Azure Sentinel Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Sentinel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 457 602
Rank change year-on-year +11 +145 -55
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 91 200 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.42% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 1.14% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 163 126
10th Percentile £425 £409 £435
25th Percentile £475 £500 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +21.58%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £660
90th Percentile £735 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.83% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £91.25 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £97.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +85.71% -
75th Percentile - £103.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +85.71% -

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Sentinel is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Sentinel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Sentinel in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Sentinel in England

Azure Sentinel
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Sentinel within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 36 £525 -4.55% 14
North of England -9 18 £490 -13.96% 10
North West +20 16 £450 -14.29% 2
South East +10 11 £575 -2.13% 6
Midlands +2 9 £645 +1.18% 7
West Midlands -2 5 £645 -0.77% 6
East Midlands +14 4 - - 1
South West +1 2 £500 - 8
North East +10 1 £500 -16.67%
Yorkshire -21 1 £550 -10.20% 8
Azure Sentinel
UK

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (21.98%) Entra ID
2 20 (21.98%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (18.68%) AWS
4 8 (8.79%) Serverless
5 7 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 7 (7.69%) IaaS
6 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (5.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (5.49%) SaaS
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
9 3 (3.30%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (21.98%) Firewall
2 9 (9.89%) Network Security
3 7 (7.69%) DNS
4 3 (3.30%) HTTP
4 3 (3.30%) HTTPS
4 3 (3.30%) IPsec
4 3 (3.30%) VPN
5 2 (2.20%) DMZ
5 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.10%) LAN
6 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.20%) Big Data
3 2 (2.20%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.20%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Git
2 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 16 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.20%) Local Government
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (30.77%) Analyst
2 19 (20.88%) Security Engineer
3 16 (17.58%) SOC Analyst
4 15 (16.48%) Architect
5 12 (13.19%) Senior
6 7 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Security Analyst
7 6 (6.59%) Security Architect
7 6 (6.59%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Security Consultant
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Security Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Network Architect
10 3 (3.30%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.40%) SAML
3 3 (3.30%) Node.js
3 3 (3.30%) React
4 2 (2.20%) Kafka
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.20%) PySpark
4 2 (2.20%) SailPoint
4 2 (2.20%) YAML
5 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.10%) JSON
5 1 (1.10%) OAuth
5 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 12 (13.19%) Cyber Threat
3 9 (9.89%) Security Posture
4 8 (8.79%) Cyber Defence
4 8 (8.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.49%) PKI
6 5 (5.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
7 4 (4.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
8 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Cyberattack
9 2 (2.20%) Insider Threat
10 1 (1.10%) CSOC
10 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (1.10%) STIX
10 1 (1.10%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) Windows
2 11 (12.09%) Linux
3 2 (2.20%) zOS
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (51.65%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (31.87%) SIEM
3 26 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 19 (20.88%) Information Security
5 17 (18.68%) Analytics
5 17 (18.68%) Cloud Security
5 17 (18.68%) Threat Intelligence
6 16 (17.58%) Security Operations
7 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 12 (13.19%) Threat Detection
10 11 (12.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 9 (9.89%) Ethical Hacking
11 9 (9.89%) Network Virtualisation
11 9 (9.89%) RBAC
12 8 (8.79%) Computer Science
13 7 (7.69%) ETL
13 7 (7.69%) Migration
13 7 (7.69%) Security Architecture
14 6 (6.59%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
2 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
3 7 (7.69%) Python
4 6 (6.59%) SQL
5 3 (3.30%) Bicep
6 2 (2.20%) Bash
7 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (25.27%) CISSP
2 22 (24.18%) Security Cleared
3 18 (19.78%) SC Cleared
4 14 (15.38%) Degree
5 12 (13.19%) CompTIA Security+
6 11 (12.09%) CISM
7 9 (9.89%) DV Cleared
8 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
8 8 (8.79%) CEH
8 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (6.59%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (3.30%) CCIE
11 3 (3.30%) CCNA
11 3 (3.30%) CCNP
11 3 (3.30%) CCSP
12 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (2.20%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (25.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (15.38%) NIST
3 7 (7.69%) GDPR
3 7 (7.69%) GRC
4 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (3.30%) ISO 9001
6 3 (3.30%) QA
7 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (1.10%) COBIT
8 1 (1.10%) COSO
8 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.10%) NCSC
8 1 (1.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 21 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.30%) Docker
4 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Kibana
1 6 (6.59%) logstash
1 6 (6.59%) Terraform
2 5 (5.49%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.20%) QRadar
5 1 (1.10%) Nessus
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (72.53%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) Splunk
3 6 (6.59%) Databricks
4 5 (5.49%) Darktrace
4 5 (5.49%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.40%) Rapid7
6 3 (3.30%) Cisco
6 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.30%) New Relic
6 3 (3.30%) Qualys
6 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.30%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.20%) Citrix
7 2 (2.20%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.20%) F5
7 2 (2.20%) Oracle
7 2 (2.20%) VMware
8 1 (1.10%) BMC
8 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.10%) Remedy