Azure Sentinel Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 300 348 517
Rank change year-on-year +48 +169 -100
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 47 120 105
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.49% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.87% 1.23% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 93 89
10th Percentile £433 £400 £450
25th Percentile £489 £503 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +13.47%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £648
90th Percentile £646 £700 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.57% -1.83% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +85.71% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Sentinel
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Sentinel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Sentinel trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Sentinel.

Azure Sentinel daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Sentinel
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Azure Sentinel daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Sentinel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (38.30%) AWS
3 15 (31.91%) Entra ID
3 15 (31.91%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 10 (21.28%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (10.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (10.64%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (8.51%) AWS Direct Connect
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.38%) IaaS
7 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.26%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
8 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) Network Security
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (4.26%) VPN
4 1 (2.13%) DMZ
4 1 (2.13%) HTTP
4 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.13%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.26%) Big Data
3 2 (4.26%) Tableau
4 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Git
General
1 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (4.26%) Finance
2 1 (2.13%) Local Government
2 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (17.02%) Analyst
1 8 (17.02%) Security Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Architect
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Specialist
3 5 (10.64%) Azure Specialist
4 4 (8.51%) Cloud Specialist
4 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Security Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) PySpark
1 2 (4.26%) SailPoint
1 2 (4.26%) YAML
2 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.13%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) OAuth
2 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.13%) SAML
2 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cyber Threat
1 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
1 5 (10.64%) Security Posture
2 2 (4.26%) Cyberattack
2 2 (4.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.26%) Insider Threat
2 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.13%) CSOC
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) STIX
3 1 (2.13%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (27.66%) Analytics
3 10 (21.28%) Cloud Operations
4 9 (19.15%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (19.15%) Cost Control
5 6 (12.77%) Cloud Security
5 6 (12.77%) SIEM
6 5 (10.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 5 (10.64%) Log Analytics
6 5 (10.64%) Service Delivery
6 5 (10.64%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (10.64%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (8.51%) CI/CD
7 4 (8.51%) ETL
7 4 (8.51%) Incident Response
7 4 (8.51%) Information Security
7 4 (8.51%) Planning and Forecasting
7 4 (8.51%) Supplier Management
8 3 (6.38%) Data Collection
8 3 (6.38%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) SQL
2 5 (10.64%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.38%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) Bicep
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) AWS Certification
1 9 (19.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.89%) Azure Certification
3 6 (12.77%) CISSP
3 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) CISM
5 3 (6.38%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) CCSP
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) ISSEP
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (10.64%) NIST
3 3 (6.38%) GDPR
3 3 (6.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.13%) COBIT
5 1 (2.13%) COSO
5 1 (2.13%) GRC
5 1 (2.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) QRadar
1 2 (4.26%) SCOM
1 2 (4.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 29 (61.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Databricks
3 4 (8.51%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.26%) Darktrace
4 2 (4.26%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.26%) Rapid7
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) BMC
5 1 (2.13%) ESET
5 1 (2.13%) Remedy