Entra ID Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 23 30 31
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.43% 1.03% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.91% 3.51% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £350 £749 -
25th Percentile £391 £784 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £863 £160
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +439.06% -
75th Percentile £641 £934 £180
90th Percentile £688 £966 -
North West median daily rate £413 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -21.38% +7.69% +11.43%

All Cloud Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 55 57 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 31.43% 29.23% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 36
10th Percentile £392 £200 £173
25th Percentile £481 £463 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% +21.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £675
90th Percentile £630 £740 £775
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 2
10th Percentile - - £47.18
25th Percentile £26.88 - £48.72
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £52.99
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -69.69% +184.98%
75th Percentile £30.63 - £55.55
90th Percentile £37.01 - £56.06
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Lancashire

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Lancashire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

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

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Lancashire

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire 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
Preston +2 6 £525 -39.13% 10
Entra ID
North West

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (66.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
General
1 5 (83.33%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Unix
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) E-Discovery
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 4 (66.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCSE
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
1 4 (66.67%) WSUS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Okta
3 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity
3 1 (16.67%) Salesforce