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 citing Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	445	380	418
Rank change year-on-year	-65	+38	+30
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel	195	140	83
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.42%	0.49%	0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.20%	1.26%	0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	140	93	55
10^th Percentile	£406	£403	£435
25^th Percentile	£456	£456	£503
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£550	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.55%	-	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£661	£625	£638
90^th Percentile	£725	£687	£697
UK median daily rate	£563	£550	£550
% change year-on-year	+2.27%	-	-1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	0
Median hourly rate	£51.00	£65.00	-
Median % change year-on-year	-21.54%	-	-
UK median hourly rate	£51.00	£65.00	-
% change year-on-year	-21.54%	-	-

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 citing cloud computing skills in England.

	6 months to 27 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	16,188	11,093	11,073
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England	34.83%	38.84%	35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted	10,804	7,484	7,358
10^th Percentile	£325	£300	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£405	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£530
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
75^th Percentile	£638	£620	£644
90^th Percentile	£725	£725	£738
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	600	281	146
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£14.75	£17.80
25^th Percentile	£18.00	£18.50	£23.89
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£36.75
Median % change year-on-year	+29.22%	-31.56%	+33.64%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£43.75	£65.68
90^th Percentile	£79.10	£69.25	£70.00
UK median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+12.90%

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 Daily Rate Trend in England

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 October 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.

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 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
London	-49	112	£563	+1.81%	20
South East	-40	37	£615	+2.50%	9
North of England	-60	24	£600	+12.94%	13
North West	-30	21	£585	+41.70%	6
Midlands	-41	9	£313	-37.50%	8
South West	-48	9	£575	+6.98%	3
West Midlands	-38	8	£313	-45.65%	5
Yorkshire	-32	3	£625	+16.28%	5
East of England	-31	2	£425	-34.62%	2
Azure Sentinel UK

Azure Sentinel Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure Sentinel also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region citing Azure Sentinel.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	195
2	Microsoft	81.0%	158
3	Entra ID	47.2%	92
4	Cybersecurity	43.6%	85
5	Terraform	43.1%	84
6	SIEM	42.6%	83
7	PowerShell	40.5%	79
8	Infrastructure as Code	38.5%	75
9	Incident Response	37.9%	74
10	Cloud Security	36.9%	72
11	CI/CD	35.4%	69
12	DevOps	31.8%	62
13	AWS	31.3%	61
14	Security Operations	30.8%	60
15	Active Directory	29.2%	57
16	Security Cleared	26.7%	52
17	GCP	26.2%	51
18	Bicep	25.6%	50
19	Python	25.1%	49
20	Windows	24.6%	48
21	Analytics	24.1%	47
21	Security Monitoring	24.1%	47
23	SOAR	23.6%	46
23	Splunk	23.6%	46
25	Threat Detection	22.1%	43
26	Linux	21.5%	42
27	Azure Monitor	20.0%	39
28	Azure DevOps	19.0%	37
28	Vulnerability Management	19.0%	37
30	CISSP	18.5%	36

Azure Sentinel Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	195
2	Entra ID	47.2%	92
3	AWS	31.3%	61
4	GCP	26.2%	51
5	Azure Monitor	20.0%	39
6	Azure DevOps	19.0%	37
7	Microsoft 365	17.9%	35
8	Azure Logic Apps	14.9%	29
9	Microsoft Purview	10.8%	21
10	Datadog	8.7%	17
11	Azure AKS	8.2%	16
12	GitHub	7.2%	14
13	AWS CloudFormation	6.7%	13
13	Azure ExpressRoute	6.7%	13
13	SaaS	6.7%	13
16	Azure Key Vault	4.6%	9
17	GitHub Actions	4.1%	8
17	Snowflake	4.1%	8
19	Power Platform	3.6%	7
20	Serverless	2.6%	5