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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 357 362
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +135
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 199 148 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.46% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 102 139
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £452 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £552 £650 £675
90th Percentile £638 £671 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £31.26 - -
25th Percentile £36.58 - -
Median hourly rate £44.34 - -
75th Percentile £52.00 - -
90th Percentile £62.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.34 - -

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 12,057 10,110 12,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.12% 36.57% 34.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,338 6,758 9,161
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £702 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 135 244
10th Percentile £14.68 £16.46 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +22.77% +1.75%
75th Percentile £57.25 £46.84 £53.56
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £23.61
% change year-on-year -1.05% +16.48% +4.93%

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 3 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Monitor in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Monitor in England

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 3 January 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 +28 118 £500 -4.76% 20
Midlands -19 31 £537 +34.25% 20
West Midlands -21 23 £534 +33.50% 13
South East -43 17 £500 -21.26% 27
South West - 15 £575 - 11
North of England -57 11 £450 +4.35% 26
North West -26 8 £425 +6.25% 17
East Midlands - 8 £563 - 6
Yorkshire -47 3 £600 +14.29% 8
East of England -17 2 £650 - 14
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 15 (7.54%) Apache
1 15 (7.54%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.04%) WebLogic
3 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.01%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.51%) Confluence
6 2 (1.01%) CMS
6 2 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Maximo
2 3 (1.51%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.01%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (100.00%) Azure
2 94 (47.24%) Azure DevOps
3 73 (36.68%) Entra ID
4 60 (30.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 51 (25.63%) GitHub
6 49 (24.62%) Serverless
7 47 (23.62%) Azure AKS
7 47 (23.62%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (22.11%) Azure Functions
9 41 (20.60%) Azure Key Vault
10 36 (18.09%) Azure Service Bus
11 31 (15.58%) Azure Sentinel
12 30 (15.08%) Power Platform
13 26 (13.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 25 (12.56%) AWS
15 23 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
16 22 (11.06%) Power Automate
17 19 (9.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (9.05%) PowerApps
19 17 (8.54%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.59%) Firewall
2 22 (11.06%) VPN
3 18 (9.05%) DNS
4 11 (5.53%) Network Security
5 10 (5.03%) DHCP
6 5 (2.51%) WAN
7 2 (1.01%) LAN
7 2 (1.01%) MPLS
7 2 (1.01%) SSL
7 2 (1.01%) VSAN
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.50%) DKIM
8 1 (0.50%) DMARC
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.50%) VLAN
8 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.53%) Power BI
1 13 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.03%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.02%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.01%) Redis
6 3 (1.51%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.01%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.01%) MySQL
7 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.50%) KNIME
8 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (12.06%) Git
2 9 (4.52%) JIRA
3 8 (4.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.51%) Postman
5 4 (2.01%) GitLab
6 3 (1.51%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.51%) Gradle
7 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.01%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.01%) JMeter
7 2 (1.01%) MLflow
7 2 (1.01%) PVCS
7 2 (1.01%) Snyk
8 1 (0.50%) Ant
8 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.50%) ERwin
8 1 (0.50%) Locust
8 1 (0.50%) Maven
8 1 (0.50%) Poetry
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 46 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.07%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.06%) Finance
4 10 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.52%) Banking
6 8 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.51%) Retail
8 3 (1.51%) Billing
8 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Legal
9 2 (1.01%) Local Government
9 2 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (27.64%) Azure Engineer
2 53 (26.63%) Developer
3 30 (15.08%) Senior
4 28 (14.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.06%) Azure Developer
6 18 (9.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (8.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (7.54%) Security Engineer
10 14 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (6.53%) Lead
12 11 (5.53%) Architect
13 10 (5.03%) Administrator
13 10 (5.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 10 (5.03%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (5.03%) DBA
13 10 (5.03%) Monitoring Engineer
14 9 (4.52%) Integration Developer
15 8 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
15 8 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (21.61%) .NET
2 36 (18.09%) REST
3 25 (12.56%) ARM Templates
4 22 (11.06%) .NET Core
4 22 (11.06%) Node.js
5 20 (10.05%) OAuth
6 17 (8.54%) JSON
6 17 (8.54%) React
7 13 (6.53%) AngularJS
7 13 (6.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 11 (5.53%) .NET Framework
8 11 (5.53%) OAuth2
8 11 (5.53%) YAML
9 10 (5.03%) GraphQL
10 9 (4.52%) ASP.NET
10 9 (4.52%) PyTorch
10 9 (4.52%) SOAP
11 8 (4.02%) Kafka
12 7 (3.52%) TensorFlow
13 6 (3.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.52%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.02%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.52%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.01%) Replication
8 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.51%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.51%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.09%) Windows
2 23 (11.56%) Linux
3 17 (8.54%) Unix
4 8 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.02%) VMS
6 1 (0.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (66.83%) DevOps
2 108 (54.27%) Analytics
3 100 (50.25%) CI/CD
4 99 (49.75%) Log Analytics
5 65 (32.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (25.63%) Observability
7 49 (24.62%) Agile
8 46 (23.12%) RBAC
9 40 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (17.59%) API Management
11 32 (16.08%) AI
11 32 (16.08%) Containerisation
11 32 (16.08%) Migration
12 28 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (14.07%) Microservices
13 26 (13.07%) Cloud Security
13 26 (13.07%) Data Modelling
13 26 (13.07%) Incident Response
13 26 (13.07%) Test Automation
14 24 (12.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.65%) Bicep
2 58 (29.15%) SQL
3 51 (25.63%) Python
4 50 (25.13%) PowerShell
5 49 (24.62%) C#
6 25 (12.56%) JavaScript
7 21 (10.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (7.54%) Bash
9 13 (6.53%) TypeScript
10 12 (6.03%) Java
11 7 (3.52%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.51%) PHP
12 3 (1.51%) X++
13 1 (0.50%) Go
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 58 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 41 (20.60%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.02%) CISM
5 8 (4.02%) CISSP
5 8 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 7 (3.52%) Degree
7 3 (1.51%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.05%) NIST
2 17 (8.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.53%) GDPR
4 8 (4.02%) NIST 800
5 7 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.52%) NCSC
6 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.01%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.01%) QA
7 2 (1.01%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (23.12%) Active Directory
2 36 (18.09%) Docker
3 6 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (47.24%) Terraform
2 48 (24.12%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.03%) Grafana
3 12 (6.03%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.02%) Ansible
5 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.01%) Packer
5 4 (2.01%) Pingdom
5 4 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.01%) Kibana
8 1 (0.50%) Argo
8 1 (0.50%) CASB
8 1 (0.50%) logstash
8 1 (0.50%) SCCM
8 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 112 (56.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.06%) Databricks
3 19 (9.55%) OpenAI
4 16 (8.04%) Dynatrace
4 16 (8.04%) Oracle
5 15 (7.54%) Splunk
6 14 (7.04%) AppDynamics
6 14 (7.04%) Cisco
7 8 (4.02%) IBM
7 8 (4.02%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.02%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.02%) VMware
9 5 (2.51%) Google
10 4 (2.01%) Moogsoft
10 4 (2.01%) New Relic
10 4 (2.01%) PagerDuty
10 4 (2.01%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.01%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.51%) LogRhythm
11 3 (1.51%) NetApp