Azure Sentinel Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 123 92
Rank change year-on-year +25 -31 +51
Permanent jobs citing Azure Sentinel 4 4 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.23% 0.21% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.59% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile - - £25,500
25th Percentile - £46,713 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -1.36% -11.30%
75th Percentile £53,750 £64,803 £55,250
90th Percentile £56,000 £84,421 -
West Midlands median annual salary £50,500 £51,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -1.94% +0.98% -15.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

Azure Sentinel falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 579 679 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.39% 36.35% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 407 396 462
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £30,680
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £69,738
90th Percentile £86,253 £83,750 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.84%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure Sentinel
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Sentinel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) NAS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CEH
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Tanium
2 2 (50.00%) Tenable
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler