Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 370 352
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 272 149 180
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.43% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 97 122
10th Percentile £400 £350 £396
25th Percentile £450 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £584
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -18.63% -2.71%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £638
90th Percentile £675 £620 £651
UK median daily rate £519 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +9.28% -17.39% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £63.48 - -
75th Percentile £65.94 - -
90th Percentile £66.37 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.31% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 16,025 10,431 11,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.61% 37.53% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,701 7,044 7,727
10th Percentile £322 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £729 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 259 186
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.45 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.92 £18.87 £19.96
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.14 £60.95
90th Percentile £83.13 £71.56 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in England

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in England over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
London -40 138 £520 +16.33% 34
South East -27 52 £516 - 16
North of England -32 43 £500 +11.11% 18
North West -37 22 £619 +37.56% 11
Yorkshire - 17 £470 - 3
South West -29 16 £450 -13.46% 1
Midlands -61 12 £413 -22.10% 9
East of England - 9 £552 - 9
East Midlands -14 6 £475 -5.00% 1
West Midlands -53 6 £400 -25.09% 8
North East - 4 £500 - 4
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (2.94%) IIS
2 7 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.21%) Confluence
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
5 3 (1.10%) CMS
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.37%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.37%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) Azure
2 119 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (38.24%) GitHub
4 93 (34.19%) Entra ID
5 64 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
6 59 (21.69%) Azure AKS
7 55 (20.22%) AWS
8 40 (14.71%) Azure Key Vault
9 36 (13.24%) Power Platform
10 33 (12.13%) Serverless
11 30 (11.03%) Azure Sentinel
12 28 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (9.19%) Azure Functions
13 25 (9.19%) PaaS
14 24 (8.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 22 (8.09%) SaaS
16 20 (7.35%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (7.35%) IaaS
17 19 (6.99%) Azure App Service
18 18 (6.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.01%) Firewall
2 36 (13.24%) DNS
3 33 (12.13%) VPN
4 30 (11.03%) Network Security
5 16 (5.88%) DHCP
6 14 (5.15%) TCP/IP
7 12 (4.41%) SSL
8 8 (2.94%) WAN
9 6 (2.21%) SSH
10 5 (1.84%) BGP
11 4 (1.47%) SNMP
12 3 (1.10%) Kerberos
12 3 (1.10%) NGFW
12 3 (1.10%) VLAN
12 3 (1.10%) VSAN
13 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.74%) Internet
14 1 (0.37%) LAN
14 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
14 1 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.07%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.19%) Power BI
3 22 (8.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (6.99%) Data Lake
5 14 (5.15%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.04%) Delta Lake
7 11 (4.04%) MySQL
7 11 (4.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.84%) Redis
9 4 (1.47%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.10%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.74%) Big Data
11 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (10.29%) Git
2 13 (4.78%) GitLab
3 9 (3.31%) JIRA
4 8 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.47%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.47%) JMeter
5 4 (1.47%) Terragrunt
5 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.10%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.10%) Gradle
6 3 (1.10%) Maven
7 2 (0.74%) Gatling
7 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.74%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.74%) Postman
7 2 (0.74%) Selenium
7 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) Newman
General
1 83 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.97%) Finance
3 35 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.31%) Banking
6 8 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.84%) Retail
8 4 (1.47%) Military
9 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.10%) Local Government
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (23.90%) Azure Engineer
2 46 (16.91%) Senior
3 35 (12.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (12.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (10.29%) Architect
5 28 (10.29%) Developer
6 26 (9.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.51%) Lead
10 13 (4.78%) Consultant
11 12 (4.41%) DBA
11 12 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.04%) SQL DBA
13 10 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (52.94%) Terraform
2 43 (15.81%) ARM Templates
3 39 (14.34%) .NET
4 31 (11.40%) REST
5 22 (8.09%) OAuth
6 18 (6.62%) .NET Framework
7 15 (5.51%) OAuth2
7 15 (5.51%) OpenID
7 15 (5.51%) RESTful
8 14 (5.15%) YAML
9 13 (4.78%) OpenTelemetry
10 12 (4.41%) .NET Core
11 10 (3.68%) Middleware
12 9 (3.31%) Entity Framework
12 9 (3.31%) Kafka
13 8 (2.94%) JSON
14 7 (2.57%) React
14 7 (2.57%) Spring
14 7 (2.57%) Spring Boot
14 7 (2.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (23.90%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.88%) Security Posture
4 15 (5.51%) Clustering
4 15 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.51%) Replication
5 14 (5.15%) CMDB
6 11 (4.04%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.94%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.57%) Management Information System
11 6 (2.21%) Legacy Code
11 6 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
13 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 76 (27.94%) Windows
2 51 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 33 (12.13%) Linux
4 14 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.15%) VMS
5 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.10%) SUSE
7 2 (0.74%) Android
7 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (64.34%) DevOps
2 150 (55.15%) CI/CD
3 130 (47.79%) Analytics
4 116 (42.65%) Log Analytics
5 114 (41.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (28.68%) Observability
7 65 (23.90%) RBAC
8 60 (22.06%) Agile
9 51 (18.75%) ITIL
10 50 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (18.01%) Containerisation
12 46 (16.91%) Platform Engineering
13 43 (15.81%) AI
14 42 (15.44%) Disaster Recovery
14 42 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (15.07%) Deployment Automation
16 39 (14.34%) Runbook
17 37 (13.60%) Infrastructure Automation
17 37 (13.60%) Test Automation
18 35 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (47.43%) PowerShell
2 92 (33.82%) Python
3 84 (30.88%) Bicep
4 63 (23.16%) Bash
5 58 (21.32%) SQL
6 46 (16.91%) C#
7 18 (6.62%) Java
8 14 (5.15%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (4.41%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.68%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 92 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 60 (22.06%) Azure Certification
4 25 (9.19%) Degree
5 23 (8.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.57%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.84%) CISSP
12 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (1.10%) MCSE
14 1 (0.37%) CCNA
14 1 (0.37%) CCNP
14 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.76%) QA
2 13 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.41%) GDPR
4 9 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.94%) NIST
6 7 (2.57%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.10%) WCAG
8 2 (0.74%) NCSC
8 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) HL7
9 1 (0.37%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 51 (18.75%) Docker
2 50 (18.38%) Active Directory
3 36 (13.24%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (4.04%) IAG
6 10 (3.68%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.10%) Firmware
7 3 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.10%) vSphere
8 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (29.04%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.97%) Grafana
3 35 (12.87%) Ansible
4 27 (9.93%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.99%) SCOM
6 16 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (4.41%) SCCM
8 9 (3.31%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.21%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.10%) VxRail
12 1 (0.37%) Control-M
12 1 (0.37%) linkerd
12 1 (0.37%) Packer
12 1 (0.37%) Podman
12 1 (0.37%) Puppet
12 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 143 (52.57%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 22 (8.09%) Dynatrace
4 20 (7.35%) Splunk
5 18 (6.62%) Databricks
5 18 (6.62%) VMware
6 11 (4.04%) Nexthink
7 9 (3.31%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.57%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.57%) Google
9 6 (2.21%) Foundry
9 6 (2.21%) OpenAI
9 6 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.84%) Okta
10 5 (1.84%) Zscaler
11 4 (1.47%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.47%) Dell
11 4 (1.47%) MicroStrategy
11 4 (1.47%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.10%) Adobe