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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 426 435
Rank change year-on-year +40 +9 +180
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 158 83 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.27% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 0.75% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 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 £668 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £585
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +5.17%
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 11,634 11,007 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.62% 35.87% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 7,315 10,197
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 £649 £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 300 140 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +30.05%
75th Percentile £45.60 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.05 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%

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 18 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 18 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 +46 87 £553 +0.45% 38
South West +15 17 £513 +36.67% 8
North of England -28 15 £531 -24.11% 8
South East +3 12 £600 -7.69% 26
Midlands -22 12 £500 - 7
East of England -9 11 £650 +23.81% 4
North West -16 9 £413 -45.90% 4
West Midlands -20 9 £575 +15.00% 5
Yorkshire -32 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 (10.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (8.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 158 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (37.34%) Entra ID
3 48 (30.38%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (28.48%) AWS
5 29 (18.35%) GCP
6 26 (16.46%) Microsoft Purview
7 21 (13.29%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (9.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (6.33%) SaaS
10 9 (5.70%) Azure AKS
11 8 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (5.06%) OneDrive
12 7 (4.43%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.80%) IaaS
13 6 (3.80%) PaaS
14 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (2.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 4 (2.53%) Cloudflare
15 4 (2.53%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (26.58%) Firewall
2 15 (9.49%) VPN
3 12 (7.59%) Network Security
4 4 (2.53%) DNS
5 3 (1.90%) Internet
6 2 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (1.27%) LAN
6 2 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.27%) WAN
6 2 (1.27%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.63%) BGP
7 1 (0.63%) OSPF
7 1 (0.63%) SAN
7 1 (0.63%) Skype
7 1 (0.63%) SSL
7 1 (0.63%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.63%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.53%) Power BI
2 3 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.27%) Looker
3 2 (1.27%) Power Query
4 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Git
1 3 (1.90%) JIRA
2 2 (1.27%) Metasploit
General
1 33 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.59%) Finance
4 9 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.80%) Local Government
7 5 (3.16%) Banking
8 4 (2.53%) Military
9 3 (1.90%) Legal
9 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.27%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 49 (31.01%) Security Engineer
2 43 (27.22%) Analyst
3 34 (21.52%) SOC Analyst
4 20 (12.66%) Azure Engineer
4 20 (12.66%) Monitoring Analyst
5 15 (9.49%) Architect
6 11 (6.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Consultant
7 10 (6.33%) Lead
7 10 (6.33%) Security Analyst
7 10 (6.33%) Security Architect
8 9 (5.70%) Azure Security Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.70%) Senior
9 8 (5.06%) Security Specialist
9 8 (5.06%) SIEM Engineer
10 7 (4.43%) Azure Architect
10 7 (4.43%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.16%) JSON
1 5 (3.16%) OAuth
2 4 (2.53%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.53%) REST
3 3 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.90%) SAML
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
4 2 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (1.27%) gRPC
4 2 (1.27%) Kafka
4 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.27%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.27%) OpenID
4 2 (1.27%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.27%) XML
4 2 (1.27%) YAML
5 1 (0.63%) Lucene
5 1 (0.63%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.03%) Security Posture
2 13 (8.23%) Onboarding
3 10 (6.33%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (4.43%) Cyber Defence
4 7 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.43%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.80%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.53%) YARA
8 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (1.27%) CSOC
9 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.27%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.99%) Windows
2 11 (6.96%) Linux
3 6 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.63%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.63%) VMS
5 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (45.57%) SIEM
2 60 (37.97%) Incident Response
3 57 (36.08%) Cybersecurity
4 49 (31.01%) Security Operations
5 42 (26.58%) Cloud Security
6 39 (24.68%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 37 (23.42%) SOAR
8 31 (19.62%) Analytics
9 30 (18.99%) Zero Trust
10 29 (18.35%) Data Loss Prevention
11 25 (15.82%) Threat Detection
12 22 (13.92%) Identity Access Management
13 20 (12.66%) Vulnerability Management
14 19 (12.03%) Security Architecture
14 19 (12.03%) Threat Intelligence
15 18 (11.39%) Information Security
15 18 (11.39%) Log Analytics
16 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (10.76%) Migration
17 15 (9.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.01%) Kusto Query Language
2 46 (29.11%) PowerShell
3 28 (17.72%) Python
4 12 (7.59%) Bash
5 9 (5.70%) Bicep
6 2 (1.27%) Perl
6 2 (1.27%) SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Java
7 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.89%) SC Cleared
3 29 (18.35%) Degree
4 24 (15.19%) CISSP
5 20 (12.66%) Azure Certification
6 17 (10.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (8.86%) CISM
8 12 (7.59%) DV Cleared
9 9 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (3.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (3.16%) GCIH
11 5 (3.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (3.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (2.53%) CISA
12 4 (2.53%) CISMP
12 4 (2.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.53%) GCIA
12 4 (2.53%) GSEC
13 3 (1.90%) CCSP
13 3 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (32.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (31.65%) NIST
3 35 (22.15%) GDPR
4 15 (9.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (5.06%) HIPAA
5 8 (5.06%) PCI DSS
6 7 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (4.43%) NCSC
7 4 (2.53%) NIST 800
7 4 (2.53%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.90%) GRC
8 3 (1.90%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.63%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (28.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.06%) Docker
3 5 (3.16%) Snort
4 4 (2.53%) Squid
5 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (10.13%) Kubernetes
1 16 (10.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (8.86%) Terraform
3 13 (8.23%) QRadar
4 7 (4.43%) SCCM
5 5 (3.16%) logstash
5 5 (3.16%) Nessus
5 5 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.53%) CSIRT
6 4 (2.53%) Nexpose
6 4 (2.53%) Suricata
7 3 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.90%) Fluentd
7 3 (1.90%) Kibana
8 2 (1.27%) Ansible
8 2 (1.27%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.27%) WSUS
9 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.63%) Rsyslog
9 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 130 (82.28%) Microsoft
2 43 (27.22%) Splunk
3 24 (15.19%) CrowdStrike
4 20 (12.66%) Qualys
5 19 (12.03%) Carbon Black
6 16 (10.13%) Google
7 14 (8.86%) Palo Alto
8 12 (7.59%) Cisco
9 11 (6.96%) Zscaler
10 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
11 9 (5.70%) Fortinet
12 5 (3.16%) Okta
13 4 (2.53%) Blue Coat
13 4 (2.53%) Citrix
13 4 (2.53%) Darktrace
13 4 (2.53%) FireEye
13 4 (2.53%) IBM
13 4 (2.53%) LogRhythm
14 3 (1.90%) Red Hat
14 3 (1.90%) Sophos