Azure Sentinel Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 185 205
Rank change year-on-year +47 +20 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 15 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.98% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 7
10th Percentile £380 £475 £544
25th Percentile £450 £519 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £663 £706
90th Percentile £638 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 953 1,324 1,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.95% 23.27% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 890 1,211
10th Percentile £250 £280 £250
25th Percentile £375 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £598 £608 £638
90th Percentile £660 £675 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 58 51
10th Percentile £15.05 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.26 £18.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £30.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% +11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £59.95 £68.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +53.81%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the South East

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the South East

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the South East over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the South East

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Hampshire +36 7 £455 -20.87% 4
Thames Valley +32 7 £550 -12.00% 4
Berkshire +28 7 £550 -12.00% 4
Surrey - 1 - - 4
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (13.33%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SOC Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Audit Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Security Advisor
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) SIEM Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Cyberattack
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (73.33%) SIEM
2 6 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 5 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Event Correlation
4 4 (26.67%) OSINT
4 4 (26.67%) Security Operations
4 4 (26.67%) SOAR
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (13.33%) Information Security
6 2 (13.33%) SOA
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) CISSP
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) GCIH
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (20.00%) CISM
4 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) CASP
5 2 (13.33%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) GIAC
6 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (6.67%) GCFA
6 1 (6.67%) GCIA
6 1 (6.67%) GSEC
6 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
2 4 (26.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (20.00%) NIST
4 2 (13.33%) HIPAA
5 1 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (6.67%) JSP 440
5 1 (6.67%) NCSC
5 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) CASB
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) QRadar
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) ArcSight
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.67%) Darktrace
3 1 (6.67%) Forcepoint
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk