Entra ID Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 24 53 88
Rank change year-on-year +29 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 36 10 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 7.74% 1.25% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.82% 3.94% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 7
10th Percentile £339 £320 £250
25th Percentile £375 £488 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £750 £430
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +74.42% +14.67%
75th Percentile £694 - £586
90th Percentile £741 - £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £650 £430
% change year-on-year -38.46% +51.16% +14.67%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 214 254 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.02% 31.79% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 179 366
10th Percentile £263 £295 £388
25th Percentile £375 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £618
90th Percentile £714 £670 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £31.64 - £54.80
25th Percentile £36.13 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £90.42 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £100.28 - £74.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Leeds

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Leeds

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Leeds

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (13.89%) nginx
1 5 (13.89%) Traefik
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) IaaS
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) DNS
2 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (11.11%) Firewall
4 3 (8.33%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.78%) VLAN
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
5 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) GitLab
1 6 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (36.11%) Retail
3 3 (8.33%) Local Government
4 2 (5.56%) Military
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Support Manager
2 9 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 9 (25.00%) IT Support
2 9 (25.00%) IT Support Manager
3 8 (22.22%) 1st Line Support
3 8 (22.22%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 5 (13.89%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (13.89%) Support Assistant
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Architect
7 2 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.78%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) cloud-init
1 6 (16.67%) Kafka
1 6 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 2 (5.56%) LDAP
3 1 (2.78%) OAuth
3 1 (2.78%) OpenID
3 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) iPhone
1 13 (36.11%) Smartphone
2 6 (16.67%) PKI
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) CCTV
4 1 (2.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 19 (52.78%) Mac OS
2 8 (22.22%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (16.67%) CentOS
3 6 (16.67%) Unix
3 6 (16.67%) Windows
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.78%) VMS
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Customer Service
2 18 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 14 (38.89%) Incident Management
4 13 (36.11%) ITIL
4 13 (36.11%) ITSM
4 13 (36.11%) Service Management
5 9 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 6 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 6 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (16.67%) DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (16.67%) Observability
6 6 (16.67%) Secrets Management
6 6 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 6 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Security Patching
7 5 (13.89%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) Bash
1 6 (16.67%) Go
1 6 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) ACSP
2 5 (13.89%) ACTC
3 3 (8.33%) CCNA
3 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CISSP
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) NCSC
2 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (86.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) vSphere
3 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (66.67%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (16.67%) Consul
2 6 (16.67%) Grafana
2 6 (16.67%) Istio
2 6 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) linkerd
2 6 (16.67%) Packer
2 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 6 (16.67%) Rancher
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 6 (16.67%) ZABBIX
3 5 (13.89%) HAProxy
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.33%) SCCM
4 3 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.78%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 23 (63.89%) Apple
3 18 (50.00%) ServiceNow
4 6 (16.67%) Okta
4 6 (16.67%) Splunk
5 5 (13.89%) ESET
5 5 (13.89%) Veeam
5 5 (13.89%) VMware
6 4 (11.11%) Cisco
6 4 (11.11%) Meraki
7 3 (8.33%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.56%) Red Hat