Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 121 108
Rank change year-on-year -25 -13 +75
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 14 1 28
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.45% 0.043% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.14% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 22
10th Percentile £441 - £362
25th Percentile £458 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.11% +10.15%
75th Percentile £600 - £635
90th Percentile £603 - £673
England median daily rate £553 £545 £595
% change year-on-year +1.38% -8.40% +3.48%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,045 720 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.58% 30.84% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 471 702
10th Percentile £291 £213 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £495 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +7.03% -7.50%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.05 £12.30
25th Percentile £19.28 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +66.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £31.50 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £42.74 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Sentinel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Sentinel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the Midlands

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands -26 11 £592 +18.35% 5
East Midlands - 3 £463 - 3
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Security Manager
3 2 (14.29%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Architect
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (7.14%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) SIEM
2 7 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) SOAR
5 3 (21.43%) Case Management
5 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
5 3 (21.43%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (21.43%) Security Operations
5 3 (21.43%) Threat Detection
5 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (14.29%) Coaching
6 2 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) ITSM
6 2 (14.29%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) CISSP
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (35.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (14.29%) NCSC
4 2 (14.29%) NIST
5 1 (7.14%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kibana
1 3 (21.43%) logstash
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (7.14%) Fluentd
3 1 (7.14%) Rsyslog
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco