Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 66 84
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 0
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 13 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.97% 1.00% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.48% 4.59% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile £309 £238 £424
25th Percentile £403 £249 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £250 £538
Median % change year-on-year +78.80% -53.49% -10.42%
75th Percentile £538 £310 £597
90th Percentile £611 £534 £621
South East median daily rate £495 £548 £610
% change year-on-year -9.59% -10.25% +10.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.40
25th Percentile £19.00 - £19.62
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £19.99
75th Percentile £21.00 - £23.50
90th Percentile - - £25.60
South East median hourly rate £20.00 - £19.99
% change year-on-year - - -63.65%

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 290 196 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.59% 21.85% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 159 199
10th Percentile £263 £300 £399
25th Percentile £408 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.05% -1.01%
75th Percentile £609 £613 £631
90th Percentile £688 £675 £669
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 9
10th Percentile £14.24 - £19.65
25th Percentile £19.00 - £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.97 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% -7.12% +16.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £27.00
90th Percentile - - £55.50
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £28.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -13.04% -11.05% +55.98%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Hampshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Hampshire

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Entra ID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Fleet - 5 £447 -
Basingstoke -7 3 £375 -48.28% 3
Havant - 1 £163 -
Romsey - 1 £770 -
Entra ID
South East

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) GCP
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Dagster
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Poetry
2 1 (7.69%) Pylint
2 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) 1st Line Support
1 4 (30.77%) IT Support
2 3 (23.08%) 1st Line Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Hardware Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) SIEM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) Keycloak
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) PySpark
1 1 (7.69%) pytest
1 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Mac OS
2 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (38.46%) Zero Trust
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Business Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
3 4 (30.77%) IT Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) Roadmaps
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Application Packaging
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
4 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
4 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
4 3 (23.08%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (23.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) GDPR
1 5 (38.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (30.77%) SCCM
3 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 2 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Podman
4 1 (7.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Datto
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Tenable
4 1 (7.69%) Zscaler