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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 464 649
Rank change year-on-year +3 +185 -66
Contract jobs citing Azure Sentinel 118 234 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.11% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 180 156
10th Percentile £425 £409 £431
25th Percentile £475 £505 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -1.83% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £675
90th Percentile £675 £726 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -6.38% +11.90% -4.55%
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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
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 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England +6 89 £550 - 58
UK excluding London -10 51 £550 -6.38% 43
Work from Home +44 47 £550 - 30
London +57 34 £525 -4.55% 16
North of England -5 18 £490 -13.96% 11
North West +17 16 £450 -14.29% 5
Scotland +48 11 £550 -8.33% 2
South East +19 11 £575 -2.13% 9
Midlands -6 9 £645 +1.18% 7
West Midlands -6 5 £645 -0.77% 6
East Midlands +18 4 - - 1
South West +1 2 £500 - 12
North East +12 1 £500 -16.67%
Yorkshire -16 1 £550 -10.20% 6

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 4 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (25.42%) Entra ID
2 30 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (24.58%) AWS
4 13 (11.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 10 (8.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 10 (8.47%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (8.47%) IaaS
6 9 (7.63%) Serverless
7 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.78%) Azure Functions
7 8 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (4.24%) SaaS
10 4 (3.39%) AWS Direct Connect
10 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.54%) Azure App Service
11 3 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (21.19%) Firewall
2 14 (11.86%) Network Security
3 9 (7.63%) DNS
4 4 (3.39%) HTTP
4 4 (3.39%) VPN
5 3 (2.54%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.54%) IPsec
6 2 (1.69%) DMZ
6 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.85%) LAN
7 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (7.63%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.69%) Big Data
5 2 (1.69%) Power BI
5 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 24 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (9.32%) Finance
3 7 (5.93%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.54%) Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (24.58%) Analyst
2 21 (17.80%) Security Engineer
3 19 (16.10%) SOC Analyst
4 18 (15.25%) Architect
5 12 (10.17%) Senior
6 9 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Security Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (5.08%) Consultant
9 6 (5.08%) Security Manager
9 6 (5.08%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) SOC Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) AWS Specialist
10 5 (4.24%) Azure Specialist
10 5 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 5 (4.24%) Security Consultant
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.39%) SAML
3 3 (2.54%) Node.js
3 3 (2.54%) React
4 2 (1.69%) Kafka
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (1.69%) PySpark
4 2 (1.69%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.69%) YAML
5 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.80%) Management Information System
2 17 (14.41%) Security Posture
3 16 (13.56%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (9.32%) Cyber Defence
4 11 (9.32%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 11 (9.32%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (7.63%) Data Centre
6 7 (5.93%) Cloud Native
7 6 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (4.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 5 (4.24%) PKI
9 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.69%) Cyberattack
10 2 (1.69%) Insider Threat
11 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
11 1 (0.85%) CSOC
11 1 (0.85%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.56%) Windows
2 11 (9.32%) Linux
3 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.69%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.69%) zOS
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.54%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (31.36%) Incident Response
3 36 (30.51%) SIEM
4 27 (22.88%) Security Operations
5 26 (22.03%) Analytics
5 26 (22.03%) Cloud Security
5 26 (22.03%) Threat Intelligence
6 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.64%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 22 (18.64%) Information Security
8 20 (16.95%) Threat Detection
9 16 (13.56%) Computer Science
10 14 (11.86%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 12 (10.17%) Ethical Hacking
11 12 (10.17%) Network Virtualisation
12 10 (8.47%) Cloud Operations
13 9 (7.63%) CI/CD
13 9 (7.63%) Cost Control
13 9 (7.63%) Incident Management
13 9 (7.63%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.80%) Kusto Query Language
2 11 (9.32%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.63%) SQL
4 7 (5.93%) Python
5 4 (3.39%) Bicep
6 2 (1.69%) Bash
7 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (26.27%) CISSP
2 26 (22.03%) Security Cleared
3 22 (18.64%) Azure Certification
3 22 (18.64%) Degree
3 22 (18.64%) SC Cleared
4 17 (14.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 16 (13.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (10.17%) DV Cleared
7 11 (9.32%) CEH
7 11 (9.32%) CISM
8 9 (7.63%) AWS Certification
8 9 (7.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (2.54%) CCIE
10 3 (2.54%) CCNA
10 3 (2.54%) CCNP
10 3 (2.54%) CCSP
11 2 (1.69%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (11.86%) NIST
3 7 (5.93%) GDPR
4 6 (5.08%) GRC
5 5 (4.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (4.24%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.54%) QA
7 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.69%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.69%) NCSC
8 1 (0.85%) COBIT
8 1 (0.85%) COSO
8 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (25.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.39%) Docker
4 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (7.63%) Kibana
1 9 (7.63%) logstash
2 7 (5.93%) Terraform
3 5 (4.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (4.24%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.39%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.54%) QRadar
6 2 (1.69%) SCOM
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) Nessus
7 1 (0.85%) SCOrch
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (73.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.32%) Splunk
3 10 (8.47%) Oracle
4 7 (5.93%) Databricks
5 6 (5.08%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.39%) Darktrace
6 4 (3.39%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.54%) Cisco
7 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.54%) New Relic
7 3 (2.54%) Qualys
7 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.69%) Citrix
8 2 (1.69%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.69%) F5
8 2 (1.69%) VMware
9 1 (0.85%) AlienVault
9 1 (0.85%) BMC
9 1 (0.85%) Remedy