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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 382 431
Rank change year-on-year -84 +49 +2
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 168 129 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.47% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 1.25% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 93 67
10th Percentile £381 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £699 £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 15,948 10,289 11,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.49% 37.60% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,643 6,957 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £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 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 249 180
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.24
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £62.81
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 15 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 15 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 -65 91 £500 -4.76% 88
South East -49 30 £615 +22.99% 35
North of England -62 22 £605 +13.88% 22
North West -34 19 £603 +46.06% 15
Midlands -42 10 £288 -43.90% 14
West Midlands -47 9 £288 -52.08% 11
South West -52 9 £556 +1.09% 4
East of England -34 5 £505 -22.31% 6
Yorkshire -35 3 £625 +16.28% 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 7 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.60%) Mendix
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (40.48%) Entra ID
3 56 (33.33%) AWS
4 38 (22.62%) GCP
5 34 (20.24%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (18.45%) Azure Monitor
8 24 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (8.93%) Azure AKS
11 13 (7.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 12 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (7.14%) GitHub
12 12 (7.14%) SaaS
13 8 (4.76%) Datadog
14 7 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (2.98%) OneDrive
15 5 (2.98%) Power Platform
16 3 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.05%) Firewall
2 20 (11.90%) DNS
2 20 (11.90%) Network Security
2 20 (11.90%) VPN
3 13 (7.74%) DHCP
4 11 (6.55%) WAN
5 9 (5.36%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.98%) BGP
6 5 (2.98%) SSH
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.38%) VSAN
8 3 (1.79%) Internet
8 3 (1.79%) LAN
8 3 (1.79%) NAS
8 3 (1.79%) SAN
8 3 (1.79%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.79%) VLAN
9 2 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.60%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (7.14%) GitLab
1 12 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.38%) Snyk
3 2 (1.19%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.19%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.19%) Git
3 2 (1.19%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 36 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.24%) Finance
3 19 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.57%) Banking
6 6 (3.57%) Retail
7 5 (2.98%) Local Government
8 4 (2.38%) Legal
8 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.38%) Military
9 2 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 23 (13.69%) Analyst
3 22 (13.10%) Senior
4 20 (11.90%) Architect
5 18 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (9.52%) Security Analyst
7 13 (7.74%) SIEM Engineer
8 12 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (6.55%) Lead
9 11 (6.55%) Security Architect
10 10 (5.95%) Consultant
10 10 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.76%) SOC Engineer
12 7 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (4.17%) Test Leader
13 6 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 6 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (36.90%) Terraform
2 14 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.98%) ADO
4 4 (2.38%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (2.38%) JSON
4 4 (2.38%) OpenID
4 4 (2.38%) Pulumi
5 3 (1.79%) LDAP
5 3 (1.79%) OAuth
5 3 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.79%) REST
5 3 (1.79%) SAML
6 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (1.19%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.19%) XML
7 1 (0.60%) .NET
7 1 (0.60%) EDI
7 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.60%) Kafka
7 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.86%) Security Posture
2 23 (13.69%) Onboarding
3 19 (11.31%) Cloud Native
4 16 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 14 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (7.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (4.76%) ARM Cortex
8 7 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (3.57%) CMDB
10 5 (2.98%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.98%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.98%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.79%) PKI
12 3 (1.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.21%) Windows
2 31 (18.45%) Linux
3 19 (11.31%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.38%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.19%) CentOS
6 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.60%) Android
7 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.26%) SIEM
2 70 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
3 65 (38.69%) Cloud Security
3 65 (38.69%) Incident Response
4 58 (34.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (30.36%) DevOps
6 49 (29.17%) CI/CD
7 48 (28.57%) Security Operations
8 39 (23.21%) SOAR
9 38 (22.62%) Threat Detection
10 37 (22.02%) Analytics
10 37 (22.02%) Security Monitoring
11 27 (16.07%) Identity Access Management
11 27 (16.07%) Vulnerability Management
11 27 (16.07%) Zero Trust
12 26 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
15 23 (13.69%) Security Architecture
15 23 (13.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 39 (23.21%) Bicep
3 35 (20.83%) Python
4 28 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 21 (12.50%) Bash
6 9 (5.36%) SQL
7 6 (3.57%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.60%) C
8 1 (0.60%) Go
8 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.05%) CISSP
3 29 (17.26%) SC Cleared
4 22 (13.10%) Degree
5 19 (11.31%) Azure Certification
6 14 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (7.74%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (7.14%) CISM
9 9 (5.36%) AWS Certification
9 9 (5.36%) DV Cleared
9 9 (5.36%) GCIH
9 9 (5.36%) GIAC
10 7 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (4.17%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (3.57%) CCSP
11 6 (3.57%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (2.98%) CCNP
12 5 (2.98%) GCFA
13 4 (2.38%) CRISC
13 4 (2.38%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (21.43%) NIST
2 33 (19.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (10.71%) GDPR
4 15 (8.93%) PCI DSS
5 12 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (5.95%) SOC 2
7 8 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (4.76%) SLA
8 7 (4.17%) QA
9 6 (3.57%) NCSC
9 6 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (2.98%) GRC
11 3 (1.79%) NIST 800
12 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
12 2 (1.19%) HIPAA
12 2 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (1.19%) SOC 1
13 1 (0.60%) GxP
13 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 44 (26.19%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.76%) Docker
3 7 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.19%) vSphere
7 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (15.48%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 20 (11.90%) Ansible
4 10 (5.95%) QRadar
5 8 (4.76%) SCCM
6 7 (4.17%) Grafana
6 7 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.57%) CASB
8 5 (2.98%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.98%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
9 4 (2.38%) Puppet
10 2 (1.19%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.19%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.60%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 132 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 39 (23.21%) Splunk
3 25 (14.88%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (6.55%) Palo Alto
5 9 (5.36%) Cisco
5 9 (5.36%) Google
5 9 (5.36%) Okta
5 9 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.36%) VMware
6 7 (4.17%) Tenable
6 7 (4.17%) Zscaler
7 6 (3.57%) Cribl.io
7 6 (3.57%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.57%) Qualys
8 5 (2.98%) CheckPoint
8 5 (2.98%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.38%) ArcSight
9 4 (2.38%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.79%) IBM
10 3 (1.79%) Salesforce