Entra ID Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 78 108
Rank change year-on-year +30 +30 +3
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 44 22 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.33% 1.30% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.67% 4.70% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 16
10th Percentile £208 £178 £185
25th Percentile £341 £263 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £378
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +32.45% +0.67%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £17.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year +33.68% -45.23% +71.84%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 377 468 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.07% 27.71% 34.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 327 589
10th Percentile £241 £250 £255
25th Percentile £360 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £640 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £29.90 £13.43 £21.63
25th Percentile £31.69 £14.63 £27.81
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%
75th Percentile £99.42 £17.31 £62.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £22.00 £72.80
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Yorkshire

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Yorkshire

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Yorkshire

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +39 38 £400 -38.46% 19
South Yorkshire +6 5 £190 -61.03% 12
North Yorkshire +9 1 - - 4
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (11.36%) nginx
1 5 (11.36%) Traefik
2 4 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (45.45%) Azure
3 8 (18.18%) AWS
4 6 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (13.64%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (13.64%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (6.82%) IaaS
5 3 (6.82%) PaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) DNS
1 7 (15.91%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.09%) Firewall
3 3 (6.82%) Network Security
4 2 (4.55%) VPN
5 1 (2.27%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.27%) VLAN
5 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) GitLab
1 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (29.55%) Retail
3 3 (6.82%) Local Government
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Support Manager
2 12 (27.27%) IT Support
3 9 (20.45%) IT Manager
3 9 (20.45%) IT Support Manager
4 8 (18.18%) 1st Line Support
4 8 (18.18%) 1st Line Support Manager
5 5 (11.36%) Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 5 (11.36%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) Support Assistant
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) IT Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) cloud-init
1 6 (13.64%) Kafka
1 6 (13.64%) Keycloak
2 2 (4.55%) LDAP
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) iPhone
1 13 (29.55%) Smartphone
2 6 (13.64%) PKI
3 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) CCTV
4 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (43.18%) Mac OS
2 8 (18.18%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Windows
3 6 (13.64%) CentOS
3 6 (13.64%) Unix
4 4 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (2.27%) VMS
5 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Customer Service
2 18 (40.91%) Mobile Device Management
3 17 (38.64%) ITIL
4 14 (31.82%) Incident Management
5 13 (29.55%) ITSM
5 13 (29.55%) Service Management
6 10 (22.73%) Identity Management
7 7 (15.91%) Cloud Security
8 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (13.64%) DevOps
8 6 (13.64%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 6 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (13.64%) Observability
8 6 (13.64%) Secrets Management
8 6 (13.64%) Service Delivery
8 6 (13.64%) Static Application Security Testing
9 5 (11.36%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Bash
1 6 (13.64%) Go
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) ACSP
3 5 (11.36%) ACTC
4 3 (6.82%) CCNA
4 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.55%) CISSP
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CISA
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) NCSC
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (86.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) vSphere
3 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (54.55%) Jamf Pro
2 6 (13.64%) Consul
2 6 (13.64%) Grafana
2 6 (13.64%) Istio
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.64%) linkerd
2 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.64%) Packer
2 6 (13.64%) Prometheus
2 6 (13.64%) Rancher
2 6 (13.64%) Terraform
2 6 (13.64%) ZABBIX
3 5 (11.36%) HAProxy
4 4 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (6.82%) SCCM
6 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (79.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (52.27%) Apple
3 18 (40.91%) ServiceNow
4 7 (15.91%) Okta
5 6 (13.64%) Splunk
6 5 (11.36%) ESET
6 5 (11.36%) Veeam
6 5 (11.36%) VMware
7 4 (9.09%) Cisco
7 4 (9.09%) Meraki
8 3 (6.82%) Palo Alto
9 2 (4.55%) Red Hat