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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 428 435
Rank change year-on-year +30 +7 +158
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 155 83 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.27% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.75% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 57 101
10th Percentile £413 £380 £375
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £675
90th Percentile £673 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +4.00%
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 11,544 11,091 14,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.64% 35.90% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 7,378 10,253
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
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 296 140 279
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.47
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% +35.09%
75th Percentile £44.43 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 17 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 17 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 +41 85 £550 - 38
South West +21 17 £513 +36.67% 8
North of England -29 15 £531 -24.11% 5
South East 0 12 £600 -7.69% 26
East of England -7 11 £650 +23.81% 3
Midlands -18 11 £500 - 8
North West -19 9 £413 -45.90% 1
West Midlands -20 8 £575 +15.00% 6
Yorkshire -29 6 £538 -17.31% 3
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 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.65%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 155 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (38.06%) Entra ID
3 48 (30.97%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (27.74%) AWS
5 27 (17.42%) GCP
6 26 (16.77%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (13.55%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (9.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (5.16%) Azure AKS
9 8 (5.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (5.16%) OneDrive
9 8 (5.16%) SaaS
10 7 (4.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.23%) IaaS
11 5 (3.23%) PaaS
12 4 (2.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (2.58%) Cloudflare
12 4 (2.58%) OpenDNS
12 4 (2.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 41 (26.45%) Firewall
2 15 (9.68%) VPN
3 12 (7.74%) Network Security
4 4 (2.58%) DNS
5 3 (1.94%) Internet
6 2 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.29%) LAN
6 2 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.29%) WAN
6 2 (1.29%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.65%) BGP
7 1 (0.65%) OSPF
7 1 (0.65%) SAN
7 1 (0.65%) Skype
7 1 (0.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.65%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.58%) Power BI
2 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.29%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.29%) Looker
3 2 (1.29%) Power Query
4 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.94%) JIRA
2 2 (1.29%) Git
2 2 (1.29%) Metasploit
General
1 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.26%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.74%) Finance
4 9 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Local Government
7 5 (3.23%) Banking
8 4 (2.58%) Military
9 3 (1.94%) Legal
10 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Retail
11 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (30.32%) Security Engineer
2 43 (27.74%) Analyst
3 34 (21.94%) SOC Analyst
4 20 (12.90%) Monitoring Analyst
5 19 (12.26%) Azure Engineer
6 15 (9.68%) Architect
7 11 (7.10%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Consultant
8 10 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Lead
8 10 (6.45%) Security Analyst
8 10 (6.45%) Security Architect
9 9 (5.81%) Azure Security Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Senior
10 8 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Security Specialist
10 8 (5.16%) SIEM Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Azure Architect
12 6 (3.87%) Threat Hunter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.23%) OAuth
2 4 (2.58%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.58%) JSON
3 3 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.94%) SAML
4 2 (1.29%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.29%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.29%) OpenID
4 2 (1.29%) REST
4 2 (1.29%) YAML
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) gRPC
5 1 (0.65%) Kafka
5 1 (0.65%) Lucene
5 1 (0.65%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.65%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.97%) Security Posture
2 13 (8.39%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (4.52%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.52%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.58%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.94%) YARA
9 2 (1.29%) CSOC
9 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.29%) STIX
10 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.35%) Windows
2 11 (7.10%) Linux
3 6 (3.87%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (45.16%) SIEM
2 58 (37.42%) Incident Response
3 56 (36.13%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (30.97%) Security Operations
5 41 (26.45%) Cloud Security
6 39 (25.16%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 36 (23.23%) SOAR
8 30 (19.35%) Analytics
8 30 (19.35%) Zero Trust
9 29 (18.71%) Data Loss Prevention
10 24 (15.48%) Threat Detection
11 21 (13.55%) Identity Access Management
12 20 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
13 19 (12.26%) Security Architecture
13 19 (12.26%) Threat Intelligence
14 18 (11.61%) Information Security
14 18 (11.61%) Log Analytics
15 17 (10.97%) Migration
16 16 (10.32%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (9.68%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.97%) Kusto Query Language
2 46 (29.68%) PowerShell
3 27 (17.42%) Python
4 12 (7.74%) Bash
5 9 (5.81%) Bicep
6 2 (1.29%) Perl
6 2 (1.29%) SQL
7 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 33 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 29 (18.71%) Degree
4 23 (14.84%) CISSP
5 20 (12.90%) Azure Certification
6 17 (10.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (9.03%) CISM
8 12 (7.74%) DV Cleared
9 8 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (3.23%) GCIH
10 5 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (2.58%) CISA
11 4 (2.58%) CISMP
11 4 (2.58%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (2.58%) GCIA
11 4 (2.58%) GSEC
12 3 (1.94%) CEH
12 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (32.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (31.61%) NIST
3 34 (21.94%) GDPR
4 15 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.16%) HIPAA
6 7 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (4.52%) PCI DSS
7 6 (3.87%) NCSC
8 4 (2.58%) NIST 800
8 4 (2.58%) SOC 2
9 3 (1.94%) JSP 440
10 2 (1.29%) GRC
11 1 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.65%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.52%) Docker
3 5 (3.23%) Snort
4 4 (2.58%) Squid
5 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (10.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 13 (8.39%) Terraform
4 12 (7.74%) QRadar
5 7 (4.52%) SCCM
6 5 (3.23%) Nessus
6 5 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.58%) CSIRT
7 4 (2.58%) logstash
7 4 (2.58%) Nexpose
7 4 (2.58%) Suricata
8 3 (1.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.94%) Kibana
9 2 (1.29%) Ansible
9 2 (1.29%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (1.29%) WSUS
10 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.65%) Rsyslog
10 1 (0.65%) SCOM
Vendors
1 129 (83.23%) Microsoft
2 42 (27.10%) Splunk
3 24 (15.48%) CrowdStrike
4 20 (12.90%) Qualys
5 19 (12.26%) Carbon Black
6 14 (9.03%) Google
6 14 (9.03%) Palo Alto
7 12 (7.74%) Cisco
8 11 (7.10%) Zscaler
9 10 (6.45%) ServiceNow
10 9 (5.81%) Fortinet
11 5 (3.23%) Okta
12 4 (2.58%) Blue Coat
12 4 (2.58%) Citrix
12 4 (2.58%) Darktrace
12 4 (2.58%) FireEye
12 4 (2.58%) IBM
12 4 (2.58%) LogRhythm
13 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
13 3 (1.94%) Sophos