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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 365 352
Rank change year-on-year +4 -13 +56
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 280 144 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.52% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.39% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 93 129
10th Percentile £400 £350 £392
25th Percentile £450 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £475 £560
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -15.18% -6.67%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £638
90th Percentile £678 £597 £651
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £555
% change year-on-year +9.47% -14.41% -7.50%
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 15,959 10,359 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.33% 34.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,663 7,014 7,872
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £719 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 268 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.13 £18.51 £18.07
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £58.39
90th Percentile £82.62 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.23% -4.17% -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 29 August 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 29 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
London -26 147 £525 +19.32% 60
South East -27 52 £518 -1.43% 22
North of England -32 41 £473 +5.06% 28
Yorkshire - 20 £460 - 8
North West -45 18 £609 +35.33% 15
South West -26 16 £450 -13.46%
Midlands -54 13 £444 -15.48% 12
East of England - 9 £552 - 6
East Midlands -11 6 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands -49 6 £400 -24.46% 8
North East - 3 £500 - 5
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 11 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.86%) IIS
4 6 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.79%) Confluence
6 3 (1.07%) Apache
6 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.71%) CMS
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
8 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.36%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 280 (100.00%) Azure
2 123 (43.93%) Azure DevOps
3 111 (39.64%) GitHub
4 101 (36.07%) Entra ID
5 72 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
6 71 (25.36%) Azure AKS
7 53 (18.93%) AWS
8 46 (16.43%) Azure Key Vault
9 35 (12.50%) Serverless
10 32 (11.43%) PaaS
10 32 (11.43%) Power Platform
11 30 (10.71%) Azure Sentinel
12 28 (10.00%) Azure Functions
13 27 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 24 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (7.86%) Azure App Service
15 22 (7.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 22 (7.86%) SaaS
16 20 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (18.57%) Firewall
2 37 (13.21%) DNS
3 35 (12.50%) VPN
4 30 (10.71%) Network Security
5 16 (5.71%) DHCP
6 14 (5.00%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.86%) SSL
7 8 (2.86%) WAN
8 6 (2.14%) SSH
9 5 (1.79%) BGP
10 4 (1.43%) SNMP
11 3 (1.07%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.07%) NGFW
11 3 (1.07%) VLAN
11 3 (1.07%) VSAN
12 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.71%) Internet
13 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.36%) SAN
13 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 20 (7.14%) Power BI
4 16 (5.71%) Data Lake
5 14 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.64%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.21%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.50%) MySQL
8 7 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.43%) Redis
10 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.07%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.07%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 29 (10.36%) Git
2 12 (4.29%) GitLab
3 9 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.21%) JIRA
4 4 (1.43%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.07%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.07%) Gradle
5 3 (1.07%) JMeter
5 3 (1.07%) Maven
5 3 (1.07%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.71%) Gatling
6 2 (0.71%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.71%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.71%) Postman
6 2 (0.71%) Selenium
6 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Newman
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.93%) Finance
3 35 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.93%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.57%) Banking
7 5 (1.79%) Retail
8 4 (1.43%) Military
9 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.07%) Legal
9 3 (1.07%) Local Government
10 2 (0.71%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (25.36%) Azure Engineer
2 47 (16.79%) Senior
3 36 (12.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (11.79%) Developer
6 30 (10.71%) Architect
7 29 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.07%) Azure Developer
10 16 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 15 (5.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.29%) Lead
12 12 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) Consultant
13 11 (3.93%) Site Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 10 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (3.21%) Azure Architect
15 9 (3.21%) Service Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (52.50%) Terraform
2 45 (16.07%) .NET
3 43 (15.36%) ARM Templates
4 35 (12.50%) REST
5 24 (8.57%) .NET Framework
6 22 (7.86%) OAuth
7 15 (5.36%) OAuth2
7 15 (5.36%) OpenID
7 15 (5.36%) YAML
8 14 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 14 (5.00%) RESTful
9 13 (4.64%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.57%) Middleware
11 9 (3.21%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.21%) Kafka
11 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Graph
11 9 (3.21%) Web Services
12 8 (2.86%) JSON
13 7 (2.50%) React
13 7 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.36%) Security Posture
5 14 (5.00%) CMDB
6 12 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.93%) Clustering
7 11 (3.93%) Replication
8 10 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.86%) ARM Cortex
10 8 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.50%) Product Ownership
12 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (2.14%) Legacy Code
12 6 (2.14%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.43%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.43%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 75 (26.79%) Windows
2 48 (17.14%) Windows Server
3 33 (11.79%) Linux
4 14 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.00%) VMS
5 5 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.07%) SUSE
8 2 (0.71%) Android
8 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (65.36%) DevOps
2 156 (55.71%) CI/CD
3 138 (49.29%) Analytics
4 126 (45.00%) Log Analytics
5 116 (41.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (30.71%) Observability
7 66 (23.57%) RBAC
8 60 (21.43%) Agile
9 54 (19.29%) Containerisation
10 50 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
12 47 (16.79%) ITIL
13 44 (15.71%) Disaster Recovery
14 43 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (14.64%) Runbook
16 40 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 39 (13.93%) Test Automation
18 38 (13.57%) AI
18 38 (13.57%) Deployment Automation
19 36 (12.86%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 134 (47.86%) PowerShell
2 86 (30.71%) Python
3 84 (30.00%) Bicep
4 60 (21.43%) Bash
5 59 (21.07%) SQL
6 54 (19.29%) C#
7 17 (6.07%) Java
7 17 (6.07%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (3.21%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.86%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 99 (35.36%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 58 (20.71%) Azure Certification
4 20 (7.14%) Degree
5 18 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.07%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (2.14%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.07%) CISSP
10 3 (1.07%) MCSE
11 1 (0.36%) CCNA
11 1 (0.36%) CCNP
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.07%) QA
2 11 (3.93%) GDPR
3 10 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.86%) NIST
6 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.07%) SLA
7 3 (1.07%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.07%) WCAG
8 2 (0.71%) NCSC
8 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 55 (19.64%) Docker
2 50 (17.86%) Active Directory
3 35 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (6.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (3.93%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.93%) IAG
6 10 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.07%) Firmware
7 3 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.07%) vSphere
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 86 (30.71%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.00%) Grafana
3 36 (12.86%) Ansible
4 32 (11.43%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (5.36%) SCOM
7 12 (4.29%) SCCM
8 8 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.14%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.43%) Istio
10 4 (1.43%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.43%) linkerd
11 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.07%) VxRail
12 2 (0.71%) Packer
13 1 (0.36%) Podman
13 1 (0.36%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 143 (51.07%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.36%) ServiceNow
3 21 (7.50%) Dynatrace
4 19 (6.79%) Splunk
4 19 (6.79%) VMware
5 17 (6.07%) Databricks
6 11 (3.93%) Nexthink
7 9 (3.21%) CrowdStrike
8 6 (2.14%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.14%) Google
9 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.79%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.43%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.43%) Dell
10 4 (1.43%) Foundry
10 4 (1.43%) Okta
11 3 (1.07%) Adobe
11 3 (1.07%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (1.07%) Oracle