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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 371 450
Rank change year-on-year -99 +79 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 137 132 99
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.29% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 96 78
10th Percentile £367 £390 £425
25th Percentile £450 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £813 £695
UK median daily rate £527 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.29% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

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 15,657 10,260 11,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.88% 37.41% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,474 6,938 8,456
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.64% -4.62% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 269 297
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.15
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.98% +25.00% -37.14%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -61 79 £525 +13.51% 22
South East -65 23 £470 -6.00% 12
North of England -79 14 £588 +10.02% 16
North West -44 12 £572 +38.60% 10
South West -34 8 £556 -38.22% 2
Midlands -43 6 £288 -61.67% 10
West Midlands -61 6 £288 -61.67% 8
East of England -23 4 £553 -15.00% 2
Yorkshire -58 2 £638 +18.60% 5
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 (5.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (41.61%) Entra ID
3 46 (33.58%) AWS
4 30 (21.90%) GCP
5 27 (19.71%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (17.52%) Azure Monitor
7 22 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 16 (11.68%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (8.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 11 (8.03%) Azure AKS
12 10 (7.30%) GitHub
13 9 (6.57%) SaaS
14 7 (5.11%) IaaS
14 7 (5.11%) PaaS
15 6 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (3.65%) AWS Control Tower
16 5 (3.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.09%) Firewall
2 24 (17.52%) Network Security
3 19 (13.87%) VPN
4 16 (11.68%) DNS
5 12 (8.76%) WAN
6 9 (6.57%) DHCP
7 8 (5.84%) BGP
8 7 (5.11%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (3.65%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (3.65%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (3.65%) Internet
10 5 (3.65%) VSAN
11 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
11 4 (2.92%) SSH
12 3 (2.19%) NAS
12 3 (2.19%) OSPF
12 3 (2.19%) SAN
12 3 (2.19%) SSL
12 3 (2.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.19%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Snyk
2 5 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.92%) GitLab
4 3 (2.19%) Burp Suite
4 3 (2.19%) JIRA
5 2 (1.46%) Claude Code
5 2 (1.46%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.73%) AppScan
6 1 (0.73%) Git
6 1 (0.73%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (26.28%) Finance
2 32 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.38%) Retail
6 5 (3.65%) Banking
6 5 (3.65%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.65%) Legal
6 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.65%) Military
7 3 (2.19%) Local Government
8 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.73%) Advertising
9 1 (0.73%) Law
9 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (18.25%) Architect
2 23 (16.79%) Senior
3 22 (16.06%) Analyst
4 19 (13.87%) Security Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Security Analyst
5 17 (12.41%) Security Architect
6 11 (8.03%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) Lead
8 9 (6.57%) SIEM Engineer
9 8 (5.84%) Consultant
10 7 (5.11%) Azure Architect
10 7 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.11%) Test Leader
11 6 (4.38%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 6 (4.38%) Network Engineer
11 6 (4.38%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.65%) NOC Engineer
12 5 (3.65%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.11%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.65%) ADO
2 5 (3.65%) JSON
3 4 (2.92%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (2.92%) OAuth
3 4 (2.92%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (2.19%) OpenID
5 2 (1.46%) LDAP
5 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.46%) REST
5 2 (1.46%) SAML
5 2 (1.46%) XML
5 2 (1.46%) YAML
6 1 (0.73%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.73%) Kafka
6 1 (0.73%) LangChain
6 1 (0.73%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.79%) Security Posture
2 20 (14.60%) Onboarding
3 18 (13.14%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.57%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.84%) Management Information System
6 7 (5.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (3.65%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (3.65%) CMDB
8 4 (2.92%) ARM Cortex
8 4 (2.92%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (2.19%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (2.19%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.46%) PKI
10 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (28.47%) Windows
2 27 (19.71%) Linux
3 13 (9.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.65%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.92%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.73%) CentOS
7 1 (0.73%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.73%) Unix
7 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.53%) SIEM
2 59 (43.07%) Cloud Security
3 55 (40.15%) Cybersecurity
4 41 (29.93%) DevOps
5 35 (25.55%) Incident Response
6 34 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (23.36%) Security Operations
8 31 (22.63%) Zero Trust
9 30 (21.90%) Identity Access Management
10 28 (20.44%) Analytics
11 27 (19.71%) CI/CD
11 27 (19.71%) Security Architecture
11 27 (19.71%) Threat Modelling
11 27 (19.71%) Vulnerability Management
12 25 (18.25%) SOAR
13 24 (17.52%) Threat Detection
14 22 (16.06%) Security Monitoring
15 21 (15.33%) DevSecOps
15 21 (15.33%) Migration
16 20 (14.60%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.01%) PowerShell
2 26 (18.98%) Bicep
2 26 (18.98%) Python
3 19 (13.87%) Kusto Query Language
4 13 (9.49%) Bash
5 1 (0.73%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 31 (22.63%) CISSP
2 30 (21.90%) Security Cleared
3 22 (16.06%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (14.60%) SC Cleared
5 14 (10.22%) Azure Certification
6 13 (9.49%) CCSP
6 13 (9.49%) CISM
6 13 (9.49%) Degree
7 12 (8.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 9 (6.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (5.84%) AWS Certification
9 8 (5.84%) CCNP
10 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
10 7 (5.11%) GIAC
11 6 (4.38%) CompTIA CySA+
12 5 (3.65%) CCSE
12 5 (3.65%) CCSM
13 4 (2.92%) SSCP
14 3 (2.19%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (21.17%) NIST
3 12 (8.76%) GDPR
4 10 (7.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (6.57%) SOC 2
6 8 (5.84%) PCI DSS
6 8 (5.84%) SLA
7 7 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (5.11%) QA
8 6 (4.38%) GRC
9 3 (2.19%) NCSC
9 3 (2.19%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.46%) Data Quality
10 2 (1.46%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.46%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.73%) COBIT
11 1 (0.73%) GxP
11 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.65%) Docker
3 5 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (30.66%) Terraform
2 20 (14.60%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.49%) Ansible
5 8 (5.84%) QRadar
6 6 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.65%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.92%) SCCM
9 3 (2.19%) Grafana
10 2 (1.46%) CASB
10 2 (1.46%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.46%) Nexpose
10 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.46%) Puppet
11 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.73%) Istio
11 1 (0.73%) Nessus
11 1 (0.73%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.73%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 91 (66.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.25%) Splunk
3 17 (12.41%) CrowdStrike
4 12 (8.76%) Cisco
4 12 (8.76%) Okta
4 12 (8.76%) Tenable
5 11 (8.03%) Palo Alto
5 11 (8.03%) Qualys
6 9 (6.57%) VMware
7 8 (5.84%) Google
7 8 (5.84%) Zscaler
8 7 (5.11%) CheckPoint
8 7 (5.11%) Fortinet
9 6 (4.38%) LogRhythm
9 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
10 5 (3.65%) CyberArk
10 5 (3.65%) Rapid7
11 3 (2.19%) ArcSight
11 3 (2.19%) TOWER Software
11 3 (2.19%) Veracode