11 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.33%) RACF
12 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.17%) Firmware
13 1 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 181 (29.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (12.21%) Single Sign-On
3 72 (11.88%) Terraform
4 51 (8.42%) SCCM
5 47 (7.76%) Kubernetes
6 46 (7.59%) Jamf Pro
7 17 (2.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (2.81%) Grafana
7 17 (2.81%) WSUS
8 16 (2.64%) Prometheus
8 16 (2.64%) ZABBIX
9 14 (2.31%) Consul
9 14 (2.31%) Istio
9 14 (2.31%) linkerd
9 14 (2.31%) Packer
9 14 (2.31%) Rancher
10 13 (2.15%) Ansible
11 12 (1.98%) HAProxy
12 7 (1.16%) PingFederate
13 6 (0.99%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 398 (65.68%) Microsoft
2 64 (10.56%) VMware
3 52 (8.58%) Apple
4 44 (7.26%) Okta
4 44 (7.26%) ServiceNow
5 33 (5.45%) Google
6 27 (4.46%) Cisco
7 26 (4.29%) CyberArk
8 22 (3.63%) Citrix
9 19 (3.14%) Splunk
10 16 (2.64%) Ping Identity
11 13 (2.15%) ESET
12 12 (1.98%) Oracle
12 12 (1.98%) Zscaler
13 10 (1.65%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.32%) Meraki
14 8 (1.32%) Samsung
14 8 (1.32%) SOTI
15 7 (1.16%) Databricks
15 7 (1.16%) SAP