Entra ID Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 98 114
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 +21
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 188 95 54
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.53% 2.38% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.41% 7.08% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 47 41
10th Percentile £194 £200 £213
25th Percentile £287 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.38% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £558 £507 £638
90th Percentile £684 £593 £710
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £29.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £200.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.25% +545.16% -27.91%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £23.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +128.26% -3.36% +5.78%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,537 1,341 1,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.11% 33.63% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 961 866
10th Percentile £300 £300 £288
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 32 44
10th Percentile £17.50 £12.53 £14.09
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £38.30 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +69.73% +138.45% -35.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £33.38
90th Percentile £77.00 £87.50 £66.23
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £24.15
% change year-on-year +35.76% +8.28% -25.23%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entra ID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the North of England

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entra ID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entra ID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Entra ID in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 2026. 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
North West +20 102 £491 +15.53% 66
Yorkshire -27 81 £454 +13.50% 44
North East -39 5 £275 -50.00% 10
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 60 (31.91%) SharePoint
2 39 (20.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Mendix
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (72.87%) Azure
2 105 (55.85%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (19.15%) OneDrive
4 28 (14.89%) Power Platform
5 20 (10.64%) AWS
5 20 (10.64%) PowerApps
6 18 (9.57%) GCP
7 17 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (9.04%) Power Automate
8 16 (8.51%) Microsoft Copilot
9 14 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
10 13 (6.91%) GitHub
11 12 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (5.32%) Serverless
13 9 (4.79%) SaaS
14 7 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (3.72%) PaaS
15 6 (3.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 6 (3.19%) IaaS
16 5 (2.66%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.98%) Firewall
2 13 (6.91%) VPN
3 9 (4.79%) Kerberos
4 7 (3.72%) Network Security
5 6 (3.19%) DNS
6 5 (2.66%) SAN
7 4 (2.13%) NAS
7 4 (2.13%) VLAN
7 4 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.60%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.06%) Internet
9 2 (1.06%) LAN
9 2 (1.06%) PSTN
9 2 (1.06%) WAN
10 1 (0.53%) DHCP
10 1 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.38%) Power BI
2 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.53%) Metadata
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (2.13%) JIRA
2 3 (1.60%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (1.60%) Fiddler
3 2 (1.06%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.06%) MSI
4 1 (0.53%) GitLab
4 1 (0.53%) Postman
4 1 (0.53%) Selenium
General
1 54 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.81%) Finance
3 21 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (5.85%) Legal
5 11 (5.85%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.72%) Law
7 6 (3.19%) Publishing
8 5 (2.66%) Banking
9 4 (2.13%) Games
9 4 (2.13%) Retail
10 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.53%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (13.30%) Architect
2 21 (11.17%) 2nd Line Support
3 15 (7.98%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 15 (7.98%) Support Engineer
4 13 (6.91%) Lead
5 11 (5.85%) Senior
6 10 (5.32%) Analyst
7 9 (4.79%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 9 (4.79%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Engineer
7 9 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.26%) Administrator
8 8 (4.26%) Developer
9 6 (3.19%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
9 6 (3.19%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.19%) Voice Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) IT Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) IT Support
10 5 (2.66%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.70%) SAML
2 20 (10.64%) OAuth
3 18 (9.57%) SailPoint
4 17 (9.04%) Microsoft Graph
5 15 (7.98%) REST
6 12 (6.38%) OpenID
7 10 (5.32%) LDAP
8 6 (3.19%) .NET
8 6 (3.19%) ARM Templates
8 6 (3.19%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.19%) SAP Basis
8 6 (3.19%) Web Services
8 6 (3.19%) YAML
9 5 (2.66%) JSON
10 4 (2.13%) FIDO
11 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Blueprints
11 3 (1.60%) JDBC
11 3 (1.60%) SOAP
11 3 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (14.89%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.26%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.19%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.19%) Taxonomies
4 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.66%) PKI
5 4 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.13%) Animation
5 4 (2.13%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.60%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.06%) IoT
7 2 (1.06%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.06%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.53%) BYOD
8 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (36.17%) Windows
2 28 (14.89%) Windows Server
3 14 (7.45%) Android
4 12 (6.38%) Apple iOS
4 12 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.19%) Linux
6 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.06%) VMS
8 1 (0.53%) Unix
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.34%) Identity Access Management
2 35 (18.62%) RBAC
3 33 (17.55%) ITIL
4 31 (16.49%) Service Management
5 30 (15.96%) DevOps
6 28 (14.89%) Zero Trust
7 27 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (11.70%) Agile
9 22 (11.70%) CI/CD
10 21 (11.17%) Migration
11 19 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 18 (9.57%) Analytics
13 17 (9.04%) AI
14 16 (8.51%) Roadmaps
15 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (7.45%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (7.45%) Knowledge Transfer
16 14 (7.45%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 45 (23.94%) PowerShell
2 11 (5.85%) Bicep
2 11 (5.85%) Python
3 8 (4.26%) SQL
4 7 (3.72%) Java
5 6 (3.19%) C#
6 5 (2.66%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.13%) Bash
7 4 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.06%) BeanShell
8 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 27 (14.36%) Degree
2 25 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.79%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.13%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.60%) CISSP
9 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.53%) ACSP
10 1 (0.53%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) GIAC
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.53%) PMP
10 1 (0.53%) SSCP
10 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) NIST
2 7 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.66%) GDPR
4 3 (1.60%) SLA
5 2 (1.06%) QA
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 127 (67.55%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (4.79%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.72%) Docker
6 5 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (31.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (16.49%) Single Sign-On
3 19 (10.11%) Terraform
4 16 (8.51%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (4.79%) Kubernetes
5 9 (4.79%) SCCM
6 8 (4.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 3 (1.60%) Ansible
8 3 (1.60%) CASB
8 3 (1.60%) WMI
9 2 (1.06%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.06%) WSUS
10 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.53%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 1 (0.53%) Grafana
10 1 (0.53%) Podman
10 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 135 (71.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.70%) BeyondTrust
3 21 (11.17%) Okta
4 18 (9.57%) ServiceNow
5 15 (7.98%) CyberArk
6 13 (6.91%) Cisco
7 12 (6.38%) Apple
8 10 (5.32%) VMware
9 9 (4.79%) Google
10 8 (4.26%) Citrix
10 8 (4.26%) SAP
11 7 (3.72%) Splunk
12 6 (3.19%) Ribbon
12 6 (3.19%) Zscaler
13 5 (2.66%) Remedy
14 4 (2.13%) Perforce
14 4 (2.13%) Red Hat
15 3 (1.60%) ForgeRock
15 3 (1.60%) Meraki
15 3 (1.60%) Palo Alto