Entra ID Contracts in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 106 77
Rank change year-on-year +14 -29 +77
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 50 29 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.98% 1.09% 2.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.65% 4.20% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 23 58
10th Percentile £106 £319 £181
25th Percentile £294 £350 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £375
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +38.67% -25.00%
75th Percentile £681 £631 £466
90th Percentile £746 £675 £575
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.55
25th Percentile - - £17.63
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
England median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
% change year-on-year -3.36% +12.03% -50.01%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 752 690 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.72% 26.04% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 486 807
10th Percentile £287 £205 £213
25th Percentile £394 £350 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 28
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.56 £16.63 £14.20
Median hourly rate £21.39 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +31.58% +0.66%
75th Percentile £32.91 £33.93 £29.06
90th Percentile £42.68 £48.52 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.17 £32.32
% change year-on-year +7.59% -25.23% +50.33%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the Midlands

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the Midlands

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the Midlands

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the Midlands

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +18 43 £460 -9.80% 23
East Midlands +1 7 £450 +7.46% 34
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 41 (82.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (12.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) OneDrive
4 5 (10.00%) IaaS
4 5 (10.00%) PaaS
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Stack
5 4 (8.00%) SaaS
5 4 (8.00%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (6.00%) AWS KMS
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Storage
6 3 (6.00%) Serverless
6 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) DHCP
3 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 2 (4.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.00%) DKIM
4 1 (2.00%) DMARC
4 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (2.00%) SMTP
4 1 (2.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Finance
6 1 (2.00%) Law
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) 1st Line Support
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) Support Officer
6 5 (10.00%) Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Consultant
7 4 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Administrator
8 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) SCCM Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.00%) LDAP
2 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.00%) Replication
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (52.00%) Windows
2 6 (12.00%) Android
2 6 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.00%) Linux
4 3 (6.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.00%) ITIL
3 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (22.00%) Migration
4 10 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 7 (14.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (12.00%) Identity Management
7 5 (10.00%) ITSM
7 5 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (8.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 4 (8.00%) Password Management
8 4 (8.00%) RBAC
8 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.00%) Workflow
9 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (6.00%) Key Management
9 3 (6.00%) Threat Modelling
9 3 (6.00%) Zero Trust
10 2 (4.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) Degree
6 1 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) GDPR
1 3 (6.00%) PMO
2 2 (4.00%) NIST
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (72.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) BitLocker
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (14.00%) SCCM
3 4 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (6.00%) Terraform
5 2 (4.00%) AirWatch
5 2 (4.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 33 (66.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) SAP
2 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.00%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) iManage
5 1 (2.00%) MobileIron
5 1 (2.00%) Okta
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Veeam
5 1 (2.00%) Workday