Entra ID Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 112 99
Rank change year-on-year +17 -13 +65
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 67 91 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.06% 1.59% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.65% 6.77% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 71 97
10th Percentile £250 £263 £308
25th Percentile £331 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% -3.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £698
90th Percentile £691 £663 £749
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - - £30.45
25th Percentile - - £35.63
Median hourly rate £32.77 £17.80 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.10% -60.44% -
75th Percentile - £51.50 £55.13
90th Percentile - £59.68 £60.75
England median hourly rate £23.50 £23.80 £26.74
% change year-on-year -1.26% -10.99% -33.15%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,008 1,344 1,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.02% 23.50% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 911 1,226
10th Percentile £250 £275 £250
25th Percentile £375 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% +7.75%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £656 £675 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 55 51
10th Percentile £14.80 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.55 £18.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.85 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.18% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £36.15 £59.95 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.88 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the South East

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the South East

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the South East

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the South East

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Thames Valley +3 38 £375 -38.02% 110
Berkshire -8 27 £575 -4.96% 70
Hampshire +35 14 £681 +116.27% 45
Kent +8 9 £430 - 33
Oxfordshire +6 7 £250 -44.44% 16
Surrey +17 6 £558 +54.86% 22
Buckinghamshire +11 4 £525 +36.36% 26
East Sussex - 1 - - 14
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.99%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 59 (88.06%) Azure
2 20 (29.85%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.94%) Azure AKS
3 8 (11.94%) IaaS
4 6 (8.96%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (8.96%) SaaS
5 5 (7.46%) Azure API Management
5 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.46%) PaaS
6 4 (5.97%) AWS
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (4.48%) Asana
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (4.48%) Serverless
8 2 (2.99%) Azure App Service
8 2 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) DHCP
1 7 (10.45%) DNS
2 6 (8.96%) LAN
3 4 (5.97%) Firewall
3 4 (5.97%) WAN
4 3 (4.48%) FTP
4 3 (4.48%) SMTP
4 3 (4.48%) Telnet
4 3 (4.48%) VPN
5 1 (1.49%) HTTP
5 1 (1.49%) Internet
5 1 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.49%) NAS
5 1 (1.49%) SAN
5 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.49%) VLAN
5 1 (1.49%) VSAN
5 1 (1.49%) Wireless
5 1 (1.49%) Wireless Security
5 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Parquet
4 1 (1.49%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.49%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.49%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) Metasploit
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.94%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Local Government
6 1 (1.49%) Marketing
6 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Architect
2 12 (17.91%) Support Engineer
3 9 (13.43%) Lead
4 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (5.97%) Lead Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) OAuth
2 6 (8.96%) Middleware
2 6 (8.96%) SAML
3 5 (7.46%) OpenID
4 4 (5.97%) SailPoint
5 3 (4.48%) .NET
6 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.99%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.99%) React
6 2 (2.99%) REST
7 1 (1.49%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.49%) CSS
7 1 (1.49%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.49%) HTML
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.49%) RESTful
7 1 (1.49%) SPML
7 1 (1.49%) Web Services
7 1 (1.49%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.46%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.99%) PKI
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (43.28%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Windows 10
3 7 (10.45%) Linux
3 7 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Migration
2 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (14.93%) DevOps
3 10 (14.93%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (13.43%) Analytics
4 9 (13.43%) Identity Management
4 9 (13.43%) ITIL
4 9 (13.43%) Roadmaps
5 8 (11.94%) IT Strategy
6 7 (10.45%) API Management
6 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
6 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (8.96%) Application Packaging
7 6 (8.96%) Business Strategy
7 6 (8.96%) Computer Science
7 6 (8.96%) Data Protection
7 6 (8.96%) RBAC
8 5 (7.46%) Architectural Patterns
8 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.45%) Bicep
3 6 (8.96%) C#
4 4 (5.97%) Bash
4 4 (5.97%) Python
4 4 (5.97%) SQL
5 3 (4.48%) Java
5 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.49%) C
6 1 (1.49%) C++
6 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.49%) Ruby
6 1 (1.49%) VB
6 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 8 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.99%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.99%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (2.99%) MCP
7 1 (1.49%) GPEN
7 1 (1.49%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.49%) OSCE
7 1 (1.49%) OSCP
7 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) SLA
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.49%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.49%) NCSC
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (71.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.45%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (4.48%) NFS
4 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.49%) Docker
5 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (17.91%) Terraform
3 10 (14.93%) SCCM
4 6 (8.96%) Kubernetes
5 5 (7.46%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.49%) SCOM
7 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 37 (55.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) Citrix
4 4 (5.97%) MuleSoft
4 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.48%) CyberArk
5 3 (4.48%) Databricks
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco
6 2 (2.99%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.49%) Commvault
7 1 (1.49%) Dell
7 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.49%) F5
7 1 (1.49%) IBM
7 1 (1.49%) Imperva
7 1 (1.49%) Isilon
7 1 (1.49%) NetApp
7 1 (1.49%) Okta
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle
7 1 (1.49%) Veeam