Azure Sentinel Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Sentinel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 341 454
Rank change year-on-year +2 +113 -62
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 54 120 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.50% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.50% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 96 41
10th Percentile £425 £441 £400
25th Percentile £475 £511 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +11.90% +4.22%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +69.57% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,469 8,022 9,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.30% 33.32% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,856 5,947 7,268
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £408 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 231 290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.69 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK excluding London

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North of England -9 17 £470 -20.00% 11
North West +25 16 £450 -20.21% 6
Midlands +6 15 £626 +4.38% 5
Scotland +44 11 £550 -12.00% 6
West Midlands +2 10 £626 +4.38% 4
South East +12 9 £563 -4.26% 7
East Midlands +24 5 - - 1
South West +3 2 £500 - 10
North East +19 1 £500 -16.67% 1
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) AWS
3 13 (24.07%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (20.37%) Entra ID
5 9 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (9.26%) IaaS
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (3.70%) GCP
9 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.85%) PaaS
10 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) Firewall
2 7 (12.96%) Network Security
3 5 (9.26%) DNS
4 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 12 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Analyst
2 8 (14.81%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (12.96%) Senior
4 6 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Security Manager
5 5 (9.26%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Architect
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Specialist
7 3 (5.56%) Consultant
7 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
8 2 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.70%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.70%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.85%) SPFx
2 1 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Security Posture
2 9 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
4 7 (12.96%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (7.41%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (7.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.70%) Cyberattack
7 2 (3.70%) Insider Threat
7 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.70%) PKI
7 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.85%) CSOC
8 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
3 2 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (42.59%) Incident Response
3 16 (29.63%) Security Operations
3 16 (29.63%) SIEM
4 14 (25.93%) Threat Intelligence
5 13 (24.07%) Analytics
6 11 (20.37%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 10 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 9 (16.67%) Information Security
9 8 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 8 (14.81%) Threat Detection
10 7 (12.96%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 6 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
11 6 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
12 5 (9.26%) Capacity Planning
12 5 (9.26%) Data Analytics
12 5 (9.26%) Identity Access Management
12 5 (9.26%) Security Architecture
12 5 (9.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
3 1 (1.85%) Bicep
3 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) CISSP
2 17 (31.48%) Azure Certification
2 17 (31.48%) Security Cleared
3 15 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 14 (25.93%) CompTIA Security+
5 9 (16.67%) CISM
6 8 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (14.81%) Degree
7 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (3.70%) CEH
9 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.85%) CCNA
10 1 (1.85%) CCSP
10 1 (1.85%) GIAC
10 1 (1.85%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.41%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.70%) GRC
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (18.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (3.70%) Kibana
2 2 (3.70%) logstash
3 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.85%) QRadar
3 1 (1.85%) SCCM
3 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (75.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (7.41%) Splunk
4 2 (3.70%) Darktrace
4 2 (3.70%) F5
4 2 (3.70%) Qualys
4 2 (3.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.85%) BMC
5 1 (1.85%) Carbon Black
5 1 (1.85%) Databricks
5 1 (1.85%) Remedy
5 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow