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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 730 610
Rank change year-on-year +148 -120 +266
Permanent jobs citing Azure Sentinel 120 178 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.17% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.49% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 103 154 307
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,750 £43,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £71,875 £74,688 £80,625
90th Percentile £84,000 £84,964 £97,597
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% -15.38%

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 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Top 14 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 31 May 2025. 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 +123 112 £55,000 - 99
UK excluding London +140 65 £49,000 -2.00% 63
London +93 43 £73,750 - 50
Work from Home +104 42 £55,000 -2.65% 57
Midlands +73 32 £48,000 +60.00% 5
West Midlands +58 23 £49,887 +66.29% 3
South East +62 17 £56,500 +25.56% 13
East Midlands +49 9 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Scotland +119 5 £45,000 -18.18% 11
East of England +54 5 £31,250 -47.92% 10
North of England +5 3 £62,500 +10.62% 15
North West -1 3 £62,500 -21.81% 5
Wales - 2 £54,500 - 3
Isle of Man - 1 - -

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 13 (10.83%) SharePoint
2 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 120 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (34.17%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (21.67%) AWS
3 26 (21.67%) Entra ID
4 11 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 10 (8.33%) SaaS
6 9 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (6.67%) OneDrive
8 7 (5.83%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (5.83%) GCP
8 7 (5.83%) IaaS
8 7 (5.83%) PaaS
9 6 (5.00%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.00%) Serverless
10 5 (4.17%) Azure App Service
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.33%) Route 53
12 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (40.83%) Firewall
2 31 (25.83%) WAN
3 26 (21.67%) VPN
4 24 (20.00%) SD-WAN
5 19 (15.83%) Network Security
5 19 (15.83%) VLAN
6 11 (9.17%) Intrusion Detection
7 6 (5.00%) LAN
7 6 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.33%) HTTPS
9 3 (2.50%) Internet
9 3 (2.50%) Wireless
10 2 (1.67%) 4G
10 2 (1.67%) DHCP
10 2 (1.67%) DNS
10 2 (1.67%) NAS
10 2 (1.67%) SAN
10 2 (1.67%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.83%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.83%) Power BI
1 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.83%) JIRA
1 1 (0.83%) Metasploit
1 1 (0.83%) Postman
1 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
1 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.00%) Finance
4 6 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Front Office
5 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.33%) Legal
6 4 (3.33%) Police
7 3 (2.50%) Law
7 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (38.33%) Analyst
2 23 (19.17%) Security Analyst
3 21 (17.50%) SOC Analyst
4 20 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 20 (16.67%) Senior
5 15 (12.50%) Network Engineer
6 14 (11.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
10 8 (6.67%) Lead
11 7 (5.83%) Architect
11 7 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Data Analyst
12 5 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Monitoring Analyst
12 5 (4.17%) Security Architect
12 5 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.67%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.83%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.83%) JWT
2 1 (0.83%) OAuth
2 1 (0.83%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.83%) React
2 1 (0.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.83%) Security Posture
2 13 (10.83%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 6 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (3.33%) PKI
6 4 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.67%) Cyber Security Posture
8 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.83%) IoT
9 1 (0.83%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.83%) Windows
2 14 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 13 (10.83%) Linux
4 6 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.33%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (55.00%) SIEM
2 48 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 46 (38.33%) Cybersecurity
4 33 (27.50%) Security Operations
5 28 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 23 (19.17%) Information Security
8 22 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (18.33%) DevOps
9 20 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
10 16 (13.33%) Threat Intelligence
11 15 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 14 (11.67%) Network Monitoring
13 13 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
14 12 (10.00%) Analytics
14 12 (10.00%) SOAR
14 12 (10.00%) Threat Detection
15 11 (9.17%) ITSM
15 11 (9.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
15 11 (9.17%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.17%) Kusto Query Language
1 29 (24.17%) PowerShell
2 19 (15.83%) Python
3 7 (5.83%) Bash
3 7 (5.83%) SQL
4 1 (0.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 32 (26.67%) Degree
2 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
3 21 (17.50%) CISSP
3 21 (17.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 19 (15.83%) Azure Certification
5 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (12.50%) SC Cleared
7 14 (11.67%) CISM
8 10 (8.33%) CEH
9 9 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (6.67%) AWS Certification
11 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
12 4 (3.33%) OSCP
13 3 (2.50%) A+ Certification
13 3 (2.50%) CCNA
13 3 (2.50%) CCSP
14 2 (1.67%) GIAC
14 2 (1.67%) ISACA
14 2 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (24.17%) NIST
3 26 (21.67%) GDPR
4 15 (12.50%) HIPAA
5 9 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (3.33%) NCSC
7 4 (3.33%) QA
8 3 (2.50%) GRC
8 3 (2.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.83%) COBIT
10 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (8.33%) Docker
3 8 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.83%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (5.00%) Terraform
4 5 (4.17%) Nessus
5 4 (3.33%) QRadar
5 4 (3.33%) ZENworks
6 2 (1.67%) Ansible
6 2 (1.67%) SCCM
7 1 (0.83%) Graylog
7 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 86 (71.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.33%) Cisco
3 15 (12.50%) Splunk
3 15 (12.50%) VMware
4 13 (10.83%) SolarWinds
5 12 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 11 (9.17%) Tenable
7 7 (5.83%) Zscaler
8 6 (5.00%) ArcSight
8 6 (5.00%) Avaya
8 6 (5.00%) Meraki
9 5 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (4.17%) Tanium
10 3 (2.50%) Darktrace
11 2 (1.67%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.67%) Dell
11 2 (1.67%) EMC
11 2 (1.67%) FireEye
11 2 (1.67%) SonicWALL
11 2 (1.67%) Yardi