Azure Sentinel Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 388 455
Rank change year-on-year -78 +67 +18
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 164 123 122
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.42% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.11% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 100 97
10th Percentile £404 £348 £406
25th Percentile £481 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £490 £588
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -16.60% +6.82%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £645
90th Percentile £706 £768 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -6.09% +6.98% -8.51%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,839 11,087 14,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.71% 37.95% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,500 7,754 10,128
10th Percentile £314 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 235 346
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.66 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.31 £19.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +30.24% -26.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.95 £60.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.83% -21.27%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Sentinel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
England -58 142 £550 +10.00% 44
London -53 74 £575 +29.21% 18
Work from Home -25 63 £575 +20.55% 21
UK excluding London -79 63 £540 -6.09% 37
South East -44 19 £525 -14.29% 13
South West -18 15 £563 -37.50% 3
North of England -71 12 £528 -1.12% 8
West Midlands -59 10 £481 -35.83% 9
Midlands -60 10 £481 -35.83% 10
North West -24 9 £540 -10.00% 5
East of England -34 5 £600 -19.46% 1
Scotland +8 2 £800 +49.53% 1
Yorkshire -54 2 £500 -4.76% 1
North East -18 1 £400 -25.09% 2
Wales - 1 - - 1

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (4.27%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 164 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (32.93%) Entra ID
3 48 (29.27%) AWS
4 37 (22.56%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (20.73%) GCP
6 33 (20.12%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (11.59%) Azure AKS
9 15 (9.15%) IaaS
9 15 (9.15%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (9.15%) PaaS
10 14 (8.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 14 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (4.88%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.88%) GitHub
11 8 (4.88%) SaaS
12 7 (4.27%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 4 (2.44%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 43 (26.22%) Firewall
2 27 (16.46%) Network Security
3 22 (13.41%) VPN
4 13 (7.93%) DNS
5 7 (4.27%) DHCP
6 4 (2.44%) BGP
6 4 (2.44%) OSPF
6 4 (2.44%) WAN
7 3 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.83%) IPsec
7 3 (1.83%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.83%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (1.22%) Internet
8 2 (1.22%) NGFW
8 2 (1.22%) SAN
8 2 (1.22%) VSAN
8 2 (1.22%) VXLAN
8 2 (1.22%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.61%) DB2
2 1 (0.61%) Power BI
2 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Git
2 4 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.44%) JIRA
2 4 (2.44%) Snyk
3 1 (0.61%) AppScan
3 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.61%) JUnit
3 1 (0.61%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.61%) Postman
3 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.20%) Public Sector
3 19 (11.59%) Finance
4 16 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.44%) Banking
7 4 (2.44%) Military
8 3 (1.83%) Legal
8 3 (1.83%) Local Government
8 3 (1.83%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.83%) Retail
9 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Electronics
10 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (18.90%) Architect
1 31 (18.90%) Security Engineer
2 29 (17.68%) Analyst
3 26 (15.85%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (10.37%) Senior
4 17 (10.37%) SOC Analyst
5 16 (9.76%) Monitoring Analyst
6 14 (8.54%) Security Architect
7 12 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 9 (5.49%) Consultant
9 9 (5.49%) Security Analyst
10 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) SIEM Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Threat Hunter
11 7 (4.27%) Azure Architect
11 7 (4.27%) Azure Security Engineer
12 6 (3.66%) Lead
13 5 (3.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.93%) ARM Templates
2 5 (3.05%) JSON
2 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Graph
2 5 (3.05%) OAuth
2 5 (3.05%) REST
3 4 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.83%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (1.83%) Node.js
4 3 (1.83%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.22%) 802.1X
5 2 (1.22%) gRPC
5 2 (1.22%) Kafka
5 2 (1.22%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.22%) OpenID
5 2 (1.22%) Regular Expression
5 2 (1.22%) SAML
5 2 (1.22%) XML
5 2 (1.22%) YAML
6 1 (0.61%) HTML
6 1 (0.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.98%) Security Posture
2 15 (9.15%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.93%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.88%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.05%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 4 (2.44%) YARA
9 3 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.22%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.22%) SCADA
10 2 (1.22%) STIX
Operating Systems
1 32 (19.51%) Windows
2 18 (10.98%) Linux
3 8 (4.88%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.61%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.61%) VMS
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (57.93%) SIEM
2 51 (31.10%) Cloud Security
3 44 (26.83%) Threat Detection
4 43 (26.22%) Incident Response
4 43 (26.22%) SOAR
5 42 (25.61%) Analytics
6 41 (25.00%) Zero Trust
7 38 (23.17%) Security Operations
8 37 (22.56%) Cybersecurity
8 37 (22.56%) Identity Access Management
9 34 (20.73%) DevOps
10 29 (17.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (16.46%) CI/CD
12 25 (15.24%) Log Analytics
13 24 (14.63%) RBAC
13 24 (14.63%) Threat Modelling
14 21 (12.80%) ITIL
14 21 (12.80%) MITRE ATT&CK
14 21 (12.80%) Security Architecture
15 20 (12.20%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.32%) PowerShell
2 43 (26.22%) Kusto Query Language
3 37 (22.56%) Python
4 23 (14.02%) Bicep
5 9 (5.49%) Bash
6 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.83%) SQL
7 1 (0.61%) AppleScript
7 1 (0.61%) Java
7 1 (0.61%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 39 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.51%) CISSP
2 32 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 29 (17.68%) Azure Certification
4 23 (14.02%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (9.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 16 (9.76%) CISM
6 15 (9.15%) CCSP
7 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (7.32%) DV Cleared
9 11 (6.71%) Degree
10 7 (4.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (3.05%) CCNP
11 5 (3.05%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.83%) CCSE
14 2 (1.22%) CEH
14 2 (1.22%) GCIA
14 2 (1.22%) GIAC
14 2 (1.22%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (23.78%) NIST
2 38 (23.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (13.41%) GDPR
4 10 (6.10%) PCI DSS
5 9 (5.49%) NCSC
6 8 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (4.88%) NIST 800
7 5 (3.05%) SOC 2
8 4 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.83%) GRC
9 3 (1.83%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.83%) SLA
10 1 (0.61%) COBIT
10 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.61%) GxP
10 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.61%) QA
10 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (18.90%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.83%) Docker
5 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.61%) Snort
6 1 (0.61%) Squid
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (24.39%) Terraform
2 26 (15.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.49%) QRadar
4 6 (3.66%) Ansible
5 5 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.44%) Istio
7 3 (1.83%) Fluentd
7 3 (1.83%) Icinga
7 3 (1.83%) logstash
7 3 (1.83%) Nessus
7 3 (1.83%) SCCM
8 2 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.61%) CASB
9 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.61%) Nexpose
9 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.61%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.61%) SCOM
9 1 (0.61%) Suricata
Vendors
1 109 (66.46%) Microsoft
2 49 (29.88%) Splunk
3 20 (12.20%) Qualys
4 13 (7.93%) CrowdStrike
5 10 (6.10%) Carbon Black
5 10 (6.10%) IBM
5 10 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 10 (6.10%) Tenable
5 10 (6.10%) VMware
6 9 (5.49%) Google
6 9 (5.49%) Okta
7 8 (4.88%) Cisco
8 7 (4.27%) LogRhythm
8 7 (4.27%) Palo Alto
8 7 (4.27%) Red Hat
9 6 (3.66%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.05%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.05%) Zscaler
11 4 (2.44%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.44%) Rapid7