Entra ID Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 94 161
Rank change year-on-year -37 +67 -40
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 69 142 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 2.44% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.99% 8.32% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 118 78
10th Percentile £263 £272 £289
25th Percentile £444 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +15.66% +15.28%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £623
90th Percentile £675 £770 £660
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £53.40 -
25th Percentile - £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £17.80 £59.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -69.83% - -
75th Percentile - £62.75 -
90th Percentile £37.12 £63.80 -
England median hourly rate £17.80 £33.25 £18.91
% change year-on-year -46.47% +75.81% -48.18%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.01% 29.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,250 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

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 27 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Entra ID in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 27 April 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
Thames Valley -27 45 £605 +10.76% 21
Berkshire -14 43 £605 -3.20% 10
Surrey +19 9 £225 -59.09% 3
Hampshire -13 7 £280 -53.33% 11
Middlesex - 4 £275 - 1
Kent -3 2 £463 -36.86% 7
Buckinghamshire +3 1 £370 +34.55% 8
Oxfordshire -4 1 £300 - 3
West Sussex -14 1 - - 7
Home Counties - 1 £600 -
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 19 (27.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 67 (97.10%) Azure
2 31 (44.93%) Azure Monitor
2 31 (44.93%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (23.19%) Azure Data Factory
3 16 (23.19%) Azure Storage
4 15 (21.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 10 (14.49%) Azure Functions
5 10 (14.49%) Serverless
6 9 (13.04%) AWS
7 4 (5.80%) IaaS
7 4 (5.80%) SaaS
8 3 (4.35%) Azure API Management
8 3 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (4.35%) PaaS
9 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.90%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.90%) GitHub
9 2 (2.90%) Nutanix
9 2 (2.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (30.43%) DNS
2 18 (26.09%) Firewall
3 17 (24.64%) DHCP
4 2 (2.90%) Network Security
4 2 (2.90%) SAN
4 2 (2.90%) VPN
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (1.45%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.45%) LAN
5 1 (1.45%) MPLS
5 1 (1.45%) PBX
5 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.45%) VPLS
5 1 (1.45%) VSAN
5 1 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.45%) MySQL
2 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) Git
2 2 (2.90%) GitLab
2 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.45%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.70%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.45%) Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (21.74%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (21.74%) Developer
3 14 (20.29%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (20.29%) Azure Developer
3 14 (20.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 14 (20.29%) Support Specialist
4 8 (11.59%) Support Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Active Directory Engineer
5 7 (10.14%) Python Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Consultant
8 3 (4.35%) Field Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (4.35%) IT Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) IT Support
8 3 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.19%) ARM Templates
2 14 (20.29%) React
3 2 (2.90%) .NET
3 2 (2.90%) Web Services
4 1 (1.45%) CSS
4 1 (1.45%) Django
4 1 (1.45%) JSON
4 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.54%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (23.19%) PKI
3 12 (17.39%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) BYOD
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Smart Meter
6 1 (1.45%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 36 (52.17%) Windows
2 24 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 20 (28.99%) Linux
4 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (13.04%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.45%) Android
7 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.45%) Unix
7 1 (1.45%) VMS
7 1 (1.45%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.83%) DevOps
2 30 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 28 (40.58%) Agile
4 22 (31.88%) ITIL
5 18 (26.09%) Analytics
5 18 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (26.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 18 (26.09%) Service Management
6 17 (24.64%) Identity Management
6 17 (24.64%) Log Analytics
6 17 (24.64%) Release Management
7 16 (23.19%) Microservices
7 16 (23.19%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (23.19%) RBAC
8 14 (20.29%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (18.84%) SDLC
10 12 (17.39%) Product Backlog
11 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 20 (28.99%) Python
3 18 (26.09%) C#
4 16 (23.19%) Bicep
4 16 (23.19%) VB
4 16 (23.19%) VBScript
5 4 (5.80%) Java
6 2 (2.90%) C
6 2 (2.90%) PHP
6 2 (2.90%) Ruby
7 1 (1.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (37.68%) Degree
2 23 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 22 (31.88%) SC Cleared
4 19 (27.54%) DV Cleared
5 16 (23.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (10.14%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
8 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.45%) CEH
9 1 (1.45%) CISSP
9 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (94.20%) Active Directory
2 18 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (23.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.25%) vSphere
5 3 (4.35%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.90%) Docker
6 2 (2.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (34.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (33.33%) SCCM
3 21 (30.43%) Kubernetes
4 17 (24.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (24.64%) WSUS
5 16 (23.19%) SCOM
6 4 (5.80%) Terraform
7 3 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.90%) Ansible
8 2 (2.90%) VxRail
9 1 (1.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.45%) Packer
9 1 (1.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (50.72%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.94%) VMware
3 5 (7.25%) CyberArk
3 5 (7.25%) Okta
3 5 (7.25%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.35%) Cisco
5 2 (2.90%) Dell
5 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.45%) Apple
6 1 (1.45%) Arqiva
6 1 (1.45%) Aruba
6 1 (1.45%) BMC
6 1 (1.45%) Databricks
6 1 (1.45%) EMC
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) Meraki
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle
6 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.45%) Remedy
6 1 (1.45%) Veritas