Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Monitor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 694 731
Rank change year-on-year -21 +37 -128
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 200 265 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.56% 0.63% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 124 213 214
10th Percentile £49,250 £43,800 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £108,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -5.17%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure Monitor 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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £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 Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor.

Salary trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +16 170 £67,500 +3.05% 53
UK excluding London -49 99 £59,000 -1.67% 36
Work from Home +32 93 £60,000 +3.45% 45
London +110 77 £72,500 +3.57% 16
South East +19 50 £59,000 -9.23% 15
North of England +37 26 £79,932 +33.22% 12
Yorkshire +78 16 £79,932 +14.19% 1
North West -5 8 £74,966 +66.59% 10
Wales +1 6 £36,476 -18.94%
Scotland -57 6 £45,000 -18.18% 1
Midlands -23 5 £61,000 -18.67% 3
North East -3 4 £80,000 - 1
East Midlands -13 3 £61,000 +31.18% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 -
West Midlands -10 2 - - 2
South West -25 2 - - 4
East of England -21 1 £72,500 +93.33% 1

Azure Monitor
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 49 (24.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (9.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 200 (100.00%) Azure
2 88 (44.00%) Microsoft 365
3 64 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (29.50%) Entra ID
5 45 (22.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 40 (20.00%) AWS
7 37 (18.50%) Azure Storage
8 29 (14.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 29 (14.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 27 (13.50%) Power Platform
9 27 (13.50%) Serverless
10 23 (11.50%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (11.50%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (11.00%) PaaS
12 20 (10.00%) IaaS
13 19 (9.50%) Azure AKS
13 19 (9.50%) SaaS
14 18 (9.00%) PowerApps
15 16 (8.00%) Power Automate
16 15 (7.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (16.50%) DNS
2 32 (16.00%) VPN
3 24 (12.00%) DHCP
4 22 (11.00%) Firewall
5 6 (3.00%) Internet
6 5 (2.50%) Extranet
6 5 (2.50%) SAN
6 5 (2.50%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.50%) BGP
7 3 (1.50%) Network Security
7 3 (1.50%) WAN
8 2 (1.00%) IPsec
8 2 (1.00%) LAN
8 2 (1.00%) OSPF
8 2 (1.00%) Wireless
9 1 (0.50%) HTTP
9 1 (0.50%) IPv4
9 1 (0.50%) SSH
9 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (9.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (9.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.50%) MySQL
5 9 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.50%) Redis
6 7 (3.50%) MariaDB
7 6 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.00%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.50%) Power BI
10 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (14.50%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.00%) Git
2 12 (6.00%) GitLab
3 7 (3.50%) Selenium
3 7 (3.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (3.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (3.00%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.00%) JUnit
6 3 (1.50%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.50%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.50%) Moq
6 3 (1.50%) Postman
6 3 (1.50%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.50%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.50%) Subversion
6 3 (1.50%) TestNG
6 3 (1.50%) Travis CI
6 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.00%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.00%) NUnit
General
1 71 (35.50%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.00%) Finance
3 21 (10.50%) Local Government
4 17 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.50%) Back Office
5 13 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.50%) Law
7 11 (5.50%) Retail
8 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.00%) Marketing
10 5 (2.50%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.50%) Police
11 3 (1.50%) Legal
12 2 (1.00%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.00%) Automotive
13 1 (0.50%) Advertising
13 1 (0.50%) Electronics
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (18.50%) Lead
2 31 (15.50%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (15.50%) Senior
3 25 (12.50%) Developer
4 23 (11.50%) Active Directory Specialist
4 23 (11.50%) Azure Specialist
5 19 (9.50%) Senior Developer
6 17 (8.50%) Active Directory Support
6 17 (8.50%) Support Specialist
7 14 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (7.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Architect
8 13 (6.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 13 (6.50%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.50%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Analyst
11 8 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (25.00%) .NET
2 42 (21.00%) ARM Templates
3 22 (11.00%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.50%) React
5 9 (4.50%) .NET Framework
5 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Graph
6 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.00%) Vue
8 5 (2.50%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.00%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (2.00%) Node.js
9 4 (2.00%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (1.50%) Entity Framework
10 3 (1.50%) JSON
10 3 (1.50%) Swagger
10 3 (1.50%) YAML
11 2 (1.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.50%) PKI
2 17 (8.50%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
4 14 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (6.50%) Cloud Native
5 13 (6.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 13 (6.50%) Mobile App
6 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.50%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.00%) BYOD
8 8 (4.00%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.50%) W3C
10 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.00%) IoT
10 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.00%) Replication
10 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (26.50%) Windows
2 29 (14.50%) Windows Server
3 27 (13.50%) Linux
4 20 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (9.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (4.50%) VMS
7 8 (4.00%) Android
8 4 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (58.00%) DevOps
2 107 (53.50%) Analytics
3 98 (49.00%) Log Analytics
4 80 (40.00%) Agile
5 68 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 55 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (27.00%) CI/CD
8 45 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (22.50%) Identity Management
9 40 (20.00%) Scrum
10 35 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (15.00%) API Management
12 29 (14.50%) Change Management
12 29 (14.50%) Software Engineering
13 28 (14.00%) TDD
14 27 (13.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 27 (13.50%) Release Management
15 26 (13.00%) ITIL
15 26 (13.00%) RBAC
16 25 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (45.50%) PowerShell
2 81 (40.50%) C#
3 39 (19.50%) Bicep
4 29 (14.50%) Bash
5 27 (13.50%) Python
6 24 (12.00%) SQL
7 23 (11.50%) VB
7 23 (11.50%) VBScript
8 18 (9.00%) JavaScript
9 13 (6.50%) TypeScript
10 12 (6.00%) Java
11 10 (5.00%) Go
12 9 (4.50%) Ruby
13 8 (4.00%) Groovy
14 7 (3.50%) PHP
15 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.50%) Perl
16 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 57 (28.50%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.50%) Azure Certification
3 34 (17.00%) Degree
3 34 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 23 (11.50%) DV Cleared
5 19 (9.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (8.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.00%) MCSA
8 2 (1.00%) MCSE
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CCNA
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.00%) QA
2 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.50%) WCAG
4 2 (1.00%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.00%) SLA
4 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 85 (42.50%) Active Directory
2 45 (22.50%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (16.00%) Docker
4 17 (8.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (3.50%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.50%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.50%) NFS
9 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (29.50%) Kubernetes
2 58 (29.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (27.50%) Terraform
4 23 (11.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (11.00%) SCCM
5 22 (11.00%) SCOM
6 19 (9.50%) WSUS
7 16 (8.00%) Ansible
8 14 (7.00%) Grafana
9 12 (6.00%) Prometheus
10 10 (5.00%) Progress Chef
10 10 (5.00%) Puppet
11 7 (3.50%) SysTrack
12 5 (2.50%) Kibana
12 5 (2.50%) logstash
13 4 (2.00%) Nagios
14 3 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (1.50%) ZABBIX
15 2 (1.00%) Argo
15 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 160 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.00%) New Relic
2 12 (6.00%) VMware
3 10 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.00%) Apple
4 8 (4.00%) BMC
4 8 (4.00%) Google
4 8 (4.00%) Remedy
5 7 (3.50%) SaltStack
5 7 (3.50%) Snow
5 7 (3.50%) Splunk
6 6 (3.00%) Citrix
7 5 (2.50%) HP
7 5 (2.50%) NetApp
7 5 (2.50%) Sophos
8 4 (2.00%) Cisco
8 4 (2.00%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.50%) Databricks
9 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.00%) Meraki