Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 9 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 6.38% 10.19% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.38% 20.00% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £300 £363 -
25th Percentile £336 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +38.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £500
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 96 55 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 68.09% 50.93% 60.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 45 37
10th Percentile £227 £325 £260
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +30.56%
75th Percentile £641 £700 £675
90th Percentile £700 £734 £706
Gloucestershire median daily rate £475 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -13.64% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £51.77 - -
25th Percentile £52.61 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 - £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +312.50%
75th Percentile £62.36 - £78.00
90th Percentile £67.37 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £51.21 £67.50 £70.25
% change year-on-year -24.13% -3.91% +100.71%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

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

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Gloucester over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Gloucester

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Stack
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (11.11%) SaaS
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) ITSM
5 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 1 (11.11%) Server Management
6 1 (11.11%) Service Management
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Bicep
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) CA Single Sign-On
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft