Entra ID Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 109 98
Rank change year-on-year +60 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 77 28 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.91% 1.02% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.05% 3.17% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 20 46
10th Percentile £208 £174 £259
25th Percentile £230 £396 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +7.69% +11.43%
75th Percentile £515 £750 £538
90th Percentile £601 £778 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 1 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
Manchester +38 33 £475 -24.00% 42
Cheshire +7 14 £230 -57.41% 9
Merseyside +12 11 £400 +128.57% 4
Cumbria - 10 £525 - 3
Lancashire +7 6 £525 -39.13% 10
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 47 (61.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (40.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (19.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 72 (93.51%) Azure
2 56 (72.73%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (16.88%) IaaS
4 12 (15.58%) SaaS
5 10 (12.99%) OneDrive
6 4 (5.19%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.30%) AWS
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (25.97%) Firewall
2 16 (20.78%) DNS
3 14 (18.18%) DHCP
4 11 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
4 11 (14.29%) Network Security
5 5 (6.49%) VPN
5 5 (6.49%) WAN
5 5 (6.49%) Wireless
6 4 (5.19%) LAN
6 4 (5.19%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (5.19%) SAN
6 4 (5.19%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.90%) Internet
7 3 (3.90%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.60%) Kerberos
8 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.30%) Intranet
9 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.30%) VLAN
9 1 (1.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Git
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
2 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) MSI
General
1 16 (20.78%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 5 (6.49%) Legal
4 5 (6.49%) Military
5 4 (5.19%) Finance
6 3 (3.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Automotive
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 16 (20.78%) Support Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 5 (6.49%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Active Directory Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Desktop Support
9 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Support
9 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Support Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) LDAP
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth
2 2 (2.60%) Software Packaging
3 1 (1.30%) ADO
3 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.30%) cloud-init
3 1 (1.30%) Kafka
3 1 (1.30%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.30%) Next.js
3 1 (1.30%) Node.js
3 1 (1.30%) OpenID
3 1 (1.30%) React
3 1 (1.30%) REST
3 1 (1.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.90%) IVR
5 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Blog
6 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 49 (63.64%) Windows
2 34 (44.16%) Windows Server
3 12 (15.58%) VMS
4 11 (14.29%) Linux
5 8 (10.39%) Windows 10
6 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (6.49%) Android
7 5 (6.49%) Unix
8 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
10 2 (2.60%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.30%) CentOS
11 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (32.47%) ITIL
3 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (23.38%) ITSM
5 14 (18.18%) DevOps
5 14 (18.18%) Information Security
6 12 (15.58%) Business Continuity
6 12 (15.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (14.29%) Agile
7 11 (14.29%) BCP
7 11 (14.29%) Change Management
7 11 (14.29%) High Availability
7 11 (14.29%) RBAC
7 11 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 10 (12.99%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (10.39%) Business Continuity Planning
9 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Architecture
9 8 (10.39%) Line Management
9 8 (10.39%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.19%) Bash
3 3 (3.90%) Python
4 1 (1.30%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.30%) Go
4 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) SQL
4 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.19%) MCSE
4 4 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.60%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.60%) OSCE
6 1 (1.30%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 17 (22.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (14.29%) vSphere
4 5 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (5.19%) BitLocker
5 4 (5.19%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.30%) Docker
7 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 40 (51.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (20.78%) WSUS
4 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.19%) SCCM
5 4 (5.19%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (3.90%) Grafana
6 3 (3.90%) Terraform
6 3 (3.90%) ZABBIX
7 2 (2.60%) Ansible
7 2 (2.60%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) Consul
8 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.30%) Graylog
8 1 (1.30%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.30%) linkerd
8 1 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 67 (87.01%) Microsoft
2 28 (36.36%) VMware
3 8 (10.39%) Citrix
4 5 (6.49%) CyberArk
5 4 (5.19%) CheckPoint
5 4 (5.19%) Google
5 4 (5.19%) Zscaler
6 3 (3.90%) Apple
7 2 (2.60%) Cisco
7 2 (2.60%) Dell
7 2 (2.60%) HP
7 2 (2.60%) Okta
7 2 (2.60%) Varonis
8 1 (1.30%) Databricks
8 1 (1.30%) Meraki
8 1 (1.30%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.30%) Splunk