Azure Monitor Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 260 355 393
Rank change year-on-year +95 +38 -25
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 81 113 234
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.45% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.14% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 80 186
10th Percentile £439 £385 £406
25th Percentile £514 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +1.85% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £656 £638
90th Percentile £650 £711 £713
UK median daily rate £560 £555 £545
% change year-on-year +0.90% +1.83% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £50.58
25th Percentile - - £53.31
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - +10.46% -4.02%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £64.31
90th Percentile - £69.40 £65.93
UK median hourly rate - £67.25 £59.75
% change year-on-year - +12.55% -4.02%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Azure Monitor
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Monitor trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Azure Monitor daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.88%) CMS
3 4 (4.94%) IIS
4 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.47%) NServiceBus
6 1 (1.23%) Apache
6 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (39.51%) Entra ID
4 28 (34.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 22 (27.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (23.46%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (20.99%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (19.75%) Azure Storage
9 14 (17.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (13.58%) Serverless
11 10 (12.35%) Azure Functions
11 10 (12.35%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (9.88%) Azure Pipelines
13 7 (8.64%) GitHub
14 6 (7.41%) Azure API Management
15 5 (6.17%) AWS
15 5 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (6.17%) PaaS
16 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (4.94%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 22 (27.16%) Firewall
2 21 (25.93%) DNS
3 16 (19.75%) DHCP
4 5 (6.17%) Network Security
5 4 (4.94%) SSL
6 1 (1.23%) HTTP
6 1 (1.23%) VPN
6 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (23.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.05%) NoSQL
3 9 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.47%) Parquet
6 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.23%) Big Data
7 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.23%) MySQL
7 1 (1.23%) Power BI
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
7 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.23%) Scylla
7 1 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) Git
2 8 (9.88%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.17%) Maven
4 4 (4.94%) Gradle
4 4 (4.94%) TeamCity
5 3 (3.70%) GitLab
5 3 (3.70%) Selenium
5 3 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.23%) Ant
7 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) Deequ
7 1 (1.23%) gulp
7 1 (1.23%) JIRA
7 1 (1.23%) JMeter
7 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.58%) Finance
4 7 (8.64%) Back Office
5 5 (6.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.70%) Law
8 2 (2.47%) Marketing
9 1 (1.23%) Electronics
9 1 (1.23%) Legal
9 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (38.27%) Developer
2 16 (19.75%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (17.28%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (17.28%) Azure Developer
3 14 (17.28%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (17.28%) Support Specialist
4 12 (14.81%) Senior
5 10 (12.35%) Lead
6 9 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (9.88%) C# Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 8 (9.88%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.64%) Data Engineer
8 7 (8.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (7.41%) Integration Developer
10 5 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.94%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 4 (4.94%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (37.04%) ARM Templates
2 17 (20.99%) .NET
3 16 (19.75%) React
4 12 (14.81%) .NET Core
5 8 (9.88%) ASP.NET
5 8 (9.88%) CSS
5 8 (9.88%) jQuery
6 6 (7.41%) HTML
6 6 (7.41%) JSON
6 6 (7.41%) PySpark
6 6 (7.41%) REST
7 5 (6.17%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (3.70%) OAuth
8 3 (3.70%) OpenID
8 3 (3.70%) SOAP
8 3 (3.70%) XML
9 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.47%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.47%) Node.js
9 2 (2.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) PKI
1 16 (19.75%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (13.58%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.17%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.17%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.23%) STIX
6 1 (1.23%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.10%) Windows
2 24 (29.63%) Linux
3 19 (23.46%) Windows Server
4 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (19.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.94%) VMS
6 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (75.31%) DevOps
2 40 (49.38%) CI/CD
3 36 (44.44%) Agile
4 34 (41.98%) Log Analytics
5 33 (40.74%) Analytics
6 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (25.93%) RBAC
8 18 (22.22%) Identity Management
8 18 (22.22%) Service Management
9 17 (20.99%) ITIL
9 17 (20.99%) Release Management
10 16 (19.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (19.75%) Privileged Identity Management
11 15 (18.52%) OO
12 14 (17.28%) API Management
12 14 (17.28%) TDD
13 12 (14.81%) Clean Code
13 12 (14.81%) OOD
14 10 (12.35%) Test Automation
15 9 (11.11%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.68%) C#
2 32 (39.51%) PowerShell
3 31 (38.27%) Bicep
4 24 (29.63%) SQL
5 20 (24.69%) Python
6 16 (19.75%) VB
6 16 (19.75%) VBScript
7 11 (13.58%) JavaScript
8 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.94%) Java
10 3 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
11 2 (2.47%) Scala
12 1 (1.23%) Bash
12 1 (1.23%) Go
12 1 (1.23%) Groovy
12 1 (1.23%) PHP
12 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 22 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (24.69%) Degree
4 16 (19.75%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.23%) MCTS
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.88%) WCAG
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.94%) NCSC
2 4 (4.94%) NIST
3 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 17 (20.99%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (20.99%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (28.40%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.93%) SCCM
3 19 (23.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (23.46%) SCOM
4 16 (19.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (19.75%) WSUS
5 9 (11.11%) Terraform
6 4 (4.94%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.23%) Ansible
8 1 (1.23%) Grafana
8 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.23%) QRadar
8 1 (1.23%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 41 (50.62%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) Databricks
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 1 (1.23%) BMC
4 1 (1.23%) Citrix
4 1 (1.23%) ESET
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) Remedy
4 1 (1.23%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow