Azure Sentinel Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 105 156 156
Rank change year-on-year +51 0 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 6 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.031% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 0.12% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £488 - £468
25th Percentile £525 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% - -
75th Percentile £900 - £600
90th Percentile - - £609
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the South West

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the South West

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the South West

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Gloucestershire - 5 £900 - 6
Somerset - 1 £450 -
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Event Correlation
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Security Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) SOAR
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) FireEye
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec