Entra ID Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 142 202
Rank change year-on-year -30 +60 -10
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 252 419 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.24% 1.82% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.80% 5.49% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 334 307
10th Percentile £200 £230 £225
25th Percentile £356 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +16.47% -4.49%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £538
90th Percentile £750 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile - £21.22 £16.14
25th Percentile - - £17.11
Median hourly rate £17.80 £26.48 £18.91
Median % change year-on-year -32.78% +40.01% +2.23%
75th Percentile - £33.75 £25.44
90th Percentile £37.12 £52.20 £34.18
UK median hourly rate £17.80 £54.00 £27.59
% change year-on-year -67.04% +95.71% -41.91%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,254 7,633 9,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.89% 33.18% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 5,635 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 222 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.31 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Entra ID as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Entra ID in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Entra ID in the UK excluding London

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East -34 74 £605 +0.83% 58
North of England -7 53 £500 +3.90% 49
Scotland +43 49 £420 -15.58% 12
South West +14 37 £439 -2.39% 38
Midlands -20 30 £350 -11.11% 52
North West -12 29 £550 +12.82% 32
West Midlands -8 22 £350 -18.60% 26
Yorkshire +9 20 £500 +33.33% 13
East Midlands -4 8 £469 +56.25% 26
Wales +16 6 £513 +20.59% 9
East of England -18 3 £450 - 31
North East +10 2 £550 -21.43% 5
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 62 (24.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 25 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 230 (91.27%) Azure
2 110 (43.65%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (15.48%) Azure Monitor
4 26 (10.32%) AWS
5 23 (9.13%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (8.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 21 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 20 (7.94%) Power Platform
9 17 (6.75%) Azure Storage
10 16 (6.35%) Azure Functions
10 16 (6.35%) OneDrive
10 16 (6.35%) Serverless
11 13 (5.16%) IaaS
12 12 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
13 11 (4.37%) PowerApps
14 10 (3.97%) PaaS
15 9 (3.57%) SaaS
16 8 (3.17%) Power Automate
17 6 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.03%) DNS
2 45 (17.86%) Firewall
3 30 (11.90%) DHCP
4 20 (7.94%) VPN
5 10 (3.97%) Network Security
6 7 (2.78%) SAN
7 6 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (2.38%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.98%) SMTP
9 4 (1.59%) NAS
9 4 (1.59%) WAN
10 3 (1.19%) LAN
10 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.79%) Skype
12 1 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
12 1 (0.40%) IPsec
12 1 (0.40%) NetScaler
12 1 (0.40%) SSH
12 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 18 (7.14%) Power BI
2 12 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) MySQL
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (1.59%) Selenium
3 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 1 (0.40%) MSI
General
1 84 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.13%) Public Sector
3 21 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.54%) Banking
5 18 (7.14%) Finance
6 8 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.98%) Retail
8 4 (1.59%) Local Government
8 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Advertising
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
11 1 (0.40%) Back Office
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (11.51%) Analyst
1 29 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (8.73%) Architect
2 22 (8.73%) Developer
3 20 (7.94%) Active Directory Support
4 19 (7.54%) Support Engineer
5 18 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
5 18 (7.14%) Consultant
5 18 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
6 17 (6.75%) Azure Developer
6 17 (6.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 17 (6.75%) Security Analyst
7 14 (5.56%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (5.56%) Support Specialist
8 13 (5.16%) Active Directory Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.37%) IT Support
10 11 (4.37%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.97%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.13%) SailPoint
2 20 (7.94%) ARM Templates
2 20 (7.94%) SAML
3 18 (7.14%) React
4 12 (4.76%) OAuth
5 10 (3.97%) LDAP
5 10 (3.97%) OpenID
6 9 (3.57%) OAuth2
7 6 (2.38%) Keycloak
7 6 (2.38%) Web Services
8 4 (1.59%) .NET
9 3 (1.19%) CSS
10 2 (0.79%) Django
10 2 (0.79%) HTML
11 1 (0.40%) HTML5 Canvas
11 1 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (12.30%) PKI
2 23 (9.13%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.78%) Clustering
7 6 (2.38%) Digital Signage
7 6 (2.38%) NHS
8 5 (1.98%) Replication
8 5 (1.98%) Smartphone
9 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.19%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.79%) IoT
12 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 109 (43.25%) Windows
2 49 (19.44%) Windows Server
3 43 (17.06%) Windows 10
4 35 (13.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 29 (11.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (10.32%) Linux
7 11 (4.37%) VMS
8 7 (2.78%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.19%) Windows 7
9 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.40%) Android
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.40%) Unix
10 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.84%) Identity Access Management
2 46 (18.25%) CI/CD
2 46 (18.25%) DevOps
3 39 (15.48%) Agile
3 39 (15.48%) ITIL
4 33 (13.10%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (11.51%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 28 (11.11%) Customer Service
8 27 (10.71%) Migration
8 27 (10.71%) RBAC
9 24 (9.52%) Service Management
10 23 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (8.73%) Identity Management
12 21 (8.33%) Analytics
12 21 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (8.33%) Microservices
13 19 (7.54%) Cloud Security
13 19 (7.54%) Log Analytics
13 19 (7.54%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 30 (11.90%) Python
3 22 (8.73%) C#
4 20 (7.94%) Bicep
5 17 (6.75%) VB
5 17 (6.75%) VBScript
6 15 (5.95%) SQL
7 8 (3.17%) Java
8 4 (1.59%) Bash
9 3 (1.19%) C
9 3 (1.19%) PHP
9 3 (1.19%) Ruby
10 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.40%) ABAP
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (20.63%) Security Cleared
2 46 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.49%) Degree
4 30 (11.90%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.75%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.98%) CISSP
8 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.19%) CISM
10 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CEH
11 1 (0.40%) CISA
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.35%) QA
2 7 (2.78%) SLA
3 4 (1.59%) NIST
4 3 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.19%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) COSO
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (86.90%) Active Directory
2 29 (11.51%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (9.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (7.54%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.95%) Docker
6 13 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (2.38%) vSphere
8 5 (1.98%) BitLocker
8 5 (1.98%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.98%) Terminal Services
8 5 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.40%) NFS
10 1 (0.40%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (24.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (17.86%) Single Sign-On
3 29 (11.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 27 (10.71%) SCCM
5 24 (9.52%) Kubernetes
6 18 (7.14%) WSUS
7 17 (6.75%) SCOM
8 8 (3.17%) Terraform
9 5 (1.98%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.98%) vMotion
10 3 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.79%) Ansible
11 2 (0.79%) CA Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.79%) VxRail
12 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.40%) Packer
12 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 132 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.71%) VMware
3 25 (9.92%) CyberArk
4 17 (6.75%) Okta
5 16 (6.35%) CA
6 14 (5.56%) Oracle
7 11 (4.37%) Citrix
8 9 (3.57%) Cisco
8 9 (3.57%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (2.78%) Zscaler
10 6 (2.38%) Apple
10 6 (2.38%) HP
11 5 (1.98%) Infoblox
12 4 (1.59%) Dell
12 4 (1.59%) Google
13 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
13 2 (0.79%) SAP
13 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.79%) Veeam