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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 95 105
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 +21
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 55 33 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.75% 1.17% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.28% 3.67% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 36
10th Percentile £230 £213 £183
25th Percentile £350 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +28.81%
75th Percentile £538 £680 £504
90th Percentile £643 £765 £538
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £31.00 -
England median hourly rate £23.50 £23.80 £29.49
% change year-on-year -1.26% -19.29% +47.45%

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 664 898 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.22% 31.97% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 634 828
10th Percentile £313 £283 £303
25th Percentile £400 £388 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £658
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 60 35
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.25 £15.83
25th Percentile £16.33 - £16.44
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.34% -15.10%
75th Percentile £47.12 £26.50 £41.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.54 £64.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +16.98% -33.44% +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +20 20 £510 +7.37% 46
Cumbria - 10 £525 - 4
Merseyside +9 8 £400 +128.57% 6
Cheshire -6 7 £230 -64.75% 7
Lancashire +5 6 £525 -39.13% 7
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 31 (56.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (38.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.64%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (96.36%) Azure
2 42 (76.36%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (21.82%) IaaS
4 7 (12.73%) SaaS
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (7.27%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.45%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.82%) AWS
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.91%) Firewall
2 11 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (20.00%) Network Security
3 10 (18.18%) DHCP
3 10 (18.18%) DNS
4 4 (7.27%) SAN
4 4 (7.27%) VPN
4 4 (7.27%) WAN
4 4 (7.27%) Wireless
5 3 (5.45%) LAN
6 2 (3.64%) Internet
6 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.64%) Kerberos
6 2 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) MSI
General
1 11 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 10 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Legal
5 4 (7.27%) Finance
6 3 (5.45%) Banking
6 3 (5.45%) Military
7 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Automotive
8 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (9.09%) Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) IT Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Support
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Support Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Field Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) IT Support Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) LDAP
1 2 (3.64%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.82%) OAuth
2 1 (1.82%) REST
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.27%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.64%) IVR
4 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
4 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
4 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.82%) SCADA
4 1 (1.82%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (69.09%) Windows
2 30 (54.55%) Windows Server
3 10 (18.18%) Linux
4 9 (16.36%) VMS
5 6 (10.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (7.27%) Android
6 4 (7.27%) Unix
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
8 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (29.09%) ITIL
2 16 (29.09%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (25.45%) Information Security
4 12 (21.82%) Business Continuity
4 12 (21.82%) ITSM
5 11 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (20.00%) High Availability
5 11 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 10 (18.18%) BCP
6 10 (18.18%) Change Management
7 9 (16.36%) RBAC
8 8 (14.55%) Business Continuity Planning
8 8 (14.55%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (14.55%) Risk Assessment
9 7 (12.73%) Agile
9 7 (12.73%) DevOps
9 7 (12.73%) Line Management
9 7 (12.73%) Web Operations
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.45%) Bash
3 2 (3.64%) Python
4 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 17 (30.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (25.45%) Azure Certification
3 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
4 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.27%) MCSE
5 4 (7.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.64%) CREST Certified
6 2 (3.64%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.64%) OSCE
7 1 (1.82%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.82%) Degree
7 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) NCSC
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (83.64%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (20.00%) vSphere
4 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.45%) BitLocker
6 3 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 28 (50.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (21.82%) Single Sign-On
2 12 (21.82%) WSUS
3 4 (7.27%) vCenter Server
4 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.64%) Ansible
5 2 (3.64%) Grafana
5 2 (3.64%) Puppet
5 2 (3.64%) SCCM
5 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.82%) Graylog
6 1 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.82%) QRadar
6 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (85.45%) Microsoft
2 25 (45.45%) VMware
3 7 (12.73%) Citrix
4 5 (9.09%) Zscaler
5 4 (7.27%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.45%) CheckPoint
6 3 (5.45%) Google
7 2 (3.64%) Apple
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco
7 2 (3.64%) Darktrace
7 2 (3.64%) Dell
7 2 (3.64%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Meraki
8 1 (1.82%) Okta
8 1 (1.82%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.82%) Salesforce