Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 9 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.08% 1.75% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.76% 8.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £537 £476 -
25th Percentile £543 £479 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% - -
75th Percentile £606 £561 -
90th Percentile £617 £637 -
East of England median daily rate £460 £500 £250
% change year-on-year -8.00% +100.00% -47.37%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 116 75 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.98% 21.93% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 53 55
10th Percentile £263 £396 £299
25th Percentile £409 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £644
90th Percentile £775 £714 £708
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 4
10th Percentile £17.38 - £15.19
25th Percentile £18.36 £16.95 £16.35
Median hourly rate £20.31 £22.97 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.59% +27.61% -72.52%
75th Percentile £23.05 £31.64 £20.19
90th Percentile £23.09 £35.35 £22.33
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £20.50 £16.30
% change year-on-year +2.44% +25.77% -10.68%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. 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
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £600 - 2
Hatfield -23 2 - - 3
Stevenage - 2 £540 -
Entra ID
East of England

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Google Workspace
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) IaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
1 5 (55.56%) WAN
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) IT Support
1 3 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) PKI
1 3 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) VMS
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Zero Trust
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) SIEM
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 4 (44.44%) vCenter Server
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Google
3 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (33.33%) Wyse
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp