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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 456 472 620
Rank change year-on-year +16 +148 -21
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 119 217 222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.39% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.06% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 166 164
10th Percentile £425 £400 £429
25th Percentile £491 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £670
90th Percentile £690 £725 £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +0.96%
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 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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 14 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 1 June 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 -5 92 £575 +4.55% 57
UK excluding London -11 54 £550 -4.35% 36
Work from Home +47 48 £550 - 34
London +55 33 £550 +4.76% 17
North of England -8 19 £495 -10.00% 14
North West +20 16 £450 -14.29% 10
Scotland +46 11 £550 - 1
South East +12 11 £575 -2.13% 5
Midlands +3 9 £645 +3.20% 7
West Midlands -10 5 £645 +3.20% 6
South West 0 4 £500 -16.67% 8
East Midlands - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -11 2 £600 - 4
North East +11 1 £500 -16.67%

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 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.68%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 119 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 30 (25.21%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (24.37%) AWS
5 13 (10.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 11 (9.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (8.40%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (8.40%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (8.40%) IaaS
8 9 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.56%) Serverless
9 8 (6.72%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.20%) SaaS
13 4 (3.36%) AWS Direct Connect
13 4 (3.36%) Azure App Service
14 3 (2.52%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.01%) Firewall
2 15 (12.61%) Network Security
3 9 (7.56%) DNS
4 5 (4.20%) VPN
5 4 (3.36%) HTTP
6 3 (2.52%) HTTPS
6 3 (2.52%) IPsec
7 2 (1.68%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.84%) FTP
8 1 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.84%) LAN
8 1 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.56%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.52%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) Big Data
6 2 (1.68%) Tableau
7 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) GitLab
2 1 (0.84%) JIRA
General
1 25 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (10.08%) Finance
3 7 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.36%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.52%) Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.85%) Analyst
2 23 (19.33%) Security Engineer
3 19 (15.97%) Architect
3 19 (15.97%) SOC Analyst
4 12 (10.08%) Senior
5 11 (9.24%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) Security Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Consultant
9 6 (5.04%) Security Consultant
9 6 (5.04%) Security Manager
9 6 (5.04%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) SOC Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) AWS Specialist
10 5 (4.20%) Azure Specialist
10 5 (4.20%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 5 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.20%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
11 4 (3.36%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.36%) SAML
3 3 (2.52%) Kafka
3 3 (2.52%) Node.js
3 3 (2.52%) React
4 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.68%) PySpark
4 2 (1.68%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.68%) YAML
5 1 (0.84%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.84%) JSON
5 1 (0.84%) OAuth
5 1 (0.84%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.65%) Management Information System
2 18 (15.13%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (14.29%) Security Posture
4 11 (9.24%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (9.24%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 11 (9.24%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (7.56%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.04%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (4.20%) PKI
8 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.68%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.84%) STIX
10 1 (0.84%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.13%) Windows
2 12 (10.08%) Linux
3 5 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.68%) zOS
5 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.84%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (48.74%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (31.09%) Incident Response
2 37 (31.09%) SIEM
3 28 (23.53%) Cloud Security
4 27 (22.69%) Security Operations
4 27 (22.69%) Threat Intelligence
5 26 (21.85%) Analytics
6 24 (20.17%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 21 (17.65%) Information Security
8 21 (17.65%) Threat Detection
9 16 (13.45%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.76%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 14 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
11 12 (10.08%) Ethical Hacking
12 11 (9.24%) Cloud Operations
12 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (9.24%) RBAC
13 10 (8.40%) Identity Access Management
14 9 (7.56%) Case Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.33%) Kusto Query Language
2 14 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 10 (8.40%) SQL
4 9 (7.56%) Python
5 6 (5.04%) Bicep
6 2 (1.68%) Bash
7 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 30 (25.21%) CISSP
2 27 (22.69%) Security Cleared
3 23 (19.33%) SC Cleared
4 22 (18.49%) Azure Certification
4 22 (18.49%) Degree
5 16 (13.45%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (13.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (10.08%) DV Cleared
7 11 (9.24%) CEH
8 9 (7.56%) AWS Certification
8 9 (7.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (7.56%) CISM
8 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.52%) CCIE
10 3 (2.52%) CCNA
10 3 (2.52%) CCNP
10 3 (2.52%) CCSP
11 2 (1.68%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (10.92%) NIST
3 7 (5.88%) GDPR
4 5 (4.20%) GRC
5 4 (3.36%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.52%) QA
7 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.68%) NCSC
8 1 (0.84%) COBIT
8 1 (0.84%) COSO
8 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (27.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.72%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.36%) Docker
4 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.68%) XenApp
5 1 (0.84%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 10 (8.40%) Terraform
2 9 (7.56%) Kibana
2 9 (7.56%) logstash
3 5 (4.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (4.20%) FortiGate
3 5 (4.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.68%) QRadar
4 2 (1.68%) SCCM
4 2 (1.68%) SCDPM
4 2 (1.68%) SCOM
4 2 (1.68%) SCVMM
4 2 (1.68%) WSUS
5 1 (0.84%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.84%) HP SIM
5 1 (0.84%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.84%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 87 (73.11%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.24%) Oracle
3 10 (8.40%) Splunk
4 7 (5.88%) Databricks
5 5 (4.20%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.52%) Cisco
6 3 (2.52%) Citrix
6 3 (2.52%) Darktrace
6 3 (2.52%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.52%) New Relic
6 3 (2.52%) Qualys
6 3 (2.52%) Rapid7
6 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.52%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.68%) F5
7 2 (1.68%) VMware
8 1 (0.84%) AlienVault
8 1 (0.84%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.84%) Skytap