Azure Sentinel Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 113 118 161
Rank change year-on-year +5 +43 -1
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 3 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.50% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 1.49% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £500 £425 £560
25th Percentile £506 £475 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% -12.00% +21.95%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £650
90th Percentile £531 £607 -
UK median daily rate £480 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in Scotland

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in Scotland

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -3 2 £516 -6.27% 6
Edinburgh +3 1 - - 2
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) CEH
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (33.33%) CRISC
1 1 (33.33%) GCFA
1 1 (33.33%) GCIH
1 1 (33.33%) OSCP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Podman
1 1 (33.33%) RSA Archer
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (33.33%) Netskope
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Proofpoint
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec