Entra ID Contracts in London

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 125 136
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +86
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 301 360 505
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.30% 2.04% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.35% 5.12% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 263 370
10th Percentile £263 £325 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £700 £746
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile - - £29.55
25th Percentile £22.50 - £34.88
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -46.52% +3.74%
75th Percentile £24.00 - £54.88
90th Percentile - - £60.65
England median hourly rate £23.50 £23.80 £26.74
% change year-on-year -1.26% -10.99% -33.15%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,627 7,027 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.93% 39.87% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,810 5,163 7,376
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 74
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in London

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in London

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in London

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in London.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in London

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Central London -11 46 £536 +4.59% 92
South London +7 11 £450 +4.65% 9
East London +16 5 £585 +8.84% 7
West London +8 5 £500 -4.76% 6
North London - 1 £675 - 7
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 57 (18.94%) SharePoint
2 53 (17.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.66%) IIS
3 5 (1.66%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (1.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.00%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.66%) InfoPath
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.00%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.66%) Alphatax
2 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 258 (85.71%) Azure
2 143 (47.51%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (16.61%) AWS
4 39 (12.96%) IaaS
5 34 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (9.97%) OneDrive
7 28 (9.30%) PaaS
8 27 (8.97%) SaaS
9 25 (8.31%) GitHub
10 24 (7.97%) GCP
11 21 (6.98%) Azure AKS
11 21 (6.98%) Power Platform
12 17 (5.65%) Serverless
13 15 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (4.32%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (3.99%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (3.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (17.61%) Firewall
2 34 (11.30%) DNS
3 29 (9.63%) VPN
4 17 (5.65%) WAN
5 13 (4.32%) DHCP
6 12 (3.99%) TCP/IP
7 10 (3.32%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.99%) MPLS
8 9 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (2.66%) LAN
9 8 (2.66%) SSL
10 6 (1.99%) Network Security
10 6 (1.99%) SAN
11 5 (1.66%) HTTPS
11 5 (1.66%) Internet
11 5 (1.66%) VLAN
12 4 (1.33%) SMTP
13 3 (1.00%) NAS
14 2 (0.66%) Kerberos
14 2 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.66%) Power BI
4 5 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.33%) Redis
6 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (2.66%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.99%) JIRA
3 3 (1.00%) GitLab
3 3 (1.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.66%) MSI
4 2 (0.66%) Postman
5 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.33%) Git
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) Selenium
5 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (25.58%) Finance
2 71 (23.59%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.32%) Banking
5 16 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.99%) Legal
8 7 (2.33%) Law
8 7 (2.33%) Local Government
9 6 (1.99%) Games
9 6 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Marketing
11 4 (1.33%) Retail
11 4 (1.33%) Spanish Language
12 3 (1.00%) French Language
12 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.33%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (20.60%) Architect
2 32 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (9.30%) IT Support
3 28 (9.30%) Support Engineer
4 26 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (8.64%) Senior
5 21 (6.98%) Analyst
5 21 (6.98%) Lead
6 20 (6.64%) IT Engineer
7 18 (5.98%) Azure Architect
8 17 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.98%) Developer
10 13 (4.32%) Consultant
10 13 (4.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 13 (4.32%) Support Analyst
11 12 (3.99%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (2.99%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.97%) OAuth
2 23 (7.64%) OpenID
3 21 (6.98%) REST
4 18 (5.98%) .NET
5 16 (5.32%) SAML
6 15 (4.98%) ARM Templates
7 14 (4.65%) OAuth2
8 13 (4.32%) SailPoint
9 12 (3.99%) React
10 10 (3.32%) ASP.NET
10 10 (3.32%) Kafka
11 9 (2.99%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.66%) NumPy
12 8 (2.66%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.66%) Pandas
13 7 (2.33%) CSS
13 7 (2.33%) HTML
13 7 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
14 6 (1.99%) RESTful
15 5 (1.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.65%) Onboarding
2 14 (4.65%) PKI
3 13 (4.32%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.99%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.66%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.33%) CMDB
9 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.00%) Clustering
9 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.66%) Replication
10 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (39.87%) Windows
2 44 (14.62%) Windows Server
3 33 (10.96%) Windows 10
4 24 (7.97%) Linux
5 15 (4.98%) Apple iOS
6 13 (4.32%) Android
7 6 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.99%) VMS
8 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.66%) Debian
10 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (20.27%) DevOps
1 61 (20.27%) Migration
2 58 (19.27%) Identity Access Management
3 48 (15.95%) Identity Management
4 45 (14.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 41 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (13.62%) ITIL
7 39 (12.96%) Agile
7 39 (12.96%) RBAC
8 36 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 32 (10.63%) Roadmaps
10 27 (8.97%) User Experience
11 26 (8.64%) Zero Trust
12 24 (7.97%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 23 (7.64%) Data Loss Prevention
14 21 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (6.64%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (5.98%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.91%) PowerShell
2 32 (10.63%) Python
3 24 (7.97%) SQL
4 23 (7.64%) C#
5 20 (6.64%) Bicep
6 15 (4.98%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.99%) Java
9 5 (1.66%) Bash
10 3 (1.00%) Perl
10 3 (1.00%) Ruby
11 2 (0.66%) VB
12 1 (0.33%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (10.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.97%) Azure Certification
3 27 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 24 (7.97%) Degree
4 24 (7.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.65%) CISSP
6 9 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.66%) CISM
8 5 (1.66%) PMP
9 4 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.00%) CISA
10 3 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.00%) CRISC
11 2 (0.66%) CCNP
11 2 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.66%) OSCP
12 1 (0.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.31%) GDPR
2 17 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (5.32%) NIST
4 14 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.99%) NCSC
6 5 (1.66%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.66%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.00%) COBIT
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 208 (69.10%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.64%) Virtual Machines
2 20 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 7 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.66%) Docker
6 4 (1.33%) BitLocker
6 4 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
6 4 (1.33%) OpenAM
7 3 (1.00%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Firmware
8 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 75 (24.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (18.60%) Terraform
3 29 (9.63%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (9.30%) SCCM
5 24 (7.97%) Kubernetes
6 14 (4.65%) Ansible
7 4 (1.33%) QRadar
7 4 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 4 (1.33%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.66%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.66%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.33%) Grafana
10 1 (0.33%) Kibana
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.33%) Perfmon
10 1 (0.33%) Plesk
10 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 190 (63.12%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.97%) VMware
3 19 (6.31%) Cisco
4 16 (5.32%) Okta
5 15 (4.98%) Citrix
6 14 (4.65%) CyberArk
6 14 (4.65%) Google
7 10 (3.32%) Zscaler
8 9 (2.99%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.66%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.99%) Databricks
10 6 (1.99%) Proofpoint
11 5 (1.66%) Apple
11 5 (1.66%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.66%) Workday
12 4 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (1.33%) NetApp
12 4 (1.33%) SAP
12 4 (1.33%) Splunk
13 3 (1.00%) Zoho