Azure Sentinel Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 121 142
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 +24
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 3 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.58% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 1.81% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 10
10th Percentile £410 - £506
25th Percentile £425 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -20.21% +10.05%
75th Percentile £613 £616 £625
90th Percentile £710 £645 £631
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the North West

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the North West

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Merseyside - 2 £425 - 1
Manchester +3 1 £750 +66.67% 1
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI