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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 373 443
Rank change year-on-year -101 +70 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 148 138 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.32% 0.50% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.34% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 100 68
10th Percentile £373 £380 £425
25th Percentile £450 £413 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £622 £625 £650
90th Percentile £707 £768 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -81 84 £515 +3.00% 65
South East -64 25 £498 -0.50% 20
North of England -60 18 £603 +12.83% 17
North West -33 16 £603 +46.06% 15
South West -41 8 £556 -38.22% 8
Midlands -48 6 £288 -56.60% 10
West Midlands -50 6 £288 -56.60% 6
East of England -24 4 £553 -15.00% 2
Yorkshire -47 2 £638 +18.60% 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 7 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 148 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (43.24%) Entra ID
3 50 (33.78%) AWS
4 30 (20.27%) GCP
5 28 (18.92%) Azure Monitor
6 26 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (16.89%) Microsoft 365
8 20 (13.51%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 13 (8.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (8.11%) Azure AKS
11 12 (8.11%) SaaS
12 11 (7.43%) GitHub
13 10 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.38%) IaaS
16 5 (3.38%) OneDrive
16 5 (3.38%) PaaS
17 4 (2.70%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 39 (26.35%) Firewall
2 29 (19.59%) Network Security
3 21 (14.19%) VPN
4 19 (12.84%) DNS
5 12 (8.11%) WAN
6 11 (7.43%) DHCP
7 9 (6.08%) TCP/IP
8 7 (4.73%) BGP
9 6 (4.05%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.38%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (3.38%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (3.38%) Internet
10 5 (3.38%) SSH
10 5 (3.38%) VSAN
11 4 (2.70%) SD-WAN
12 3 (2.03%) LAN
12 3 (2.03%) NAS
12 3 (2.03%) SAN
12 3 (2.03%) SSL
12 3 (2.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (5.41%) GitLab
1 8 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.05%) Snyk
3 3 (2.03%) JIRA
4 2 (1.35%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.35%) Claude Code
4 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.68%) Git
5 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (26.35%) Finance
2 36 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.05%) Banking
6 6 (4.05%) Retail
7 5 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 5 (3.38%) Legal
7 5 (3.38%) Local Government
7 5 (3.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.70%) Military
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Advertising
10 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Architect
2 22 (14.86%) Senior
3 21 (14.19%) Analyst
3 21 (14.19%) Security Engineer
4 17 (11.49%) Security Architect
5 16 (10.81%) Security Analyst
6 14 (9.46%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 12 (8.11%) SIEM Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Lead
10 9 (6.08%) Consultant
11 8 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Azure Architect
12 7 (4.73%) Test Leader
13 6 (4.05%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 6 (4.05%) Network Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Senior Architect
14 5 (3.38%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.38%) ADO
3 4 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (2.70%) JSON
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.03%) OpenID
4 3 (2.03%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.35%) LDAP
5 2 (1.35%) OAuth
5 2 (1.35%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.35%) REST
5 2 (1.35%) SAML
5 2 (1.35%) XML
5 2 (1.35%) YAML
6 1 (0.68%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.68%) Kafka
6 1 (0.68%) LangChain
6 1 (0.68%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.57%) Security Posture
2 18 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.16%) Onboarding
3 13 (8.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 11 (7.43%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
7 7 (4.73%) ARM Cortex
8 5 (3.38%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (3.38%) CMDB
8 5 (3.38%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (3.38%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 3 (2.03%) NHS
11 2 (1.35%) Data Fabric
11 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (27.03%) Windows
2 31 (20.95%) Linux
3 16 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.38%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.70%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.68%) Unix
7 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.62%) Cloud Security
2 64 (43.24%) SIEM
3 58 (39.19%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (31.76%) DevOps
4 47 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (29.05%) Incident Response
6 38 (25.68%) Security Operations
7 36 (24.32%) Analytics
7 36 (24.32%) CI/CD
8 32 (21.62%) Zero Trust
9 29 (19.59%) Identity Access Management
9 29 (19.59%) Threat Detection
10 28 (18.92%) SOAR
10 28 (18.92%) Threat Modelling
11 27 (18.24%) Security Architecture
12 26 (17.57%) Security Monitoring
13 24 (16.22%) Log Analytics
13 24 (16.22%) RBAC
13 24 (16.22%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.08%) PowerShell
2 37 (25.00%) Bicep
3 31 (20.95%) Python
4 21 (14.19%) Kusto Query Language
5 18 (12.16%) Bash
6 4 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (24.32%) CISSP
1 36 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.54%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (15.54%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.84%) Degree
4 18 (12.16%) Azure Certification
5 15 (10.14%) CISM
6 14 (9.46%) CCSP
7 13 (8.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (6.08%) AWS Certification
9 9 (6.08%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (6.08%) DV Cleared
10 8 (5.41%) CCNP
10 8 (5.41%) GCIH
10 8 (5.41%) GIAC
11 6 (4.05%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (3.38%) CCSE
12 5 (3.38%) CCSM
12 5 (3.38%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (20.95%) NIST
2 29 (19.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (10.14%) GDPR
4 12 (8.11%) PCI DSS
5 9 (6.08%) SLA
5 9 (6.08%) SOC 2
6 7 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (4.73%) QA
7 6 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (3.38%) GRC
8 5 (3.38%) NCSC
8 5 (3.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (2.03%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.35%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.68%) GxP
11 1 (0.68%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 34 (22.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.73%) Docker
4 5 (3.38%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (35.81%) Terraform
2 23 (15.54%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.16%) Ansible
3 18 (12.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.73%) QRadar
4 7 (4.73%) SCCM
5 6 (4.05%) CASB
6 5 (3.38%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.03%) Grafana
9 2 (1.35%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.35%) Nexpose
9 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.35%) Puppet
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.68%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 105 (70.95%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.59%) Splunk
3 19 (12.84%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (8.11%) Palo Alto
5 11 (7.43%) Okta
6 10 (6.76%) Cisco
6 10 (6.76%) Tenable
7 9 (6.08%) Qualys
7 9 (6.08%) VMware
8 8 (5.41%) Zscaler
9 7 (4.73%) CheckPoint
9 7 (4.73%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.73%) Google
10 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.70%) Cribl.io
11 4 (2.70%) Rapid7
12 3 (2.03%) ArcSight
12 3 (2.03%) CyberArk
12 3 (2.03%) LogRhythm
12 3 (2.03%) TOWER Software