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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 440 440
Rank change year-on-year +70 0 +183
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 150 79 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.71% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 53 100
10th Percentile £400 £433 £374
25th Percentile £459 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £675
90th Percentile £678 £721 £739
UK median daily rate £544 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.14% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +212.37%

All Cloud 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 11,456 11,098 13,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.89% 35.69% 35.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,762 7,360 10,209
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 142 287
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.35 £14.44
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.56 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +26 81 £560 +1.82% 63
South West +23 15 £475 +8.57% 6
North of England -25 15 £531 -16.67% 15
South East +4 12 £600 -7.69% 76
East of England -4 12 £650 +30.00% 8
Midlands -21 11 £500 - 7
North West -10 9 £413 -46.77% 1
West Midlands -17 8 £575 +15.00% 5
Yorkshire -24 6 £538 -10.42% 11
East Midlands - 3 £463 - 2
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 15 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (38.00%) Entra ID
3 45 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (26.67%) AWS
5 25 (16.67%) GCP
5 25 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (9.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (5.33%) Azure AKS
9 8 (5.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (5.33%) OneDrive
9 8 (5.33%) SaaS
10 7 (4.67%) IaaS
10 7 (4.67%) PaaS
11 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.67%) Cloudflare
12 4 (2.67%) OpenDNS
12 4 (2.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (24.67%) Firewall
2 14 (9.33%) Network Security
2 14 (9.33%) VPN
3 4 (2.67%) DNS
4 3 (2.00%) Internet
5 2 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.33%) LAN
5 2 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.33%) WAN
5 2 (1.33%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) OSPF
6 1 (0.67%) SAN
6 1 (0.67%) Skype
6 1 (0.67%) SSL
6 1 (0.67%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Power BI
2 3 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.33%) Looker
3 2 (1.33%) Power Query
4 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.00%) JIRA
2 2 (1.33%) Git
2 2 (1.33%) Metasploit
General
1 29 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.33%) Finance
4 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.00%) Local Government
7 5 (3.33%) Banking
8 3 (2.00%) Legal
8 3 (2.00%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.33%) Law
9 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 46 (30.67%) Security Engineer
2 39 (26.00%) Analyst
3 30 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
4 18 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (11.33%) Architect
6 16 (10.67%) Monitoring Analyst
7 11 (7.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 10 (6.67%) Consultant
8 10 (6.67%) Security Analyst
8 10 (6.67%) Security Architect
9 9 (6.00%) Azure Architect
9 9 (6.00%) Azure Security Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 9 (6.00%) Lead
10 8 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (5.33%) Security Specialist
10 8 (5.33%) Senior
10 8 (5.33%) SIEM Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.00%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) OAuth
2 3 (2.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.00%) JSON
2 3 (2.00%) SAML
3 2 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (1.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.33%) OpenID
3 2 (1.33%) YAML
4 1 (0.67%) .NET
4 1 (0.67%) Lucene
4 1 (0.67%) REST
4 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Security Posture
2 12 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 11 (7.33%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.33%) Cyber Defence
6 7 (4.67%) Operational Technology
7 5 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.00%) PKI
10 2 (1.33%) CSOC
10 2 (1.33%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.33%) STIX
10 2 (1.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.00%) Windows
2 11 (7.33%) Linux
3 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.67%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.67%) VMS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.00%) SIEM
2 56 (37.33%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (36.00%) Incident Response
4 47 (31.33%) Security Operations
5 43 (28.67%) Cloud Security
6 36 (24.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 35 (23.33%) SOAR
8 31 (20.67%) Analytics
9 30 (20.00%) Zero Trust
10 28 (18.67%) Data Loss Prevention
11 23 (15.33%) Identity Access Management
12 22 (14.67%) Vulnerability Management
13 20 (13.33%) Threat Detection
13 20 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
14 19 (12.67%) Migration
15 18 (12.00%) DevOps
15 18 (12.00%) Information Security
15 18 (12.00%) Log Analytics
15 18 (12.00%) Security Architecture
16 16 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (30.67%) Kusto Query Language
2 45 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 30 (20.00%) Python
4 12 (8.00%) Bash
5 9 (6.00%) Bicep
6 3 (2.00%) SQL
7 2 (1.33%) Perl
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 29 (19.33%) Degree
4 24 (16.00%) CISSP
5 22 (14.67%) Azure Certification
6 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (9.33%) CISM
8 13 (8.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.00%) GCIH
11 5 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (3.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (2.67%) CISA
12 4 (2.67%) CISMP
12 4 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.67%) GCIA
12 4 (2.67%) GSEC
13 3 (2.00%) CEH
13 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (34.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (33.33%) NIST
3 33 (22.00%) GDPR
4 15 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.33%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (4.67%) NCSC
6 7 (4.67%) SOC 2
7 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.67%) NIST 800
9 3 (2.00%) JSP 440
10 2 (1.33%) GRC
10 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (28.67%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.67%) Docker
3 5 (3.33%) Snort
4 4 (2.67%) Squid
5 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.00%) Terraform
3 11 (7.33%) QRadar
4 7 (4.67%) SCCM
5 5 (3.33%) Nessus
5 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.67%) CSIRT
6 4 (2.67%) Nexpose
6 4 (2.67%) Suricata
7 3 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.00%) Kibana
7 3 (2.00%) logstash
8 2 (1.33%) Ansible
8 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.33%) WSUS
9 1 (0.67%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.67%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 127 (84.67%) Microsoft
2 37 (24.67%) Splunk
3 22 (14.67%) CrowdStrike
4 18 (12.00%) Qualys
5 17 (11.33%) Carbon Black
6 14 (9.33%) Palo Alto
7 13 (8.67%) Google
8 12 (8.00%) Cisco
9 11 (7.33%) Zscaler
10 9 (6.00%) Fortinet
11 8 (5.33%) ServiceNow
12 5 (3.33%) Okta
13 4 (2.67%) Blue Coat
13 4 (2.67%) Citrix
13 4 (2.67%) Darktrace
13 4 (2.67%) FireEye
13 4 (2.67%) IBM
14 3 (2.00%) Forcepoint
14 3 (2.00%) LogRhythm
14 3 (2.00%) Red Hat