Entra ID Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 61 122
Rank change year-on-year -27 +61 -8
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 49 93 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.86% 3.27% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.82% 10.98% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 85 35
10th Percentile £456 £264 £325
25th Percentile £603 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £650
90th Percentile £681 £740 £744
South East median daily rate £605 £588 £500
% change year-on-year +2.98% +17.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.00 -
South East median hourly rate £17.80 £59.00 -
% change year-on-year -69.83% - -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 718 847 1,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.28% 29.81% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 619 849
10th Percentile £269 £300 £184
25th Percentile £413 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 17
10th Percentile £15.99 £17.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £19.37 £20.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +19.05% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £57.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £72.66
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year +0.93% +9.26% -4.32%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the Thames Valley

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the Thames Valley

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Berkshire -22 47 £605 +0.67% 7
Buckinghamshire +9 1 £370 +34.55% 9
Oxfordshire -2 1 £300 - 5
Entra ID
South East

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (32.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (69.39%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (40.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (38.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 17 (34.69%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (32.65%) Azure Storage
7 14 (28.57%) Azure Functions
7 14 (28.57%) Serverless
8 5 (10.20%) Azure API Management
9 4 (8.16%) AWS
9 4 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (8.16%) IaaS
9 4 (8.16%) PaaS
9 4 (8.16%) SaaS
10 3 (6.12%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.69%) DNS
1 17 (34.69%) Firewall
2 16 (32.65%) DHCP
3 3 (6.12%) Network Security
3 3 (6.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Selenium
2 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (38.78%) Developer
2 17 (34.69%) Azure Developer
2 17 (34.69%) Full Stack Developer
3 16 (32.65%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (28.57%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (28.57%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (28.57%) Support Specialist
5 10 (20.41%) Python Developer
6 8 (16.33%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Lead
8 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Developer
10 1 (2.04%) 2nd Line Support
10 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Consultant
10 1 (2.04%) Cloud Architect
10 1 (2.04%) Field Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.69%) ARM Templates
1 17 (34.69%) React
2 3 (6.12%) .NET
2 3 (6.12%) Web Services
3 2 (4.08%) Django
4 1 (2.04%) CSS
4 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.65%) PKI
1 16 (32.65%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (26.53%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.82%) Windows
2 17 (34.69%) Windows Server
3 16 (32.65%) Linux
3 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (6.12%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (77.55%) DevOps
2 33 (67.35%) CI/CD
3 26 (53.06%) Agile
4 20 (40.82%) Microservices
5 19 (38.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 17 (34.69%) Analytics
6 17 (34.69%) Full Stack Development
6 17 (34.69%) Identity Management
6 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (34.69%) ITIL
6 17 (34.69%) Log Analytics
6 17 (34.69%) Release Management
6 17 (34.69%) Service Management
7 16 (32.65%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (32.65%) RBAC
8 15 (30.61%) SDLC
9 13 (26.53%) Product Backlog
10 10 (20.41%) Change Management
10 10 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (20.41%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.94%) Python
2 19 (38.78%) C#
3 18 (36.73%) PowerShell
4 17 (34.69%) Bicep
5 16 (32.65%) VB
5 16 (32.65%) VBScript
6 7 (14.29%) Java
7 3 (6.12%) C
7 3 (6.12%) PHP
7 3 (6.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) DV Cleared
1 18 (36.73%) SC Cleared
1 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) Degree
3 16 (32.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) CEH
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (93.88%) Active Directory
2 19 (38.78%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (32.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (6.12%) Docker
4 3 (6.12%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (40.82%) Kubernetes
2 18 (36.73%) SCCM
3 17 (34.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (32.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (32.65%) SCOM
4 16 (32.65%) WSUS
5 4 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) CyberArk
2 4 (8.16%) Okta
3 3 (6.12%) VMware
4 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.04%) Apple
5 1 (2.04%) BMC
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) Remedy