Entra ID Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Entra ID skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 88 103
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 51 38 45
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.19% 1.80% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.60% 6.13% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 36
10th Percentile £334 £409 £210
25th Percentile £425 £425 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £579
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -9.29% +44.69%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -2.44% +3.54% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 £77.50 £20.25
Median hourly rate £63.00 £85.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.88% +277.78% -76.32%
75th Percentile £64.50 £92.50 £24.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% +58.97% -42.65%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 671 620 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.76% 29.38% 29.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 414 670
10th Percentile £253 £250 £231
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 33
10th Percentile - £12.80 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.75 £14.93
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +29.17% -63.64%
75th Percentile £47.41 £69.06 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.09 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Entra ID relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Entra ID job vacancy trend in the South West

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Entra ID.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the South West over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the South West

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Entra ID.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Entra ID

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Gloucestershire -9 17 £500 -4.76% 2
Somerset - 12 £438 - 1
Bristol -5 8 £512 +13.78% 12
Wiltshire -7 8 £450 -25.00% 1
Devon +11 4 £675 - 1
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (19.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (94.12%) Azure
2 21 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (19.61%) AWS
4 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (13.73%) OneDrive
5 6 (11.76%) Azure Stack
5 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 6 (11.76%) ShareGate
6 5 (9.80%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (7.84%) Azure AKS
7 4 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (5.88%) GCP
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub
8 3 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (5.88%) Serverless
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) Network Security
3 3 (5.88%) Kerberos
3 3 (5.88%) VPN
4 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.96%) DKIM
5 1 (1.96%) DMARC
5 1 (1.96%) HTTP
5 1 (1.96%) LAN
5 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) Metadata
3 2 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.92%) Looker
3 2 (3.92%) Tableau
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) MSI
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Finance
4 3 (5.88%) Military
5 2 (3.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (19.61%) Senior
3 8 (15.69%) IT Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (13.73%) Senior IT Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Analyst
6 5 (9.80%) Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Consultant
7 4 (7.84%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (5.88%) Data Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) ForgeRock Developer
8 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Migration Consultant
8 3 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) OAuth
1 8 (15.69%) SAML
2 6 (11.76%) OpenID
3 5 (9.80%) OAuth2
4 4 (7.84%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.88%) .NET
5 3 (5.88%) LDAP
5 3 (5.88%) Node.js
5 3 (5.88%) React
5 3 (5.88%) RESTful
5 3 (5.88%) SailPoint
5 3 (5.88%) YAML
6 2 (3.92%) Express.js
6 2 (3.92%) Next.js
7 1 (1.96%) JSON
7 1 (1.96%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Device Driver
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.88%) Android
3 3 (5.88%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.88%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.96%) Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) DevOps
2 13 (25.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (23.53%) RBAC
3 12 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (17.65%) Migration
5 8 (15.69%) Cloud Security
5 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Management
6 7 (13.73%) Change Management
6 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.76%) Agile
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Decision-Making
7 6 (11.76%) Runbook
8 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (9.80%) Identity Management
8 5 (9.80%) Knowledge Transfer
9 4 (7.84%) Digital Identity
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.65%) Python
3 6 (11.76%) Bicep
4 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.88%) C#
5 3 (5.88%) SQL
6 2 (3.92%) Java
7 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 18 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (23.53%) Azure Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Degree
6 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) MCITP
6 1 (1.96%) MCP
6 1 (1.96%) MCSA
6 1 (1.96%) MCSE
6 1 (1.96%) MCTS
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (17.65%) GDPR
3 4 (7.84%) NCSC
3 4 (7.84%) NIST
4 3 (5.88%) PSD2
4 3 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.84%) Docker
3 1 (1.96%) UAG
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (19.61%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (17.65%) Terraform
4 8 (15.69%) SCCM
5 6 (11.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
7 2 (3.92%) Kibana
8 1 (1.96%) Ansible
8 1 (1.96%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.96%) Grafana
8 1 (1.96%) HP ALM
8 1 (1.96%) Puppet
8 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (74.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) ForgeRock
3 3 (5.88%) Ping Identity
4 2 (3.92%) Micro Focus
4 2 (3.92%) NetIQ
4 2 (3.92%) Okta
4 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.96%) HP
5 1 (1.96%) Sophos