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 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 705 706 731
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 -176
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 191 270 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.60% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 120 221 219
10th Percentile £49,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,303 £64,125
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% +6.51% +6.88%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,447 £95,000 £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +13.04% -0.86%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +41 161 £67,500 -1.17% 37
Work from Home +65 87 £60,000 - 29
UK excluding London -21 86 £59,000 -9.23% 19
London +93 81 £72,500 -3.33% 21
South East +37 41 £59,000 -9.23% 7
North of England +48 24 £79,932 +14.19% 3
Yorkshire +91 16 £79,932 +14.19%
Wales +15 6 £36,476 -18.94% 1
North West +11 6 £79,932 +20.65% 2
Scotland -66 6 £45,000 -18.18% 3
North East 0 4 £80,000 -21.95% 1
Midlands -16 3 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 1
West Midlands +2 2 - - 1
South West - 2 - - 1
East of England -5 1 £72,500 +93.33% 1
East Midlands -14 1 - - 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 41 (21.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (10.47%) SharePoint
3 14 (7.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.57%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (39.79%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (32.46%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (27.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 47 (24.61%) Entra ID
6 36 (18.85%) AWS
7 30 (15.71%) Azure Storage
8 29 (15.18%) Azure Logic Apps
9 28 (14.66%) Azure Service Bus
10 27 (14.14%) Power Platform
10 27 (14.14%) Serverless
11 23 (12.04%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (11.52%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (11.52%) PaaS
13 21 (10.99%) IaaS
14 19 (9.95%) Azure AKS
15 18 (9.42%) PowerApps
16 17 (8.90%) SaaS
17 16 (8.38%) Power Automate
18 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (16.23%) DNS
2 29 (15.18%) VPN
3 20 (10.47%) DHCP
4 18 (9.42%) Firewall
5 7 (3.66%) Internet
6 5 (2.62%) Extranet
6 5 (2.62%) SAN
6 5 (2.62%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.57%) BGP
7 3 (1.57%) IPsec
7 3 (1.57%) Network Security
7 3 (1.57%) OSPF
7 3 (1.57%) WAN
8 2 (1.05%) HTTP
8 2 (1.05%) LAN
8 2 (1.05%) SSH
8 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.05%) Wireless
9 1 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.04%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 16 (8.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.24%) Redis
5 9 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.71%) MySQL
5 9 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.66%) MariaDB
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.14%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.57%) Power BI
10 2 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Jenkins
2 13 (6.81%) GitLab
3 12 (6.28%) Git
4 8 (4.19%) Octopus Deploy
4 8 (4.19%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (4.19%) TeamCity
5 7 (3.66%) Selenium
6 5 (2.62%) JUnit
7 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.57%) CircleCI
7 3 (1.57%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.57%) Moq
7 3 (1.57%) Postman
7 3 (1.57%) SoapUI
7 3 (1.57%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.57%) Subversion
7 3 (1.57%) TestNG
7 3 (1.57%) Travis CI
7 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (35.08%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.23%) Finance
3 21 (10.99%) Local Government
4 17 (8.90%) Back Office
5 14 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.81%) Retail
7 12 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.19%) Law
8 8 (4.19%) Marketing
9 7 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Police
11 3 (1.57%) Legal
12 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.05%) Automotive
12 2 (1.05%) Banking
12 2 (1.05%) Electronics
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 37 (19.37%) Lead
2 30 (15.71%) Senior
3 28 (14.66%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (12.57%) Developer
5 20 (10.47%) Active Directory Specialist
5 20 (10.47%) Azure Specialist
6 19 (9.95%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.33%) Active Directory Support
7 14 (7.33%) Architect
7 14 (7.33%) Support Specialist
8 13 (6.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 13 (6.81%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
9 11 (5.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 11 (5.76%) Analyst
10 10 (5.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Applications Support
11 9 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.27%) .NET
