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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 698 739 747
Rank change year-on-year +41 +8 -177
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 192 258 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 0.59% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 118 210 214
10th Percentile £49,250 £42,250 £45,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £66,900 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +7.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £61,250 £56,217
% change year-on-year -3.67% +8.95% -3.07%

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 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
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 £96,250 £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 8 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 8 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 +21 162 £67,500 -1.17% 43
UK excluding London -32 92 £59,000 -3.67% 25
Work from Home +41 86 £60,000 - 36
London +84 77 £72,500 -3.33% 18
South East +30 46 £59,000 -9.23% 7
North of England +38 24 £79,932 +14.19% 9
Yorkshire +79 16 £79,932 +14.19% 1
Wales +11 6 £36,476 -18.94% 1
North West +3 6 £79,932 +30.50% 5
Scotland -61 6 £45,000 -18.18%
North East +1 4 £80,000 - 3
Midlands -15 4 £61,000 -18.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 1
West Midlands -8 2 - - 2
East Midlands -12 2 £61,000 +31.18% 2
South West - 2 - - 2
East of England -6 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 46 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.90%) Exchange Server 2010
2 19 (9.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (26.04%) Entra ID
5 49 (25.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 37 (19.27%) AWS
7 32 (16.67%) Azure Storage
8 29 (15.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 28 (14.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 27 (14.06%) Power Platform
11 26 (13.54%) Serverless
12 23 (11.98%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (11.98%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (10.94%) PaaS
14 20 (10.42%) IaaS
15 18 (9.38%) Azure AKS
15 18 (9.38%) PowerApps
16 17 (8.85%) SaaS
17 16 (8.33%) Power Automate
18 15 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.19%) VPN
2 29 (15.10%) DNS
3 20 (10.42%) DHCP
4 18 (9.38%) Firewall
5 7 (3.65%) Internet
6 5 (2.60%) Extranet
6 5 (2.60%) SAN
6 5 (2.60%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.56%) Network Security
7 3 (1.56%) WAN
8 2 (1.04%) BGP
8 2 (1.04%) HTTP
8 2 (1.04%) IPsec
8 2 (1.04%) LAN
8 2 (1.04%) OSPF
8 2 (1.04%) SSH
8 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.04%) Wireless
9 1 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 17 (8.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.21%) Redis
5 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.69%) MySQL
5 9 (4.69%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.65%) MariaDB
7 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.13%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.56%) Power BI
10 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (14.06%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.25%) GitLab
3 10 (5.21%) Git
4 7 (3.65%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (3.65%) Selenium
4 7 (3.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.65%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.08%) JUnit
6 3 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.56%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.56%) Moq
6 3 (1.56%) Postman
6 3 (1.56%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.56%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.56%) Subversion
6 3 (1.56%) TestNG
6 3 (1.56%) Travis CI
6 3 (1.56%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.04%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
General
1 67 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.15%) Finance
3 21 (10.94%) Local Government
4 17 (8.85%) Back Office
5 14 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 13 (6.77%) Retail
7 9 (4.69%) Law
8 8 (4.17%) Marketing
9 7 (3.65%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.60%) Police
11 3 (1.56%) Legal
12 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.04%) Automotive
12 2 (1.04%) Electronics
12 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 37 (19.27%) Lead
2 27 (14.06%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (14.06%) Senior
3 24 (12.50%) Developer
4 20 (10.42%) Active Directory Specialist
4 20 (10.42%) Azure Specialist
5 19 (9.90%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.29%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (7.29%) Architect
6 14 (7.29%) Support Specialist
7 13 (6.77%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 13 (6.77%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
8 12 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Analyst
9 10 (5.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.69%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.08%) .NET
2 37 (19.27%) ARM Templates
3 22 (11.46%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.73%) React
5 10 (5.21%) .NET Framework
6 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (3.65%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.65%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (3.65%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.13%) Vue
9 5 (2.60%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.60%) Node.js
10 4 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
10 4 (2.08%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (1.56%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.56%) JSON
11 3 (1.56%) Next.js
11 3 (1.56%) REST
11 3 (1.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.46%) PKI
2 15 (7.81%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.29%) Mobile App
3 14 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.77%) Enterprise Cloud
4 13 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.21%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (4.17%) BYOD
7 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.56%) W3C
10 2 (1.04%) IoT
10 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.04%) Replication
10 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.52%) Windows
2 27 (14.06%) Windows Server
3 21 (10.94%) Linux
4 17 (8.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (7.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.21%) VMS
7 8 (4.17%) Android
8 4 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (56.25%) DevOps
2 103 (53.65%) Analytics
3 93 (48.44%) Log Analytics
4 73 (38.02%) Agile
5 59 (30.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (23.44%) CI/CD
8 42 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (21.35%) Scrum
10 40 (20.83%) Identity Management
11 35 (18.23%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (16.15%) Software Engineering
13 29 (15.10%) API Management
14 27 (14.06%) TDD
15 26 (13.54%) Change Management
16 24 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
16 24 (12.50%) Release Management
17 23 (11.98%) ITIL
18 21 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
18 21 (10.94%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 83 (43.23%) PowerShell
2 80 (41.67%) C#
3 37 (19.27%) Bicep
4 27 (14.06%) Bash
5 22 (11.46%) Python
6 21 (10.94%) SQL
7 20 (10.42%) VB
7 20 (10.42%) VBScript
8 19 (9.90%) JavaScript
9 13 (6.77%) TypeScript
10 12 (6.25%) Java
11 10 (5.21%) Go
12 9 (4.69%) Ruby
13 8 (4.17%) Groovy
14 7 (3.65%) PHP
15 3 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.52%) Perl
17 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 53 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.23%) Degree
3 34 (17.71%) Azure Certification
4 32 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 20 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (10.42%) DV Cleared
6 14 (7.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.04%) MCSA
8 2 (1.04%) MCSE
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.13%) QA
2 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.56%) ISO 9000
4 3 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.56%) WCAG
5 2 (1.04%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 75 (39.06%) Active Directory
2 42 (21.88%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (15.63%) Docker
4 14 (7.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (3.65%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.56%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.04%) NFS
8 2 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (28.65%) Kubernetes
1 55 (28.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (25.52%) Terraform
3 20 (10.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (9.90%) SCCM
4 19 (9.90%) SCOM
5 16 (8.33%) WSUS
6 14 (7.29%) Grafana
7 12 (6.25%) Ansible
7 12 (6.25%) Prometheus
8 10 (5.21%) Progress Chef
8 10 (5.21%) Puppet
9 7 (3.65%) SysTrack
10 5 (2.60%) Kibana
10 5 (2.60%) logstash
11 3 (1.56%) Nagios
11 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.56%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.04%) Nessus
12 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 158 (82.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.25%) New Relic
3 11 (5.73%) VMware
4 10 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.17%) Apple
6 7 (3.65%) SaltStack
6 7 (3.65%) Snow
7 6 (3.13%) BMC
7 6 (3.13%) Google
7 6 (3.13%) Remedy
7 6 (3.13%) Splunk
8 5 (2.60%) Citrix
8 5 (2.60%) HP
8 5 (2.60%) NetApp
8 5 (2.60%) Sophos
9 4 (2.08%) Cisco
10 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.04%) Databricks
11 2 (1.04%) Meraki
11 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds