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 remote or hybrid contract work 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 137 116 208
Rank change year-on-year -21 +92 -48
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 241 493 592
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.63% 2.06% 1.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.46% 5.24% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 341 441
10th Percentile £363 £350 £313
25th Percentile £425 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% +8.50% -
75th Percentile £619 £650 £575
90th Percentile £688 £743 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
10th Percentile - - £38.20
25th Percentile - £54.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +23.53% +7.37%
75th Percentile - £66.00 £59.00
90th Percentile - - £63.80
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £54.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -55.93% +54.29% -26.32%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
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 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 47 (19.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (8.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.07%) IIS
4 3 (1.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.41%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (5.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Acrobat
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 223 (92.53%) Azure
2 111 (46.06%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (14.52%) Azure Monitor
4 30 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (11.20%) AWS
6 26 (10.79%) Azure Storage
7 18 (7.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 18 (7.47%) Dynamics 365
7 18 (7.47%) IaaS
7 18 (7.47%) OneDrive
8 17 (7.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 17 (7.05%) PaaS
9 10 (4.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (3.73%) Power Platform
11 8 (3.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (2.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (2.90%) SaaS
12 7 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 52 (21.58%) Firewall
2 50 (20.75%) DNS
3 26 (10.79%) DHCP
4 17 (7.05%) VPN
5 15 (6.22%) Network Security
6 6 (2.49%) NAS
7 5 (2.07%) SAN
8 4 (1.66%) WAN
9 3 (1.24%) SSH
9 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (0.83%) LAN
10 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.41%) FTP
11 1 (0.41%) HTTP
11 1 (0.41%) IPv4
11 1 (0.41%) Skype
11 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.94%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.66%) Redis
6 3 (1.24%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.24%) MySQL
6 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.24%) Power BI
7 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.41%) DB2
7 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.41%) Metadata
7 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.41%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (4.56%) Git
2 7 (2.90%) Selenium
3 5 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.66%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.66%) WebDriver
5 2 (0.83%) JIRA
6 1 (0.41%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.41%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) MSI
6 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (27.39%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.77%) Finance
3 20 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (3.32%) Retail
6 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.66%) Marketing
7 4 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.24%) Banking
8 3 (1.24%) French Language
8 3 (1.24%) German Language
8 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.83%) Automotive
9 2 (0.83%) Back Office
9 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.83%) Front Office
9 2 (0.83%) Law
9 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (15.35%) Architect
2 29 (12.03%) Developer
3 22 (9.13%) Active Directory Support
4 21 (8.71%) Senior
5 20 (8.30%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (8.30%) Azure Specialist
5 20 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.88%) Security Engineer
7 17 (7.05%) Analyst
7 17 (7.05%) Consultant
8 16 (6.64%) Azure Developer
9 14 (5.81%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (5.81%) Support Specialist
10 13 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Azure Architect
12 11 (4.56%) Backend Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Support Engineer
13 9 (3.73%) Active Directory Engineer
13 9 (3.73%) Senior Backend Developer
14 8 (3.32%) Active Directory Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.11%) .NET
2 29 (12.03%) SAML
3 27 (11.20%) ARM Templates
4 22 (9.13%) XML
5 20 (8.30%) OpenID
6 19 (7.88%) OAuth
7 14 (5.81%) AngularJS
7 14 (5.81%) React
8 12 (4.98%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.73%) .NET Framework
9 9 (3.73%) ASP.NET
10 8 (3.32%) REST
10 8 (3.32%) SailPoint
11 7 (2.90%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.49%) LDAP
12 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (2.07%) CSS
14 4 (1.66%) GraphQL
14 4 (1.66%) HTML
14 4 (1.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (10.37%) PKI
3 16 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.56%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 8 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.49%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.07%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.24%) Clustering
8 3 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.24%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Replication
10 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Mobile Payment
10 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (46.06%) Windows
2 53 (21.99%) Windows Server
3 42 (17.43%) Windows 10
4 30 (12.45%) Linux
5 29 (12.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (9.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (3.32%) Apple iOS
8 5 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.24%) VMS
10 2 (0.83%) Android
11 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.41%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.41%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (29.88%) DevOps
2 60 (24.90%) CI/CD
3 57 (23.65%) Agile
4 40 (16.60%) Migration
5 35 (14.52%) ITIL
6 34 (14.11%) Identity Access Management
7 33 (13.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (13.28%) Identity Management
8 32 (13.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 31 (12.86%) RBAC
10 26 (10.79%) B2C
10 26 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (10.79%) Service Management
11 25 (10.37%) Analytics
11 25 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 25 (10.37%) Scrum
12 24 (9.96%) Log Analytics
13 23 (9.54%) Cloud Security
14 22 (9.13%) Release Management
15 21 (8.71%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (31.54%) PowerShell
2 46 (19.09%) C#
3 37 (15.35%) Bicep
4 26 (10.79%) VB
5 21 (8.71%) VBScript
6 17 (7.05%) SQL
7 14 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.98%) Python
9 7 (2.90%) Java
9 7 (2.90%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.41%) Bash
11 1 (0.41%) DataFlex
11 1 (0.41%) PHP
11 1 (0.41%) Ruby
11 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.41%) XPath
Qualifications
1 45 (18.67%) SC Cleared
1 45 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.52%) Degree
3 24 (9.96%) DV Cleared
4 21 (8.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 19 (7.88%) AWS Certification
6 15 (6.22%) Azure Certification
7 14 (5.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (3.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.24%) CISSP
10 3 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.83%) MCSA
11 2 (0.83%) MCSD
12 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.41%) HNC
12 1 (0.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.66%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.24%) GDPR
2 3 (1.24%) NIST
3 2 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.41%) COBIT
4 1 (0.41%) COSO
4 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.41%) GRC
4 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.41%) QA
4 1 (0.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 202 (83.82%) Active Directory
2 33 (13.69%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (12.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.32%) Hyper-V
5 7 (2.90%) Docker
6 5 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.41%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (26.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (15.77%) SCCM
3 26 (10.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 26 (10.79%) Kubernetes
4 25 (10.37%) Single Sign-On
5 22 (9.13%) SCOM
5 22 (9.13%) WSUS
6 13 (5.39%) Terraform
7 3 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.83%) Ansible
8 2 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.41%) CASB
9 1 (0.41%) HP SIM
9 1 (0.41%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) logstash
9 1 (0.41%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.41%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (58.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.64%) Oracle
2 16 (6.64%) VMware
3 15 (6.22%) CyberArk
4 13 (5.39%) CA
5 11 (4.56%) Citrix
6 10 (4.15%) Okta
7 8 (3.32%) Apple
7 8 (3.32%) Qualys
7 8 (3.32%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.90%) Cisco
9 6 (2.49%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.49%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.07%) Adobe
10 5 (2.07%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (2.07%) HP
11 2 (0.83%) Dell
11 2 (0.83%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.83%) SAP
11 2 (0.83%) Splunk