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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 423 444
Rank change year-on-year +43 +21 +184
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 131 96 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.29% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 0.85% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 67 124
10th Percentile £375 £425 £375
25th Percentile £425 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £699 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +201.59%

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 10,346 11,335 15,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.54% 34.54% 35.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,995 7,767 11,311
10th Percentile £308 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 179 305
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.23 £14.56
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £70.00 £79.01
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £30.73 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.64% -12.19% +62.79%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +42 72 £525 -4.55% 25
South East +18 15 £500 -16.67% 10
North of England -12 14 £531 -12.55% 3
South West +31 12 £550 +25.71% 1
East of England +15 10 £650 +30.00% 1
Midlands -7 8 £513 -18.00% 6
North West -16 8 £413 -32.10% 1
Yorkshire -9 6 £538 -10.42% 2
West Midlands -12 5 £600 -4.00% 4
East Midlands 0 3 £463 - 2
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.92%) SharePoint
2 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (29.77%) Entra ID
3 35 (26.72%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (19.85%) AWS
5 20 (15.27%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (12.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (11.45%) GCP
8 11 (8.40%) Azure AKS
8 11 (8.40%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (6.11%) OneDrive
10 7 (5.34%) Serverless
11 6 (4.58%) GitHub
12 5 (3.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (3.05%) IaaS
13 4 (3.05%) PaaS
13 4 (3.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (32.82%) Firewall
2 13 (9.92%) Network Security
3 10 (7.63%) DNS
3 10 (7.63%) VPN
4 9 (6.87%) TCP/IP
5 8 (6.11%) SSL
6 7 (5.34%) FTP
6 7 (5.34%) HTTP
6 7 (5.34%) SMTP
7 3 (2.29%) Internet
8 2 (1.53%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (1.53%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.76%) BGP
9 1 (0.76%) NAS
9 1 (0.76%) OSPF
9 1 (0.76%) SAN
9 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.76%) tcpdump
9 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.29%) Power BI
3 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.53%) Looker
3 2 (1.53%) Power Query
4 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (1.53%) JIRA
2 1 (0.76%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 28 (21.37%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.56%) Finance
3 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.92%) Banking
5 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Local Government
7 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.05%) Legal
9 3 (2.29%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.29%) Military
10 2 (1.53%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.76%) Police
11 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (28.24%) Security Engineer
2 33 (25.19%) Analyst
3 24 (18.32%) SOC Analyst
4 18 (13.74%) Architect
5 17 (12.98%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Azure Architect
7 10 (7.63%) Security Architect
7 10 (7.63%) SIEM Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Lead
8 9 (6.87%) Security Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Monitoring Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Design Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Operations Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) SOC Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) .NET
2 6 (4.58%) YAML
3 5 (3.82%) JSON
4 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.53%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.76%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.76%) Lucene
6 1 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Security Posture
2 14 (10.69%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (6.87%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (5.34%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.34%) Operational Technology
5 6 (4.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 6 (4.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.58%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.05%) PKI
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.53%) STIX
8 2 (1.53%) YARA
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.76%) MISP
9 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.14%) Windows
2 13 (9.92%) Linux
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.76%) VMS
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (51.91%) SIEM
2 54 (41.22%) Security Operations
3 51 (38.93%) Incident Response
4 48 (36.64%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (29.01%) Cloud Security
6 33 (25.19%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 32 (24.43%) SOAR
8 25 (19.08%) Threat Intelligence
9 24 (18.32%) DevOps
9 24 (18.32%) Threat Detection
9 24 (18.32%) Vulnerability Management
10 20 (15.27%) Analytics
10 20 (15.27%) Data Loss Prevention
10 20 (15.27%) Zero Trust
11 19 (14.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
11 19 (14.50%) Information Security
11 19 (14.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (12.21%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (11.45%) Security Monitoring
14 14 (10.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 49 (37.40%) PowerShell
2 39 (29.77%) Kusto Query Language
3 30 (22.90%) Python
4 12 (9.16%) Bicep
5 9 (6.87%) Bash
6 7 (5.34%) C#
7 2 (1.53%) Perl
7 2 (1.53%) SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 27 (20.61%) Degree
4 21 (16.03%) CISSP
5 18 (13.74%) Azure Certification
6 14 (10.69%) GCIH
6 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (6.11%) GCIA
8 7 (5.34%) CISM
8 7 (5.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.58%) GCFA
10 5 (3.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (3.82%) CISA
10 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 4 (3.05%) CISMP
11 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (3.05%) GIAC
11 4 (3.05%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (31.30%) NIST
2 36 (27.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (19.85%) GDPR
4 12 (9.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (6.87%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
7 4 (3.05%) SOC 2
8 3 (2.29%) NCSC
8 3 (2.29%) SLA
9 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.53%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.76%) GRC
10 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.76%) JSP 440
System Software
1 31 (23.66%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.34%) Docker
3 4 (3.05%) Snort
4 3 (2.29%) Squid
5 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.40%) QRadar
2 11 (8.40%) Terraform
3 8 (6.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.82%) Nessus
5 4 (3.05%) CSIRT
5 4 (3.05%) SCCM
6 3 (2.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (2.29%) Grafana
6 3 (2.29%) Kibana
6 3 (2.29%) logstash
6 3 (2.29%) Nexpose
6 3 (2.29%) Suricata
7 2 (1.53%) Ansible
8 1 (0.76%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.76%) Puppet
8 1 (0.76%) Rsyslog
8 1 (0.76%) Salt
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (82.44%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.08%) Splunk
3 14 (10.69%) CrowdStrike
4 11 (8.40%) Carbon Black
4 11 (8.40%) Qualys
5 10 (7.63%) Cisco
5 10 (7.63%) Palo Alto
6 9 (6.87%) Google
6 9 (6.87%) Zscaler
7 6 (4.58%) Fortinet
8 4 (3.05%) ArcSight
8 4 (3.05%) Citrix
8 4 (3.05%) Darktrace
8 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.29%) Blue Coat
9 3 (2.29%) FireEye
9 3 (2.29%) LogRhythm
10 2 (1.53%) Dell
10 2 (1.53%) Intel
10 2 (1.53%) McAfee