Entra ID Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 128 147
Rank change year-on-year +52 +19 -35
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 51 42 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.35% 1.53% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.00% 4.23% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 21
10th Percentile £200 £318 £200
25th Percentile £238 £413 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £520 £413
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +26.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £495
90th Percentile £750 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.80
25th Percentile - - £24.83
Median hourly rate - - £30.09
75th Percentile - - £35.15
90th Percentile - - £38.06
UK median hourly rate £17.80 £54.00 £27.59
% change year-on-year -67.04% +95.71% -41.91%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 729 992 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.11% 31.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 735 778
10th Percentile £230 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Scotland

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Scotland

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Scotland

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 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
Glasgow +22 23 £350 -41.67% 6
Edinburgh +35 15 £750 +42.86% 6
Renfrewshire +1 5 - -
South Lanarkshire +5 4 £370 -0.11%
Stirling - 3 £420 -
Lanarkshire +3 1 £130 -71.89%
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (80.39%) Azure
2 23 (45.10%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (15.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (13.73%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (11.76%) AWS
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.92%) IaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) DNS
2 8 (15.69%) DHCP
2 8 (15.69%) Firewall
3 6 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (9.80%) SMTP
4 5 (9.80%) VPN
5 3 (5.88%) NAS
5 3 (5.88%) SAN
6 1 (1.96%) VoIP
6 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Analyst
2 7 (13.73%) Architect
3 5 (9.80%) IT Support
3 5 (9.80%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) IT Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Security Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) AWS Specialist
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) Cloud Specialist
6 2 (3.92%) Service Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (1.96%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) OpenID
1 7 (13.73%) SAML
2 5 (9.80%) LDAP
3 4 (7.84%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.80%) Clustering
2 5 (9.80%) PKI
2 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.84%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.84%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.96%) iPad
4 1 (1.96%) iPhone
4 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Windows
2 13 (25.49%) Windows 10
3 6 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 5 (9.80%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Identification
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
5 5 (9.80%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (9.80%) Cost Control
5 5 (9.80%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
5 5 (9.80%) High Availability
5 5 (9.80%) ITIL
5 5 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.80%) Project Delivery
6 4 (7.84%) Cloud Security
6 4 (7.84%) Data Protection
6 4 (7.84%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (7.84%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (5.88%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (5.88%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.96%) Bicep
2 1 (1.96%) C#
2 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
1 10 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 44 (86.27%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.80%) BitLocker
2 5 (9.80%) Hyper-V
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft App-V
2 5 (9.80%) Terminal Services
2 5 (9.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (9.80%) vCenter Server
2 5 (9.80%) vMotion
3 4 (7.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 22 (43.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) Citrix
3 7 (13.73%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (13.73%) Okta
3 7 (13.73%) Zscaler
4 6 (11.76%) Oracle
5 5 (9.80%) Apple
5 5 (9.80%) Infoblox
5 5 (9.80%) VMware
6 4 (7.84%) CyberArk
7 3 (5.88%) Cisco
7 3 (5.88%) HP
8 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow