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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 381 449
Rank change year-on-year -113 +68 -15
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 138 137 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 1.33% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 99 73
10th Percentile £368 £380 £425
25th Percentile £446 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.48%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £790 £685
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 15,772 10,323 11,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,539 6,986 8,162
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 261
10th Percentile £16.68 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.34 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -55 79 £515 +11.35% 37
South East -67 24 £470 -6.00% 16
North of England -76 15 £600 +12.36% 18
North West -42 13 £600 +45.45% 11
South West -38 8 £556 -38.22% 4
West Midlands -52 5 £288 -56.60% 8
Midlands -53 5 £288 -56.60% 10
East of England -27 4 £553 -15.00% 2
Yorkshire -53 2 £638 +18.60% 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 7 (5.07%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 138 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (42.03%) Entra ID
3 44 (31.88%) AWS
4 29 (21.01%) GCP
5 27 (19.57%) Azure Monitor
5 27 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (12.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 17 (12.32%) Microsoft Purview
8 12 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 10 (7.25%) Azure AKS
10 9 (6.52%) GitHub
11 7 (5.07%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (5.07%) SaaS
12 6 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.62%) IaaS
13 5 (3.62%) OneDrive
13 5 (3.62%) PaaS
14 4 (2.90%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 36 (26.09%) Firewall
2 25 (18.12%) Network Security
3 20 (14.49%) VPN
4 18 (13.04%) DNS
5 12 (8.70%) WAN
6 11 (7.97%) DHCP
7 9 (6.52%) TCP/IP
8 7 (5.07%) BGP
9 6 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.62%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (3.62%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (3.62%) Internet
10 5 (3.62%) SSH
10 5 (3.62%) VSAN
11 4 (2.90%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.17%) LAN
12 3 (2.17%) NAS
12 3 (2.17%) SAN
12 3 (2.17%) SSL
12 3 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Snyk
2 4 (2.90%) GitLab
2 4 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.17%) JIRA
4 2 (1.45%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.45%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.72%) Git
5 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (25.36%) Finance
2 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Legal
6 6 (4.35%) Retail
7 5 (3.62%) Banking
7 5 (3.62%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.62%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.62%) Military
8 3 (2.17%) Local Government
9 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.72%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 23 (16.67%) Architect
2 22 (15.94%) Senior
3 21 (15.22%) Analyst
4 20 (14.49%) Security Engineer
5 16 (11.59%) Security Analyst
5 16 (11.59%) Security Architect
6 12 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) Lead
8 9 (6.52%) Consultant
8 9 (6.52%) SIEM Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 8 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) Test Leader
11 6 (4.35%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 6 (4.35%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.62%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.25%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.62%) ADO
2 5 (3.62%) JSON
3 4 (2.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (2.90%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.17%) OpenID
5 2 (1.45%) LDAP
5 2 (1.45%) OAuth
5 2 (1.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.45%) REST
5 2 (1.45%) SAML
5 2 (1.45%) XML
5 2 (1.45%) YAML
6 1 (0.72%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.72%) Kafka
6 1 (0.72%) LangChain
6 1 (0.72%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 20 (14.49%) Onboarding
3 18 (13.04%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.25%) Management Information System
5 9 (6.52%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (5.80%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.35%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (3.62%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.62%) CMDB
9 4 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.45%) PKI
12 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.72%) Life Science
12 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (28.99%) Windows
2 29 (21.01%) Linux
3 15 (10.87%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.62%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.90%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.90%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.72%) CentOS
7 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.72%) Unix
7 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (43.48%) SIEM
2 58 (42.03%) Cloud Security
3 56 (40.58%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (31.88%) DevOps
5 37 (26.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (26.09%) Incident Response
7 32 (23.19%) Analytics
7 32 (23.19%) Security Operations
8 30 (21.74%) CI/CD
9 29 (21.01%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (21.01%) Zero Trust
10 27 (19.57%) Vulnerability Management
11 25 (18.12%) Security Architecture
11 25 (18.12%) SOAR
11 25 (18.12%) Threat Modelling
12 24 (17.39%) Threat Detection
13 23 (16.67%) Log Analytics
13 23 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
14 21 (15.22%) RBAC
15 20 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.71%) PowerShell
2 30 (21.74%) Bicep
3 26 (18.84%) Python
4 18 (13.04%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (11.59%) Bash
Qualifications
1 32 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.01%) CISSP
3 22 (15.94%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (14.49%) SC Cleared
5 16 (11.59%) Azure Certification
6 15 (10.87%) Degree
7 13 (9.42%) CCSP
7 13 (9.42%) CISM
8 12 (8.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (6.52%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (5.80%) AWS Certification
10 8 (5.80%) CCNP
10 8 (5.80%) DV Cleared
11 7 (5.07%) GIAC
12 6 (4.35%) CompTIA CySA+
13 5 (3.62%) CCSE
13 5 (3.62%) CCSM
14 4 (2.90%) SSCP
15 3 (2.17%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.01%) NIST
2 27 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (7.97%) GDPR
4 9 (6.52%) SOC 2
5 8 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.80%) SLA
6 7 (5.07%) PCI DSS
6 7 (5.07%) QA
7 6 (4.35%) GRC
8 5 (3.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.17%) NCSC
9 3 (2.17%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.45%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.45%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.72%) GxP
11 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.62%) Docker
3 5 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (33.33%) Terraform
2 19 (13.77%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (10.14%) Ansible
5 8 (5.80%) QRadar
6 6 (4.35%) SCCM
7 5 (3.62%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.17%) Grafana
10 2 (1.45%) CASB
10 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.45%) Nexpose
10 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.45%) Puppet
11 1 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.72%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.72%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 95 (68.84%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.12%) Splunk
3 19 (13.77%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (8.70%) Cisco
4 12 (8.70%) Okta
5 11 (7.97%) Palo Alto
5 11 (7.97%) Tenable
6 10 (7.25%) Qualys
7 9 (6.52%) VMware
8 8 (5.80%) Zscaler
9 7 (5.07%) CheckPoint
9 7 (5.07%) Fortinet
9 7 (5.07%) Google
10 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
11 5 (3.62%) LogRhythm
11 5 (3.62%) Rapid7
12 4 (2.90%) CyberArk
13 3 (2.17%) ArcSight
13 3 (2.17%) TOWER Software
14 2 (1.45%) Veracode