Entra ID Contracts

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 145 141
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 +85
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 669 711 1,046
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.16% 1.64% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.73% 4.99% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 519 768
10th Percentile £245 £224 £284
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £618 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 18
10th Percentile - - £26.34
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.80 £30.63
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -55.93% +13.68%
75th Percentile £24.00 £41.25 £65.63
90th Percentile £39.71 £53.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.45 £24.40 £26.74
% change year-on-year +69.88% -8.75% -31.12%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,683 14,254 20,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 32.84% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 10,021 14,673
10th Percentile £313 £303 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 356 334
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.36 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.97 £25.73
% change year-on-year -10.01% -18.48% +33.64%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Entra ID over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Entra ID in the UK

Entra ID
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +24 594 £500 - 1,610
London +2 298 £520 +4.00% 646
UK excluding London +40 294 £450 -10.00% 1,064
Work from Home +24 234 £514 -3.43% 748
North of England +52 113 £406 -18.80% 266
South East +30 67 £513 -15.29% 283
Yorkshire +35 62 £400 -20.00% 95
Midlands +23 52 £455 -12.50% 177
North West +28 50 £450 -5.26% 154
West Midlands +30 44 £460 +5.75% 98
East of England +43 26 £530 +17.78% 140
Scotland -24 21 £475 +10.72% 51
South West +8 16 £438 -2.78% 116
Wales +7 10 £200 -52.94% 27
East Midlands +3 8 £450 +7.46% 78
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 19
North East -2 1 £550 +10.00% 17

