Entra ID Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 98 124
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -5
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 31 52 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.11% 1.73% 1.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.49% 4.63% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 38 39
10th Percentile £213 £190 £183
25th Percentile £406 £325 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £750 £513 £538
90th Percentile £768 £541 £594
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 887 1,122 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.77% 37.25% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 836 1,101
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 35 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.83 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.41 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -28.34% -15.10% +38.92%
75th Percentile £26.50 £41.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £64.65 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the North West

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Manchester -9 16 £488 +2.63% 10
Cheshire -5 7 £653 +63.13% 4
Merseyside +17 3 £175 - 2
Lancashire +3 2 £863 +439.06% 4
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (25.81%) SharePoint
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (93.55%) Azure
2 15 (48.39%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
4 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
4 2 (6.45%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.23%) Cloudflare
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) IaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.45%) HTTP
3 2 (6.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (6.45%) IPsec
3 2 (6.45%) SNMP
3 2 (6.45%) SSH
3 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.23%) NAS
4 1 (3.23%) Network Security
4 1 (3.23%) SAN
4 1 (3.23%) Skype
4 1 (3.23%) WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Banking
2 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Security Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Lead
4 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Support
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) IAM Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) IT Support
5 2 (6.45%) IT Technician
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Support Technician
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) SailPoint
2 2 (6.45%) LDAP
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) CSS
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) PKI
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Operational Technology
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.23%) Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Windows
2 5 (16.13%) Windows 10
3 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
3 2 (6.45%) Ubuntu
3 2 (6.45%) Windows 7
3 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.23%) VMS
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (16.13%) RBAC
3 4 (12.90%) Migration
3 4 (12.90%) Remediation Plan
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Identity Management
4 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
4 3 (9.68%) Security Management
5 2 (6.45%) Agile
5 2 (6.45%) B2B
5 2 (6.45%) CI/CD
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Security
5 2 (6.45%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.45%) Information Governance
5 2 (6.45%) ITIL
5 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
5 2 (6.45%) Privileged Identity Management
5 2 (6.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.68%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (93.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.45%) NFS
3 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.13%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (9.68%) SCCM
4 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.45%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.45%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (3.23%) Nessus
5 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (90.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) CyberArk
3 4 (12.90%) CA
4 3 (9.68%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) ForeScout
6 1 (3.23%) HP
6 1 (3.23%) Meraki
6 1 (3.23%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (3.23%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.23%) Sophos
6 1 (3.23%) Veeam
6 1 (3.23%) VMware