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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 446 458
Rank change year-on-year +68 +12 +148
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 104 93 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.79% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 72 151
10th Percentile £325 £425 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £663
90th Percentile £850 £735 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
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 9,080 11,760 17,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.69% 31.97% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 8,457 12,576
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £748 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 320 283
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -38.94% +62.79%
75th Percentile £37.50 £39.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.46 £37.25
% change year-on-year +29.92% -42.39% +69.32%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +69 65 £450 -18.18% 97
South East +45 13 £500 -13.04% 148
North of England 0 7 £530 +6.97% 105
South West +39 6 £900 +80.00% 50
West Midlands +14 6 £750 +16.28% 43
Midlands 0 6 £750 +16.28% 81
East of England - 6 £698 - 78
Yorkshire +10 3 £588 -2.08% 45
North West +1 2 £425 -5.56% 49
North East -1 2 £534 +6.80% 11
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 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (29.81%) Azure Monitor
3 30 (28.85%) Azure AKS
4 24 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (17.31%) Entra ID
5 18 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (14.42%) Serverless
7 12 (11.54%) GCP
8 11 (10.58%) AWS
9 10 (9.62%) IaaS
9 10 (9.62%) PaaS
10 8 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (7.69%) SaaS
11 7 (6.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (6.73%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (4.81%) GitHub
14 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
14 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (27.88%) Firewall
2 11 (10.58%) Network Security
3 7 (6.73%) DNS
3 7 (6.73%) FTP
3 7 (6.73%) HTTP
3 7 (6.73%) SMTP
3 7 (6.73%) SSL
3 7 (6.73%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.92%) VPN
5 1 (0.96%) DKIM
5 1 (0.96%) NAS
5 1 (0.96%) SAN
5 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.88%) Power BI
4 2 (1.92%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.92%) Looker
4 2 (1.92%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.96%) Snyk
General
1 28 (26.92%) Finance
2 25 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.96%) Law
6 1 (0.96%) Legal
6 1 (0.96%) Local Government
6 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (16.35%) Azure Engineer
1 17 (16.35%) Security Engineer
2 16 (15.38%) Architect
3 13 (12.50%) Analyst
4 11 (10.58%) Consultant
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Architect
6 8 (7.69%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Security Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Senior
7 7 (6.73%) Lead
8 6 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (5.77%) Security Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) IT Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
11 3 (2.88%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) .NET
2 9 (8.65%) ARM Templates
3 8 (7.69%) JSON
3 8 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (6.73%) YAML
5 4 (3.85%) Azure Blueprints
6 2 (1.92%) Web Services
7 1 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 16 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 10 (9.62%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (5.77%) PKI
6 5 (4.81%) Cyber Defence
6 5 (4.81%) Reinsurance
6 5 (4.81%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.85%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.92%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.92%) Replication
9 1 (0.96%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.96%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) Windows
2 12 (11.54%) Linux
3 8 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.54%) DevOps
1 38 (36.54%) SIEM
2 34 (32.69%) Cloud Security
3 32 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (30.77%) Security Operations
4 28 (26.92%) Incident Response
5 23 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (20.19%) Microservices
6 21 (20.19%) Threat Detection
7 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.31%) Analytics
8 18 (17.31%) SOAR
8 18 (17.31%) Vulnerability Management
8 18 (17.31%) Zero Trust
9 16 (15.38%) DevSecOps
10 15 (14.42%) Identity Access Management
10 15 (14.42%) Threat Intelligence
11 14 (13.46%) API Management
11 14 (13.46%) Threat Modelling
12 13 (12.50%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 23 (22.12%) Kusto Query Language
3 22 (21.15%) Bicep
4 19 (18.27%) Python
5 7 (6.73%) C#
6 5 (4.81%) Bash
6 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.81%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.38%) CISSP
1 16 (15.38%) Degree
2 14 (13.46%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 10 (9.62%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.62%) GCIH
5 8 (7.69%) CISM
6 6 (5.77%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (4.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.81%) GIAC
8 4 (3.85%) GCFA
8 4 (3.85%) GCIA
9 3 (2.88%) CCSP
10 2 (1.92%) CASP
10 2 (1.92%) CISA
10 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.92%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (19.23%) GDPR
3 18 (17.31%) NIST
4 9 (8.65%) SOC 2
5 6 (5.77%) HIPAA
6 5 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (2.88%) PMO
7 3 (2.88%) SLA
8 2 (1.92%) GRC
8 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.96%) NCSC
9 1 (0.96%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (22.12%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.35%) Terraform
3 8 (7.69%) Grafana
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.85%) Ansible
6 4 (3.85%) Puppet
6 4 (3.85%) Salt
7 3 (2.88%) Nessus
8 2 (1.92%) QRadar
8 2 (1.92%) SCCM
9 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.96%) CASB
9 1 (0.96%) logstash
9 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Splunk
3 6 (5.77%) Qualys
4 4 (3.85%) ArcSight
4 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.88%) Google
5 3 (2.88%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (1.92%) LogRhythm
6 2 (1.92%) McAfee
6 2 (1.92%) Okta
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco
7 1 (0.96%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.96%) Dell
7 1 (0.96%) EMC
7 1 (0.96%) Forcepoint
7 1 (0.96%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.96%) SonicWALL
7 1 (0.96%) Tripwire
7 1 (0.96%) VMware