Azure Sentinel Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 101 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +64
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 6 10 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 0.51% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.13% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 31
10th Percentile £413 £602 £325
25th Percentile £459 £608 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £626 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% +4.38% -40.00%
75th Percentile £900 £643 £681
90th Percentile - £656 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the West Midlands

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the West Midlands

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the West Midlands

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Herefordshire - 3 £900 -
Worcestershire - 3 £900 -
Birmingham +18 2 £425 -43.33% 1
Coventry +8 1 £600 +9.09%
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DKIM
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft