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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 365 455
Rank change year-on-year -62 +90 +1
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 147 99 86
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.41% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.08% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 81 68
10th Percentile £407 £325 £400
25th Percentile £480 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.49% -8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £645
90th Percentile £696 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £477 £588
% change year-on-year +15.30% -18.81% +2.17%

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 13,826 9,192 12,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.71% 37.94% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,507 6,489 8,726
10th Percentile £313 £313 £279
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 182 326
10th Percentile £15.74 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £66.56 £43.29 £38.13
90th Percentile £80.14 £74.88 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -18.64%

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 March 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 March 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 79 £575 +30.68% 18
South East -43 19 £600 -4.00% 13
South West -12 15 £563 -37.50% 3
North of England -63 12 £528 -0.28% 8
North West -26 9 £540 -10.00% 5
West Midlands -55 9 £525 -30.00% 9
Midlands -63 9 £525 -30.00% 10
East of England -30 4 £588 -9.68% 1
Yorkshire -54 2 £500 -4.76% 1
North East -14 1 £400 -25.09% 2
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 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 147 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 47 (31.97%) AWS
4 35 (23.81%) GCP
5 31 (21.09%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (19.73%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (13.61%) Azure AKS
8 18 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (11.56%) IaaS
9 17 (11.56%) PaaS
10 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 14 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (8.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 11 (7.48%) SaaS
14 8 (5.44%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (4.76%) GitHub
15 7 (4.76%) OpenShift
16 6 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (4.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 5 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 43 (29.25%) Firewall
2 23 (15.65%) Network Security
3 19 (12.93%) VPN
4 9 (6.12%) DNS
5 5 (3.40%) WAN
6 4 (2.72%) BGP
6 4 (2.72%) OSPF
7 3 (2.04%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.04%) DHCP
7 3 (2.04%) IPsec
7 3 (2.04%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.04%) Wireless
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.36%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (1.36%) LAN
8 2 (1.36%) NGFW
8 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.36%) VSAN
8 2 (1.36%) VXLAN
8 2 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.68%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Git
1 4 (2.72%) Snyk
2 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.68%) AppScan
4 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.68%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 17 (11.56%) Finance
4 12 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Banking
6 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.04%) Legal
7 3 (2.04%) Local Government
7 3 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.04%) Military
7 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Electronics
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (22.45%) Security Engineer
2 28 (19.05%) Analyst
3 27 (18.37%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (15.65%) Architect
5 20 (13.61%) SOC Analyst
6 18 (12.24%) Monitoring Analyst
6 18 (12.24%) Senior
7 12 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Security Architect
8 11 (7.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Consultant
10 9 (6.12%) Security Analyst
10 9 (6.12%) Threat Hunter
11 8 (5.44%) Azure Security Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Azure Architect
13 6 (4.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.48%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.76%) OAuth
3 4 (2.72%) JSON
3 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.04%) Node.js
4 3 (2.04%) REST
4 3 (2.04%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.36%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.36%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.36%) gRPC
5 2 (1.36%) Kafka
5 2 (1.36%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.36%) OpenID
5 2 (1.36%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.36%) SAML
5 2 (1.36%) XML
5 2 (1.36%) YAML
6 1 (0.68%) eBPF
6 1 (0.68%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Security Posture
2 15 (10.20%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Cloud Native
5 8 (5.44%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.40%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (2.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.72%) YARA
9 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.36%) CSOC
10 2 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) SCADA
10 2 (1.36%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.33%) Windows
2 13 (8.84%) Linux
3 5 (3.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.36%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (51.70%) SIEM
2 50 (34.01%) Cloud Security
3 40 (27.21%) Zero Trust
4 39 (26.53%) Analytics
5 36 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (24.49%) Incident Response
5 36 (24.49%) SOAR
5 36 (24.49%) Threat Detection
6 34 (23.13%) DevOps
7 31 (21.09%) Identity Access Management
7 31 (21.09%) Security Operations
8 26 (17.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (15.65%) CI/CD
9 23 (15.65%) Log Analytics
9 23 (15.65%) RBAC
10 22 (14.97%) Threat Modelling
11 21 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 21 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 21 (14.29%) Security Architecture
12 20 (13.61%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.93%) Kusto Query Language
1 44 (29.93%) PowerShell
2 29 (19.73%) Python
3 21 (14.29%) Bicep
4 6 (4.08%) Bash
5 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) Lisp
6 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.73%) CISSP
2 29 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.33%) Azure Certification
4 22 (14.97%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.20%) CISM
6 13 (8.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 13 (8.84%) CCSP
6 13 (8.84%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (7.48%) Degree
8 7 (4.76%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 5 (3.40%) CCNP
10 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.04%) CCSE
10 3 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (1.36%) CCSM
11 2 (1.36%) GCFA
11 2 (1.36%) GCIA
11 2 (1.36%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (24.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (22.45%) NIST
3 18 (12.24%) GDPR
4 11 (7.48%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (7.48%) NCSC
5 10 (6.80%) PCI DSS
6 8 (5.44%) NIST 800
7 6 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (2.72%) SOC 2
9 3 (2.04%) GRC
9 3 (2.04%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.36%) JSP 440
10 2 (1.36%) SLA
11 1 (0.68%) COBIT
11 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 26 (17.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.04%) Docker
5 2 (1.36%) Snort
5 2 (1.36%) Squid
5 2 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (24.49%) Terraform
2 28 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (4.08%) QRadar
5 5 (3.40%) Ansible
6 3 (2.04%) Icinga
6 3 (2.04%) Istio
6 3 (2.04%) Nessus
7 2 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.36%) Fluentd
7 2 (1.36%) logstash
7 2 (1.36%) Nexpose
7 2 (1.36%) SCCM
7 2 (1.36%) Suricata
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) SCOM
8 1 (0.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (65.31%) Microsoft
2 43 (29.25%) Splunk
3 20 (13.61%) Qualys
4 14 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
5 12 (8.16%) Carbon Black
6 11 (7.48%) Google
7 10 (6.80%) Cisco
8 9 (6.12%) Palo Alto
8 9 (6.12%) Tenable
9 8 (5.44%) IBM
9 8 (5.44%) Okta
9 8 (5.44%) VMware
10 7 (4.76%) LogRhythm
10 7 (4.76%) Red Hat
11 6 (4.08%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.08%) Fortinet
11 6 (4.08%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.40%) Zscaler
13 4 (2.72%) CyberArk
14 3 (2.04%) Rapid7