Entra ID Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Entra ID skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Entra ID over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 138 138
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 55 79 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.15% 1.35% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.91% 3.69% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 63 75
10th Percentile £163 £187 £193
25th Percentile £338 £325 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +16.07% -11.58%
75th Percentile £750 £538 £538
90th Percentile - £636 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +84.24% -38.11%
England median hourly rate £17.80 £32.50 £18.91
% change year-on-year -45.23% +71.84% -48.18%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Entra ID is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,407 2,141 2,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.53% 36.70% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,595 1,884
10th Percentile £263 £300 £188
25th Percentile £375 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £641 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 37 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.60 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +111.93% -2.94%
75th Percentile £20.77 £65.00 £23.53
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the North of England

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 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 28 April 2024. 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 -9 27 £500 +2.56% 30
Yorkshire +26 22 £500 +32.45% 19
North East +22 4 £500 -28.57% 5
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (21.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (96.36%) Azure
2 31 (56.36%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Stack
4 2 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (3.64%) IaaS
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.82%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.82%) OCI
5 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) DNS
2 7 (12.73%) Firewall
3 4 (7.27%) DHCP
4 2 (3.64%) VPN
4 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.82%) LAN
5 1 (1.82%) NAS
5 1 (1.82%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.82%) SAN
5 1 (1.82%) Skype
5 1 (1.82%) SMTP
5 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.82%) VLAN
5 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Banking
3 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.27%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Advertising
6 1 (1.82%) Automotive
6 1 (1.82%) Back Office
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Analyst
2 8 (14.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 8 (14.55%) Security Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Consultant
4 5 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (3.64%) Desktop Support
7 2 (3.64%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) SailPoint
2 2 (3.64%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) PKI
2 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.45%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.64%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) LIMS
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (36.36%) Windows
2 9 (16.36%) Windows 10
3 5 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.64%) Windows 7
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.82%) VMS
6 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (14.55%) Remediation Plan
4 5 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (9.09%) Migration
4 5 (9.09%) RBAC
5 4 (7.27%) ITIL
5 4 (7.27%) Project Management
6 3 (5.45%) Project Delivery
6 3 (5.45%) Roadmaps
6 3 (5.45%) Security Management
6 3 (5.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (3.64%) Cloud Security
7 2 (3.64%) DevOps
7 2 (3.64%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (3.64%) Privileged Access Management
7 2 (3.64%) Privileged Identity Management
7 2 (3.64%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (3.64%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.45%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.64%) Degree
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) CISM
6 1 (1.82%) CISSP
6 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (87.27%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
2 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.82%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.82%) vSphere
4 1 (1.82%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (14.55%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (7.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (5.45%) SCCM
5 2 (3.64%) CA Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.64%) Terraform
6 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.82%) vMotion
Vendors
1 44 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 5 (9.09%) VMware
4 4 (7.27%) CA
5 3 (5.45%) Citrix
5 3 (5.45%) HP
5 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.64%) Cisco
6 2 (3.64%) Google
6 2 (3.64%) Sophos
7 1 (1.82%) Aruba
7 1 (1.82%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (1.82%) F5
7 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.82%) Imperva
7 1 (1.82%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.82%) NetApp
7 1 (1.82%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.82%) Symantec
7 1 (1.82%) Veeam