Entra ID Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 99 120
Rank change year-on-year -9 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 30 63 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 2.01% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.50% 5.37% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 48 42
10th Percentile £179 £282 £183
25th Percentile £389 £344 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +11.43% -5.41%
75th Percentile £750 £538 £547
90th Percentile £773 £550 £618
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 858 1,174 1,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.04% 37.54% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 868 1,077
10th Percentile £284 £307 £230
25th Percentile £388 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £23.06
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +51.81% +33.11%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the North West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Manchester -11 14 £563 +15.38% 16
Cheshire +9 7 £540 +54.29% 8
Merseyside - 3 £175 - 1
Lancashire +4 2 £863 +439.06% 4
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (23.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Stack
3 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.33%) HTTP
4 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
4 1 (3.33%) IPsec
4 1 (3.33%) NAS
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (3.33%) SAN
4 1 (3.33%) Skype
4 1 (3.33%) SNMP
4 1 (3.33%) SSH
4 1 (3.33%) VLAN
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
4 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Automotive
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Security Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IAM Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (3.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) PKI
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.67%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.33%) Linux
4 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.33%) VMS
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (16.67%) RBAC
3 4 (13.33%) ITIL
3 4 (13.33%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps
4 3 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.00%) Security Management
5 2 (6.67%) B2B
5 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.67%) Migration
5 2 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Project Management
5 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
3 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.33%) NFS
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (10.00%) SCCM
4 2 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.67%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 4 (13.33%) CA
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco
4 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Citrix
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) HP
5 1 (3.33%) Meraki
5 1 (3.33%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (3.33%) Proofpoint
5 1 (3.33%) Sophos
5 1 (3.33%) Veeam
5 1 (3.33%) VMware