Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 35 38 32
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 4.83% 3.66% 3.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.55% 10.38% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 27
10th Percentile £425 £526 £545
25th Percentile £471 £603 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £610
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +3.28% +1.16%
75th Percentile £600 £651 £675
90th Percentile £660 £653 -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -16.00% +2.46% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £69.38 -

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 303 366 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 41.79% 35.26% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 232 266
10th Percentile £275 £383 £425
25th Percentile £419 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £647
90th Percentile £664 £670 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £570 £565
% change year-on-year -13.68% +0.88% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 1
10th Percentile - £27.35 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £42.50 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +90.59% +145.10% -67.28%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £17.84
90th Percentile £100.55 £67.70 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +186.36%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Entra ID job vacancy trend in Reading

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Reading over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Reading

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Entra ID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 15 (42.86%) Azure
2 9 (25.71%) GitHub
3 8 (22.86%) AWS
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.43%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Control Tower
4 4 (11.43%) AWS KMS
4 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (5.71%) Azure API Management
6 2 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
6 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
6 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
6 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
1 3 (8.57%) IPsec
1 3 (8.57%) Network Security
1 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.86%) DHCP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) MQTT
2 1 (2.86%) Skype
2 1 (2.86%) SSL
2 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
2 1 (2.86%) VSAN
2 1 (2.86%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.14%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Billing
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Security Architect
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Lead
4 3 (8.57%) Security Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (34.29%) SailPoint
2 4 (11.43%) OAuth
2 4 (11.43%) OpenID
2 4 (11.43%) SAML
3 3 (8.57%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) .NET Core
4 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
4 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.71%) REST
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.86%) ADO
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.57%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.57%) PKI
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) SCADA
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) VMS
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) DevOps
1 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (25.71%) RBAC
3 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
3 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (17.14%) Migration
4 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (14.29%) Architectural Design
5 5 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 5 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (14.29%) Runbook
5 5 (14.29%) Validation
5 5 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (14.29%) Zero Trust
6 4 (11.43%) FinOps
6 4 (11.43%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (11.43%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.71%) Java
3 8 (22.86%) BeanShell
4 3 (8.57%) Python
5 2 (5.71%) Bash
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) PHP
6 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (17.14%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Certification
5 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.71%) CCSP
6 2 (5.71%) CISSP
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.86%) CCNA
7 1 (2.86%) CCNP
7 1 (2.86%) Degree
7 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) NCSC
2 4 (11.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (8.57%) NIST
4 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (5.71%) GDPR
4 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (5.71%) PSD2
4 2 (5.71%) SLA
5 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (40.00%) Terraform
2 6 (17.14%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) CyberArk
3 4 (11.43%) Citrix
3 4 (11.43%) CloudEndure
4 1 (2.86%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Polycom
4 1 (2.86%) VMware