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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 419 477
Rank change year-on-year +30 +58 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 153 73 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.27% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 0.74% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 51 59
10th Percentile £425 £370 £375
25th Percentile £473 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -13.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £645
90th Percentile £650 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +8.64% -15.63% +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 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 12,315 9,877 12,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.85% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,569 6,569 9,069
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 139 273
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.65 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +18.59% +1.99%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.18 £49.08
90th Percentile £75.60 £68.75 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.86
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.64% +9.70%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +9 85 £551 +6.01% 14
South West +14 24 £563 +15.38% 2
Midlands -34 15 £525 -12.50% 4
West Midlands -35 12 £592 -1.38% 3
South East -19 11 £650 -7.14% 12
North of England -52 7 £450 -40.00% 8
East of England -18 5 £613 +16.67%
North West -28 4 £463 -39.34% 2
East Midlands - 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 1
North East -12 1 £400 +14.29% 5
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 8 (5.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (30.72%) Entra ID
3 46 (30.07%) AWS
4 31 (20.26%) Azure Monitor
5 30 (19.61%) GCP
5 30 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 16 (10.46%) Azure AKS
7 16 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.50%) IaaS
8 13 (8.50%) PaaS
9 12 (7.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 10 (6.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (5.88%) SaaS
12 8 (5.23%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (3.27%) GitHub
15 4 (2.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (25.49%) Firewall
2 17 (11.11%) VPN
3 14 (9.15%) Network Security
4 7 (4.58%) DNS
5 3 (1.96%) DHCP
5 3 (1.96%) WAN
6 2 (1.31%) BGP
6 2 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.31%) LAN
6 2 (1.31%) OSPF
6 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.31%) Wireless
6 2 (1.31%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.65%) Internet
7 1 (0.65%) SAN
7 1 (0.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.65%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.61%) Power BI
2 3 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Git
2 2 (1.31%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.31%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 30 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (4.58%) Finance
5 4 (2.61%) Local Government
6 3 (1.96%) Military
6 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.31%) Banking
7 2 (1.31%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.65%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (28.76%) Security Engineer
2 36 (23.53%) Analyst
3 31 (20.26%) Azure Engineer
4 30 (19.61%) SOC Analyst
5 22 (14.38%) Monitoring Analyst
6 14 (9.15%) Senior
7 13 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Azure Security Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 11 (7.19%) Architect
10 10 (6.54%) Consultant
11 9 (5.88%) Security Analyst
11 9 (5.88%) Threat Hunter
12 8 (5.23%) Lead
12 8 (5.23%) SIEM Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Security Specialist
14 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Engineer
14 6 (3.92%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.84%) ARM Templates
2 6 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (3.92%) OAuth
3 4 (2.61%) JSON
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
3 4 (2.61%) REST
4 3 (1.96%) Node.js
4 3 (1.96%) SAML
5 2 (1.31%) .NET
5 2 (1.31%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.31%) gRPC
5 2 (1.31%) Kafka
5 2 (1.31%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.31%) OpenID
5 2 (1.31%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.31%) XML
5 2 (1.31%) YAML
6 1 (0.65%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.65%) eBPF
6 1 (0.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.38%) Security Posture
2 12 (7.84%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (3.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.61%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.61%) YARA
8 3 (1.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.96%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.31%) CSOC
9 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.31%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.07%) Windows
2 13 (8.50%) Linux
3 6 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.31%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (49.67%) SIEM
2 54 (35.29%) Incident Response
3 49 (32.03%) Cloud Security
4 41 (26.80%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (25.49%) SOAR
6 37 (24.18%) Analytics
6 37 (24.18%) Security Operations
6 37 (24.18%) Zero Trust
7 34 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 31 (20.26%) Threat Detection
9 28 (18.30%) DevOps
10 26 (16.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (16.34%) Log Analytics
12 24 (15.69%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (13.73%) Data Loss Prevention
14 20 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 19 (12.42%) RBAC
16 18 (11.76%) CI/CD
16 18 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 17 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (31.37%) PowerShell
2 46 (30.07%) Kusto Query Language
3 34 (22.22%) Python
4 18 (11.76%) Bicep
5 15 (9.80%) Bash
6 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.65%) Java
7 1 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 27 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 27 (17.65%) CISSP
4 19 (12.42%) CISM
5 16 (10.46%) Degree
5 16 (10.46%) DV Cleared
6 15 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (7.19%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (6.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 7 (4.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (2.61%) CCSP
10 4 (2.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 3 (1.96%) CISA
12 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.31%) CEH
12 2 (1.31%) GCFA
12 2 (1.31%) GCIA
12 2 (1.31%) GCIH
12 2 (1.31%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (31.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (28.10%) NIST
3 22 (14.38%) GDPR
4 12 (7.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (5.88%) NCSC
5 9 (5.88%) NIST 800
6 7 (4.58%) PCI DSS
7 6 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (3.27%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.96%) GRC
9 3 (1.96%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.31%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.65%) QA
11 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (21.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.92%) Docker
3 5 (3.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.61%) Snort
4 4 (2.61%) Squid
4 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (20.26%) Terraform
2 23 (15.03%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.58%) QRadar
4 7 (4.58%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.27%) logstash
5 5 (3.27%) Nessus
5 5 (3.27%) SCCM
6 4 (2.61%) Nexpose
6 4 (2.61%) Suricata
7 3 (1.96%) Ansible
7 3 (1.96%) CSIRT
7 3 (1.96%) Fluentd
7 3 (1.96%) Icinga
7 3 (1.96%) Kibana
8 2 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.31%) Istio
8 2 (1.31%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.31%) WSUS
9 1 (0.65%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 116 (75.82%) Microsoft
2 46 (30.07%) Splunk
3 21 (13.73%) CrowdStrike
3 21 (13.73%) Qualys
4 18 (11.76%) Carbon Black
5 14 (9.15%) Google
6 12 (7.84%) Palo Alto
7 9 (5.88%) IBM
8 8 (5.23%) Cisco
8 8 (5.23%) Fortinet
8 8 (5.23%) Red Hat
8 8 (5.23%) ServiceNow
9 7 (4.58%) Zscaler
10 5 (3.27%) VMware
11 4 (2.61%) Blue Coat
11 4 (2.61%) FireEye
11 4 (2.61%) LogRhythm
11 4 (2.61%) Tenable
12 3 (1.96%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.96%) Okta