Entra ID Contracts in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 124 153
Rank change year-on-year +49 +29 -37
Contract jobs citing Entra ID 51 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.42% 1.49% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.03% 4.11% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 26
10th Percentile £200 £285 £213
25th Percentile £310 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +2.70% +5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £521
90th Percentile £750 £650 £581
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.10% +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £21.80
25th Percentile - - £24.83
Median hourly rate - - £30.09
75th Percentile - - £35.15
90th Percentile - - £38.06
UK median hourly rate £17.80 £54.00 £27.59
% change year-on-year -67.04% +95.71% -41.91%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 973 1,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.39% 36.33% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 716 815
10th Percentile £229 £250 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £626 £624 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.72 £17.82
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%
75th Percentile £22.28 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £33.05 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.20
% change year-on-year -41.45% +64.41% -0.22%

Entra ID
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Entra ID in Scotland

Entra ID
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Entra ID in Scotland

Entra ID
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Entra ID in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Entra ID in Scotland

Entra ID
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Glasgow +26 24 £415 -30.83% 2
Edinburgh +26 15 £750 +53.85% 9
South Lanarkshire +6 4 £370 -0.11%
Renfrewshire +3 4 £425 -19.05% 1
Stirling - 3 £420 -
Lanarkshire +3 1 £130 -71.89%
Entra ID
UK

Entra ID
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (19.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (78.43%) Azure
2 25 (49.02%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (15.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 7 (13.73%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (11.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 6 (11.76%) AWS
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 3 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.92%) IaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) DNS
1 7 (13.73%) Firewall
2 6 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (9.80%) DHCP
4 3 (5.88%) NAS
4 3 (5.88%) SAN
4 3 (5.88%) SMTP
4 3 (5.88%) VPN
5 1 (1.96%) DSL
5 1 (1.96%) VoIP
5 1 (1.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.96%) Power BI
General
1 12 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Banking
4 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Architect
4 5 (9.80%) IT Support
4 5 (9.80%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) IT Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Security Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
6 3 (5.88%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (3.92%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Active Directory Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (3.92%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) OpenID
1 7 (13.73%) SAML
2 4 (7.84%) SailPoint
3 3 (5.88%) LDAP
4 1 (1.96%) .NET
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.84%) Smartphone
4 3 (5.88%) Clustering
4 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.88%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.96%) iPad
5 1 (1.96%) iPhone
5 1 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Windows
2 13 (25.49%) Windows 10
3 5 (9.80%) Apple iOS
3 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.96%) Linux
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (15.69%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Identification
4 6 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
4 6 (11.76%) ITIL
5 5 (9.80%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (9.80%) Cost Control
5 5 (9.80%) Customer Service
6 4 (7.84%) Cloud Security
6 4 (7.84%) Remediation Plan
6 4 (7.84%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (5.88%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (5.88%) Data Protection
7 3 (5.88%) Data Security
7 3 (5.88%) High Availability
7 3 (5.88%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (5.88%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.96%) Bicep
2 1 (1.96%) C#
2 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.96%) Python
2 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 5 (9.80%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.84%) Degree
5 1 (1.96%) HNC
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 44 (86.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.88%) BitLocker
2 3 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (5.88%) Terminal Services
2 3 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.84%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (5.88%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.88%) vMotion
4 2 (3.92%) SCCM
5 1 (1.96%) Kibana
5 1 (1.96%) logstash
5 1 (1.96%) Puppet
5 1 (1.96%) SCOM
5 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (43.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.73%) CrowdStrike
2 7 (13.73%) Okta
2 7 (13.73%) Zscaler
3 6 (11.76%) Citrix
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle
4 5 (9.80%) Apple
5 4 (7.84%) CyberArk
6 3 (5.88%) Cisco
6 3 (5.88%) HP
6 3 (5.88%) Infoblox
6 3 (5.88%) VMware
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow