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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 383 448
Rank change year-on-year -52 +65 -8
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 137 101 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 1.11% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 84 72
10th Percentile £400 £325 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £688 £850 £735
UK median daily rate £540 £480 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% -16.52% +4.55%

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 14,305 9,067 11,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.54% 37.31% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,353 8,480
10th Percentile £319 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 193 321
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -63 73 £556 +26.42% 21
South East -54 17 £488 -17.02% 12
South West -23 15 £550 -24.14% 1
North of England -67 12 £528 -1.12% 6
West Midlands -54 10 £375 -50.00% 5
Midlands -59 10 £375 -50.00% 7
North West -26 9 £540 -10.00% 3
East of England -34 6 £575 -22.82% 3
Yorkshire -60 2 £500 -4.76% 2
North East -16 1 £400 -25.09% 1
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%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.73%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 137 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (34.31%) Entra ID
3 38 (27.74%) AWS
4 34 (24.82%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (21.17%) GCP
6 26 (18.98%) Azure Monitor
7 19 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (13.14%) Azure AKS
9 17 (12.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (10.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (9.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (9.49%) IaaS
11 13 (9.49%) PaaS
12 8 (5.84%) SaaS
13 7 (5.11%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.38%) GitHub
14 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
15 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (29.20%) Firewall
2 23 (16.79%) Network Security
3 21 (15.33%) VPN
4 13 (9.49%) DNS
5 7 (5.11%) DHCP
6 5 (3.65%) WAN
7 4 (2.92%) BGP
7 4 (2.92%) OSPF
7 4 (2.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.19%) IPsec
8 3 (2.19%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.46%) Internet
9 2 (1.46%) MPLS
9 2 (1.46%) NGFW
9 2 (1.46%) SAN
9 2 (1.46%) VLAN
9 2 (1.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.73%) Power BI
2 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Snyk
2 3 (2.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.19%) JIRA
3 2 (1.46%) Git
4 1 (0.73%) AppScan
4 1 (0.73%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.73%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.60%) Finance
3 16 (11.68%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Financial Institution
5 5 (3.65%) Legal
6 3 (2.19%) Banking
6 3 (2.19%) Local Government
6 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.19%) Military
6 3 (2.19%) Retail
7 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.73%) Advertising
8 1 (0.73%) Electronics
8 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (20.44%) Security Engineer
2 25 (18.25%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (16.79%) Analyst
4 22 (16.06%) Architect
5 17 (12.41%) Senior
6 13 (9.49%) SOC Analyst
7 12 (8.76%) Monitoring Analyst
8 11 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (8.03%) Security Architect
9 10 (7.30%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Security Analyst
12 7 (5.11%) Azure Security Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) SIEM Engineer
13 6 (4.38%) Consultant
13 6 (4.38%) Lead
13 6 (4.38%) Threat Hunter
14 5 (3.65%) Network Engineer
14 5 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) ARM Templates
2 4 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (2.92%) JSON
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (2.92%) OAuth
3 3 (2.19%) Node.js
3 3 (2.19%) REST
4 2 (1.46%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.46%) ADO
4 2 (1.46%) gRPC
4 2 (1.46%) Kafka
4 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.46%) OpenID
4 2 (1.46%) Regular Expression
4 2 (1.46%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.46%) SAML
4 2 (1.46%) XML
4 2 (1.46%) YAML
5 1 (0.73%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Security Posture
2 13 (9.49%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.30%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.11%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.65%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.92%) YARA
8 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.46%) STIX
10 1 (0.73%) Cyber Security Posture
10 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.71%) Windows
2 14 (10.22%) Linux
3 6 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.65%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.73%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.73%) VMS
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (52.55%) SIEM
2 45 (32.85%) Cloud Security
3 35 (25.55%) Zero Trust
4 34 (24.82%) SOAR
5 33 (24.09%) DevOps
6 32 (23.36%) Analytics
6 32 (23.36%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (22.63%) Incident Response
7 31 (22.63%) Threat Detection
8 30 (21.90%) Identity Access Management
9 28 (20.44%) Security Operations
10 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
10 23 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (15.33%) RBAC
12 20 (14.60%) Log Analytics
13 19 (13.87%) Data Loss Prevention
13 19 (13.87%) DevSecOps
13 19 (13.87%) Threat Modelling
14 18 (13.14%) Security Architecture
15 17 (12.41%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.93%) PowerShell
2 35 (25.55%) Kusto Query Language
3 27 (19.71%) Python
4 20 (14.60%) Bicep
5 6 (4.38%) Bash
6 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.73%) Java
7 1 (0.73%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 28 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.71%) CISSP
3 24 (17.52%) SC Cleared
4 21 (15.33%) Azure Certification
4 21 (15.33%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (10.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 14 (10.22%) CCSP
5 14 (10.22%) CISM
6 11 (8.03%) Degree
7 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
9 6 (4.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 4 (2.92%) CCNP
11 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
12 2 (1.46%) CCSM
12 2 (1.46%) GCIA
12 2 (1.46%) GCIH
12 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 2 (1.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.63%) NIST
2 28 (20.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (13.87%) GDPR
4 9 (6.57%) PCI DSS
5 7 (5.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.11%) NCSC
6 6 (4.38%) NIST 800
7 5 (3.65%) SOC 2
8 3 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (2.19%) QA
8 3 (2.19%) SLA
9 2 (1.46%) GRC
9 2 (1.46%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.73%) COBIT
10 1 (0.73%) GxP
10 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (19.71%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.46%) Docker
4 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.73%) Snort
5 1 (0.73%) Squid
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (24.09%) Terraform
2 22 (16.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (3.65%) Ansible
5 4 (2.92%) QRadar
6 3 (2.19%) Icinga
6 3 (2.19%) Istio
6 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.46%) Fluentd
7 2 (1.46%) logstash
7 2 (1.46%) Nessus
7 2 (1.46%) SCCM
8 1 (0.73%) CASB
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.73%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.73%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.73%) SCOM
8 1 (0.73%) WSUS
Vendors
1 87 (63.50%) Microsoft
2 35 (25.55%) Splunk
3 15 (10.95%) Qualys
4 9 (6.57%) CrowdStrike
4 9 (6.57%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.57%) VMware
5 8 (5.84%) Carbon Black
5 8 (5.84%) Cisco
5 8 (5.84%) Tenable
6 7 (5.11%) Google
6 7 (5.11%) LogRhythm
6 7 (5.11%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.38%) IBM
7 6 (4.38%) Red Hat
8 5 (3.65%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.65%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.65%) Okta
9 4 (2.92%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.92%) Zscaler
10 3 (2.19%) SolarWinds