Azure Sentinel Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 347 395
Rank change year-on-year +51 +48 +129
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 77 38 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.57% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 32 63
10th Percentile £330 £475 £380
25th Percentile £413 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £619 £629 £688
90th Percentile £835 £684 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.48% +0.71%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,863 6,701 9,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 40.58% 39.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 4,891 7,230
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 53 70
10th Percentile £22.65 £20.00 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.77 £22.08 £22.94
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -48.57% +23.53%
75th Percentile £47.81 £42.50 £74.38
90th Percentile £71.88 £66.80 £86.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +55.64%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in London

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in London

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in London over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in London

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +10 12 £543 +3.33% 1
East London +12 3 £585 +8.33%
South London - 2 £450 -
West London -3 1 £500 -4.76%
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (35.06%) Azure Monitor
3 24 (31.17%) Azure AKS
4 22 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (20.78%) Entra ID
6 14 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (18.18%) Serverless
7 9 (11.69%) GCP
8 8 (10.39%) IaaS
8 8 (10.39%) PaaS
9 6 (7.79%) AWS
9 6 (7.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (7.79%) SaaS
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (5.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (32.47%) Firewall
2 8 (10.39%) Network Security
3 7 (9.09%) DNS
3 7 (9.09%) FTP
3 7 (9.09%) HTTP
3 7 (9.09%) SMTP
3 7 (9.09%) SSL
3 7 (9.09%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.19%) VPN
5 2 (2.60%) Internet
6 1 (1.30%) NAS
6 1 (1.30%) SAN
6 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.90%) Power BI
4 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.60%) Looker
4 2 (2.60%) Power Query
5 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
General
1 29 (37.66%) Finance
2 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Banking
4 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.90%) Local Government
7 2 (2.60%) Law
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Architect
2 13 (16.88%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) Analyst
3 10 (12.99%) Azure Architect
3 10 (12.99%) Security Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Lead
5 7 (9.09%) SOC Analyst
6 6 (7.79%) Security Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Monitoring Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Senior
8 4 (5.19%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) IT Security Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Operations Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) .NET
2 8 (10.39%) JSON
2 8 (10.39%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (10.39%) YAML
3 7 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.69%) Security Posture
3 7 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.49%) PKI
5 4 (5.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (5.19%) Reinsurance
5 4 (5.19%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.60%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.30%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.30%) STIX
8 1 (1.30%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.58%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Linux
3 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) VMS
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) DevOps
2 27 (35.06%) SIEM
3 24 (31.17%) Incident Response
3 24 (31.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (27.27%) Security Operations
5 20 (25.97%) Cloud Security
5 20 (25.97%) Microservices
6 16 (20.78%) Analytics
7 15 (19.48%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (19.48%) Vulnerability Management
8 13 (16.88%) API Management
8 13 (16.88%) Threat Detection
9 12 (15.58%) DevSecOps
9 12 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (14.29%) Cost Management
10 11 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
10 11 (14.29%) Log Analytics
10 11 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 11 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (14.29%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.66%) PowerShell
2 22 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
3 21 (27.27%) Bicep
4 15 (19.48%) Python
5 7 (9.09%) C#
6 6 (7.79%) Bash
7 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.49%) SQL
8 2 (2.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) CISSP
2 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 7 (9.09%) Degree
3 7 (9.09%) GCIH
3 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.19%) GCFA
6 4 (5.19%) GCIA
7 3 (3.90%) CCSP
7 3 (3.90%) CISM
7 3 (3.90%) GIAC
8 2 (2.60%) CISA
9 1 (1.30%) CEH
9 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) NIST
2 13 (16.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (14.29%) GDPR
4 7 (9.09%) SOC 2
5 5 (6.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
6 3 (3.90%) SLA
7 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.30%) GRC
7 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (19.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.60%) Docker
4 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.30%) Snort
4 1 (1.30%) Squid
4 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Terraform
3 8 (10.39%) Grafana
4 6 (7.79%) QRadar
5 5 (6.49%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.19%) Ansible
6 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.19%) Puppet
6 4 (5.19%) Salt
6 4 (5.19%) SCCM
7 2 (2.60%) Nessus
8 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.30%) CSIRT
8 1 (1.30%) logstash
8 1 (1.30%) Nexpose
8 1 (1.30%) Suricata
Vendors
1 58 (75.32%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) Splunk
3 8 (10.39%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (7.79%) Qualys
5 5 (6.49%) Carbon Black
6 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.90%) Cisco
7 3 (3.90%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.90%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.90%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.60%) Citrix
8 2 (2.60%) Darktrace
8 2 (2.60%) Exabeam
8 2 (2.60%) Forcepoint
8 2 (2.60%) LogRhythm
8 2 (2.60%) McAfee
8 2 (2.60%) Okta
9 1 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.30%) Databricks