Entra ID Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 129 126
Rank change year-on-year +71 -3 +19
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 120 54 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.64% 1.15% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.86% 3.95% 4.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 40 65
10th Percentile £208 £174 £188
25th Percentile £263 £396 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +2.56% +16.07%
75th Percentile £538 £750 £538
90th Percentile £668 - £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.00 £17.80 £34.00
% change year-on-year +34.83% -47.65% +79.78%

All Cloud 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 1,105 1,367 2,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.53% 29.23% 36.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 971 1,548
10th Percentile £243 £263 £300
25th Percentile £380 £383 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £681
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £19.54 £15.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -59.44% +111.20%
75th Percentile £74.38 £22.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.17 £44.24 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.93%

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 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 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
North West +54 74 £431 -17.86% 46
Yorkshire +37 46 £400 -20.00% 34
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 48 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (28.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.17%) nginx
3 5 (4.17%) Traefik
4 3 (2.50%) Confluence
5 2 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (25.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 85 (70.83%) Azure
2 82 (68.33%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (13.33%) IaaS
4 11 (9.17%) SaaS
5 10 (8.33%) OneDrive
6 9 (7.50%) AWS
7 7 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (5.83%) AWS Fargate
7 7 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (3.33%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.50%) PaaS
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.50%) Firewall
2 19 (15.83%) DNS
3 14 (11.67%) Network Security
4 12 (10.00%) DHCP
5 11 (9.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 9 (7.50%) TCP/IP
7 5 (4.17%) VPN
7 5 (4.17%) WAN
7 5 (4.17%) Wireless
8 4 (3.33%) LAN
8 4 (3.33%) SAN
9 3 (2.50%) Internet
9 3 (2.50%) iSCSI
9 3 (2.50%) Kerberos
9 3 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.83%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) GitLab
1 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 38 (31.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 18 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (14.17%) Retail
4 11 (9.17%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.83%) Military
6 5 (4.17%) Finance
6 5 (4.17%) Legal
7 3 (2.50%) Local Government
8 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (20.00%) Support Manager
2 21 (17.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) IT Support
5 14 (11.67%) Support Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) IT Manager
7 11 (9.17%) 1st Line Support
7 11 (9.17%) 1st Line Support Manager
7 11 (9.17%) Analyst
7 11 (9.17%) IT Support Manager
8 8 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) IT Engineer
9 7 (5.83%) Senior
10 6 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 6 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.00%) Support Assistant
11 5 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) IT Analyst
12 4 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.83%) cloud-init
1 7 (5.83%) Kafka
1 7 (5.83%) Keycloak
2 4 (3.33%) LDAP
3 3 (2.50%) OAuth
4 2 (1.67%) OpenID
4 2 (1.67%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.83%) ADO
5 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.83%) Next.js
5 1 (0.83%) Node.js
5 1 (0.83%) React
5 1 (0.83%) REST
5 1 (0.83%) SAML
5 1 (0.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) iPhone
1 17 (14.17%) Smartphone
2 7 (5.83%) PKI
3 6 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.50%) IVR
7 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) CCTV
8 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) NHS
8 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.83%) SCADA
8 1 (0.83%) Social Media
8 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 53 (44.17%) Windows
2 37 (30.83%) Windows Server
3 25 (20.83%) Mac OS
4 19 (15.83%) Linux
5 12 (10.00%) VMS
6 11 (9.17%) Unix
7 9 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (6.67%) Windows 10
8 8 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (5.83%) CentOS
10 5 (4.17%) Android
10 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.67%) ITIL
2 33 (27.50%) ITSM
3 31 (25.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 30 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 23 (19.17%) Mobile Device Management
5 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (15.83%) DevOps
7 18 (15.00%) Incident Management
8 17 (14.17%) Service Management
9 14 (11.67%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (11.67%) Information Security
9 14 (11.67%) Service Delivery
10 13 (10.83%) Agile
11 12 (10.00%) Business Continuity
11 12 (10.00%) Cloud Security
11 12 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (10.00%) Identity Management
11 12 (10.00%) RBAC
12 11 (9.17%) BCP
12 11 (9.17%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.33%) Bash
3 9 (7.50%) Python
4 7 (5.83%) Go
5 1 (0.83%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.83%) SQL
5 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.83%) ACSP
5 7 (5.83%) ACTC
5 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.33%) MCSE
6 4 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.50%) CCNA
7 3 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.67%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.67%) OSCE
9 1 (0.83%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.83%) CISSP
9 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) NCSC
2 4 (3.33%) SLA
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 103 (85.83%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (11.67%) vSphere
4 6 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.33%) BitLocker
5 4 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.83%) Docker
8 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (36.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (26.67%) Jamf Pro
3 25 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (11.67%) WSUS
5 11 (9.17%) Kubernetes
6 9 (7.50%) Grafana
6 9 (7.50%) Terraform
6 9 (7.50%) ZABBIX
7 7 (5.83%) Consul
7 7 (5.83%) Istio
7 7 (5.83%) linkerd
7 7 (5.83%) Packer
7 7 (5.83%) Prometheus
7 7 (5.83%) Rancher
8 6 (5.00%) SCCM
9 5 (4.17%) HAProxy
9 5 (4.17%) vCenter Server
10 3 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.67%) Ansible
11 2 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 101 (84.17%) Microsoft
2 32 (26.67%) Apple
2 32 (26.67%) VMware
3 24 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (6.67%) Citrix
4 8 (6.67%) Okta
5 7 (5.83%) Splunk
6 5 (4.17%) Cisco
6 5 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 5 (4.17%) ESET
6 5 (4.17%) Veeam
7 4 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 4 (3.33%) Google
7 4 (3.33%) Meraki
7 4 (3.33%) Zscaler
8 3 (2.50%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.67%) Dell
9 2 (1.67%) HP
9 2 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.67%) Varonis