Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire 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 71 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -22 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.46% 0.44% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.52% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 -
North West median daily rate £375 £763 £450
% change year-on-year -50.82% +69.44% -23.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
North West median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +223.14%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 237 132 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.13% 29.27% 36.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 88 104
10th Percentile £272 £331 £216
25th Percentile £358 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £487 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.66% +2.47% +8.26%
75th Percentile £492 £575 £525
90th Percentile £577 £638 £582
North West median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile - £21.05 £17.37
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.18 £22.81
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% +6.03% +8.05%
75th Percentile £25.31 £64.17 £33.50
90th Percentile £59.08 £82.50 £47.00
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £31.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +29.03% +31.30% -22.35%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Azure Sentinel
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure Sentinel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. 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
Warrington - 3 - - 1
Azure Sentinel
North West

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 3 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
1 3 (100.00%) SOAR
1 3 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft