Azure Sentinel Contracts

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 455 643
Rank change year-on-year -21 +188 -77
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 124 265 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.44% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 1.20% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 202 153
10th Percentile £425 £409 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £723 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -4.26% +11.90% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £50.00
25th Percentile - £91.25 £51.88
Median hourly rate - £97.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +69.57% -
75th Percentile - £103.75 £61.88
90th Percentile - - £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,092 22,029 34,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 36.91% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,003 15,924 24,905
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 350 427
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £49.46
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.03% +31.31% -5.06%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Sentinel in the UK

Azure Sentinel
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -19 91 £550 - 53
UK excluding London +2 54 £563 -4.26% 47
Work from Home +28 44 £550 - 35
London +55 35 £525 -1.41% 18
North of England -9 17 £470 -20.00% 10
North West +25 16 £450 -20.21% 5
Midlands +6 15 £626 +4.38% 5
Scotland +44 11 £550 -12.00% 7
West Midlands +2 10 £626 +4.38% 4
South East +12 9 £563 -4.26% 7
East Midlands +24 5 - - 1
South West +3 2 £500 - 10
North East +19 1 £500 -16.67% 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 7 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 32 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 24 (19.35%) AWS
5 13 (10.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 11 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (8.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (8.06%) IaaS
8 9 (7.26%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (6.45%) Serverless
10 7 (5.65%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (4.84%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
12 4 (3.23%) SaaS
13 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.42%) GCP
13 3 (2.42%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 34 (27.42%) Firewall
2 23 (18.55%) Network Security
3 10 (8.06%) DNS
4 5 (4.03%) VPN
5 4 (3.23%) HTTP
5 4 (3.23%) IPsec
6 3 (2.42%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.61%) DMZ
7 2 (1.61%) LAN
7 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.81%) DHCP
8 1 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.81%) IPv6
8 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.06%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.26%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.42%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.61%) Power BI
5 2 (1.61%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.61%) Tableau
6 1 (0.81%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Git
General
1 29 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (8.06%) Finance
3 9 (7.26%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.03%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.61%) Banking
5 2 (1.61%) Local Government
6 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (26.61%) Analyst
2 19 (15.32%) SOC Analyst
3 18 (14.52%) Security Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Architect
5 13 (10.48%) SOC Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Senior
7 8 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Security Analyst
8 6 (4.84%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Consultant
8 6 (4.84%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.03%) AWS Specialist
9 5 (4.03%) Azure Specialist
9 5 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Security Manager
9 5 (4.03%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.23%) SAML
3 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (2.42%) Node.js
3 3 (2.42%) React
4 2 (1.61%) Kafka
4 2 (1.61%) YAML
5 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.81%) JSON
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth
5 1 (0.81%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.81%) PySpark
5 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.81%) SPFx
5 1 (0.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.97%) Management Information System
2 22 (17.74%) Security Posture
3 18 (14.52%) Security Operations Centre
4 14 (11.29%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (8.87%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (8.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 9 (7.26%) Cloud Native
6 9 (7.26%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.84%) PKI
8 5 (4.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (4.03%) Onboarding
9 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.61%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.61%) Insider Threat
12 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
12 1 (0.81%) Cyber Security Posture
12 1 (0.81%) STIX
12 1 (0.81%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.29%) Windows
2 12 (9.68%) Linux
3 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.61%) zOS
5 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.81%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (58.06%) Cybersecurity
2 45 (36.29%) SIEM
3 43 (34.68%) Incident Response
4 34 (27.42%) Security Operations
5 32 (25.81%) Cloud Security
5 32 (25.81%) Threat Intelligence
6 31 (25.00%) Analytics
7 29 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (22.58%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 26 (20.97%) Threat Detection
10 23 (18.55%) Computer Science
11 21 (16.94%) Information Security
12 14 (11.29%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (11.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 13 (10.48%) Data Analytics
14 12 (9.68%) Ethical Hacking
14 12 (9.68%) Network Virtualisation
15 11 (8.87%) DevOps
16 10 (8.06%) Cloud Operations
17 9 (7.26%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.58%) Kusto Query Language
2 14 (11.29%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.45%) SQL
4 6 (4.84%) Python
5 4 (3.23%) Bicep
6 2 (1.61%) Bash
7 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (30.65%) CISSP
2 33 (26.61%) Security Cleared
3 31 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 28 (22.58%) Degree
4 28 (22.58%) SC Cleared
5 23 (18.55%) CompTIA Security+
5 23 (18.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (9.68%) DV Cleared
8 11 (8.87%) CEH
8 11 (8.87%) CISM
9 9 (7.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (7.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (2.42%) CCIE
12 3 (2.42%) CCNA
12 3 (2.42%) CCNP
12 3 (2.42%) CCSP
13 2 (1.61%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.48%) NIST
3 8 (6.45%) GRC
4 5 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.23%) GDPR
5 4 (3.23%) ISO 9001
6 3 (2.42%) NCSC
6 3 (2.42%) QA
7 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (26.61%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.23%) Docker
4 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.61%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (7.26%) Kibana
1 9 (7.26%) logstash
1 9 (7.26%) Terraform
2 5 (4.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (4.03%) FortiGate
3 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.42%) QRadar
5 2 (1.61%) Ansible
5 2 (1.61%) SCOM
6 1 (0.81%) Nessus
6 1 (0.81%) SCCM
6 1 (0.81%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 95 (76.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.06%) Oracle
3 9 (7.26%) Splunk
4 7 (5.65%) Palo Alto
5 6 (4.84%) Darktrace
5 6 (4.84%) Databricks
6 4 (3.23%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.42%) Cisco
7 3 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.42%) New Relic
7 3 (2.42%) Qualys
7 3 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.42%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.61%) Citrix
8 2 (1.61%) F5
8 2 (1.61%) VMware
9 1 (0.81%) BMC
9 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.81%) Remedy