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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 403 422 469
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 152 71 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.28% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 0.74% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 53 64
10th Percentile £425 £370 £383
25th Percentile £477 £422 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% -3.19%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £675 £751 £726
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +7.32% -14.58% +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 - - -25.64%

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 12,806 9,658 12,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.65% 37.44% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,843 6,464 9,116
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 140 299
10th Percentile £14.65 £16.18 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -10.80%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.19 £49.54
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.93 £67.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.91% +22.22% -10.00%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -5 80 £563 +7.14% 25
South West -2 22 £513 +5.13% 2
Midlands -36 16 £550 -8.33% 6
South East -27 13 £650 -1.89% 16
West Midlands -34 13 £571 -4.85% 4
North of England -54 10 £520 -13.33% 12
North West -25 7 £540 -28.00% 6
East of England -18 5 £613 -5.84% 3
East Midlands - 3 £463 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 3
North East -12 1 £400 +14.29% 3
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%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.66%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 152 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (32.89%) AWS
3 48 (31.58%) Entra ID
4 36 (23.68%) GCP
5 33 (21.71%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (19.74%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (11.84%) Azure AKS
7 18 (11.84%) Microsoft Purview
8 16 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (9.87%) IaaS
9 15 (9.87%) PaaS
10 13 (8.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (7.24%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (7.24%) SaaS
12 8 (5.26%) OpenShift
13 7 (4.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 6 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (3.95%) GitHub
15 5 (3.29%) AWS Control Tower
15 5 (3.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 42 (27.63%) Firewall
2 20 (13.16%) VPN
3 18 (11.84%) Network Security
4 9 (5.92%) DNS
5 5 (3.29%) BGP
5 5 (3.29%) OSPF
6 4 (2.63%) WAN
7 3 (1.97%) DHCP
7 3 (1.97%) IPsec
7 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.97%) Wireless
7 3 (1.97%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.32%) LAN
8 2 (1.32%) MPLS
8 2 (1.32%) NGFW
8 2 (1.32%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.32%) SSL
8 2 (1.32%) VXLAN
8 2 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.63%) Power BI
2 3 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Git
2 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.97%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.66%) AppScan
3 1 (0.66%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.66%) JIRA
3 1 (0.66%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.18%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.92%) Finance
5 8 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.63%) Military
7 3 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Local Government
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Electronics
9 1 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.66%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Marketing
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (28.95%) Security Engineer
2 32 (21.05%) Analyst
3 31 (20.39%) Azure Engineer
4 27 (17.76%) SOC Analyst
5 21 (13.82%) Monitoring Analyst
6 16 (10.53%) Senior
7 15 (9.87%) Architect
8 14 (9.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 13 (8.55%) Azure Security Engineer
9 13 (8.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (8.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Consultant
10 9 (5.92%) Threat Hunter
11 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Security Analyst
12 7 (4.61%) SIEM Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Security Architect
13 6 (3.95%) Security Manager
13 6 (3.95%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.89%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.61%) OAuth
3 6 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (3.29%) JSON
5 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (2.63%) REST
6 3 (1.97%) Node.js
6 3 (1.97%) SAML
7 2 (1.32%) .NET
7 2 (1.32%) 802.1X
7 2 (1.32%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.32%) gRPC
7 2 (1.32%) Kafka
7 2 (1.32%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.32%) OpenID
7 2 (1.32%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.32%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.32%) XML
8 1 (0.66%) eBPF
8 1 (0.66%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Security Posture
2 15 (9.87%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.61%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.95%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (3.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.97%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.97%) YARA
9 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.32%) CSOC
9 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.82%) Windows
2 14 (9.21%) Linux
3 6 (3.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.66%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) VMS
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (51.32%) SIEM
2 53 (34.87%) Cloud Security
3 47 (30.92%) Incident Response
4 41 (26.97%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (26.97%) SOAR
4 41 (26.97%) Zero Trust
5 40 (26.32%) Security Operations
6 36 (23.68%) Analytics
7 30 (19.74%) DevOps
7 30 (19.74%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 30 (19.74%) Threat Detection
8 29 (19.08%) Identity Access Management
9 27 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 24 (15.79%) Log Analytics
11 23 (15.13%) Data Loss Prevention
12 20 (13.16%) CI/CD
12 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 19 (12.50%) RBAC
14 18 (11.84%) Security Architecture
14 18 (11.84%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.24%) PowerShell
2 42 (27.63%) Kusto Query Language
3 36 (23.68%) Python
4 18 (11.84%) Bicep
5 14 (9.21%) Bash
6 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.66%) Java
7 1 (0.66%) Lisp
7 1 (0.66%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (29.61%) Security Cleared
2 38 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 29 (19.08%) CISSP
4 27 (17.76%) Azure Certification
5 17 (11.18%) CISM
5 17 (11.18%) DV Cleared
6 16 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (9.87%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (9.21%) Degree
9 10 (6.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 9 (5.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (4.61%) CCSP
12 3 (1.97%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.97%) CCNP
13 2 (1.32%) CCIE
13 2 (1.32%) CCNA
13 2 (1.32%) CEH
13 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 2 (1.32%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 39 (25.66%) NIST
3 22 (14.47%) GDPR
4 13 (8.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (6.58%) NCSC
6 9 (5.92%) NIST 800
7 8 (5.26%) PCI DSS
8 7 (4.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (3.29%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.97%) GRC
10 3 (1.97%) HIPAA
11 2 (1.32%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.66%) COBIT
12 1 (0.66%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.66%) QA
12 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (21.71%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.95%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.29%) Docker
3 5 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.97%) Snort
4 3 (1.97%) Squid
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (22.37%) Terraform
2 27 (17.76%) Kubernetes
3 15 (9.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (4.61%) QRadar
6 6 (3.95%) Ansible
7 5 (3.29%) logstash
7 5 (3.29%) Nessus
8 4 (2.63%) SCCM
9 3 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (1.97%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.97%) Icinga
9 3 (1.97%) Istio
9 3 (1.97%) Kibana
9 3 (1.97%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.97%) Suricata
10 2 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.32%) WSUS
11 1 (0.66%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.66%) SCOM
Vendors
1 107 (70.39%) Microsoft
2 45 (29.61%) Splunk
3 20 (13.16%) CrowdStrike
3 20 (13.16%) Qualys
4 17 (11.18%) Carbon Black
5 14 (9.21%) Google
6 13 (8.55%) Palo Alto
7 10 (6.58%) Cisco
8 9 (5.92%) IBM
8 9 (5.92%) ServiceNow
9 8 (5.26%) Red Hat
10 7 (4.61%) Fortinet
10 7 (4.61%) LogRhythm
10 7 (4.61%) Zscaler
11 6 (3.95%) Tenable
11 6 (3.95%) VMware
12 4 (2.63%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.63%) Okta
13 3 (1.97%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (1.97%) FireEye