Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 11 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 3.96% 1.27% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.89% 4.08% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 1
10th Percentile £437 £336 -
25th Percentile £438 £359 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £410 £225
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% +82.22% -38.36%
75th Percentile £488 £474 £238
90th Percentile £521 £505 -
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -10.60% -16.67% +17.07%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 101 49 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 36.33% 31.21% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 35 67
10th Percentile £333 £328 £177
25th Percentile £381 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £391 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% -18.54% -8.05%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £519
90th Percentile £575 £533 £534
East Midlands median daily rate £431 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.99%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £16.38
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.50 £39.68 £14.00
% change year-on-year -58.42% +183.43% -9.68%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entra ID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Entra ID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Northamptonshire

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 15 February 2026. 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
Northampton -9 11 £447 -10.60% 4
Entra ID
East Midlands

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) GCP
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) Reverse Proxy
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Programme Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Programme Director
4 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth
1 3 (27.27%) OAuth2
1 3 (27.27%) OpenID
1 3 (27.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Mac OS
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Continuous Improvement
1 10 (90.91%) Data Protection
1 10 (90.91%) Stakeholder Management
1 10 (90.91%) Zero Trust
2 7 (63.64%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
2 7 (63.64%) Thought Leadership
2 7 (63.64%) User Experience
3 4 (36.36%) Budgeting
3 4 (36.36%) Business Transformation
3 4 (36.36%) Programme Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Strategic Roadmap
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (36.36%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (27.27%) Data Flow Diagram
4 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (27.27%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (27.27%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
2 7 (63.64%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (90.91%) GDPR
1 10 (90.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (27.27%) GRC
2 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (27.27%) NIST
2 3 (27.27%) PCI DSS
2 3 (27.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) SCCM
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (27.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) Citrix
2 7 (63.64%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) Google
5 1 (9.09%) Sophos