Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends 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 and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 110 134
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 5 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.30% 0.85% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 2.15% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 11
10th Percentile £531 £363 £413
25th Percentile £602 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year +44.39% - -10.87%
75th Percentile £805 £614 £663
90th Percentile £832 £701 £681
Central London median daily rate £616 £494 £513
% change year-on-year +24.81% -3.66% -10.87%

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 695 839 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.03% 39.61% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 545 799
10th Percentile £335 £398 £355
25th Percentile £441 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £772 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £21.58 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.00 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Monitor

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 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the City of London

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Run
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Firebase
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Google Gemini
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Vertex AI
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Kong
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Snyk
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) git-flow
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) CSS3
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) JWT
1 2 (40.00%) Next.js
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth
1 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (40.00%) React
1 2 (40.00%) Redux
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 2 (40.00%) WebSockets
1 2 (40.00%) Zustand
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (20.00%) Highcharts JS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) AI
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Generative AI
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) LLM
4 2 (40.00%) Log Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) RBAC
4 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
4 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 2 (40.00%) UX Design
5 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Bicep
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) EU AI Act
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Istio
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace