Entra ID Contracts in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 77 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +36
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 15 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.61% 1.18% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 3.26% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 23
10th Percentile £488 £213 £325
25th Percentile £503 £291 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -2.63% +15.15%
75th Percentile £647 £609 £500
90th Percentile £650 £750 £605
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +28.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £31.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 348 522 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 37.26% 36.28% 41.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 407 573
10th Percentile £363 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £659 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £457 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 14
10th Percentile £69.25 £23.23 £15.72
25th Percentile £71.88 £25.50 £16.16
Median hourly rate £82.50 £49.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.37% +145.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £91.88 £72.34 £38.45
90th Percentile £93.75 £73.90 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.21
% change year-on-year +79.02% -27.67% -15.87%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Manchester

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Manchester

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Manchester

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Bolton - 1 - - 11
Entra ID
North West

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (13.33%) SAS
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (73.33%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (53.33%) IaaS
4 2 (13.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
5 1 (6.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
1 6 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 6 (40.00%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) DHCP
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (6.67%) IoT
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
1 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
1 1 (6.67%) SCADA
1 1 (6.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
1 9 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) VMS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 6 (40.00%) Change Management
2 6 (40.00%) High Availability
2 6 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 5 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) BCP
3 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
3 5 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) Information Security
3 5 (33.33%) Line Management
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 5 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (33.33%) Web Operations
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CREST Certified
2 2 (13.33%) OSCE
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (40.00%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
4 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Grafana
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
3 2 (13.33%) ZABBIX
4 1 (6.67%) Graylog
4 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Meraki
3 1 (6.67%) Zscaler