Azure Sentinel Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 252 301 343
Rank change year-on-year +49 +42 +185
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 52 44 135
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.29% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 0.79% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 98
10th Percentile £370 £425 £409
25th Percentile £451 £478 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £684 £632 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Sentinel
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Sentinel trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (38.46%) Azure AKS
3 13 (25.00%) AWS
4 12 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
5 10 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 8 (15.38%) GCP
6 8 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (15.38%) Serverless
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (9.62%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.62%) GitHub
7 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (7.69%) IaaS
8 4 (7.69%) PaaS
8 4 (7.69%) SaaS
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.00%) Network Security
2 12 (23.08%) Firewall
3 4 (7.69%) DNS
3 4 (7.69%) FTP
3 4 (7.69%) HTTP
3 4 (7.69%) SMTP
3 4 (7.69%) SSL
3 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.92%) DKIM
4 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.92%) MySQL
4 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) GitLab
2 1 (1.92%) Snyk
General
1 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.08%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Consultant
2 10 (19.23%) Security Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 8 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) SOC Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Security Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) .NET
2 5 (9.62%) Web Services
3 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.77%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (5.77%) JSON
3 3 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.85%) YAML
5 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Security Posture
2 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (5.77%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.85%) Replication
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.92%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) Cloud Security
1 20 (38.46%) DevOps
2 18 (34.62%) SIEM
3 13 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 12 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (23.08%) Incident Response
4 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (23.08%) Static Application Security Testing
5 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (21.15%) Security Operations
6 10 (19.23%) Application Security
6 10 (19.23%) Microservices
7 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.38%) Information Security
7 8 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 8 (15.38%) Threat Detection
8 7 (13.46%) Cost Management
8 7 (13.46%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (13.46%) Migration
9 6 (11.54%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 10 (19.23%) Bicep
3 5 (9.62%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (9.62%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) C#
5 3 (5.77%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) Bash
6 1 (1.92%) Go
6 1 (1.92%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) CISSP
2 9 (17.31%) Degree
3 8 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 8 (15.38%) CISM
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.85%) GCIH
5 2 (3.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.92%) CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) CISA
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.92%) CRISC
6 1 (1.92%) GCFA
6 1 (1.92%) GCIA
6 1 (1.92%) GIAC
6 1 (1.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.69%) NIST
2 4 (7.69%) SOC 2
3 2 (3.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.92%) GRC
4 1 (1.92%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Terraform
2 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Grafana
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.77%) QRadar
5 2 (3.85%) Nessus
5 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.92%) Argo
6 1 (1.92%) Consul
6 1 (1.92%) Istio
6 1 (1.92%) linkerd
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.15%) Qualys
3 5 (9.62%) Splunk
4 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.85%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco
6 1 (1.92%) Darktrace
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) IBM
6 1 (1.92%) New Relic
6 1 (1.92%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.92%) Red Hat