Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 379 450
Rank change year-on-year -71 +71 -16
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 187 134 83
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.48% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.24% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 90 55
10th Percentile £403 £400 £455
25th Percentile £456 £456 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.30%
75th Percentile £639 £623 £638
90th Percentile £725 £691 £704
UK median daily rate £563 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% - -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year -21.54% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,067 10,775 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.60% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,284 7,497
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 260 159
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in England

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. 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
London -51 103 £550 - 78
South East -43 35 £615 +11.82% 29
North of England -48 24 £600 +12.94% 20
North West -36 21 £585 +41.70% 12
South West -34 10 £566 +2.82% 3
Midlands -42 10 £313 -39.02% 7
West Midlands -46 9 £313 -47.92% 4
East of England -31 4 £463 -28.85% 4
Yorkshire -37 3 £625 +16.28% 5
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) IIS
3 1 (0.53%) Mendix
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 187 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (44.39%) Entra ID
3 56 (29.95%) AWS
4 45 (24.06%) GCP
5 37 (19.79%) Azure Monitor
6 36 (19.25%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (13.90%) Azure Logic Apps
9 20 (10.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (9.09%) Azure AKS
11 15 (8.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 15 (8.02%) Datadog
12 13 (6.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (6.95%) GitHub
12 13 (6.95%) SaaS
13 8 (4.28%) Azure Key Vault
13 8 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.74%) Power Platform
15 6 (3.21%) Snowflake
16 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (18.18%) Firewall
2 23 (12.30%) DNS
2 23 (12.30%) Network Security
2 23 (12.30%) VPN
3 14 (7.49%) DHCP
4 13 (6.95%) TCP/IP
5 11 (5.88%) WAN
6 10 (5.35%) SSH
7 5 (2.67%) BGP
8 4 (2.14%) Internet
8 4 (2.14%) VSAN
9 3 (1.60%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.60%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (1.60%) LAN
9 3 (1.60%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.60%) VLAN
10 2 (1.07%) NAS
10 2 (1.07%) SSL
10 2 (1.07%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.07%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (6.95%) GitLab
1 13 (6.95%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.74%) Snyk
3 2 (1.07%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.07%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.07%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.72%) Finance
3 19 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.21%) Banking
7 5 (2.67%) Military
7 5 (2.67%) Retail
8 4 (2.14%) Legal
9 3 (1.60%) Local Government
9 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.53%) Advertising
10 1 (0.53%) Billing
10 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Law
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (19.79%) Security Engineer
2 26 (13.90%) Senior
3 24 (12.83%) Architect
4 22 (11.76%) Analyst
5 21 (11.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (8.02%) SIEM Engineer
7 14 (7.49%) Security Analyst
8 13 (6.95%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 13 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (5.88%) Security Architect
10 10 (5.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Lead
11 9 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.28%) Consultant
12 8 (4.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) SOC Engineer
13 7 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 7 (3.74%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (42.25%) Terraform
2 18 (9.63%) ARM Templates
3 6 (3.21%) LDAP
3 6 (3.21%) REST
4 5 (2.67%) ADO
4 5 (2.67%) OpenID
4 5 (2.67%) Pulumi
4 5 (2.67%) SAML
5 4 (2.14%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (2.14%) JSON
5 4 (2.14%) OAuth
5 4 (2.14%) OAuth2
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (1.07%) .NET
7 2 (1.07%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.07%) XML
7 2 (1.07%) YAML
8 1 (0.53%) EDI
8 1 (0.53%) Kafka
8 1 (0.53%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.32%) Security Posture
2 32 (17.11%) Onboarding
3 25 (13.37%) Cloud Native
4 17 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (8.56%) Management Information System
6 15 (8.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (6.42%) ARM Cortex
8 9 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (4.28%) CMDB
10 7 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
11 6 (3.21%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (3.21%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
13 4 (2.14%) AI Agents
13 4 (2.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (2.14%) Data Centre
13 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (2.14%) Private Cloud
13 4 (2.14%) Replication
14 3 (1.60%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.53%) Windows
2 38 (20.32%) Linux
3 23 (12.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.14%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.07%) CentOS
6 2 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.53%) Android
7 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.53%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (41.71%) Cybersecurity
2 75 (40.11%) SIEM
3 73 (39.04%) Incident Response
4 69 (36.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (36.36%) Cloud Security
6 66 (35.29%) CI/CD
7 61 (32.62%) DevOps
8 55 (29.41%) Security Operations
9 44 (23.53%) Security Monitoring
9 44 (23.53%) SOAR
10 43 (22.99%) Analytics
11 40 (21.39%) Threat Detection
12 35 (18.72%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (16.58%) RBAC
15 29 (15.51%) Identity Access Management
15 29 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 29 (15.51%) Runbook
15 29 (15.51%) Zero Trust
16 27 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.50%) PowerShell
2 47 (25.13%) Bicep
3 43 (22.99%) Python
4 32 (17.11%) Kusto Query Language
5 25 (13.37%) Bash
6 16 (8.56%) SQL
7 7 (3.74%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (1.07%) C
9 1 (0.53%) Go
9 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.65%) CISSP
2 33 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.44%) Degree
4 21 (11.23%) Azure Certification
5 17 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (6.95%) DV Cleared
7 12 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (6.42%) CISM
8 11 (5.88%) GCIH
9 10 (5.35%) AWS Certification
10 8 (4.28%) GIAC
11 7 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 6 (3.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (3.21%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (3.21%) GCFA
13 5 (2.67%) CCNP
14 4 (2.14%) CCSP
14 4 (2.14%) GCIA
14 4 (2.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.25%) NIST
2 35 (18.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (7.49%) GDPR
3 14 (7.49%) SOC 2
4 13 (6.95%) PCI DSS
5 12 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (4.28%) QA
7 8 (4.28%) SLA
8 5 (2.67%) GRC
8 5 (2.67%) NCSC
8 5 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.60%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.07%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.07%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (1.07%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 55 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.28%) Docker
3 5 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.07%) vSphere
7 1 (0.53%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (16.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (15.51%) Kubernetes
3 27 (14.44%) Ansible
4 13 (6.95%) SCCM
5 12 (6.42%) QRadar
6 10 (5.35%) Grafana
7 8 (4.28%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.74%) CASB
8 7 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (2.67%) FortiGate
9 5 (2.67%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.67%) Puppet
10 2 (1.07%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.07%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.53%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 149 (79.68%) Microsoft
2 43 (22.99%) Splunk
3 32 (17.11%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (5.88%) Google
4 11 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 11 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.81%) Cisco
5 9 (4.81%) Okta
5 9 (4.81%) VMware
6 8 (4.28%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.28%) Zscaler
7 7 (3.74%) Tenable
8 6 (3.21%) Cribl.io
8 6 (3.21%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.21%) Qualys
9 5 (2.67%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.14%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.14%) IBM
10 4 (2.14%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.60%) LogRhythm