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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 383 432
Rank change year-on-year -92 +49 +5
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 159 131 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.27% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 93 71
10th Percentile £375 £380 £425
25th Percentile £449 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £613 £650
90th Percentile £689 £720 £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 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -69 82 £500 - 81
South East -47 29 £615 +22.99% 22
North of England -60 24 £600 +13.31% 25
North West -42 21 £585 +41.70% 16
Midlands -51 10 £288 -37.84% 12
South West -37 9 £556 -7.33% 6
West Midlands -45 9 £288 -52.08% 8
East of England -29 4 £553 -15.00% 7
Yorkshire -40 3 £625 +16.28% 9
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 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.63%) Mendix
3 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 159 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (41.51%) Entra ID
3 53 (33.33%) AWS
4 31 (19.50%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (19.50%) GCP
5 30 (18.87%) Azure Monitor
5 30 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (13.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 20 (12.58%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (8.18%) Azure AKS
8 13 (8.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (7.55%) GitHub
9 12 (7.55%) SaaS
10 10 (6.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 9 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.40%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.14%) OneDrive
14 4 (2.52%) Azure Stack
14 4 (2.52%) IaaS
14 4 (2.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 40 (25.16%) Firewall
2 24 (15.09%) Network Security
3 21 (13.21%) DNS
4 20 (12.58%) VPN
5 13 (8.18%) DHCP
6 11 (6.92%) WAN
7 9 (5.66%) TCP/IP
8 5 (3.14%) BGP
8 5 (3.14%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (3.14%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.14%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.14%) Internet
8 5 (3.14%) SSH
8 5 (3.14%) VSAN
9 3 (1.89%) LAN
9 3 (1.89%) NAS
9 3 (1.89%) SAN
9 3 (1.89%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.89%) VLAN
10 2 (1.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (6.29%) GitLab
1 10 (6.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.89%) JIRA
2 3 (1.89%) Snyk
3 2 (1.26%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.26%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.26%) Git
3 2 (1.26%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (23.27%) Finance
2 36 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 17 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.40%) Banking
5 7 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.40%) Retail
6 5 (3.14%) Legal
6 5 (3.14%) Local Government
6 5 (3.14%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.52%) Military
8 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.63%) Advertising
9 1 (0.63%) Billing
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (15.72%) Security Engineer
2 24 (15.09%) Senior
3 22 (13.84%) Analyst
4 19 (11.95%) Architect
5 17 (10.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (10.06%) Security Analyst
7 15 (9.43%) SIEM Engineer
8 14 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (8.18%) Security Architect
10 12 (7.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 11 (6.92%) Lead
11 11 (6.92%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (5.66%) Consultant
13 8 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (4.40%) Azure Architect
14 7 (4.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 7 (4.40%) Test Leader
15 6 (3.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 6 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 6 (3.77%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (35.22%) Terraform
2 14 (8.81%) ARM Templates
3 5 (3.14%) ADO
4 4 (2.52%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.52%) JSON
5 3 (1.89%) LDAP
5 3 (1.89%) OpenID
5 3 (1.89%) REST
6 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.26%) OAuth
6 2 (1.26%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.26%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.26%) SAML
6 2 (1.26%) XML
6 2 (1.26%) YAML
7 1 (0.63%) .NET
7 1 (0.63%) EDI
7 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.63%) Kafka
7 1 (0.63%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.35%) Security Posture
2 21 (13.21%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.58%) Onboarding
4 16 (10.06%) Management Information System
5 14 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (6.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (5.03%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (4.40%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (3.77%) Data Centre
10 5 (3.14%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (3.14%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (2.52%) CMDB
11 4 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.89%) NHS
12 3 (1.89%) PKI
13 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 2 (1.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.04%) Windows
2 33 (20.75%) Linux
3 19 (11.95%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.77%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.52%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.26%) CentOS
6 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (42.14%) SIEM
2 66 (41.51%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (40.25%) Cloud Security
4 56 (35.22%) Incident Response
5 50 (31.45%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (30.19%) DevOps
7 42 (26.42%) CI/CD
8 40 (25.16%) Analytics
8 40 (25.16%) Security Operations
9 35 (22.01%) SOAR
9 35 (22.01%) Threat Detection
10 30 (18.87%) Security Monitoring
11 29 (18.24%) Zero Trust
12 27 (16.98%) Identity Access Management
12 27 (16.98%) RBAC
12 27 (16.98%) Threat Modelling
13 25 (15.72%) Log Analytics
13 25 (15.72%) Vulnerability Management
14 24 (15.09%) Security Architecture
15 23 (14.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.70%) PowerShell
2 40 (25.16%) Bicep
3 33 (20.75%) Python
4 26 (16.35%) Kusto Query Language
5 21 (13.21%) Bash
6 6 (3.77%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (3.77%) SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Go
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.75%) CISSP
3 26 (16.35%) SC Cleared
4 22 (13.84%) Degree
5 21 (13.21%) Azure Certification
6 16 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (8.18%) CISM
7 13 (8.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (6.29%) GCIH
9 9 (5.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (5.66%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.66%) DV Cleared
9 9 (5.66%) GIAC
10 8 (5.03%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (4.40%) CCSP
12 6 (3.77%) CCNP
12 6 (3.77%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (3.77%) GCFA
13 5 (3.14%) CCSE
13 5 (3.14%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (23.27%) NIST
2 31 (19.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (11.32%) GDPR
4 15 (9.43%) PCI DSS
5 10 (6.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (5.66%) SLA
7 8 (5.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (5.03%) SOC 2
8 7 (4.40%) QA
9 6 (3.77%) NCSC
9 6 (3.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (3.14%) GRC
11 3 (1.89%) NIST 800
12 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
12 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
12 2 (1.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (1.26%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.63%) GxP
13 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 41 (25.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.03%) Docker
2 8 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (13.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (11.32%) Ansible
4 9 (5.66%) QRadar
5 8 (5.03%) SCCM
6 6 (3.77%) CASB
7 5 (3.14%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.14%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.89%) Grafana
10 2 (1.26%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.26%) Nexpose
10 2 (1.26%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.63%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 120 (75.47%) Microsoft
2 35 (22.01%) Splunk
3 24 (15.09%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (7.55%) Palo Alto
5 10 (6.29%) Cisco
6 9 (5.66%) Google
6 9 (5.66%) Okta
7 8 (5.03%) Tenable
7 8 (5.03%) VMware
8 7 (4.40%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.40%) Qualys
8 7 (4.40%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.40%) Zscaler
9 6 (3.77%) CheckPoint
9 6 (3.77%) Cribl.io
10 4 (2.52%) ArcSight
10 4 (2.52%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.89%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.89%) TOWER Software