Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 68 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.33% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 0.41% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £406 £375 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -20.93%
75th Percentile £419 £425 £481
90th Percentile - - £508
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £373 £488
% change year-on-year +42.15% -23.59% -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

Azure Monitor falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 186 244 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.59% 34.61% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 174 207
10th Percentile £200 £202 £283
25th Percentile £393 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% +3.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £584 £581
90th Percentile £663 £705 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £17.05 -
25th Percentile - £18.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £22.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +15.38% -32.36%
75th Percentile - £41.88 £19.75
90th Percentile - £52.75 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.43 £33.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year +2.65% +81.30% +8.82%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in Birmingham

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft