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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 123 112
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 +99
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 6 5 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.23% 0.19% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 0.68% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 28
10th Percentile £378 £525 £325
25th Percentile £456 £563 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £625 £535
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +16.82% -1.61%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £641
90th Percentile £613 £725 £659
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%

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 778 732 1,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.09% 27.13% 35.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 487 784
10th Percentile £306 £205 £213
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 28
10th Percentile £18.85 £14.78 £13.00
25th Percentile - £17.01 £14.20
Median hourly rate £21.39 £32.21 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% +69.51% +2.70%
75th Percentile £34.98 £38.51 £29.06
90th Percentile £53.80 £54.07 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel 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 7 September 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 7 September 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 -8 4 £600 -4.00% 5
East Midlands -2 2 £463 - 3
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Security Manager
2 2 (33.33%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) SIEM
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
3 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (50.00%) Case Management
4 3 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
5 2 (33.33%) SOAR
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 1 (16.67%) Anomaly Detection
6 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
6 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CEH
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
1 3 (50.00%) logstash
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (16.67%) Fluentd
3 1 (16.67%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft