Entra ID Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Entra ID skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 52 51
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 17 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.94% 0.50% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.24% 1.55% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £185 £520 £1,100
25th Percentile £294 £536 £1,138
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £573 £1,300
Median % change year-on-year -29.08% -55.96% +136.36%
75th Percentile £466 £611 £1,400
90th Percentile £588 £627 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £406 £500 £1,300
% change year-on-year -18.80% -61.54% +147.62%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 184 129 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 31.83% 32.41% 33.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 80 108
10th Percentile £290 £400 £413
25th Percentile £360 £466 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £538 £601 £625
90th Percentile £600 £645 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £473 £515 £593
% change year-on-year -8.25% -13.15% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +10.26% +2.63%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Sheffield

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Sheffield

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 9 (52.94%) GCP
3 9 (52.94%) SaaS
4 8 (47.06%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (47.06%) Azure AKS
4 8 (47.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (41.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Business Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) IT Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) SAML
2 8 (47.06%) OAuth
2 8 (47.06%) OpenID
3 7 (41.18%) JSON
4 6 (35.29%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (58.82%) RBAC
3 9 (52.94%) GAP Analysis
3 9 (52.94%) Identity Management
3 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 8 (47.06%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (41.18%) Privileged Identity Management
6 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (17.65%) ERP
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
8 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
9 1 (5.88%) B2B
9 1 (5.88%) Business Analysis
9 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
9 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
9 1 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
9 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (5.88%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
1 9 (52.94%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Alibaba
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft