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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 403 460
Rank change year-on-year -8 +57 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 150 82 85
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 0.85% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 62 65
10th Percentile £425 £370 £385
25th Percentile £486 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -3.73% -5.17%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £645
90th Percentile £688 £773 £718
UK median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.08%

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 13,257 9,627 12,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.44% 37.71% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,149 6,534 8,935
10th Percentile £310 £313 £275
25th Percentile £409 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £707 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 325
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.18
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.98 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.19 £21.37
% change year-on-year +46.21% +27.22% -14.52%

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 March 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 March 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 -6 83 £575 +12.20% 23
South West -11 19 £463 -48.61% 4
South East -33 14 £650 +4.00% 18
Midlands -44 11 £525 -41.67% 10
West Midlands -43 10 £550 -38.89% 6
North of England -55 9 £520 +5.69% 13
North West -35 6 £540 -10.00% 8
East of England -25 5 £613 -5.84% 2
Yorkshire -64 2 £500 - 4
North East -13 1 £400 -9.50% 1
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 4
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 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (34.00%) Entra ID
3 49 (32.67%) AWS
4 37 (24.67%) GCP
5 34 (22.67%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (18.67%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 17 (11.33%) Azure AKS
9 16 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (10.00%) IaaS
10 15 (10.00%) PaaS
11 12 (8.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 11 (7.33%) SaaS
13 10 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (4.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 7 (4.67%) OpenShift
15 6 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (4.00%) GitHub
16 5 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 40 (26.67%) Firewall
2 21 (14.00%) Network Security
3 19 (12.67%) VPN
4 8 (5.33%) DNS
5 5 (3.33%) BGP
5 5 (3.33%) OSPF
6 4 (2.67%) WAN
7 3 (2.00%) DHCP
7 3 (2.00%) IPsec
7 3 (2.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.00%) Wireless
7 3 (2.00%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.33%) LAN
8 2 (1.33%) MPLS
8 2 (1.33%) NGFW
8 2 (1.33%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.33%) SSL
8 2 (1.33%) VXLAN
8 2 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.67%) Power BI
2 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.67%) Git
2 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.00%) Metasploit
2 3 (2.00%) Snyk
3 1 (0.67%) AppScan
3 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.00%) Finance
4 11 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.00%) Military
6 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Banking
7 2 (1.33%) Retail
8 1 (0.67%) Electronics
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Local Government
8 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.67%) Marketing
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (28.00%) Security Engineer
2 31 (20.67%) Analyst
3 30 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 26 (17.33%) SOC Analyst
5 20 (13.33%) Monitoring Analyst
6 18 (12.00%) Architect
7 17 (11.33%) Senior
8 13 (8.67%) Azure Security Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Consultant
11 9 (6.00%) Security Architect
11 9 (6.00%) Threat Hunter
12 8 (5.33%) Microsoft Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Security Analyst
14 6 (4.00%) Security Specialist
15 5 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
15 5 (3.33%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) ARM Templates
2 7 (4.67%) OAuth
3 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 4 (2.67%) JSON
4 4 (2.67%) REST
5 3 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.00%) Node.js
5 3 (2.00%) SailPoint
5 3 (2.00%) SAML
6 2 (1.33%) .NET
6 2 (1.33%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (1.33%) gRPC
6 2 (1.33%) Kafka
6 2 (1.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.33%) OpenID
6 2 (1.33%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.33%) XML
7 1 (0.67%) Spring
7 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Security Posture
2 15 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.00%) YARA
9 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.33%) CSOC
9 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.33%) Windows
2 11 (7.33%) Linux
3 6 (4.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.67%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.67%) VMS
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (50.67%) SIEM
2 56 (37.33%) Cloud Security
3 42 (28.00%) Zero Trust
4 41 (27.33%) Incident Response
5 40 (26.67%) SOAR
6 38 (25.33%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (23.33%) Analytics
7 35 (23.33%) Security Operations
8 33 (22.00%) DevOps
9 31 (20.67%) Identity Access Management
10 30 (20.00%) Threat Detection
11 27 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 24 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
14 22 (14.67%) CI/CD
14 22 (14.67%) Log Analytics
15 20 (13.33%) Security Architecture
16 19 (12.67%) DevSecOps
16 19 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 19 (12.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 41 (27.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 34 (22.67%) Python
4 17 (11.33%) Bicep
5 11 (7.33%) Bash
6 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.67%) Java
7 1 (0.67%) Lisp
7 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 30 (20.00%) CISSP
4 26 (17.33%) Azure Certification
5 19 (12.67%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (12.67%) CISM
6 15 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (8.67%) Degree
7 13 (8.67%) DV Cleared
8 12 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 11 (7.33%) CCSP
10 9 (6.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (2.00%) AWS Certification
11 3 (2.00%) CCNP
12 2 (1.33%) CCIE
12 2 (1.33%) CCNA
12 2 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.33%) JNCIA
13 1 (0.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.67%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (24.00%) NIST
3 22 (14.67%) GDPR
4 10 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (6.67%) NCSC
5 8 (5.33%) NIST 800
5 8 (5.33%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.67%) SOC 2
7 5 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.00%) GRC
8 3 (2.00%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.33%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.67%) COBIT
10 1 (0.67%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.67%) QA
10 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (21.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.33%) Docker
3 5 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.00%) Snort
4 3 (2.00%) Squid
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (22.00%) Terraform
2 28 (18.67%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (4.00%) Ansible
5 6 (4.00%) QRadar
6 5 (3.33%) Nessus
7 4 (2.67%) SCCM
8 3 (2.00%) Icinga
8 3 (2.00%) Istio
8 3 (2.00%) Nexpose
8 3 (2.00%) Suricata
9 2 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.33%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.33%) logstash
9 2 (1.33%) WSUS
10 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 103 (68.67%) Microsoft
2 47 (31.33%) Splunk
3 23 (15.33%) Qualys
4 19 (12.67%) CrowdStrike
5 16 (10.67%) Carbon Black
6 14 (9.33%) Google
7 13 (8.67%) Palo Alto
8 10 (6.67%) Cisco
8 10 (6.67%) Tenable
9 9 (6.00%) ServiceNow
10 8 (5.33%) IBM
11 7 (4.67%) LogRhythm
11 7 (4.67%) Okta
11 7 (4.67%) Red Hat
11 7 (4.67%) Zscaler
12 6 (4.00%) Fortinet
12 6 (4.00%) VMware
13 4 (2.67%) CheckPoint
13 4 (2.67%) CyberArk
14 3 (2.00%) FireEye