Microsoft Azure Sentinel
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Sentinel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Sentinel over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 591 861
Rank change year-on-year -124 +270 -118
Permanent jobs citing Azure Sentinel 181 401 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.51% 0.95% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 157 315 305
10th Percentile £32,750 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +9.64%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £97,731 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,563 42,373 79,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.24% 43.02% 48.52%
Number of salaries quoted 26,731 27,774 41,270
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,980
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -60 162 £55,000 -9.09% 54
UK excluding London -97 112 £50,000 -9.09% 36
Work from Home -104 61 £56,500 -13.08% 30
London +41 54 £73,750 +7.98% 16
North of England -24 37 £56,500 -3.83% 15
South East -14 33 £45,000 -18.18% 5
Yorkshire +49 32 £56,500 +2.73% 7
Midlands -15 24 £30,000 -36.84% 4
West Midlands +16 21 £30,000 -52.94% 3
Scotland -55 9 £55,000 -20.80% 2
South West -13 8 £57,500 -17.20% 9
North West -29 5 £79,932 +22.97% 8
East Midlands -20 3 £75,000 +57.89% 1
East of England 0 1 £60,000 +20.00%

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 19 (10.50%) SharePoint
2 18 (9.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.10%) CMS
3 2 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.55%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (5.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) Azure
2 117 (64.64%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (18.78%) AWS
3 34 (18.78%) Entra ID
4 31 (17.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 21 (11.60%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.39%) Power Platform
7 16 (8.84%) Cloud Computing
8 15 (8.29%) SaaS
9 14 (7.73%) IaaS
10 12 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (6.08%) GCP
11 11 (6.08%) OneDrive
12 8 (4.42%) PaaS
13 5 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.76%) Google Workspace
14 4 (2.21%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.21%) Azure AKS
14 4 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.21%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 64 (35.36%) Firewall
2 30 (16.57%) WAN
3 23 (12.71%) LAN
3 23 (12.71%) TCP/IP
4 19 (10.50%) Network Security
5 15 (8.29%) Intrusion Detection
6 14 (7.73%) VPN
6 14 (7.73%) Wireshark
7 13 (7.18%) DHCP
7 13 (7.18%) DNS
8 10 (5.52%) SD-WAN
9 8 (4.42%) VLAN
10 6 (3.31%) Internet
10 6 (3.31%) iSCSI
10 6 (3.31%) SAN
11 5 (2.76%) Ethernet
11 5 (2.76%) MPLS
11 5 (2.76%) SMTP
11 5 (2.76%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (2.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.08%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.42%) Power BI
3 4 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.10%) Power Query
4 2 (1.10%) Redis
4 2 (1.10%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.55%) Big Data
5 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.55%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Burp Suite
1 2 (1.10%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (17.68%) Social Skills
3 30 (16.57%) Finance
4 9 (4.97%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.42%) Marketing
6 5 (2.76%) Law
6 5 (2.76%) Police
7 4 (2.21%) Banking
7 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.66%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.66%) Legal
8 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.10%) Games
10 1 (0.55%) German Language
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Military
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (24.31%) Analyst
2 33 (18.23%) Senior
3 28 (15.47%) Security Engineer
4 27 (14.92%) Lead
5 26 (14.36%) SOC Analyst
6 19 (10.50%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (8.29%) Consultant
8 12 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) 3rd Line Support
9 11 (6.08%) Information Security Engineer
9 11 (6.08%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) Architect
11 9 (4.97%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (4.97%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 9 (4.97%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (4.97%) Team Leader
12 8 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 8 (4.42%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
12 8 (4.42%) Principal Consultant
12 8 (4.42%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.08%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (2.21%) Kafka
2 4 (2.21%) REST
3 3 (1.66%) Middleware
4 2 (1.10%) .NET
4 2 (1.10%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.10%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.10%) Next.js
4 2 (1.10%) Node.js
4 2 (1.10%) React
4 2 (1.10%) RESTful
4 2 (1.10%) SPFx
5 1 (0.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 41 (22.65%) Security Operations Centre
2 29 (16.02%) Management Information System
3 17 (9.39%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (7.18%) Client/Server
5 9 (4.97%) Driving Licence
6 8 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (3.31%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.76%) NHS
9 4 (2.21%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (2.21%) Cyberattack
9 4 (2.21%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.66%) Clustering
10 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.66%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.10%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 74 (40.88%) Windows
2 28 (15.47%) Windows Server
3 20 (11.05%) Windows 10
4 17 (9.39%) Apple iOS
5 15 (8.29%) Android
5 15 (8.29%) Linux
6 11 (6.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (4.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (3.87%) CentOS
9 4 (2.21%) Mac OS X
9 4 (2.21%) Solaris
9 4 (2.21%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.21%) Unix
9 4 (2.21%) zOS
10 3 (1.66%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (45.30%) Cybersecurity
2 76 (41.99%) SIEM
3 50 (27.62%) Security Operations
4 43 (23.76%) Cloud Security
5 39 (21.55%) Incident Response
6 34 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (17.13%) Roadmaps
8 27 (14.92%) DevOps
8 27 (14.92%) Vulnerability Management
9 24 (13.26%) Identity Access Management
10 23 (12.71%) Service Delivery
11 22 (12.15%) Ethical Hacking
11 22 (12.15%) Information Security
12 20 (11.05%) Analytics
12 20 (11.05%) ITIL
13 19 (10.50%) Agile
13 19 (10.50%) Data Loss Prevention
14 18 (9.94%) Key Management
14 18 (9.94%) Zero Trust
15 16 (8.84%) Project Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.25%) PowerShell
2 30 (16.57%) Python
3 17 (9.39%) Kusto Query Language
4 13 (7.18%) SQL
5 6 (3.31%) Bash
6 2 (1.10%) Bicep
6 2 (1.10%) C#
6 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (24.31%) CISSP
2 38 (20.99%) Degree
3 27 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.92%) Security Cleared
4 18 (9.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (9.94%) SSCP
5 17 (9.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 15 (8.29%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (7.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 14 (7.73%) CCSP
7 14 (7.73%) CEH
7 14 (7.73%) SANS
8 13 (7.18%) CISM
8 13 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (6.63%) Azure Certification
10 8 (4.42%) PMI Certification
10 8 (4.42%) PMP
11 6 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (3.31%) MCP
12 3 (1.66%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (15.47%) NIST
3 18 (9.94%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.31%) GDPR
5 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 5 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 5 (2.76%) QA
6 4 (2.21%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.10%) Def Stans
7 2 (1.10%) ISO 9000
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 48 (26.52%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (6.63%) Hyper-V
3 12 (6.63%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.10%) Docker
6 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (29.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.73%) Nmap
3 12 (6.63%) SCCM
4 11 (6.08%) Nessus
5 8 (4.42%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.42%) Terraform
6 7 (3.87%) SysTrack
7 6 (3.31%) Ansible
7 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 6 (3.31%) SCDPM
8 4 (2.21%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.66%) Autotask
9 3 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.66%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.55%) Nagios
10 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.55%) QRadar
10 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 149 (82.32%) Microsoft
2 39 (21.55%) Splunk
3 20 (11.05%) Rapid7
4 19 (10.50%) Qualys
5 14 (7.73%) Thycotic
6 11 (6.08%) Datto
6 11 (6.08%) VMware
7 10 (5.52%) Dell
7 10 (5.52%) ServiceNow
8 9 (4.97%) Snow
9 8 (4.42%) Cisco
9 8 (4.42%) Darktrace
9 8 (4.42%) Sophos
9 8 (4.42%) Veeam
10 7 (3.87%) Draytek
10 7 (3.87%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.87%) Webroot
11 6 (3.31%) AlienVault
11 6 (3.31%) Dell Compellent
11 6 (3.31%) McAfee