Entra ID Contracts in Gloucestershire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 27 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 14 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.11% 3.26% 3.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.84% 8.75% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile £234 £208 £383
25th Percentile £363 £210 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £700 £502 £419
90th Percentile £900 £531 £520
South West median daily rate £500 £439 £425
% change year-on-year +13.84% +3.35% +6.25%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 109 160 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.78% 37.30% 39.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 115 148
10th Percentile £230 £300 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £706 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile - £17.42 -
25th Percentile £31.50 £19.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £21.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -71.23% +398.63%
75th Percentile £68.75 £33.25 £78.00
90th Percentile - £55.30 -
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Gloucestershire

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Gloucestershire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Gloucestershire

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester +4 8 £563 +25.00% 12
Cheltenham +9 2 £525 +6.60% 17
Entra ID
South West

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
4 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Security Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Rocky
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (14.29%) RBAC
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.14%) Agile
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) ITSM
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Dell