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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 388 451
Rank change year-on-year -71 +63 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 136 104 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.43% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.14% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 88 71
10th Percentile £381 £325 £425
25th Percentile £450 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £628 £645
90th Percentile £713 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.98% +5.68%

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 14,682 9,122 11,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.10% 37.63% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,999 6,249 8,504
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 505 217 324
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.99% -38.94%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £39.13
90th Percentile £81.15 £68.00 £69.85
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
% change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%

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 June 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 June 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 -55 78 £525 +16.15% 26
South East -55 19 £469 -6.30% 15
North of England -69 11 £540 +1.98% 4
Midlands -49 10 £313 -58.33% 6
West Midlands -51 10 £313 -58.33% 5
South West -24 9 £538 -25.86% 2
North West -39 7 £540 +27.06% 1
East of England -32 5 £553 -25.84% 4
Yorkshire -59 3 £600 +2.13% 3
North East -27 1 £400 -25.09%
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 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (36.76%) Entra ID
3 39 (28.68%) AWS
4 28 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (19.12%) GCP
7 25 (18.38%) Azure Monitor
8 18 (13.24%) Azure AKS
9 17 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (8.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 12 (8.82%) IaaS
10 12 (8.82%) PaaS
11 9 (6.62%) GitHub
12 8 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.88%) SaaS
13 7 (5.15%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (3.68%) AWS Control Tower
14 5 (3.68%) OpenShift
15 4 (2.94%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.53%) Firewall
2 25 (18.38%) Network Security
3 19 (13.97%) VPN
4 13 (9.56%) DNS
5 7 (5.15%) DHCP
6 6 (4.41%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (3.68%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (3.68%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (3.68%) Internet
7 5 (3.68%) VSAN
8 4 (2.94%) BGP
8 4 (2.94%) OSPF
8 4 (2.94%) SD-WAN
8 4 (2.94%) WAN
9 3 (2.21%) IPsec
9 3 (2.21%) NGFW
9 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.47%) MPLS
10 2 (1.47%) VLAN
10 2 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.94%) Snyk
3 3 (2.21%) JIRA
4 2 (1.47%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) AppScan
5 1 (0.74%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.74%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.38%) Finance
3 15 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.41%) Retail
6 5 (3.68%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.68%) Legal
6 5 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.94%) Local Government
8 3 (2.21%) Banking
8 3 (2.21%) Military
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (21.32%) Architect
2 23 (16.91%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (16.18%) Security Engineer
3 22 (16.18%) Senior
4 21 (15.44%) Analyst
5 15 (11.03%) Security Architect
6 13 (9.56%) Security Analyst
7 11 (8.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Lead
8 8 (5.88%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Senior Architect
9 7 (5.15%) Azure Architect
9 7 (5.15%) Azure Security Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Test Leader
10 6 (4.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.35%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.68%) ADO
2 5 (3.68%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.21%) JSON
4 3 (2.21%) OAuth
4 3 (2.21%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.47%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.47%) Node.js
5 2 (1.47%) OpenID
5 2 (1.47%) YAML
6 1 (0.74%) eBPF
6 1 (0.74%) Kafka
6 1 (0.74%) LDAP
6 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.74%) SAML
6 1 (0.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Security Posture
2 14 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.29%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.62%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.41%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.68%) CMDB
7 4 (2.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.47%) PKI
9 2 (1.47%) STIX
9 2 (1.47%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.53%) Windows
2 22 (16.18%) Linux
3 8 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.15%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.94%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.94%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.74%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.74%) SIEM
2 57 (41.91%) Cloud Security
3 44 (32.35%) DevOps
4 43 (31.62%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (27.21%) Zero Trust
6 34 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
7 30 (22.06%) Security Operations
7 30 (22.06%) SOAR
8 29 (21.32%) Analytics
9 27 (19.85%) Incident Response
10 25 (18.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (18.38%) RBAC
11 24 (17.65%) CI/CD
11 24 (17.65%) Security Architecture
11 24 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
12 22 (16.18%) Threat Detection
13 20 (14.71%) Log Analytics
14 19 (13.97%) DevSecOps
15 18 (13.24%) ITIL
15 18 (13.24%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.21%) PowerShell
2 30 (22.06%) Python
3 23 (16.91%) Bicep
4 22 (16.18%) Kusto Query Language
5 7 (5.15%) Bash
6 2 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 33 (24.26%) CISSP
2 30 (22.06%) Security Cleared
3 23 (16.91%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (16.91%) SC Cleared
4 21 (15.44%) Azure Certification
5 16 (11.76%) CISM
6 13 (9.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 13 (9.56%) CCSP
6 13 (9.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.15%) CCNP
7 7 (5.15%) Degree
8 6 (4.41%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (4.41%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.68%) CCSE
9 5 (3.68%) CCSM
9 5 (3.68%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (2.94%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (2.94%) GCIA
10 4 (2.94%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.53%) NIST
2 30 (22.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (8.82%) GDPR
4 9 (6.62%) SOC 2
5 8 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.88%) NIST 800
5 8 (5.88%) SLA
6 6 (4.41%) NCSC
6 6 (4.41%) PCI DSS
6 6 (4.41%) QA
7 4 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.21%) GRC
8 3 (2.21%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.47%) SOC 1
10 1 (0.74%) COBIT
10 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.74%) GxP
10 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (13.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.68%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.68%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.47%) Docker
4 2 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (26.47%) Terraform
2 19 (13.97%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.62%) Ansible
4 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.21%) Grafana
5 3 (2.21%) Istio
5 3 (2.21%) QRadar
5 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.47%) Icinga
6 2 (1.47%) Nexpose
6 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.47%) Puppet
7 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.74%) Nessus
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 87 (63.97%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.59%) Splunk
3 14 (10.29%) Qualys
4 12 (8.82%) Tenable
5 11 (8.09%) Cisco
5 11 (8.09%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (7.35%) Okta
6 10 (7.35%) Palo Alto
6 10 (7.35%) VMware
7 8 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 8 (5.88%) Google
8 7 (5.15%) CheckPoint
9 6 (4.41%) LogRhythm
10 5 (3.68%) IBM
10 5 (3.68%) Rapid7
10 5 (3.68%) Red Hat
10 5 (3.68%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.94%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.94%) Zscaler
12 3 (2.21%) Carbon Black