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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 429 442
Rank change year-on-year +51 +13 +135
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 167 82 124
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 0.77% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 57 90
10th Percentile £425 £394 £375
25th Percentile £463 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £540 £595
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -9.24% +3.48%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £688
90th Percentile £650 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.12%

All Cloud 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 11,871 10,637 13,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.17% 36.58% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,151 7,109 9,616
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 138 250
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +32.07% +4.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.71 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 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
London +19 93 £563 +4.17% 20
South West +10 18 £550 +4.76% 5
Midlands -26 14 £525 +5.00% 9
South East -2 13 £600 -7.69% 23
North of England -35 13 £463 -38.33% 11
West Midlands -20 11 £592 +18.35% 6
East of England -12 10 £650 +23.81% 3
North West -21 7 £375 -50.82% 9
Yorkshire - 5 £538 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £463 - 3
North East -10 1 £400 +14.29%
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 12 (7.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 167 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (30.54%) Entra ID
3 50 (29.94%) AWS
4 41 (24.55%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (19.76%) GCP
6 25 (14.97%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (11.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (8.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (6.59%) SaaS
10 9 (5.39%) Azure AKS
10 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (5.39%) IaaS
10 9 (5.39%) PaaS
11 8 (4.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (2.99%) Cloudflare
13 5 (2.99%) OpenDNS
14 4 (2.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 4 (2.40%) OneDrive
14 4 (2.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 47 (28.14%) Firewall
2 17 (10.18%) VPN
3 13 (7.78%) Network Security
4 6 (3.59%) DNS
5 3 (1.80%) Internet
6 2 (1.20%) DHCP
6 2 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.20%) LAN
6 2 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.20%) WAN
6 2 (1.20%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.60%) BGP
7 1 (0.60%) OSPF
7 1 (0.60%) SAN
7 1 (0.60%) SSL
7 1 (0.60%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.40%) Power BI
2 3 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Git
2 2 (1.20%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.98%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.19%) Finance
4 11 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.59%) Local Government
7 5 (2.99%) Banking
8 3 (1.80%) Military
8 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.60%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.60%) Marketing
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (28.14%) Analyst
1 47 (28.14%) Security Engineer
2 41 (24.55%) SOC Analyst
3 26 (15.57%) Monitoring Analyst
4 21 (12.57%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (10.18%) Architect
6 12 (7.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.59%) Senior
8 10 (5.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Consultant
8 10 (5.99%) Security Analyst
9 9 (5.39%) Azure Security Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Lead
9 9 (5.39%) SIEM Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Threat Hunter
10 8 (4.79%) Security Architect
10 8 (4.79%) Security Specialist
11 7 (4.19%) Azure Architect
11 7 (4.19%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (2.99%) JSON
2 5 (2.99%) OAuth
3 4 (2.40%) ARM Templates
3 4 (2.40%) REST
4 3 (1.80%) Node.js
4 3 (1.80%) SAML
4 3 (1.80%) YAML
5 2 (1.20%) .NET
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.20%) gRPC
5 2 (1.20%) Kafka
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.20%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.20%) OpenID
5 2 (1.20%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.20%) XML
6 1 (0.60%) eBPF
6 1 (0.60%) pytest
6 1 (0.60%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.38%) Security Posture
2 14 (8.38%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.79%) Cyber Defence
3 8 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (4.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.19%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (3.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (2.99%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.99%) YARA
7 4 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.80%) STIX
9 2 (1.20%) CSOC
9 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.17%) Windows
2 14 (8.38%) Linux
3 6 (3.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.60%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.10%) SIEM
2 60 (35.93%) Incident Response
3 54 (32.34%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (28.14%) Cloud Security
5 46 (27.54%) Security Operations
5 46 (27.54%) SOAR
6 43 (25.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 36 (21.56%) Analytics
8 33 (19.76%) Threat Detection
8 33 (19.76%) Zero Trust
9 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (13.77%) Data Loss Prevention
11 20 (11.98%) DevOps
11 20 (11.98%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (11.98%) Log Analytics
12 19 (11.38%) Vulnerability Management
13 18 (10.78%) Security Architecture
13 18 (10.78%) Threat Intelligence
14 17 (10.18%) Security Monitoring
14 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.93%) Kusto Query Language
1 55 (32.93%) PowerShell
2 38 (22.75%) Python
3 16 (9.58%) Bash
4 12 (7.19%) Bicep
5 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.20%) SQL
7 1 (0.60%) Java
7 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (22.75%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 24 (14.37%) Degree
4 23 (13.77%) CISSP
5 22 (13.17%) Azure Certification
6 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.78%) CISM
8 11 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.59%) DV Cleared
9 7 (4.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.99%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.99%) GCIA
10 5 (2.99%) GCIH
10 5 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (2.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (2.40%) CCSP
11 4 (2.40%) CISA
11 4 (2.40%) CISMP
11 4 (2.40%) GSEC
12 3 (1.80%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (28.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (27.54%) NIST
3 28 (16.77%) GDPR
4 14 (8.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (5.99%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (4.19%) NCSC
7 5 (2.99%) HIPAA
8 4 (2.40%) NIST 800
8 4 (2.40%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.80%) GRC
9 3 (1.80%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.60%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (25.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.39%) Docker
3 6 (3.59%) Snort
4 5 (2.99%) Squid
5 3 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Terraform
2 19 (11.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (6.59%) QRadar
5 7 (4.19%) SCCM
6 6 (3.59%) Nessus
7 5 (2.99%) logstash
7 5 (2.99%) Nexpose
7 5 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.99%) Suricata
8 4 (2.40%) CSIRT
9 3 (1.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.80%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.80%) Icinga
9 3 (1.80%) Kibana
10 2 (1.20%) Ansible
10 2 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.20%) WSUS
11 1 (0.60%) Rsyslog
11 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 136 (81.44%) Microsoft
2 54 (32.34%) Splunk
3 26 (15.57%) CrowdStrike
4 24 (14.37%) Qualys
5 23 (13.77%) Carbon Black
6 17 (10.18%) Google
7 14 (8.38%) Palo Alto
8 12 (7.19%) Cisco
9 11 (6.59%) Zscaler
10 9 (5.39%) Fortinet
10 9 (5.39%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.99%) Blue Coat
11 5 (2.99%) FireEye
11 5 (2.99%) LogRhythm
12 4 (2.40%) Citrix
12 4 (2.40%) IBM
12 4 (2.40%) Tenable
13 3 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 3 (1.80%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.80%) Sophos