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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 451 381 455
Rank change year-on-year -70 +74 -20
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 135 104 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.13% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 85 74
10th Percentile £400 £325 £412
25th Percentile £470 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.69% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £688 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £543 £480 £589
% change year-on-year +13.22% -18.47% +7.05%

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 14,244 9,210 11,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 37.47% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 6,447 8,583
10th Percentile £315 £313 £284
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 194 320
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.74 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.63 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -37.78%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -44 70 £563 +27.84% 23
South East -48 18 £506 -13.83% 6
South West -22 15 £550 -24.14% 2
North of England -57 12 £528 -1.12% 4
North West -29 9 £540 -10.00% 3
West Midlands -57 9 £463 -38.33% 6
Midlands -58 9 £463 -38.33% 8
East of England -24 6 £575 -22.82% 3
Yorkshire -52 2 £500 -4.76% 1
North East -20 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 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (34.07%) Entra ID
3 39 (28.89%) AWS
4 34 (25.19%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (21.48%) GCP
6 26 (19.26%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (13.33%) Azure AKS
8 17 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (11.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (10.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (9.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (9.63%) IaaS
11 13 (9.63%) PaaS
12 8 (5.93%) SaaS
13 7 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.44%) GitHub
14 6 (4.44%) OpenShift
15 5 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 3 (2.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 40 (29.63%) Firewall
2 24 (17.78%) Network Security
3 20 (14.81%) VPN
4 12 (8.89%) DNS
5 6 (4.44%) DHCP
6 5 (3.70%) WAN
7 4 (2.96%) BGP
7 4 (2.96%) OSPF
7 4 (2.96%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.22%) IPsec
8 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.48%) Internet
9 2 (1.48%) MPLS
9 2 (1.48%) NGFW
9 2 (1.48%) SAN
9 2 (1.48%) VLAN
9 2 (1.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.74%) Power BI
2 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Snyk
2 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.22%) JIRA
3 2 (1.48%) Git
4 1 (0.74%) AppScan
4 1 (0.74%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.74%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 31 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Finance
3 17 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.96%) Legal
8 3 (2.22%) Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Local Government
8 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.22%) Military
8 3 (2.22%) Retail
9 2 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Electronics
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (21.48%) Security Engineer
2 25 (18.52%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (16.30%) Analyst
3 22 (16.30%) Architect
4 17 (12.59%) Senior
5 13 (9.63%) SOC Analyst
6 12 (8.89%) Monitoring Analyst
7 11 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (8.15%) Security Architect
8 10 (7.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Security Analyst
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Security Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) SIEM Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Consultant
11 6 (4.44%) Threat Hunter
12 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Network Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.41%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.96%) JSON
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (2.96%) OAuth
3 3 (2.22%) Node.js
3 3 (2.22%) REST
3 3 (2.22%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.48%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.48%) gRPC
4 2 (1.48%) Kafka
4 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.48%) OpenID
4 2 (1.48%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.48%) SAML
4 2 (1.48%) XML
4 2 (1.48%) YAML
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.74%) eBPF
5 1 (0.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Security Posture
2 12 (8.89%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.19%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.96%) YARA
8 3 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.48%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.48%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.48%) STIX
10 1 (0.74%) Anti-Spyware
10 1 (0.74%) CSOC
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.26%) Windows
2 14 (10.37%) Linux
3 6 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.74%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (54.07%) SIEM
2 44 (32.59%) Cloud Security
3 35 (25.93%) SOAR
3 35 (25.93%) Zero Trust
4 33 (24.44%) Analytics
4 33 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
5 32 (23.70%) Incident Response
6 31 (22.96%) DevOps
6 31 (22.96%) Identity Access Management
6 31 (22.96%) Threat Detection
7 29 (21.48%) Security Operations
8 23 (17.04%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (15.56%) RBAC
10 20 (14.81%) Log Analytics
10 20 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
11 19 (14.07%) DevSecOps
12 18 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
13 17 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (12.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (30.37%) PowerShell
2 36 (26.67%) Kusto Query Language
3 27 (20.00%) Python
4 20 (14.81%) Bicep
5 6 (4.44%) Bash
6 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.74%) Java
7 1 (0.74%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 29 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.00%) CISSP
3 25 (18.52%) SC Cleared
4 22 (16.30%) Azure Certification
4 22 (16.30%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (11.11%) CISM
6 14 (10.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (10.37%) CCSP
7 11 (8.15%) Degree
7 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 5 (3.70%) CCNP
11 3 (2.22%) CCSE
11 3 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.48%) CCSM
12 2 (1.48%) CRISC
12 2 (1.48%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.70%) NIST
2 29 (21.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (14.07%) GDPR
4 9 (6.67%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.19%) NCSC
6 6 (4.44%) NIST 800
7 5 (3.70%) SOC 2
8 3 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (1.48%) GRC
9 2 (1.48%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (1.48%) QA
9 2 (1.48%) SLA
10 1 (0.74%) COBIT
10 1 (0.74%) GxP
10 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (19.26%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.44%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.48%) Docker
4 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.74%) Snort
5 1 (0.74%) Squid
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (24.44%) Terraform
2 22 (16.30%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.70%) Ansible
4 5 (3.70%) QRadar
5 3 (2.22%) Icinga
5 3 (2.22%) Istio
5 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.48%) Fluentd
6 2 (1.48%) logstash
6 2 (1.48%) Nessus
6 2 (1.48%) SCCM
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.74%) Nexpose
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.74%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.74%) SCOM
7 1 (0.74%) Suricata
7 1 (0.74%) WSUS
Vendors
1 85 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.93%) Splunk
3 16 (11.85%) Qualys
4 10 (7.41%) CrowdStrike
5 9 (6.67%) Cisco
5 9 (6.67%) Tenable
5 9 (6.67%) VMware
6 8 (5.93%) Carbon Black
6 8 (5.93%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.19%) Google
7 7 (5.19%) IBM
7 7 (5.19%) LogRhythm
7 7 (5.19%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.44%) CheckPoint
8 6 (4.44%) Okta
8 6 (4.44%) Red Hat
9 5 (3.70%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.96%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.96%) Zscaler
11 3 (2.22%) Rapid7