Entra ID Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory, Azure AD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 121 197
Rank change year-on-year -19 +76 -41
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 239 527 630
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.54% 2.00% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.21% 5.09% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 364 472
10th Percentile £306 £325 £313
25th Percentile £422 £421 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +2.91% +6.19%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £711 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - £50.75 £34.75
25th Percentile - £52.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% +12.63%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £69.00
90th Percentile - £69.15 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £17.80 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -60.00% +27.14% -26.32%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,673 10,351 18,781
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.28% 41.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,035 7,601 14,027
10th Percentile £350 £370 £380
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 126 176
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.30 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £18.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -17.86%
75th Percentile £53.19 £70.00 £62.36
90th Percentile £62.45 £81.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -35.38% +54.39% -7.51%

Entra ID
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Entra ID trend for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entra ID.

Entra ID daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Entra ID over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Entra ID daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Entra ID.

Entra ID hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 43 (17.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (7.95%) SharePoint
3 10 (4.18%) IIS
4 3 (1.26%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.26%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.84%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) JBoss
5 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.42%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Acrobat
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 226 (94.56%) Azure
2 123 (51.46%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (13.39%) AWS
5 30 (12.55%) Azure Monitor
6 22 (9.21%) PaaS
7 21 (8.79%) IaaS
8 20 (8.37%) Azure Storage
9 19 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (6.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (6.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (6.28%) OneDrive
12 11 (4.60%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 9 (3.77%) SaaS
14 9 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (2.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 7 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
17 5 (2.09%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 54 (22.59%) DNS
1 54 (22.59%) Firewall
2 22 (9.21%) DHCP
3 19 (7.95%) VPN
4 17 (7.11%) Network Security
5 6 (2.51%) LAN
6 5 (2.09%) SAN
6 5 (2.09%) WAN
7 4 (1.67%) NAS
7 4 (1.67%) SSL
8 3 (1.26%) BGP
8 3 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.26%) HTTP
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.84%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.84%) VLAN
9 2 (0.84%) Wireless
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.42%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.13%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.09%) Power BI
5 4 (1.67%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.84%) Metadata
6 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Big Data
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) DB2
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.42%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.60%) Git
2 6 (2.51%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.09%) Selenium
3 5 (2.09%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.67%) WebDriver
5 3 (1.26%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.42%) GitLab
6 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.42%) Moq
6 1 (0.42%) MSI
6 1 (0.42%) Postman
6 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 69 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 39 (16.32%) Finance
3 19 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.51%) Law
6 5 (2.09%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (2.09%) Retail
7 4 (1.67%) Billing
7 4 (1.67%) German Language
7 4 (1.67%) Legal
7 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.26%) Marketing
9 2 (0.84%) Back Office
9 2 (0.84%) Front Office
9 2 (0.84%) Games
9 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 39 (16.32%) Architect
2 26 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (9.21%) Developer
4 21 (8.79%) Azure Specialist
5 19 (7.95%) Security Engineer
6 18 (7.53%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.11%) Senior
8 16 (6.69%) Consultant
9 15 (6.28%) Active Directory Specialist
9 15 (6.28%) Azure Developer
10 14 (5.86%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (5.86%) Support Specialist
11 13 (5.44%) Analyst
12 11 (4.60%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 10 (4.18%) Lead
14 9 (3.77%) Azure Architect
14 9 (3.77%) Senior Developer
15 8 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
16 7 (2.93%) Service Desk Analyst
16 7 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.55%) .NET
2 23 (9.62%) ARM Templates
3 22 (9.21%) SAML
4 20 (8.37%) OAuth
5 19 (7.95%) XML
6 13 (5.44%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.02%) OpenID
8 10 (4.18%) .NET Framework
8 10 (4.18%) React
9 9 (3.77%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.35%) REST
11 7 (2.93%) LDAP
12 6 (2.51%) ASP.NET
12 6 (2.51%) OAuth2
13 5 (2.09%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.09%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (2.09%) SailPoint
14 4 (1.67%) Fastify
14 4 (1.67%) Next.js
14 4 (1.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.95%) PKI
1 19 (7.95%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.18%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 7 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.67%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.67%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.67%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.42%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.42%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 113 (47.28%) Windows
2 50 (20.92%) Windows Server
3 45 (18.83%) Windows 10
4 26 (10.88%) Linux
5 21 (8.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (6.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (4.18%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.51%) VMS
9 5 (2.09%) Mac OS
9 5 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.26%) Android
10 3 (1.26%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.42%) CentOS
11 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.42%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.62%) DevOps
2 56 (23.43%) Agile
3 51 (21.34%) CI/CD
4 45 (18.83%) Migration
5 32 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (13.39%) ITIL
6 31 (12.97%) Identity Access Management
7 28 (11.72%) Identity Management
7 28 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (10.88%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 25 (10.46%) B2C
9 25 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (10.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (10.46%) RBAC
10 20 (8.37%) Service Management
11 19 (7.95%) Scrum
12 18 (7.53%) Analytics
13 17 (7.11%) Microservices
14 16 (6.69%) Log Analytics
14 16 (6.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.29%) PowerShell
2 38 (15.90%) C#
3 25 (10.46%) SQL
4 24 (10.04%) Bicep
5 20 (8.37%) VB
6 15 (6.28%) VBScript
7 10 (4.18%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.35%) Python
9 6 (2.51%) Java
10 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.84%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) Bash
12 1 (0.42%) DataFlex
12 1 (0.42%) Ruby
12 1 (0.42%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) SC Cleared
1 38 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.04%) Degree
3 22 (9.21%) Azure Certification
4 20 (8.37%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.69%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.51%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.26%) CISSP
11 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.42%) CCNA
12 1 (0.42%) CCNP
12 1 (0.42%) CEH
12 1 (0.42%) CISM
12 1 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
1 3 (1.26%) SLA
2 2 (0.84%) GDPR
2 2 (0.84%) GRC
3 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.42%) NIST
3 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 194 (81.17%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.88%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (9.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.35%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.93%) Docker
5 7 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (28.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (15.48%) SCCM
3 26 (10.88%) Single Sign-On
4 23 (9.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (8.79%) Kubernetes
6 15 (6.28%) SCOM
6 15 (6.28%) WSUS
7 10 (4.18%) Terraform
8 9 (3.77%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.26%) Ansible
10 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.42%) Forefront Identity Manager
11 1 (0.42%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.42%) Puppet
11 1 (0.42%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.42%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 142 (59.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.11%) VMware
3 13 (5.44%) CA
3 13 (5.44%) Okta
3 13 (5.44%) Oracle
4 11 (4.60%) Citrix
5 9 (3.77%) Cisco
6 7 (2.93%) Apple
6 7 (2.93%) Qualys
7 5 (2.09%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.09%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.09%) Ping Identity
7 5 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.67%) HP
9 3 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.26%) SAP
10 2 (0.84%) Adobe
10 2 (0.84%) Dell
10 2 (0.84%) Google
10 2 (0.84%) Zscaler