Azure Sentinel Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Sentinel over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 455 441
Rank change year-on-year +78 -14 +188
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 122 97 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 0.80% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 77 165
10th Percentile £368 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £850 £698 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -13.98% +1.09% +0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

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 9,988 12,162 17,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.61% 32.68% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,733 8,677 12,840
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £410 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 327 302
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.06 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.92
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Sentinel in England

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 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 +67 67 £452 -17.82% 102
South East +44 16 £500 -16.67% 72
North of England -1 15 £525 +6.06% 83
East of England +38 11 £650 - 50
South West +42 7 £900 +80.00% 35
North West -1 7 £425 -5.56% 48
Midlands +12 6 £750 +16.28% 72
Yorkshire +9 6 £525 -12.50% 33
West Midlands +9 6 £750 +16.28% 36
North East 0 2 £534 +6.80% 2
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (27.87%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (27.05%) Azure Monitor
4 29 (23.77%) Azure AKS
5 28 (22.95%) Entra ID
6 25 (20.49%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (12.30%) GCP
7 15 (12.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (12.30%) Serverless
8 14 (11.48%) AWS
9 11 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (8.20%) IaaS
10 10 (8.20%) PaaS
10 10 (8.20%) SaaS
11 9 (7.38%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (5.74%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (4.92%) GitHub
13 6 (4.92%) OneDrive
14 4 (3.28%) Azure Event Grid
14 4 (3.28%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 40 (32.79%) Firewall
2 11 (9.02%) Network Security
3 7 (5.74%) DNS
3 7 (5.74%) FTP
3 7 (5.74%) HTTP
3 7 (5.74%) SMTP
3 7 (5.74%) SSL
3 7 (5.74%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.92%) VPN
5 2 (1.64%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.82%) DKIM
6 1 (0.82%) NAS
6 1 (0.82%) SAN
6 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.46%) Power BI
4 2 (1.64%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.64%) Looker
4 2 (1.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.64%) JIRA
2 1 (0.82%) Snyk
General
1 33 (27.05%) Finance
2 31 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Banking
4 14 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.64%) Law
7 2 (1.64%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.82%) Military
8 1 (0.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (22.95%) Security Engineer
2 20 (16.39%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (15.57%) Analyst
3 19 (15.57%) Architect
4 11 (9.02%) Azure Architect
4 11 (9.02%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 11 (9.02%) SOC Analyst
5 10 (8.20%) Consultant
5 10 (8.20%) Security Architect
6 9 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Senior
8 7 (5.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) Lead
9 6 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (4.92%) Security Analyst
10 5 (4.10%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Design Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.84%) .NET
2 9 (7.38%) ARM Templates
3 8 (6.56%) JSON
3 8 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (5.74%) YAML
5 5 (4.10%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (1.64%) Web Services
7 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Security Posture
2 19 (15.57%) Cloud Native
3 13 (10.66%) Cyber Threat
4 10 (8.20%) Cyber Defence
5 7 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.92%) Operational Technology
6 6 (4.92%) PKI
7 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.10%) Reinsurance
7 5 (4.10%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.28%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.64%) Replication
11 1 (0.82%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.31%) Windows
2 13 (10.66%) Linux
3 7 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.98%) Security Operations
2 46 (37.70%) SIEM
3 43 (35.25%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (32.79%) Cloud Security
5 38 (31.15%) DevOps
6 36 (29.51%) Incident Response
7 26 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (20.49%) Threat Detection
9 24 (19.67%) Analytics
9 24 (19.67%) SOAR
10 22 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (17.21%) Microservices
11 21 (17.21%) Vulnerability Management
11 21 (17.21%) Zero Trust
12 20 (16.39%) Threat Intelligence
13 18 (14.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 18 (14.75%) Data Loss Prevention
13 18 (14.75%) Identity Access Management
14 17 (13.93%) Information Security
15 16 (13.11%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.16%) PowerShell
2 29 (23.77%) Kusto Query Language
3 26 (21.31%) Python
4 23 (18.85%) Bicep
5 7 (5.74%) C#
6 6 (4.92%) Bash
7 5 (4.10%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.10%) SQL
8 2 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (18.03%) Degree
2 17 (13.93%) CISSP
2 17 (13.93%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Azure Certification
3 16 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 14 (11.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (9.84%) GCIH
6 9 (7.38%) CISM
7 6 (4.92%) CompTIA Security+
7 6 (4.92%) GCIA
8 5 (4.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
8 5 (4.10%) GIAC
9 4 (3.28%) CISMP
9 4 (3.28%) GCFA
9 4 (3.28%) GSEC
10 3 (2.46%) CCSP
11 2 (1.64%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.13%) GDPR
2 26 (21.31%) NIST
3 25 (20.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (7.38%) HIPAA
4 9 (7.38%) SOC 2
5 5 (4.10%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.46%) PMO
6 3 (2.46%) SLA
7 2 (1.64%) GRC
7 2 (1.64%) NCSC
8 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.82%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.82%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.82%) NIST 800
System Software
1 23 (18.85%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.64%) Docker
4 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.82%) Snort
4 1 (0.82%) Squid
4 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 18 (14.75%) Terraform
3 8 (6.56%) Grafana
4 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.74%) QRadar
5 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.28%) Ansible
6 4 (3.28%) Nessus
6 4 (3.28%) Puppet
6 4 (3.28%) Salt
7 2 (1.64%) SCCM
8 1 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.82%) CASB
8 1 (0.82%) logstash
8 1 (0.82%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.82%) Suricata
Vendors
1 89 (72.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.66%) Splunk
3 6 (4.92%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (4.92%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.92%) Qualys
4 5 (4.10%) Darktrace
4 5 (4.10%) Google
4 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.10%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.28%) ArcSight
6 3 (2.46%) Cisco
7 2 (1.64%) Carbon Black
7 2 (1.64%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.64%) Exabeam
7 2 (1.64%) LogRhythm
7 2 (1.64%) McAfee
7 2 (1.64%) Okta
8 1 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (0.82%) Cribl.io
8 1 (0.82%) Tenable