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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 381 455
Rank change year-on-year -112 +74 -14
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 130 122 97
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 1.22% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 90 77
10th Percentile £369 £368 £425
25th Percentile £425 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £850 £698
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £581
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.98% +1.09%
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 15,409 9,998 12,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.90% 37.66% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,359 6,739 8,678
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 258 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.08 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.15 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -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 6 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 6 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 -58 82 £515 +13.94% 16
South East -53 14 £463 -7.50% 17
North of England -78 12 £540 +2.86% 9
North West -41 9 £540 +27.06% 7
South West -26 8 £556 -38.22% 3
West Midlands -55 8 £300 -60.00% 4
Midlands -58 8 £300 -60.00% 5
East of England -36 4 £553 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire -54 3 £600 +14.29% 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 7 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 130 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (41.54%) Entra ID
3 41 (31.54%) AWS
4 29 (22.31%) Microsoft 365
5 27 (20.77%) GCP
6 20 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (13.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 13 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (8.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 11 (8.46%) GitHub
10 8 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (6.15%) SaaS
11 7 (5.38%) IaaS
11 7 (5.38%) PaaS
12 5 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.85%) OneDrive
13 4 (3.08%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 31 (23.85%) Firewall
2 25 (19.23%) Network Security
3 15 (11.54%) VPN
4 13 (10.00%) WAN
5 11 (8.46%) DNS
6 8 (6.15%) BGP
7 6 (4.62%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.85%) DHCP
8 5 (3.85%) Internet
8 5 (3.85%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.85%) VSAN
9 4 (3.08%) VLAN
10 3 (2.31%) LAN
10 3 (2.31%) NAS
10 3 (2.31%) OSPF
10 3 (2.31%) SAN
10 3 (2.31%) SSL
10 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.62%) Snyk
3 4 (3.08%) GitLab
4 3 (2.31%) Burp Suite
4 3 (2.31%) JIRA
5 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.77%) AppScan
6 1 (0.77%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.77%) Git
6 1 (0.77%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.62%) Finance
3 13 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.62%) Retail
6 5 (3.85%) Banking
6 5 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.85%) Legal
6 5 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.08%) Local Government
8 3 (2.31%) Military
9 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Law
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (19.23%) Architect
2 21 (16.15%) Senior
3 20 (15.38%) Analyst
4 18 (13.85%) Security Engineer
5 16 (12.31%) Security Analyst
6 15 (11.54%) Security Architect
7 13 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Lead
9 8 (6.15%) Consultant
9 8 (6.15%) Senior Architect
10 7 (5.38%) Azure Architect
10 7 (5.38%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.38%) Test Leader
11 6 (4.62%) Azure Security Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) SIEM Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.85%) ADO
1 5 (3.85%) JSON
2 4 (3.08%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (3.08%) OAuth
2 4 (3.08%) SailPoint
3 3 (2.31%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.31%) OpenID
4 2 (1.54%) LDAP
4 2 (1.54%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.54%) SAML
4 2 (1.54%) XML
4 2 (1.54%) YAML
5 1 (0.77%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.77%) Kafka
5 1 (0.77%) LangChain
5 1 (0.77%) REST
5 1 (0.77%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.23%) Security Posture
2 17 (13.08%) Cloud Native
3 15 (11.54%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.62%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.85%) CMDB
7 4 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.31%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (2.31%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.54%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.54%) PKI
9 2 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.15%) Windows
2 21 (16.15%) Linux
3 8 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.85%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.08%) Alpine Linux
5 4 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.77%) CentOS
7 1 (0.77%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.77%) Unix
7 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (43.08%) SIEM
2 55 (42.31%) Cloud Security
3 48 (36.92%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (27.69%) DevOps
5 34 (26.15%) Incident Response
6 32 (24.62%) Zero Trust
7 30 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
7 30 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (23.08%) Security Operations
8 26 (20.00%) Security Architecture
8 26 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 25 (19.23%) Analytics
10 22 (16.92%) CI/CD
10 22 (16.92%) Threat Detection
10 22 (16.92%) Threat Modelling
11 21 (16.15%) Migration
11 21 (16.15%) SOAR
12 20 (15.38%) DevSecOps
12 20 (15.38%) RBAC
12 20 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.15%) PowerShell
2 27 (20.77%) Python
3 18 (13.85%) Bicep
4 17 (13.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 7 (5.38%) Bash
6 1 (0.77%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 30 (23.08%) CISSP
2 23 (17.69%) Security Cleared
3 21 (16.15%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (13.08%) SC Cleared
5 13 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 12 (9.23%) CCSP
6 12 (9.23%) CISM
7 11 (8.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 8 (6.15%) CCNP
8 8 (6.15%) CompTIA Security+
8 8 (6.15%) Degree
8 8 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (5.38%) AWS Certification
9 7 (5.38%) GIAC
10 5 (3.85%) CCSE
10 5 (3.85%) CCSM
10 5 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (3.08%) SSCP
12 3 (2.31%) GCIA
12 3 (2.31%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (21.54%) NIST
3 10 (7.69%) GDPR
4 9 (6.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (6.92%) SOC 2
5 8 (6.15%) QA
5 8 (6.15%) SLA
6 7 (5.38%) PCI DSS
7 6 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (3.08%) GRC
8 4 (3.08%) NCSC
9 3 (2.31%) NIST 800
10 2 (1.54%) HIPAA
10 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (1.54%) SOC 1
11 1 (0.77%) COBIT
11 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.77%) GxP
11 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (16.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.85%) Docker
3 5 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (27.69%) Terraform
2 18 (13.85%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (7.69%) Ansible
5 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.85%) FortiGate
6 5 (3.85%) QRadar
7 3 (2.31%) Grafana
7 3 (2.31%) Istio
8 2 (1.54%) CASB
8 2 (1.54%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.54%) Nexpose
8 2 (1.54%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.54%) Puppet
9 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.77%) Nessus
9 1 (0.77%) PingFederate
9 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.77%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 84 (64.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.92%) Splunk
3 13 (10.00%) Cisco
4 12 (9.23%) Okta
4 12 (9.23%) Tenable
5 11 (8.46%) CrowdStrike
5 11 (8.46%) Qualys
6 10 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 9 (6.92%) Google
7 9 (6.92%) VMware
7 9 (6.92%) Zscaler
8 8 (6.15%) Fortinet
9 7 (5.38%) CheckPoint
10 6 (4.62%) LogRhythm
10 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow
11 5 (3.85%) CyberArk
11 5 (3.85%) Rapid7
12 3 (2.31%) ArcSight
12 3 (2.31%) TOWER Software
12 3 (2.31%) Veracode