Azure Sentinel Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 187 188
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing Azure Sentinel 36 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 0.84% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33 9 6
10th Percentile £41,250 £44,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £45,000 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +31.71% -14.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £63,750 - £66,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% -5.60% +8.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,570 1,076 1,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.82% 28.38% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 486 644
10th Percentile £32,750 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -12.84% -0.91%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,681 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £56,504
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.94% +2.74%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Azure Sentinel job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure Sentinel
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Sentinel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Sentinel in the Thames Valley

Azure Sentinel
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Sentinel within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Buckinghamshire +16 23 £55,000 -21.43% 5
Berkshire +15 11 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Oxfordshire -39 2 - - 4
Azure Sentinel
South East

Azure Sentinel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (72.22%) AWS
3 20 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (38.89%) Cloudflare
5 12 (33.33%) Entra ID
6 10 (27.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (8.33%) GCP
8 2 (5.56%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
9 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) Firewall
2 15 (41.67%) DNS
3 10 (27.78%) VPN
4 8 (22.22%) SSL
5 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.78%) DHCP
6 1 (2.78%) HTTP
6 1 (2.78%) Network Security
6 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.78%) SSH
6 1 (2.78%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.56%) Retail
4 1 (2.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Analyst
2 16 (44.44%) Security Analyst
3 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
5 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 8 (22.22%) Network Engineer
5 8 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (16.67%) Incident Analyst
6 6 (16.67%) Security Incident Analyst
7 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) Security Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) SOC Engineer
8 4 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
8 4 (11.11%) Senior
9 3 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 1 (2.78%) Cyber Threat Analyst
11 1 (2.78%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (22.22%) PKI
3 7 (19.44%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 5 (13.89%) CSOC
6 4 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (8.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
8 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
9 1 (2.78%) ARM Cortex
9 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Linux
1 24 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) SIEM
2 25 (69.44%) Security Operations
3 18 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (47.22%) ITIL
5 16 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
6 13 (36.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (33.33%) SOAR
8 11 (30.56%) Analytics
8 11 (30.56%) Incident Response
8 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (30.56%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 8 (22.22%) Cloud Security
9 8 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 8 (22.22%) Zero Trust
10 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (19.44%) Runbook
10 7 (19.44%) Security Monitoring
10 7 (19.44%) Service Management
11 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (83.33%) Python
2 28 (77.78%) PowerShell
3 14 (38.89%) Bash
4 11 (30.56%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (5.56%) C#
5 2 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (38.89%) CompTIA Security+
2 14 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (36.11%) CISSP
4 6 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
4 6 (16.67%) GCIA
4 6 (16.67%) GIAC
4 6 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (13.89%) CCNA CyberOps
5 5 (13.89%) CEH
5 5 (13.89%) SANS
6 1 (2.78%) CREST Certified
6 1 (2.78%) Degree
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (13.89%) NIST
4 2 (5.56%) ISO 22301
4 2 (5.56%) ISO 9001
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 8 (22.22%) KVM
1 8 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.56%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Graylog
2 8 (22.22%) Proxmox
2 8 (22.22%) ZABBIX
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.56%) Argo
6 1 (2.78%) Ansible
6 1 (2.78%) Kibana
6 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.78%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (22.22%) Darktrace
3 8 (22.22%) Veeam
3 8 (22.22%) VMware
4 6 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 5 (13.89%) Cisco
6 4 (11.11%) IBM
7 1 (2.78%) Carbon Black
7 1 (2.78%) Juniper
7 1 (2.78%) Okta
7 1 (2.78%) Splunk
7 1 (2.78%) Tenable
7 1 (2.78%) Zscaler