2 38 (19.90%) ARM Templates
3 22 (11.52%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.76%) React
5 10 (5.24%) .NET Framework
6 9 (4.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (3.66%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.66%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (3.66%) ASP.NET Web API
8 6 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.14%) Vue
9 5 (2.62%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (2.09%) Node.js
10 4 (2.09%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (1.57%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.57%) Next.js
11 3 (1.57%) REST
11 3 (1.57%) RESTful
11 3 (1.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.57%) PKI
2 15 (7.85%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.85%) Mobile App
3 14 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.81%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (6.81%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.28%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (5.24%) Product Ownership
7 9 (4.71%) Data Centre
7 9 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (4.19%) BYOD
9 4 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.57%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.57%) W3C
11 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.05%) Blog
11 2 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (26.70%) Windows
2 29 (15.18%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.99%) Linux
4 17 (8.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (7.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (5.76%) VMS
7 8 (4.19%) Android
8 5 (2.62%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (57.07%) DevOps
2 97 (50.79%) Analytics
3 87 (45.55%) Log Analytics
4 74 (38.74%) Agile
5 58 (30.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (27.75%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (23.56%) CI/CD
8 41 (21.47%) Scrum
9 40 (20.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (18.32%) Identity Management
10 35 (18.32%) Technical Leadership
11 32 (16.75%) Software Engineering
12 31 (16.23%) API Management
13 27 (14.14%) TDD
14 24 (12.57%) Change Management
14 24 (12.57%) ITIL
14 24 (12.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 24 (12.57%) Release Management
15 22 (11.52%) Disaster Recovery
16 21 (10.99%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 85 (44.50%) PowerShell
2 81 (42.41%) C#
3 38 (19.90%) Bicep
4 28 (14.66%) Bash
5 26 (13.61%) Python
6 21 (10.99%) SQL
7 20 (10.47%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.47%) VB
7 20 (10.47%) VBScript
8 13 (6.81%) Java
8 13 (6.81%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.28%) Go
10 11 (5.76%) Ruby
11 10 (5.24%) Groovy
12 7 (3.66%) PHP
13 3 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.05%) Scala
14 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (24.61%) Security Cleared
2 38 (19.90%) Degree
3 33 (17.28%) Azure Certification
4 27 (14.14%) SC Cleared
5 20 (10.47%) DV Cleared
6 16 (8.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (7.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.05%) MCSA
9 2 (1.05%) MCSE
10 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.14%) QA
2 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.57%) ISO 9000
3 3 (1.57%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.57%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (38.22%) Active Directory
2 43 (22.51%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (16.75%) Docker
4 14 (7.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (4.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.57%) VirtualBox
7 3 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.05%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (30.37%) Kubernetes
2 51 (26.70%) Terraform
3 49 (25.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (10.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (9.95%) SCCM
5 19 (9.95%) SCOM
6 17 (8.90%) WSUS
7 15 (7.85%) Grafana
8 13 (6.81%) Ansible
9 12 (6.28%) Prometheus
10 11 (5.76%) Progress Chef
10 11 (5.76%) Puppet
11 7 (3.66%) SysTrack
12 5 (2.62%) Kibana
12 5 (2.62%) logstash
13 3 (1.57%) Nagios
13 3 (1.57%) Nessus
13 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.57%) SolarWinds Orion
13 3 (1.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 156 (81.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.28%) New Relic
2 12 (6.28%) VMware
3 11 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.19%) Apple
4 8 (4.19%) SaltStack
5 7 (3.66%) Snow
6 6 (3.14%) Google
6 6 (3.14%) Splunk
7 5 (2.62%) Cisco
7 5 (2.62%) Citrix
7 5 (2.62%) HP
7 5 (2.62%) NetApp
7 5 (2.62%) Sophos
8 4 (2.09%) BMC
8 4 (2.09%) Remedy
9 3 (1.57%) Dell
9 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.57%) Juniper
9 3 (1.57%) SolarWinds