Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 115 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.26% 0.059% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £441 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £541 £338 -
90th Percentile £561 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +3.29% -11.25% +6.19%

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 577 591 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.35% 35.16% 31.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 368 492
10th Percentile £313 £267 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £575
90th Percentile £625 £602 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.17% +15.00% +11.11%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 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
Glasgow - 2 £550 -
Highlands - 1 £425 -
Edinburgh - 1 - - 4
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Information Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Information Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) OSINT
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CASP
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) GCIA
1 1 (25.00%) GCIH
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (25.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Thales