Sentry Contracts

Sentry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sentry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sentry 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 512 577 676
Rank change year-on-year +65 +99 +173
Contract jobs citing Sentry 8 5 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.011% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.036% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 23
10th Percentile £470 £480 £430
25th Percentile £575 £488 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% -23.70%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £575
90th Percentile £633 £565 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £688
% change year-on-year - - +17.02%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Sentry 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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Sentry
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sentry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sentry in the UK

Sentry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sentry.

Daily rate trend for Sentry in the UK

Sentry
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sentry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sentry in the UK

Sentry
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sentry within the UK 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
England +60 8 £600 +20.00% 37
London +40 7 £600 +20.00% 26
Work from Home +43 4 £600 +14.29% 29

Sentry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Route 53
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Redis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (12.50%) DocumentDB
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) CircleCI
2 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Military
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Django Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Node.js
2 5 (62.50%) REST
3 4 (50.00%) Django
3 4 (50.00%) Express.js
3 4 (50.00%) React
4 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 3 (37.50%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) JPA
6 1 (12.50%) Akka
6 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (12.50%) JSON
6 1 (12.50%) Play Framework
6 1 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (12.50%) SOAP
6 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Clean Code
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 4 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) SOLID
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (12.50%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (25.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (12.50%) Ruby
6 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Apache Ranger
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera