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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 106 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +61
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 64 82 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.82% 1.67% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.17% 6.88% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 64 84
10th Percentile £250 £337 £324
25th Percentile £344 £463 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £631
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -4.16% +26.25%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £698
90th Percentile £694 £652 £713
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - - £19.47
25th Percentile - - £19.80
Median hourly rate £32.77 £17.80 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.10% -24.24% -
75th Percentile - £44.20 £36.38
90th Percentile - £61.34 £53.25
England median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £23.00
% change year-on-year -3.36% +3.50% -45.89%

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 1,037 1,191 1,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.46% 24.21% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 846 1,133
10th Percentile £220 £300 £213
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £584 £629 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £713
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 33 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.80 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £48.55 £61.49 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.15 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.66% -25.23% +50.23%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -15 37 £375 -38.02% 29
Berkshire -24 20 £536 -11.40% 8
Hampshire +25 13 £650 +20.93% 10
Oxfordshire -3 9 £250 -45.95% 5
Buckinghamshire +7 8 £318 -9.29% 16
Kent +1 7 £430 +32.31% 24
Surrey +6 6 £558 +11.50% 10
East Sussex -2 1 - - 1
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 9 (14.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 55 (85.94%) Azure
2 22 (34.38%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (15.63%) AWS
4 8 (12.50%) GCP
5 6 (9.38%) Azure AKS
6 5 (7.81%) IaaS
7 4 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (4.69%) Asana
8 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (4.69%) PaaS
9 2 (3.13%) Azure App Service
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
9 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
9 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) Firewall
1 6 (9.38%) LAN
2 5 (7.81%) VPN
3 4 (6.25%) DNS
3 4 (6.25%) Network Security
3 4 (6.25%) WAN
4 3 (4.69%) DHCP
5 2 (3.13%) HTTP
5 2 (3.13%) IPsec
5 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.56%) FTP
6 1 (1.56%) NAS
6 1 (1.56%) SAN
6 1 (1.56%) SMTP
6 1 (1.56%) Telnet
6 1 (1.56%) VLAN
6 1 (1.56%) VSAN
6 1 (1.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 28 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.56%) French Language
6 1 (1.56%) German Language
6 1 (1.56%) Local Government
6 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Architect
2 9 (14.06%) Support Engineer
3 7 (10.94%) Lead
4 6 (9.38%) Security Architect
4 6 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (4.69%) Service Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Support
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) Middleware
2 4 (6.25%) OAuth
2 4 (6.25%) SailPoint
3 3 (4.69%) .NET
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.13%) OpenID
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) SAML
5 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.56%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.56%) CSS
5 1 (1.56%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) JSON
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.56%) Software Packaging
5 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 7 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.69%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.69%) Security Posture
5 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.13%) SCADA
7 1 (1.56%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.56%) PKI
7 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 32 (50.00%) Windows
2 12 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 7 (10.94%) Linux
4 6 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (6.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.56%) Android
6 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Migration
2 16 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (15.63%) Analytics
4 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
4 10 (15.63%) ITIL
4 10 (15.63%) Roadmaps
4 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
5 9 (14.06%) Zero Trust
6 8 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
6 8 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (12.50%) IT Strategy
7 7 (10.94%) Application Packaging
8 6 (9.38%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.38%) DevOps
8 6 (9.38%) Identity Management
8 6 (9.38%) SIEM
8 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.56%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.50%) Bicep
3 4 (6.25%) Bash
3 4 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) SQL
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) Python
5 1 (1.56%) VB
5 1 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
4 4 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.69%) CCSP
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.69%) CISSP
5 3 (4.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.13%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.94%) GDPR
3 6 (9.38%) SLA
4 3 (4.69%) NIST
4 3 (4.69%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.69%) PSD2
5 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (1.56%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (7.81%) Docker
5 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.56%) NFS
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (40.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (18.75%) SCCM
3 10 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (15.63%) Terraform
4 4 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.56%) SCOM
6 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (60.94%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) VMware
3 9 (14.06%) Citrix
4 6 (9.38%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.25%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.69%) Cisco
6 3 (4.69%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.69%) Databricks
6 3 (4.69%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.13%) Sophos
8 1 (1.56%) Dell
8 1 (1.56%) F5
8 1 (1.56%) Isilon
8 1 (1.56%) NetApp
8 1 (1.56%) Okta
8 1 (1.56%) Veeam