Azure Sentinel Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Azure Sentinel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 161 160
Rank change year-on-year +43 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 11 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 0.070% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 0.19% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £425 £560 £400
25th Percentile £475 £575 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +21.95% -16.67%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £575
90th Percentile £607 - £588
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Azure Sentinel 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 738 1,034 1,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.29% 36.13% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 774 779
10th Percentile £258 £250 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £659 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in Scotland

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in Scotland

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in Scotland

Azure Sentinel
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 Azure Sentinel within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +9 8 £550 -8.33% 3
Edinburgh +42 3 £575 -11.54% 2
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 9 (81.82%) AWS
3 8 (72.73%) Entra ID
4 6 (54.55%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (27.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (18.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) AWS Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Security Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Operations
1 6 (54.55%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (45.45%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (45.45%) Cost Control
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 3 (27.27%) Planning and Forecasting
3 3 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Security Operations
3 3 (27.27%) Supplier Management
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (18.18%) Cyber Resilience
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Identity
4 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Sprint Planning
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Azure Certification
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Certification
2 5 (45.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (18.18%) NCSC
3 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle