Azure Monitor Contracts in the City of London

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Monitor skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 112 165
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 +14
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 15 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.60% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 1.52% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £397 £363 £328
25th Percentile £432 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £535
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -15.89% -10.83%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £575
90th Percentile £594 £626 -
Central London median daily rate £478 £450 £535
% change year-on-year +6.11% -15.89% -10.83%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 857 1,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.39% 39.28% 37.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 609 926
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -7.37% +3.26%
75th Percentile £669 £670 £713
90th Percentile £750 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £535 £575
% change year-on-year +3.49% -6.96% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the City of London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the City of London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the City of London

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (33.33%) Azure AKS
5 4 (26.67%) GitHub
6 3 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (6.67%) AWS
8 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) FTP
3 2 (13.33%) SMTP
3 2 (13.33%) SSL
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) Parquet
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Grid Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior
2 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (6.67%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) JSON
2 3 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) EDI
4 1 (6.67%) JWT
4 1 (6.67%) LDAP
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) pytest
4 1 (6.67%) SAML
4 1 (6.67%) WCF
4 1 (6.67%) XML
4 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (13.33%) CMDB
4 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (40.00%) Analytics
3 6 (40.00%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) API Management
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Log Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Chaos Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Cost Management
5 4 (26.67%) ITSM
5 4 (26.67%) Service Management
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (20.00%) GitOps
6 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
7 2 (13.33%) Observability
7 2 (13.33%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) Bicep
3 5 (33.33%) C#
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
6 2 (13.33%) Java
6 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (6.67%) Bash
7 1 (6.67%) C++
7 1 (6.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) OpenAM
1 1 (6.67%) OpenDJ
1 1 (6.67%) OpenIDM
1 1 (6.67%) Platform Symphony
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) TIBCO