Entra ID Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Entra ID skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 92 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 -21 +64
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 33 20 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.80% 1.05% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 3.64% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 40
10th Percentile £106 £400 £172
25th Percentile £225 £478 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £607 £381
Median % change year-on-year -34.10% +59.21% -23.75%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £513
90th Percentile £700 £700 £654
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.55
25th Percentile - - £17.63
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - £19.65
England median hourly rate £23.00 £31.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -25.81% +37.78% -59.09%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 593 550 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.28% 28.87% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 362 532
10th Percentile £275 £213 £206
25th Percentile £413 £358 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £700 £685 £700
England median daily rate £501 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -6.10% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £28.61 £15.83 £17.58
25th Percentile £30.97 £23.55 £17.69
Median hourly rate £34.43 £33.74 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% +82.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £35.75 £35.00 £19.38
90th Percentile £47.13 £55.50 £19.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the West Midlands

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the West Midlands

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Birmingham +13 9 £113 -75.00% 4
Warwickshire -6 7 £600 +15.38% 1
Herefordshire - 7 £700 -
Worcestershire -5 6 £700 - 4
Shropshire - 3 £325 - 1
Solihull - 3 £375 - 1
Coventry -14 1 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £525 -
Staffordshire - 1 £250 - 4
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (6.06%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 28 (84.85%) Azure
2 12 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Stack
4 5 (15.15%) AWS
4 5 (15.15%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) IaaS
5 3 (9.09%) PaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Serverless
5 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.06%) OneDrive
6 2 (6.06%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) DHCP
1 4 (12.12%) DNS
2 2 (6.06%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (3.03%) DKIM
3 1 (3.03%) DMARC
3 1 (3.03%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Metadata
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.03%) Legal
3 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (27.27%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) 1st Line Support
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) IT Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior IT Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Support Officer
5 4 (12.12%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Administrator
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Administrator
7 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Migration Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) LDAP
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.09%) Replication
3 2 (6.06%) PKI
3 2 (6.06%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.03%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (57.58%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Android
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.09%) Linux
5 2 (6.06%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (30.30%) ITIL
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (18.18%) Customer Service
6 4 (12.12%) Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 3 (9.09%) Key Management
7 3 (9.09%) Project Management
7 3 (9.09%) Workflow
8 2 (6.06%) Data Security
8 2 (6.06%) Identity Management
8 2 (6.06%) Roadmaps
8 2 (6.06%) Service Management
8 2 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (3.03%) Agile
9 1 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1 (3.03%) Computer Science
9 1 (3.03%) Document Management
9 1 (3.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.06%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Azure Certification
2 6 (18.18%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) CCNA
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.06%) SCCM
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (6.06%) Logitech
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.06%) Virgin Media
3 2 (6.06%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) iManage
4 1 (3.03%) Okta
4 1 (3.03%) Veeam