Entra ID Contracts in Merseyside

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 25 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.70% 0.50% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 1.64% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £210
25th Percentile - £525 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £326
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +68.58% -19.94%
75th Percentile £419 £575 £419
90th Percentile £430 - £464
North West median daily rate £450 £463 £394
% change year-on-year -2.70% +17.46% -7.35%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 50 61 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 28.41% 30.65% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 65
10th Percentile £197 £154 £229
25th Percentile £398 £213 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £383 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% -19.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £453 £538
90th Percentile £550 £575 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
10th Percentile - £19.80 -
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £27.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +42.11% +8.57%
75th Percentile - £31.50 £23.65
90th Percentile - £34.20 £41.58
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £16.06 £24.87
% change year-on-year +152.74% -35.41% +7.13%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Merseyside

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Merseyside

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Liverpool -2 3 £400 -27.27% 1
Entra ID
North West

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Fintech
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) Server Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Darktrace
2 2 (66.67%) Zscaler