Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 25 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 2.45% 1.47% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.00% 5.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £460 £470 -
25th Percentile £550 £566 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £750 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile - £881 -
90th Percentile - £945 -
North West median daily rate £485 £488 £375
% change year-on-year -0.51% +30.00% -11.76%

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 50 58 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 30.67% 28.43% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 53
10th Percentile £400 £367 £330
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -7.26% -4.62%
75th Percentile £603 £626 £645
90th Percentile £640 £638 £717
North West median daily rate £450 £485 £488
% change year-on-year -7.22% -0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 21
10th Percentile £23.91 - £37.75
25th Percentile £38.03 - -
Median hourly rate £47.12 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% - +102.74%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £61.72 - -
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £46.18 £39.80
% change year-on-year -59.14% +16.03% -31.05%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Lancashire over the 6 months to 30 September 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 30 September 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 -1 4 £700 -18.84% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Zscaler