Azure Sentinel Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 264 360
Rank change year-on-year -10 +96 -8
Permanent jobs citing Azure Sentinel 26 15 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.18% 0.19% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 0.75% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 33
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +25.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £51,625
90th Percentile £65,000 £74,000 £57,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,656 1,997 5,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.10% 25.35% 29.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,295 1,224 4,099
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,200
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,606 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +5.21% -12.28%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,840 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Sentinel
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Sentinel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Sentinel in the South East

Azure Sentinel
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Sentinel within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +30 18 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Buckinghamshire +3 16 £60,000 +26.32% 3
Kent - 6 £65,000 -
Berkshire +8 2 £48,000 -8.57%
Hampshire -40 2 £33,750 -51.79% 3
Azure Sentinel
England

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 12 (46.15%) Cloudflare
4 11 (42.31%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (50.00%) Firewall
2 10 (38.46%) VPN
3 9 (34.62%) DNS
4 6 (23.08%) SSL
5 2 (7.69%) DHCP
5 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.85%) HTTP
6 1 (3.85%) Network Security
6 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
6 1 (3.85%) VSAN
6 1 (3.85%) WAN
6 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Analyst
2 11 (42.31%) Security Analyst
3 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (34.62%) Network Engineer
4 8 (30.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 6 (23.08%) Incident Analyst
6 6 (23.08%) Security Incident Analyst
6 6 (23.08%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (19.23%) Security Engineer
7 5 (19.23%) Senior
8 4 (15.38%) Information Analyst
8 4 (15.38%) Information Security Analyst
8 4 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (15.38%) Senior Information Analyst
8 4 (15.38%) Senior Information Security Analyst
8 4 (15.38%) Senior Security Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) PKI
2 5 (19.23%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (15.38%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (11.54%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 18 (69.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.85%) VMS
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) SIEM
2 15 (57.69%) ITIL
3 11 (42.31%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (34.62%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 8 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (30.77%) Zero Trust
7 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
7 7 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (26.92%) Security Operations
8 6 (23.08%) Analytics
8 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (15.38%) Information Security
9 4 (15.38%) Service Management
10 2 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
10 2 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
11 1 (3.85%) Kalman Filter
11 1 (3.85%) Malware Analysis
11 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
11 1 (3.85%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) PowerShell
1 16 (61.54%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Bash
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) CompTIA Security+
1 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.85%) CCNP
4 1 (3.85%) CCSE
4 1 (3.85%) CCSM
4 1 (3.85%) CCSP
4 1 (3.85%) CEH
4 1 (3.85%) CISA
4 1 (3.85%) CISM
4 1 (3.85%) CISSP
4 1 (3.85%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.85%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.85%) GCIA
4 1 (3.85%) GCIH
4 1 (3.85%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) ISO 22301
2 2 (7.69%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.85%) GRC
3 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (30.77%) Hyper-V
2 8 (30.77%) KVM
3 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Graylog
2 8 (30.77%) Proxmox
2 8 (30.77%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.85%) Kibana
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (34.62%) VMware
3 8 (30.77%) Veeam
4 5 (19.23%) Tenable
5 4 (15.38%) IBM
6 2 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.85%) Carbon Black
7 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.85%) Cisco
7 1 (3.85%) Google
7 1 (3.85%) Juniper
7 1 (3.85%) Meraki
7 1 (3.85%) Splunk