Azure Monitor Contracts in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Monitor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 371 431
Rank change year-on-year +55 +60 -34
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 80 76 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 0.97% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 54 61
10th Percentile £425 £413 £400
25th Percentile £525 £475 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +16.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £555 £545
% change year-on-year +0.90% +1.83% +8.89%
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 - £67.25 £59.75
% change year-on-year - +12.55% -4.02%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Monitor is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +59 51 £605 -13.57% 7
Midlands +33 17 £400 -5.88% 4
West Midlands +20 17 £400 -5.88% 2
South West +20 8 £575 - 2
North of England +2 2 £513 -10.87% 9
North West -3 2 £513 -21.15% 6
Scotland +37 1 - -
East of England +8 1 £875 +169.23%
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (28.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 37 (46.25%) Entra ID
3 29 (36.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 26 (32.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (31.25%) Azure Functions
5 25 (31.25%) Serverless
6 24 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (20.00%) Azure Storage
8 13 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
11 8 (10.00%) PaaS
12 6 (7.50%) Azure API Management
13 5 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (6.25%) AWS
13 5 (6.25%) Azure AKS
13 5 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
13 5 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
13 5 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.25%) DNS
2 19 (23.75%) Firewall
3 16 (20.00%) DHCP
4 8 (10.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.50%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.50%) Power BI
3 8 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.75%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.50%) Redis
7 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.25%) MySQL
7 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) Git
2 5 (6.25%) Selenium
2 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.25%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.25%) Gradle
4 1 (1.25%) gulp
4 1 (1.25%) Hudson
4 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) Maven
4 1 (1.25%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.25%) Travis CI
General
1 20 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.25%) Back Office
4 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Developer
2 21 (26.25%) Azure Developer
3 19 (23.75%) Full Stack Developer
4 16 (20.00%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (18.75%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (17.50%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (17.50%) Support Specialist
7 8 (10.00%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Python Developer
8 7 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Architect
9 6 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Citrix Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Designer
10 5 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Lead
10 5 (6.25%) Lead Designer
11 4 (5.00%) Security Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.50%) ARM Templates
2 19 (23.75%) React
3 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.25%) Node.js
4 4 (5.00%) .NET
4 4 (5.00%) JSON
4 4 (5.00%) OAuth
5 3 (3.75%) ADO
5 3 (3.75%) Flask
5 3 (3.75%) OpenID
5 3 (3.75%) Pandas
5 3 (3.75%) REST
5 3 (3.75%) SOAP
5 3 (3.75%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) CSS
6 1 (1.25%) HTML
6 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.25%) RESTful
6 1 (1.25%) Sensu
6 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Product Ownership
2 16 (20.00%) PKI
2 16 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.75%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.75%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.50%) Windows
2 24 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 19 (23.75%) Linux
4 16 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (10.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.50%) VMS
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (67.50%) DevOps
2 44 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 31 (38.75%) Agile
4 30 (37.50%) Analytics
5 27 (33.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (31.25%) Log Analytics
7 22 (27.50%) ITIL
8 21 (26.25%) Change Management
9 19 (23.75%) Full Stack Development
9 19 (23.75%) Microservices
10 18 (22.50%) Identity Management
10 18 (22.50%) Service Management
11 17 (21.25%) RBAC
11 17 (21.25%) Release Management
11 17 (21.25%) SDLC
12 16 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 16 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
12 16 (20.00%) Product Backlog
13 13 (16.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 39 (48.75%) PowerShell
2 27 (33.75%) Python
3 25 (31.25%) C#
4 22 (27.50%) Bicep
5 16 (20.00%) VB
5 16 (20.00%) VBScript
6 14 (17.50%) SQL
7 6 (7.50%) Java
8 4 (5.00%) C
9 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.75%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.50%) PHP
11 1 (1.25%) Bash
11 1 (1.25%) Go
11 1 (1.25%) Groovy
11 1 (1.25%) Ruby
11 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
1 23 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.75%) Degree
3 18 (22.50%) DV Cleared
4 16 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) MCTS
7 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.00%) NCSC
1 4 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (2.50%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 47 (58.75%) Active Directory
2 29 (36.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (23.75%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (10.00%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (10.00%) XenApp
4 8 (10.00%) XenDesktop
5 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 17 (21.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (21.25%) SCCM
3 16 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (20.00%) SCOM
3 16 (20.00%) WSUS
4 6 (7.50%) Terraform
5 5 (6.25%) SysTrack
6 4 (5.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (2.50%) Ansible
7 2 (2.50%) Grafana
7 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.25%) Nagios
8 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (52.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) Citrix
3 8 (10.00%) NetApp
4 5 (6.25%) New Relic
4 5 (6.25%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.00%) Splunk
6 2 (2.50%) CA
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.50%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.25%) BMC
7 1 (1.25%) Databricks
7 1 (1.25%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.25%) Remedy