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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 386 432
Rank change year-on-year -93 +46 +3
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 152 132 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.28% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 91 70
10th Percentile £374 £380 £425
25th Percentile £446 £413 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
75th Percentile £622 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
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 15,873 10,277 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.31% 33.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,951 7,884
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 546 274 198
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.13 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +21.39% +3.70% -22.86%

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 25 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 25 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 -71 77 £500 +2.56% 22
South East -54 28 £615 +22.99% 14
North of England -59 23 £588 +10.95% 15
North West -25 21 £585 +41.70% 8
South West -39 9 £556 -11.04% 5
Midlands -58 9 £288 -37.84% 8
West Midlands -41 8 £288 -43.90% 5
East of England -28 4 £553 -15.00% 2
Yorkshire -44 2 £638 +18.60% 7
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 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.66%) Mendix
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (42.76%) Entra ID
3 49 (32.24%) AWS
4 30 (19.74%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (19.74%) Azure Monitor
5 29 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (18.42%) GCP
7 21 (13.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (13.16%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (8.55%) Azure AKS
9 13 (8.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 12 (7.89%) SaaS
11 11 (7.24%) GitHub
12 10 (6.58%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (3.29%) OneDrive
16 4 (2.63%) Azure Stack
16 4 (2.63%) IaaS
16 4 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (25.00%) Firewall
2 24 (15.79%) Network Security
3 19 (12.50%) DNS
3 19 (12.50%) VPN
4 11 (7.24%) DHCP
4 11 (7.24%) WAN
5 8 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.29%) BGP
6 5 (3.29%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (3.29%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (3.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (3.29%) Internet
6 5 (3.29%) SSH
6 5 (3.29%) VSAN
7 3 (1.97%) LAN
7 3 (1.97%) NAS
7 3 (1.97%) SAN
7 3 (1.97%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.97%) VLAN
8 2 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.92%) GitLab
1 9 (5.92%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.97%) JIRA
2 3 (1.97%) Snyk
3 2 (1.32%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.32%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.32%) Git
3 2 (1.32%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (23.68%) Finance
2 35 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.61%) Banking
5 7 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.61%) Retail
6 5 (3.29%) Legal
6 5 (3.29%) Local Government
6 5 (3.29%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.63%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.66%) Advertising
9 1 (0.66%) Billing
9 1 (0.66%) Law
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (15.79%) Security Engineer
2 22 (14.47%) Senior
3 21 (13.82%) Analyst
4 18 (11.84%) Architect
5 16 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (10.53%) Security Analyst
6 15 (9.87%) SIEM Engineer
7 14 (9.21%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.58%) Lead
10 9 (5.92%) Consultant
10 9 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Azure Architect
12 7 (4.61%) Test Leader
13 6 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 6 (3.95%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.53%) Terraform
2 14 (9.21%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.29%) ADO
4 4 (2.63%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.63%) JSON
5 3 (1.97%) OpenID
6 2 (1.32%) LDAP
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.32%) OAuth
6 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.32%) REST
6 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.32%) SAML
6 2 (1.32%) XML
6 2 (1.32%) YAML
7 1 (0.66%) .NET
7 1 (0.66%) EDI
7 1 (0.66%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.66%) Kafka
7 1 (0.66%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Security Posture
2 20 (13.16%) Onboarding
3 18 (11.84%) Cloud Native
4 15 (9.87%) Management Information System
5 13 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (7.24%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (5.26%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (3.95%) Data Centre
10 5 (3.29%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (3.29%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (2.63%) CMDB
11 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.97%) NHS
12 3 (1.97%) PKI
13 2 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
13 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (26.97%) Windows
2 32 (21.05%) Linux
3 18 (11.84%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.95%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.63%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.32%) CentOS
6 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (42.11%) Cybersecurity
1 64 (42.11%) SIEM
2 62 (40.79%) Cloud Security
3 49 (32.24%) Incident Response
3 49 (32.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (29.61%) DevOps
5 40 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 38 (25.00%) Security Operations
7 36 (23.68%) Analytics
8 34 (22.37%) Threat Detection
9 32 (21.05%) SOAR
10 27 (17.76%) Zero Trust
11 26 (17.11%) Identity Access Management
11 26 (17.11%) RBAC
11 26 (17.11%) Security Monitoring
11 26 (17.11%) Threat Modelling
12 25 (16.45%) Log Analytics
13 24 (15.79%) Vulnerability Management
14 23 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 23 (15.13%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.24%) PowerShell
2 39 (25.66%) Bicep
3 31 (20.39%) Python
4 24 (15.79%) Kusto Query Language
5 20 (13.16%) Bash
6 5 (3.29%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (3.29%) SQL
7 1 (0.66%) Go
7 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.39%) CISSP
3 24 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 21 (13.82%) Degree
5 20 (13.16%) Azure Certification
6 15 (9.87%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (7.89%) CISM
8 11 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.92%) DV Cleared
9 9 (5.92%) GCIH
9 9 (5.92%) GIAC
10 8 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 8 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (4.61%) CCSP
12 6 (3.95%) CCNP
12 6 (3.95%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (3.95%) GCFA
13 5 (3.29%) CCSE
13 5 (3.29%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (23.68%) NIST
2 30 (19.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (11.18%) GDPR
4 15 (9.87%) PCI DSS
5 10 (6.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (5.92%) SLA
7 8 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (5.26%) SOC 2
8 7 (4.61%) QA
9 6 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (3.29%) GRC
10 5 (3.29%) NCSC
11 3 (1.97%) NIST 800
12 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
12 2 (1.32%) HIPAA
12 2 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (1.32%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.66%) GxP
13 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 39 (25.66%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.61%) Docker
4 5 (3.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.32%) vSphere
7 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (11.84%) Ansible
4 9 (5.92%) QRadar
5 8 (5.26%) SCCM
6 6 (3.95%) CASB
7 5 (3.29%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.29%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.97%) Grafana
10 2 (1.32%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.32%) Nexpose
10 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.32%) Puppet
11 1 (0.66%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 114 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (19.74%) Splunk
3 21 (13.82%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (7.89%) Palo Alto
5 10 (6.58%) Cisco
6 9 (5.92%) Okta
7 8 (5.26%) Google
7 8 (5.26%) VMware
8 7 (4.61%) Tenable
8 7 (4.61%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.95%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.95%) Cribl.io
9 6 (3.95%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.95%) Qualys
9 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.63%) ArcSight
10 4 (2.63%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.97%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.97%) TOWER Software