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 115 (17.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 113 (16.89%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.64%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) IIS
5 5 (0.75%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (0.45%) nginx
7 2 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.30%) SAS
8 1 (0.15%) Apache
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 47 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.75%) InfoPath
3 5 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.15%) Notion
6 1 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.30%) Alphatax
3 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 540 (80.72%) Azure
2 321 (47.98%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (15.10%) AWS
4 63 (9.42%) IaaS
5 61 (9.12%) SaaS
6 56 (8.37%) OneDrive
7 46 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (6.13%) Azure AKS
8 41 (6.13%) GCP
9 40 (5.98%) PaaS
10 39 (5.83%) GitHub
11 33 (4.93%) Power Platform
12 32 (4.78%) Azure Sentinel
13 29 (4.33%) Microsoft Purview
14 24 (3.59%) Serverless
15 21 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (2.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 18 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
17 17 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 17 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 84 (12.56%) Firewall
2 63 (9.42%) DNS
3 47 (7.03%) VPN
4 36 (5.38%) DHCP
5 33 (4.93%) WAN
6 23 (3.44%) LAN
7 18 (2.69%) TCP/IP
8 17 (2.54%) Network Security
9 12 (1.79%) SAN
9 12 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (1.64%) SD-WAN
11 10 (1.49%) Intrusion Detection
12 9 (1.35%) MPLS
13 8 (1.20%) SSL
14 7 (1.05%) Kerberos
14 7 (1.05%) SMTP
15 6 (0.90%) Internet
15 6 (0.90%) VLAN
16 5 (0.75%) HTTPS
16 5 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (6.28%) SQL Server
2 22 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (1.64%) Power BI
4 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
4 6 (0.90%) Hadoop
4 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (0.60%) Big Data
6 4 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.60%) Redis
7 3 (0.45%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Parquet
8 1 (0.15%) Power Query
8 1 (0.15%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 18 (2.69%) JIRA
2 9 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.05%) GitLab
4 5 (0.75%) Git
5 4 (0.60%) MSI
6 3 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.30%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.30%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.30%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.15%) JMeter
8 1 (0.15%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.15%) Moq
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) Snyk
8 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 219 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 110 (16.44%) Finance
3 54 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (7.17%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (3.59%) Banking
7 23 (3.44%) Legal
7 23 (3.44%) Retail
8 18 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.64%) Law
11 10 (1.49%) Local Government
12 9 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.90%) Games
13 6 (0.90%) Marketing
14 5 (0.75%) Military
15 4 (0.60%) French Language
15 4 (0.60%) Spanish Language
16 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (16.59%) Architect
2 64 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 60 (8.97%) Support Engineer
4 58 (8.67%) Analyst
5 56 (8.37%) IT Support
6 46 (6.88%) Lead
6 46 (6.88%) Senior
7 45 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
8 41 (6.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 35 (5.23%) Developer
10 34 (5.08%) IT Engineer
11 33 (4.93%) Consultant
11 33 (4.93%) Support Manager
12 29 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
13 27 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
14 25 (3.74%) Azure Architect
14 25 (3.74%) Security Engineer
15 23 (3.44%) IT Support Engineer
16 21 (3.14%) Support Analyst
17 19 (2.84%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (10.16%) OAuth
2 52 (7.77%) OpenID
3 50 (7.47%) SAML
4 49 (7.32%) SailPoint
5 33 (4.93%) .NET
6 27 (4.04%) REST
7 21 (3.14%) ARM Templates
8 20 (2.99%) OAuth2
9 19 (2.84%) React
10 17 (2.54%) LDAP
11 15 (2.24%) Kafka
12 13 (1.94%) ASP.NET
13 12 (1.79%) Middleware
14 11 (1.64%) .NET Core
14 11 (1.64%) CSS
14 11 (1.64%) HTML
14 11 (1.64%) JSON
14 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Graph
15 8 (1.20%) .NET Framework
15 8 (1.20%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 34 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (4.33%) Data Centre
4 25 (3.74%) PKI
5 21 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (3.14%) iPhone
5 21 (3.14%) Smartphone
6 17 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.09%) Security Posture
7 14 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.64%) Driving Licence
9 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.05%) CMDB
11 7 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.05%) Replication
12 6 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.90%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 252 (37.67%) Windows
2 90 (13.45%) Windows Server
3 56 (8.37%) Windows 10
4 49 (7.32%) Linux
5 45 (6.73%) Mac OS
6 25 (3.74%) Android
7 21 (3.14%) Apple iOS
8 20 (2.99%) VMS
9 11 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.75%) Unix
11 5 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.30%) Debian
14 2 (0.30%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.15%) CentOS
15 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
2 126 (18.83%) Migration
3 112 (16.74%) Identity Access Management
4 108 (16.14%) ITIL
5 100 (14.95%) DevOps
6 98 (14.65%) Identity Management
7 94 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 84 (12.56%) RBAC
9 82 (12.26%) Agile
10 71 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 67 (10.01%) Cloud Security
12 63 (9.42%) Customer Service
13 57 (8.52%) Cybersecurity
13 57 (8.52%) ITSM
14 52 (7.77%) CI/CD
14 52 (7.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 50 (7.47%) Roadmaps
16 47 (7.03%) Zero Trust
17 45 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 43 (6.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 167 (24.96%) PowerShell
2 59 (8.82%) Python
3 42 (6.28%) SQL
4 35 (5.23%) Bicep
5 33 (4.93%) C#
6 27 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 22 (3.29%) Bash
8 12 (1.79%) Java
9 8 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.60%) C
10 4 (0.60%) Ruby
11 3 (0.45%) Perl
11 3 (0.45%) VB
12 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.15%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.15%) C++
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 82 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 63 (9.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 57 (8.52%) Azure Certification
5 50 (7.47%) Degree
6 14 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.94%) CISSP
8 11 (1.64%) ACSP
8 11 (1.64%) ACTC
8 11 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 6 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.90%) PMP
12 5 (0.75%) A+ Certification
12 5 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.37%) GDPR
2 33 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.93%) NIST
2 33 (4.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 31 (4.63%) HIPAA
4 11 (1.64%) NCSC
5 10 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.49%) SLA
6 6 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.60%) GRC
8 3 (0.45%) COBIT
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.45%) PMO
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.30%) QA
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 483 (72.20%) Active Directory
2 46 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (2.09%) vSphere
6 13 (1.94%) Docker
6 13 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 13 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (1.20%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.75%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.60%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.45%) NFS
10 3 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.15%) Firmware
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.15%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 184 (27.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 99 (14.80%) Terraform
3 96 (14.35%) Single Sign-On
4 54 (8.07%) SCCM
5 53 (7.92%) Jamf Pro
6 48 (7.17%) Kubernetes
7 17 (2.54%) Ansible
8 13 (1.94%) WSUS
9 11 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.35%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.75%) QRadar
11 5 (0.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.60%) Grafana
13 3 (0.45%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.45%) Autotask
13 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
14 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.30%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.30%) PingFederate
14 2 (0.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 442 (66.07%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.12%) VMware
3 57 (8.52%) ServiceNow
4 50 (7.47%) Apple
5 44 (6.58%) Okta
6 36 (5.38%) CyberArk
7 32 (4.78%) Cisco
8 28 (4.19%) Citrix
9 22 (3.29%) Google
10 19 (2.84%) Zscaler
11 16 (2.39%) Ping Identity
12 12 (1.79%) Databricks
12 12 (1.79%) Palo Alto
13 10 (1.49%) SAP
14 9 (1.35%) Veeam
15 8 (1.20%) Alibaba
15 8 (1.20%) Oracle
15 8 (1.20%) Samsung
15 8 (1.20%) SOTI
16 7 (1.05%) Dell