Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 68 49
Rank change year-on-year -5 -19 -
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.62% 0.16% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 0.53% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £515 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £625
75th Percentile £652 - £638
90th Percentile £675 - -
North West median daily rate £605 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +34.44% -28.00% +8.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 217 189 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 26.96% 30.73% 31.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 162 110
10th Percentile £305 £278 £311
25th Percentile £396 £350 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £416 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -7.50% -5.26%
75th Percentile £607 £492 £538
90th Percentile £652 £580 £638
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £16.99 - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 £12.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.51% - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile £28.75 - -
North West median hourly rate £45.50 £40.59 £16.06
% change year-on-year +12.10% +152.74% -40.96%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Monitor relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in Cheshire over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in Cheshire

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 12 August 2026. 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
Knutsford - 5 £613 - 1
Azure Monitor
North West

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
4 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Release Management
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) VMware