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

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	451	386	439
Rank change year-on-year	-65	+53	+12
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel	196	135	84
As % of all contract jobs in England	0.42%	0.48%	0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.21%	1.24%	0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted	142	90	56
10^th Percentile	£406	£400	£456
25^th Percentile	£456	£456	£506
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£550	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.55%	-	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£650	£623	£639
90^th Percentile	£725	£691	£704
UK median daily rate	£563	£550	£550
% change year-on-year	+2.27%	-	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	1	0
Median hourly rate	£51.00	£65.00	-
Median % change year-on-year	-21.54%	-	-
UK median hourly rate	£51.00	£65.00	-
% change year-on-year	-21.54%	-	-

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.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	16,158	10,871	11,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	34.66%	38.61%	35.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	10,773	7,332	7,414
10^th Percentile	£323	£303	£313
25^th Percentile	£425	£406	£425
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£500	£530
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
75^th Percentile	£634	£625	£644
90^th Percentile	£725	£725	£749
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	588	269	153
10^th Percentile	£15.50	£15.20	£16.53
25^th Percentile	£17.97	£18.51	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+27.27%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£43.75	£66.00
90^th Percentile	£79.30	£67.05	£70.00
UK median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+8.86%

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 Daily Rate Trend in England

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 20 October 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.

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 20 October 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	-53	114	£556	+0.68%	77
South East	-32	36	£615	+2.50%	26
North of England	-58	24	£600	+12.94%	21
North West	-34	21	£585	+41.70%	11
South West	-43	9	£575	+6.98%	8
Midlands	-45	9	£313	-37.50%	7
West Midlands	-51	8	£313	-45.65%	4
Yorkshire	-40	3	£625	+16.28%	6
East of England	-35	2	£425	-34.62%	2
Azure Sentinel UK

Azure Sentinel Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure Sentinel also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region with a requirement for Azure Sentinel.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	196
2	Microsoft	81.6%	160
3	Entra ID	46.4%	91
4	Cybersecurity	43.9%	86
5	Terraform	42.9%	84
6	SIEM	41.8%	82
7	PowerShell	40.3%	79
8	Incident Response	38.3%	75
9	Infrastructure as Code	37.8%	74
10	Cloud Security	37.2%	73
11	CI/CD	34.7%	68
12	DevOps	32.1%	63
13	Security Operations	31.1%	61
14	AWS	30.1%	59
15	Active Directory	28.1%	55
16	Security Cleared	26.5%	52
17	Bicep	25.5%	50
17	GCP	25.5%	50
19	Python	24.5%	48
19	Security Monitoring	24.5%	48
19	Windows	24.5%	48
22	Analytics	24.0%	47
23	SOAR	23.5%	46
24	Splunk	23.0%	45
25	Threat Detection	21.9%	43
26	Linux	20.9%	41
27	Azure Monitor	19.9%	39
28	Azure DevOps	19.4%	38
28	Vulnerability Management	19.4%	38
30	CISSP	18.4%	36

Azure Sentinel Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	196
2	Entra ID	46.4%	91
3	AWS	30.1%	59
4	GCP	25.5%	50
5	Azure Monitor	19.9%	39
6	Azure DevOps	19.4%	38
7	Microsoft 365	17.9%	35
8	Azure Logic Apps	15.3%	30
9	Microsoft Purview	11.2%	22
10	Datadog	8.7%	17
11	Azure AKS	8.2%	16
12	SaaS	7.1%	14
13	AWS CloudFormation	6.6%	13
13	Azure ExpressRoute	6.6%	13
13	GitHub	6.6%	13
16	Azure Key Vault	4.6%	9
17	GitHub Actions	4.1%	8
17	Snowflake	4.1%	8
19	Power Platform	3.6%	7
20	Serverless	2.6%	5