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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 63 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 -11 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 1 1 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% 0.14% 2.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.60% 0.42% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 19
10th Percentile - - £333
25th Percentile - - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £750 £520
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +44.23% -5.45%
75th Percentile - - £631
90th Percentile - - £657
West Midlands median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

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 168 236 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 28.82% 33.29% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 180 213
10th Percentile £247 £212 £275
25th Percentile £383 £358 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +3.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £531 £603 £600
90th Percentile £634 £725 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +8.42% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £38.09 £17.05 £20.20
25th Percentile £41.22 £18.63 £21.63
Median hourly rate £47.38 £22.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.56% -6.25% +89.57%
75th Percentile £54.47 £39.38 £24.94
90th Percentile £58.16 £48.75 £25.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.49 £32.21 £19.00
% change year-on-year +10.19% +69.51% +15.15%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Ethical Hacking
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft