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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 376 456
Rank change year-on-year -75 +80 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 136 102 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.12% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 84 74
10th Percentile £400 £325 £425
25th Percentile £461 £411 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £479 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.08% -13.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £628 £645
90th Percentile £688 £850 £730
UK median daily rate £535 £470 £581
% change year-on-year +13.77% -19.10% +5.68%

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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -49 77 £536 +21.88% 21
South East -39 17 £475 -9.52% 16
South West -25 12 £563 -22.41%
West Midlands -55 11 £313 -58.33% 3
Midlands -69 11 £313 -58.33% 5
North of England -53 10 £534 +0.85% 6
North West -33 7 £540 +20.00% 4
East of England -31 6 £575 -22.82% 3
Yorkshire -51 2 £500 -4.76% 1
North East -17 1 £400 -25.09% 1
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 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (30.88%) Entra ID
3 40 (29.41%) AWS
4 32 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (21.32%) GCP
6 26 (19.12%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (13.24%) Azure AKS
9 15 (11.03%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (10.29%) IaaS
10 14 (10.29%) PaaS
11 12 (8.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 10 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (7.35%) SaaS
13 8 (5.88%) GitHub
14 7 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.68%) OpenShift
17 4 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (29.41%) Firewall
2 24 (17.65%) Network Security
3 20 (14.71%) VPN
4 13 (9.56%) DNS
5 8 (5.88%) DHCP
6 4 (2.94%) BGP
6 4 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (2.94%) OSPF
6 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.94%) WAN
7 3 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (2.21%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (2.21%) IPsec
7 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.21%) VSAN
8 2 (1.47%) Internet
8 2 (1.47%) MPLS
8 2 (1.47%) NGFW
8 2 (1.47%) VLAN
8 2 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Snyk
2 3 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.21%) JIRA
3 2 (1.47%) Git
4 1 (0.74%) AppScan
4 1 (0.74%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.74%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.44%) Finance
3 14 (10.29%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.68%) Legal
6 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Local Government
7 3 (2.21%) Military
8 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Electronics
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.12%) Analyst
1 26 (19.12%) Security Engineer
2 24 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (16.18%) Architect
4 16 (11.76%) Senior
5 12 (8.82%) Security Analyst
6 11 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.09%) Security Architect
6 11 (8.09%) SOC Analyst
7 10 (7.35%) Monitoring Analyst
8 8 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Lead
9 7 (5.15%) Azure Security Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) SIEM Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Network Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.62%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.68%) JSON
3 4 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.21%) ADO
4 3 (2.21%) Kafka
4 3 (2.21%) Node.js
4 3 (2.21%) OAuth
4 3 (2.21%) REST
4 3 (2.21%) XML
5 2 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.47%) gRPC
5 2 (1.47%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.47%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.47%) YAML
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.74%) eBPF
6 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.74%) pytest
6 1 (0.74%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Security Posture
2 15 (11.03%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (3.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (3.68%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.94%) YARA
9 3 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.47%) STIX
11 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.74%) Life Science
11 1 (0.74%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) Windows
2 16 (11.76%) Linux
3 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) SIEM
2 46 (33.82%) Cloud Security
3 36 (26.47%) DevOps
4 33 (24.26%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (23.53%) Zero Trust
6 31 (22.79%) Incident Response
6 31 (22.79%) SOAR
6 31 (22.79%) Threat Detection
7 30 (22.06%) Analytics
8 28 (20.59%) Identity Access Management
9 27 (19.85%) Security Operations
10 25 (18.38%) CI/CD
11 23 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (14.71%) RBAC
13 19 (13.97%) DevSecOps
13 19 (13.97%) Log Analytics
13 19 (13.97%) Threat Modelling
14 18 (13.24%) Data Loss Prevention
14 18 (13.24%) Security Architecture
14 18 (13.24%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.21%) PowerShell
2 31 (22.79%) Kusto Query Language
3 29 (21.32%) Python
4 18 (13.24%) Bicep
5 8 (5.88%) Bash
6 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 29 (21.32%) CISSP
2 27 (19.85%) Security Cleared
3 23 (16.91%) SC Cleared
4 22 (16.18%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (14.71%) Azure Certification
6 14 (10.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (10.29%) CCSP
6 14 (10.29%) CISM
7 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.88%) Degree
9 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.68%) CCNP
10 5 (3.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.94%) GCIA
12 3 (2.21%) CCSE
12 3 (2.21%) CCSM
12 3 (2.21%) GCIH
13 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.59%) NIST
2 26 (19.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (11.03%) GDPR
4 8 (5.88%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.15%) NCSC
6 5 (3.68%) NIST 800
6 5 (3.68%) SLA
6 5 (3.68%) SOC 2
7 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (2.21%) QA
8 2 (1.47%) GRC
8 2 (1.47%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.74%) COBIT
9 1 (0.74%) GxP
9 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (16.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.47%) Docker
6 1 (0.74%) Snort
6 1 (0.74%) Squid
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (24.26%) Terraform
2 21 (15.44%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.68%) Ansible
4 5 (3.68%) QRadar
5 3 (2.21%) Icinga
5 3 (2.21%) Istio
5 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.47%) Fluentd
6 2 (1.47%) logstash
6 2 (1.47%) Nessus
7 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.74%) Grafana
7 1 (0.74%) Nexpose
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.74%) Suricata
Vendors
1 84 (61.76%) Microsoft
2 34 (25.00%) Splunk
3 14 (10.29%) Qualys
4 11 (8.09%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (6.62%) Cisco
5 9 (6.62%) VMware
6 8 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 8 (5.88%) Tenable
7 7 (5.15%) Carbon Black
7 7 (5.15%) Google
7 7 (5.15%) LogRhythm
7 7 (5.15%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.41%) CheckPoint
8 6 (4.41%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.68%) IBM
9 5 (3.68%) Okta
9 5 (3.68%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.94%) Zscaler
11 3 (2.21%) CyberArk
11 3 (2.21%) SolarWinds