Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 7 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.97% - 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% - 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 9
10th Percentile £353 - £403
25th Percentile £431 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £581 - £653
90th Percentile £593 - £678
West Midlands median daily rate £592 £500 £563
% change year-on-year +18.35% -11.11% +11.39%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

Azure Sentinel 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 245 256 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 34.03% 37.10% 35.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 195 191
10th Percentile £285 £194 £288
25th Percentile £413 £369 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.94%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.40% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Sentinel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Sentinel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in Birmingham

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (14.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
1 3 (42.86%) SOAR
1 3 (42.86%) Threat Detection
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 22301
3 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco