Entra ID Contract Job Trends in the Highlands

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
Scotland > Highlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Highlands requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Highlands 20.00% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 85.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Scotland median daily rate £320 £457 £420
% change year-on-year -30.02% +8.87% -20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Highlands

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 the Highlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Highlands 23.33% 14.29% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £392 - -
25th Percentile £437 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +78.80% - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £466 £475
% change year-on-year +1.93% -1.89% -

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the Highlands

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the Highlands

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the Highlands

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 Highlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Inverness - 6 £447 - 2
Entra ID
Scotland

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Highlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IAM Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) RBAC
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Okta
2 4 (66.67%) BeyondTrust
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (16.67%) CyberArk