Azure Sentinel Jobs

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Azure Sentinel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure Sentinel over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 527 649
Rank change year-on-year -64 +122 +117
Permanent jobs citing Azure Sentinel 177 209 464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.39% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 0.92% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 147 193 360
10th Percentile £40,751 £48,000 £38,999
25th Percentile £46,713 £53,750 £52,141
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -9.43%
75th Percentile £77,375 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,309 £62,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -19.51% +5.00% -0.79%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,214 22,735 52,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.03% 42.91% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,943 17,864 35,548
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +4.76%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel.

Salary trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 8 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Sentinel within the UK over the 6 months to 8 December 2024. 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
England -68 166 £60,000 -11.11% 55
UK excluding London -89 101 £50,309 -19.51% 32
London -24 71 £76,500 -4.38% 26
Work from Home -37 65 £53,000 -18.90% 34
South East -27 29 £62,500 +8.70% 8
North of England -40 26 £49,282 -24.59% 9
Midlands -46 22 £45,819 -14.36% 2
North West -45 14 £47,000 -33.02% 6
West Midlands -43 12 £50,904 -4.85% 1
East of England -64 11 £60,000 -7.69% 5
East Midlands -26 10 £45,000 -16.28% 1
Yorkshire +8 9 £50,000 -23.49% 1
Scotland -32 4 £50,309 -26.53%
South West -5 3 £57,000 -12.31% 3
Wales - 3 £50,309 - 6
North East - 3 £50,309 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,309 -

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.69%) WordPress
3 2 (1.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 177 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (31.07%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (25.99%) AWS
4 24 (13.56%) Entra ID
5 23 (12.99%) Azure Logic Apps
6 22 (12.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 22 (12.43%) AWS CloudTrail
7 21 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (11.86%) dbt
7 21 (11.86%) IaaS
7 21 (11.86%) PaaS
8 19 (10.73%) SaaS
9 10 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (5.65%) Cloudflare
10 9 (5.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (3.95%) Power Platform
13 5 (2.82%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.26%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 36 (20.34%) Firewall
2 21 (11.86%) DNS
3 18 (10.17%) Network Security
4 12 (6.78%) Intrusion Detection
5 10 (5.65%) Internet
5 10 (5.65%) SSL
6 7 (3.95%) WAN
7 6 (3.39%) VSAN
8 5 (2.82%) VLAN
9 4 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (2.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.26%) DHCP
9 4 (2.26%) LAN
9 4 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (1.69%) DKIM
10 3 (1.69%) DMARC
10 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.69%) VoIP
10 3 (1.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.13%) Power BI
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Snyk
2 3 (1.69%) Git
General
1 60 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.99%) Finance
3 22 (12.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.52%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.52%) Retail
6 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.82%) Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Law
8 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (40.68%) Security Engineer
2 61 (34.46%) Analyst
3 50 (28.25%) Senior
4 36 (20.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 29 (16.38%) Security Analyst
6 28 (15.82%) SOC Analyst
7 23 (12.99%) Senior Analyst
8 20 (11.30%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 18 (10.17%) Senior Security Engineer
10 13 (7.34%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (5.08%) Operations Analyst
12 9 (5.08%) Security Operations Analyst
12 9 (5.08%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
13 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 8 (4.52%) Splunk Engineer
14 7 (3.95%) Azure Security Engineer
14 7 (3.95%) Network Engineer
14 7 (3.95%) Security Manager
15 6 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.86%) Django
2 8 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.69%) SAML
3 3 (1.69%) YAML
4 2 (1.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.13%) JSON
4 2 (1.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.03%) Security Operations Centre
2 29 (16.38%) Cyber Threat
3 19 (10.73%) Security Posture
4 14 (7.91%) Cyber Defence
4 14 (7.91%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.91%) Onboarding
5 11 (6.21%) Client/Server
6 8 (4.52%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.95%) CSOC
7 7 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.26%) NHS
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.69%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.69%) IoT
10 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Social Network
10 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.60%) Windows
2 22 (12.43%) Linux
3 10 (5.65%) Mac OS
4 9 (5.08%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.26%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.69%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (60.45%) Cybersecurity
2 106 (59.89%) SIEM
3 90 (50.85%) Security Operations
4 74 (41.81%) Incident Response
5 36 (20.34%) Information Security
6 33 (18.64%) Cloud Security
7 31 (17.51%) Roadmaps
8 30 (16.95%) DevOps
8 30 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (15.25%) DevSecOps
10 26 (14.69%) Threat Intelligence
11 25 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (13.56%) ITIL
12 24 (13.56%) Security Monitoring
13 21 (11.86%) Analytics
13 21 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (11.86%) Incident Management
13 21 (11.86%) Target Operating Model
14 20 (11.30%) Vulnerability Management
15 18 (10.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.94%) Kusto Query Language
2 43 (24.29%) PowerShell
3 41 (23.16%) Python
4 23 (12.99%) SQL
5 10 (5.65%) C#
5 10 (5.65%) Go
6 1 (0.56%) Bicep
6 1 (0.56%) CodeQL
6 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 59 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 57 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 40 (22.60%) CISSP
4 39 (22.03%) Degree
5 25 (14.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 20 (11.30%) Azure Certification
7 19 (10.73%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (5.65%) CEH
11 9 (5.08%) CISM
12 8 (4.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 8 (4.52%) CCSP
12 8 (4.52%) SANS
12 8 (4.52%) SSCP
13 7 (3.95%) CCNA
14 6 (3.39%) CISA
14 6 (3.39%) DV Cleared
15 5 (2.82%) GIAC
16 4 (2.26%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (18.08%) NIST
2 17 (9.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (8.47%) GDPR
4 8 (4.52%) SOC 2
5 7 (3.95%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.26%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.56%) NCSC
8 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (15.25%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.91%) Docker
3 9 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 16 (9.04%) Terraform
2 14 (7.91%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (6.21%) Graylog
5 9 (5.08%) QRadar
6 6 (3.39%) Nessus
7 5 (2.82%) Packer
8 4 (2.26%) CASB
8 4 (2.26%) CSIRT
8 4 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.69%) SCCM
10 1 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.56%) logstash
10 1 (0.56%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 131 (74.01%) Microsoft
2 40 (22.60%) Splunk
3 17 (9.60%) VMware
4 11 (6.21%) CheckPoint
4 11 (6.21%) Cisco
5 10 (5.65%) Apple
6 9 (5.08%) IBM
6 9 (5.08%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.52%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (3.95%) LogRhythm
9 6 (3.39%) Meraki
9 6 (3.39%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.82%) Fortinet
10 5 (2.82%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.26%) Darktrace
11 4 (2.26%) Proofpoint
11 4 (2.26%) Qualys
11 4 (2.26%) Thales
12 3 (1.69%) DocuSign
12 3 (1.69%) Veeam