Azure Monitor Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 487 485
Rank change year-on-year +79 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 193 239 416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.08% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 164 277
10th Percentile £425 £409 £413
25th Percentile £500 £472 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £648
90th Percentile £675 £711 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £66.15 £50.58
25th Percentile - £66.38 £53.31
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - +14.64% -4.02%
75th Percentile - £87.00 £64.31
90th Percentile - £97.05 £65.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +105 175 £560 +1.82% 39
London +84 85 £525 -2.33% 23
Work from Home +103 83 £600 +12.15% 30
UK excluding London +72 81 £605 -3.20% 19
South East +63 51 £605 -12.00% 7
West Midlands +27 17 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands +20 17 £400 -5.88% 2
South West +28 9 £575 - 1
Scotland +32 1 - - 3
East of England +17 1 £875 +169.23% 1
Wales +15 1 £650 -3.70% 1
North of England +2 1 £400 -36.00% 3
North West -6 1 £400 -39.62% 2

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 23 (11.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.74%) CMS
3 10 (5.18%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.63%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.59%) IIS
6 3 (1.55%) Apache
7 2 (1.04%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (43.01%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (36.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 49 (25.39%) Azure Service Bus
5 48 (24.87%) Entra ID
6 42 (21.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (19.69%) Serverless
8 35 (18.13%) Azure Functions
9 31 (16.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 27 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (13.47%) PaaS
12 18 (9.33%) Azure Storage
13 17 (8.81%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (8.81%) Azure Pipelines
14 14 (7.25%) Azure AKS
15 13 (6.74%) GitHub
16 11 (5.70%) Power Platform
17 10 (5.18%) AWS
17 10 (5.18%) Azure Cognitive Search
18 9 (4.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 37 (19.17%) DNS
2 30 (15.54%) Firewall
3 16 (8.29%) DHCP
4 8 (4.15%) HTTP
4 8 (4.15%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.63%) Network Security
6 5 (2.59%) SSL
6 5 (2.59%) VPN
7 4 (2.07%) Internet
7 4 (2.07%) SSH
7 4 (2.07%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.55%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.55%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (24.35%) SQL Server
2 30 (15.54%) NoSQL
3 17 (8.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (7.77%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.70%) Power BI
6 5 (2.59%) Redis
7 4 (2.07%) Big Data
7 4 (2.07%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.07%) Parquet
7 4 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.55%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.55%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.55%) MySQL
8 3 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.55%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.04%) Power Query
10 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.52%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 72 (37.31%) Git
2 12 (6.22%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.18%) Selenium
4 7 (3.63%) Maven
5 6 (3.11%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.59%) GitLab
6 5 (2.59%) Gradle
6 5 (2.59%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.59%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.07%) Gatling
7 4 (2.07%) Postman
7 4 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.55%) Deequ
8 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.04%) JMeter
9 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.52%) Ant
10 1 (0.52%) Axure RP
General
1 37 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (11.40%) Finance
4 21 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.33%) Back Office
6 5 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.07%) Banking
7 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.07%) Law
7 4 (2.07%) Marketing
8 3 (1.55%) Electronics
8 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.55%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Local Government
9 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 64 (33.16%) Developer
2 31 (16.06%) Senior
3 29 (15.03%) Lead
4 28 (14.51%) Azure Developer
5 26 (13.47%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (9.84%) Full Stack Developer
7 18 (9.33%) Senior Developer
8 16 (8.29%) Azure Specialist
8 16 (8.29%) C# Developer
9 15 (7.77%) Active Directory Support
9 15 (7.77%) Data Engineer
10 14 (7.25%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.25%) Support Specialist
11 13 (6.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 12 (6.22%) Architect
12 12 (6.22%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 8 (4.15%) Designer
14 8 (4.15%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (27.46%) .NET
2 41 (21.24%) ARM Templates
3 39 (20.21%) .NET Core
4 36 (18.65%) React
5 18 (9.33%) CSS
6 17 (8.81%) JSON
7 16 (8.29%) HTML
8 14 (7.25%) ASP.NET
8 14 (7.25%) jQuery
8 14 (7.25%) REST
9 13 (6.74%) PySpark
10 11 (5.70%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (5.18%) AngularJS
11 10 (5.18%) Node.js
11 10 (5.18%) YAML
12 8 (4.15%) OAuth
13 6 (3.11%) OpenID
13 6 (3.11%) SOAP
13 6 (3.11%) XML
14 4 (2.07%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.99%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.36%) PKI
3 16 (8.29%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.29%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.59%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.59%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.55%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.52%) Solar Panel
9 1 (0.52%) STIX
9 1 (0.52%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.87%) Windows
2 32 (16.58%) Linux
3 28 (14.51%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (7.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.18%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.63%) VMS
8 2 (1.04%) Unix
8 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (72.02%) DevOps
2 94 (48.70%) Agile
3 69 (35.75%) CI/CD
4 62 (32.12%) Analytics
5 55 (28.50%) Log Analytics
6 45 (23.32%) API Management
7 41 (21.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (20.73%) TDD
9 39 (20.21%) OO
10 35 (18.13%) OOD
11 32 (16.58%) Test Automation
12 30 (15.54%) Clean Code
13 26 (13.47%) ITIL
13 26 (13.47%) RBAC
14 24 (12.44%) SDLC
15 23 (11.92%) Scrum
16 21 (10.88%) Full Stack Development
17 20 (10.36%) Change Management
18 19 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (9.84%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 79 (40.93%) C#
2 66 (34.20%) PowerShell
3 53 (27.46%) SQL
4 51 (26.42%) Bicep
5 45 (23.32%) Python
6 24 (12.44%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.29%) VB
7 16 (8.29%) VBScript
8 15 (7.77%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.70%) T-SQL
10 9 (4.66%) Java
11 5 (2.59%) PHP
11 5 (2.59%) Scala
12 3 (1.55%) C
12 3 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.04%) Bash
14 1 (0.52%) Go
14 1 (0.52%) Groovy
14 1 (0.52%) Perl
14 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 26 (13.47%) Degree
4 18 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.15%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.55%) CCIE
8 3 (1.55%) CCNP
8 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.33%) Accessibility
1 18 (9.33%) WCAG
2 7 (3.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.07%) NCSC
3 4 (2.07%) NIST
3 4 (2.07%) QA
4 3 (1.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.04%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (45.08%) Active Directory
2 30 (15.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (10.88%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (6.74%) Docker
5 8 (4.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.15%) XenApp
5 8 (4.15%) XenDesktop
6 6 (3.11%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.07%) NFS
8 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (15.03%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.47%) Terraform
3 22 (11.40%) SCCM
4 20 (10.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (9.84%) SCOM
6 16 (8.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (8.29%) WSUS
7 5 (2.59%) Grafana
7 5 (2.59%) SysTrack
8 4 (2.07%) Ansible
8 4 (2.07%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (1.55%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.52%) CASB
11 1 (0.52%) Nagios
11 1 (0.52%) QRadar
11 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 91 (47.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.25%) Citrix
2 14 (7.25%) Databricks
3 10 (5.18%) New Relic
4 9 (4.66%) Splunk
5 8 (4.15%) NetApp
6 6 (3.11%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.59%) Adobe
7 5 (2.59%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.59%) Qualtrics
8 4 (2.07%) Cisco
9 3 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.55%) SAP
9 3 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.04%) CA
10 2 (1.04%) Google
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle
10 2 (1.04%) VMware
11 1 (0.52%) Remedy