Azure Sentinel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 328 463
Rank change year-on-year -16 +135 -60
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 52 119 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.51% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.52% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 95 37
10th Percentile £425 £423 £400
25th Percentile £463 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +11.90% +1.45%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £600
90th Percentile £651 £700 £860
UK median daily rate £575 £557 £575
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +85.71% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England -7 18 £490 -16.60% 6
North West +16 16 £450 -14.29% 1
Scotland +48 11 £550 -8.33% 4
South East +21 11 £575 -2.13% 3
Midlands +11 11 £640 +2.40% 5
West Midlands -6 6 £640 +2.40% 5
East Midlands +26 5 - -
North East +12 1 £500 -16.67%
South West +5 1 £500 - 10
Yorkshire -17 1 £550 -8.33% 5
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (32.69%) AWS
3 13 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (21.15%) Entra ID
5 9 (17.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 6 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (9.62%) IaaS
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (5.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.85%) GCP
9 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.92%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.92%) PaaS
10 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) DNS
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
1 5 (9.62%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Analyst
2 8 (15.38%) Senior
2 8 (15.38%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Security Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 5 (9.62%) Security Manager
4 5 (9.62%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Specialist
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
7 2 (3.85%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Security Posture
2 8 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 6 (11.54%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (7.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.85%) Cyberattack
6 2 (3.85%) Insider Threat
6 2 (3.85%) PKI
6 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) CSOC
7 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
2 6 (11.54%) Windows
3 2 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (40.38%) Incident Response
3 13 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 13 (25.00%) SIEM
4 12 (23.08%) Threat Intelligence
5 10 (19.23%) Analytics
6 9 (17.31%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 9 (17.31%) Information Security
7 8 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 7 (13.46%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.54%) Cloud Operations
9 6 (11.54%) Threat Detection
9 6 (11.54%) Threat Modelling
10 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
10 5 (9.62%) Cost Control
10 5 (9.62%) Network Virtualisation
10 5 (9.62%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (9.62%) Security Architecture
10 5 (9.62%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.92%) Bash
3 1 (1.92%) Bicep
3 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) CISSP
2 14 (26.92%) Azure Certification
3 13 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 11 (21.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (17.31%) CISM
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (9.62%) Degree
7 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
8 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (3.85%) CEH
9 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.92%) CCNA
10 1 (1.92%) CCSP
10 1 (1.92%) GIAC
10 1 (1.92%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (36.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (9.62%) NIST
3 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) GRC
3 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.85%) NCSC
4 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (19.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (3.85%) Kibana
2 2 (3.85%) logstash
3 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.92%) QRadar
3 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (73.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Splunk
4 2 (3.85%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.85%) F5
4 2 (3.85%) Qualys
4 2 (3.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.92%) BMC
5 1 (1.92%) Carbon Black
5 1 (1.92%) Databricks
5 1 (1.92%) Remedy
5 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow