Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +11 +23 +42
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 4 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.37% 0.075%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.57% 1.13% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £425 £528
25th Percentile - £500 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £569
90th Percentile £680 - £573
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

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 696 706 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.68% 32.81% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 470 544
10th Percentile £250 £350 £213
25th Percentile £400 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £660 £715
South East median daily rate £480 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -6.34% -2.38% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 21
10th Percentile £14.30 £19.14 £17.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £16.50 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -61.18% +31.58% +53.81%
75th Percentile £31.17 £60.83 £61.88
90th Percentile £42.71 £64.73 £79.78
South East median hourly rate £18.16 £47.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -61.77% +75.93% +28.57%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Sentinel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Sentinel

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 14 October 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
Oxfordshire - 2 £600 - 3
Berkshire +3 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £700 - 1
Azure Sentinel
South East

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Migration Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
3 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk