Azure Sentinel Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 341 519
Rank change year-on-year +36 +178 -107
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 44 134 104
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.52% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.79% 1.32% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 98 86
10th Percentile £425 £406 £450
25th Percentile £478 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £647
90th Percentile £632 £700 £694
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,542 10,183 18,494
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.18% 39.58% 41.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 7,474 13,808
10th Percentile £350 £373 £375
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.44 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.52 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -18.23%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £75.50 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.99%

Azure Sentinel
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Sentinel trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Sentinel.

Azure Sentinel daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Azure Sentinel daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
3 14 (31.82%) Entra ID
3 14 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (22.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 10 (22.73%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (11.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.82%) IaaS
7 3 (6.82%) Serverless
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.55%) GitHub
8 2 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.27%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Firewall
2 5 (11.36%) Network Security
3 2 (4.55%) DNS
3 2 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (2.27%) DMZ
4 1 (2.27%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.27%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.55%) Tableau
4 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.27%) Big Data
4 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
General
1 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Local Government
3 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Analyst
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Specialist
2 5 (11.36%) Azure Specialist
2 5 (11.36%) Security Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Architect
3 4 (9.09%) Cloud Specialist
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Security Architect
4 3 (6.82%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Security Analyst
5 2 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) YAML
2 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.27%) JSON
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
2 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.27%) SAML
2 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Security Posture
2 5 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (6.82%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.55%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.55%) Insider Threat
5 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.27%) CSOC
6 1 (2.27%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) STIX
6 1 (2.27%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
1 6 (13.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (31.82%) Analytics
3 10 (22.73%) Cloud Operations
4 9 (20.45%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (20.45%) Cost Control
5 8 (18.18%) SIEM
6 7 (15.91%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 7 (15.91%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
8 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
8 5 (11.36%) Log Analytics
8 5 (11.36%) Security Operations
8 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
9 4 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 4 (9.09%) Information Security
9 4 (9.09%) Planning and Forecasting
9 4 (9.09%) Supplier Management
9 4 (9.09%) Threat Detection
9 4 (9.09%) Threat Modelling
10 3 (6.82%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) Kusto Query Language
2 5 (11.36%) SQL
3 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.55%) Bicep
4 2 (4.55%) Python
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
2 9 (20.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 9 (20.45%) Azure Certification
3 8 (18.18%) CISSP
3 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.09%) CISM
4 4 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (9.09%) Degree
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.55%) CCNA
6 2 (4.55%) CCSP
6 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.27%) CEH
7 1 (2.27%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) NIST
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.27%) GRC
4 1 (2.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.55%) QRadar
1 2 (4.55%) SCOM
1 2 (4.55%) Terraform
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.27%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Oracle
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
4 2 (4.55%) Darktrace
4 2 (4.55%) Rapid7
4 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) BMC
5 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.27%) ESET
5 1 (2.27%) Remedy