Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% - 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.99% - 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £500 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £613 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 268 153 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.32% 25.89% 37.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 89 222
10th Percentile £205 £187 £228
25th Percentile £360 £356 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £450 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -0.66% -9.40%
75th Percentile £504 £545 £530
90th Percentile £613 £613 £600
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 16
10th Percentile £15.17 £14.49 £11.39
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.85 £12.94
Median hourly rate £20.50 £29.00 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +64.73% +13.58%
75th Percentile £24.56 £43.51 £47.13
90th Percentile £43.37 £50.40 £91.25
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -8.62% +19.32% +8.02%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 December 2025. 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
Derbyshire - 3 £450 -
Lincolnshire - 3 £550 -
Leicestershire - 2 £575 - 2
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Functions
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (37.50%) Power Automate
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) dbt
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Integration Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Fabric
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Log Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) API Management
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) BCP
4 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
2 3 (37.50%) X++
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) F5