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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 342 382
Rank change year-on-year -31 +40 +94
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 222 131 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.54% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.42% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 104 120
10th Percentile £400 £354 £412
25th Percentile £431 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £506 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% -11.96% +4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £575
% change year-on-year -3.38% -10.00% +4.55%
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 13,934 9,197 12,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.70% 37.92% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,588 6,487 8,717
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 184 327
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.19 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.05% +29.46% -17.58%
75th Percentile £67.19 £43.10 £38.13
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.63 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -20.69%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -8 127 £525 +15.64% 24
South East -59 27 £463 -26.00% 7
South West -3 22 £500 - 6
North of England -48 21 £501 +2.67% 14
Midlands -60 19 £575 +39.39% 9
North West -26 13 £518 +15.11% 7
West Midlands -50 11 £478 +15.76% 7
Yorkshire -47 8 £493 -6.19% 4
East Midlands - 7 £575 - 2
East of England - 2 £575 - 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 23 (10.36%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.60%) IIS
4 5 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.80%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.35%) Confluence
7 2 (0.90%) CMS
7 2 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.45%) Apache
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Maximo
2 2 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 222 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (56.31%) Azure DevOps
3 81 (36.49%) Entra ID
4 80 (36.04%) GitHub
5 62 (27.93%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (24.32%) Azure Key Vault
7 52 (23.42%) Azure AKS
8 49 (22.07%) Azure Logic Apps
9 47 (21.17%) Serverless
10 45 (20.27%) Azure Service Bus
11 43 (19.37%) Azure Functions
12 31 (13.96%) AWS
13 30 (13.51%) PaaS
14 29 (13.06%) Azure Sentinel
14 29 (13.06%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (12.16%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (10.36%) Power Platform
17 21 (9.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 20 (9.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
19 19 (8.56%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 45 (20.27%) Firewall
2 27 (12.16%) VPN
3 20 (9.01%) DNS
4 15 (6.76%) Network Security
5 7 (3.15%) DHCP
6 5 (2.25%) WAN
7 4 (1.80%) VSAN
8 3 (1.35%) LAN
8 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.35%) VLAN
9 2 (0.90%) Internet
9 2 (0.90%) MPLS
9 2 (0.90%) SSL
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.45%) DKIM
10 1 (0.45%) DMARC
10 1 (0.45%) HTTP
10 1 (0.45%) SMTP
10 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (7.66%) Data Lake
2 17 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.76%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.05%) Redis
5 6 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.70%) Power BI
6 3 (1.35%) Parquet
6 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.45%) KNIME
8 1 (0.45%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (12.61%) Git
2 9 (4.05%) JIRA
3 8 (3.60%) GitLab
3 8 (3.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.35%) Gradle
5 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.90%) MLflow
6 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.45%) Maven
6 1 (0.45%) Moq
6 1 (0.45%) MSI
6 1 (0.45%) NUnit
6 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.45%) Serilog
6 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) TestRail
6 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.45%) webpack
6 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.51%) Finance
4 15 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.15%) Banking
6 6 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.70%) Retail
7 5 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (0.90%) Billing
8 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.90%) Law
8 2 (0.90%) Local Government
8 2 (0.90%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 77 (34.68%) Azure Engineer
2 48 (21.62%) Developer
3 39 (17.57%) Senior
4 36 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.61%) Azure Developer
6 27 (12.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 20 (9.01%) Architect
8 19 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (7.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.86%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.41%) Site Engineer
13 11 (4.95%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.95%) Lead
13 11 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 9 (4.05%) Migration Engineer
15 8 (3.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (25.68%) .NET
2 41 (18.47%) ARM Templates
3 33 (14.86%) REST
4 26 (11.71%) .NET Framework
5 23 (10.36%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.56%) Node.js
7 18 (8.11%) .NET Core
8 15 (6.76%) OAuth
8 15 (6.76%) React
9 14 (6.31%) SOAP
10 13 (5.86%) YAML
11 12 (5.41%) AngularJS
11 12 (5.41%) JSON
11 12 (5.41%) Web Services
12 11 (4.95%) PyTorch
13 10 (4.50%) OAuth2
13 10 (4.50%) PySpark
14 9 (4.05%) TensorFlow
15 8 (3.60%) ASP.NET
15 8 (3.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.50%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.50%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.05%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.70%) Legacy Code
7 6 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.25%) Replication
8 5 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.80%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.35%) Clustering
10 3 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.32%) Windows
2 16 (7.21%) Linux
3 14 (6.31%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.60%) VMS
5 4 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.35%) SUSE
7 2 (0.90%) Unix
8 1 (0.45%) Android
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (74.77%) DevOps
2 118 (53.15%) Analytics
2 118 (53.15%) CI/CD
3 108 (48.65%) Log Analytics
4 95 (42.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (31.98%) Observability
6 55 (24.77%) RBAC
7 44 (19.82%) Agile
7 44 (19.82%) Containerisation
8 38 (17.12%) AI
9 37 (16.67%) Migration
10 34 (15.32%) API Management
11 33 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (13.96%) Runbook
14 30 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (13.51%) High Availability
15 28 (12.61%) Identity Access Management
15 28 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 27 (12.16%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 75 (33.78%) PowerShell
2 72 (32.43%) Python
3 66 (29.73%) Bicep
4 54 (24.32%) SQL
5 51 (22.97%) C#
6 28 (12.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 23 (10.36%) Bash
8 22 (9.91%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.31%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.50%) Scala
11 8 (3.60%) Java
12 3 (1.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) C
13 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.45%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 75 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 55 (24.77%) Azure Certification
4 19 (8.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.15%) CISM
5 7 (3.15%) CISSP
5 7 (3.15%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.25%) Degree
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.45%) CCNA
8 1 (0.45%) CCNP
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.86%) NIST
4 9 (4.05%) NCSC
4 9 (4.05%) QA
5 7 (3.15%) NIST 800
6 6 (2.70%) GDPR
7 3 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.90%) SLA
8 2 (0.90%) WCAG
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (20.27%) Docker
2 43 (19.37%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.66%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.80%) vSphere
7 3 (1.35%) Firmware
7 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.45%) IAG
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (58.56%) Terraform
2 57 (25.68%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.66%) Grafana
4 16 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.05%) Ansible
6 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.80%) Pingdom
7 3 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.35%) Istio
7 3 (1.35%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.35%) linkerd
7 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.35%) VxRail
8 2 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.90%) SCCM
9 1 (0.45%) Control-M
9 1 (0.45%) Packer
9 1 (0.45%) SCOM
9 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.51%) Databricks
3 21 (9.46%) OpenAI
4 11 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.50%) VMware
6 8 (3.60%) IBM
7 7 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.15%) Splunk
8 5 (2.25%) Foundry
8 5 (2.25%) Google
8 5 (2.25%) New Relic
8 5 (2.25%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.80%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.80%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.35%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.35%) Dell
10 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.35%) Oracle
11 2 (0.90%) Cisco
11 2 (0.90%) NetApp