Entra ID Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 130 126 153
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -5
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 55 77 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 1.41% 1.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 3.93% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 54 73
10th Percentile £220 £187 £190
25th Percentile £419 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £715 £533 £538
90th Percentile £750 £638 £685
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £37.75 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +114.00% -73.87%
England median hourly rate £23.80 £29.49 £17.64
% change year-on-year -19.29% +67.18% -60.36%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,445 1,960 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.82% 36.02% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,454 1,935
10th Percentile £263 £286 £185
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 42 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% +12.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £42.44 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £62.34 £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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Entra ID in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Entra ID in the North of England

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West -6 31 £525 +10.53% 20
Yorkshire +10 20 £500 +33.33% 29
North East +8 2 £550 -21.43% 8
Entra ID
England

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (23.64%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (23.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (94.55%) Azure
2 26 (47.27%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.64%) AWS
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (3.64%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.64%) IaaS
5 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Akamai
6 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (18.18%) DNS
2 6 (10.91%) Firewall
3 2 (3.64%) HTTP
3 2 (3.64%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.64%) IPsec
3 2 (3.64%) Network Security
3 2 (3.64%) SNMP
3 2 (3.64%) SSH
3 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) Internet
4 1 (1.82%) NAS
4 1 (1.82%) SAN
4 1 (1.82%) Skype
4 1 (1.82%) SMTP
4 1 (1.82%) VPN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
4 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Git
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Banking
3 8 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.45%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Automotive
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (14.55%) Analyst
1 8 (14.55%) Architect
1 8 (14.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 8 (14.55%) Security Analyst
2 7 (12.73%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
3 5 (9.09%) Consultant
4 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Exchange Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 3 (5.45%) Lead
5 3 (5.45%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Support Technician
6 2 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (3.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Online Project Manager
6 2 (3.64%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) SailPoint
2 4 (7.27%) LDAP
3 1 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.82%) CSS
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
3 1 (1.82%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (1.82%) J2EE
3 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) PKI
2 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.64%) Clustering
3 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.64%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) Windows
2 11 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.64%) Linux
4 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.64%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.82%) VMS
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) Identity Access Management
2 9 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (14.55%) Remediation Plan
4 7 (12.73%) Migration
4 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.91%) RBAC
6 5 (9.09%) DevOps
7 4 (7.27%) Project Management
7 4 (7.27%) Roadmaps
8 3 (5.45%) Cloud Security
8 3 (5.45%) Identity Management
8 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (5.45%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (5.45%) Security Management
9 2 (3.64%) Agile
9 2 (3.64%) Computer Science
9 2 (3.64%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (3.64%) Data Migration
9 2 (3.64%) Mentoring
9 2 (3.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.45%) SQL
3 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) ABAP
4 1 (1.82%) Bicep
4 1 (1.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.45%) Degree
6 2 (3.64%) CISSP
6 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.82%) CISM
7 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.82%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) GRC
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (92.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.64%) NFS
2 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.82%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.82%) Terminal Services
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (10.91%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (7.27%) Terraform
4 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (5.45%) SCCM
5 2 (3.64%) CA Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.64%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.82%) Nessus
6 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.82%) vMotion
Vendors
1 42 (76.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) CyberArk
3 4 (7.27%) CA
4 3 (5.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.64%) Citrix
5 2 (3.64%) HP
5 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.82%) Concur
6 1 (1.82%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.82%) ForeScout
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) Meraki
6 1 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.82%) Qualys
6 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.82%) Sophos
6 1 (1.82%) Symantec
6 1 (1.82%) Thycotic