Azure Sentinel Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 96 141 140
Rank change year-on-year +45 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 6 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.15% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 0.53% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £470 £528 £524
25th Percentile £500 £550 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £631
90th Percentile - - £725
South East median daily rate £588 £563 £588
% change year-on-year +4.44% -4.26% +12.76%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the Thames Valley

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the Thames Valley

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the Thames Valley

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +33 6 £550 -8.33% 2
Azure Sentinel
South East

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) SOC Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Audit Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Security Advisor
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Cyberattack
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) SOAR
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Event Correlation
3 2 (33.33%) Information Security
3 2 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 2 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CISSP
2 3 (50.00%) CISM
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) GCIH
3 2 (33.33%) GIAC
4 1 (16.67%) CCSK
4 1 (16.67%) CEH
4 1 (16.67%) CISA
4 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (16.67%) GCFA
4 1 (16.67%) GCIA
4 1 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (16.67%) NIST 800
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) CASB
1 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
1 1 (16.67%) Darktrace
1 1 (16.67%) Forcepoint
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk