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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 357 400
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 +82
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 218 128 171
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.52% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.37% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 102 124
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £440 £415 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £638
90th Percentile £703 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +5.26%
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 13,647 9,338 12,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.07% 37.79% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,387 6,476 8,847
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £709 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 163 330
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.57 £42.06
90th Percentile £79.80 £76.10 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -7 126 £523 +3.21% 25
South East -65 23 £500 -20.00% 9
Midlands -38 22 £525 +27.27% 8
North of England -50 22 £501 +25.13% 10
South West -8 19 £513 - 4
North West -25 13 £518 +29.50% 4
West Midlands -55 12 £440 +6.67% 5
Yorkshire -48 9 £493 -6.19% 5
East Midlands - 9 £575 - 3
East of England - 2 £650 - 2
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 (10.55%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.29%) IIS
4 4 (1.83%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.38%) Confluence
6 2 (0.92%) CMS
6 2 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.92%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Maximo
2 3 (1.38%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) Azure
2 130 (59.63%) Azure DevOps
3 82 (37.61%) Entra ID
4 77 (35.32%) GitHub
5 62 (28.44%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (26.15%) Azure Key Vault
7 54 (24.77%) Azure AKS
8 47 (21.56%) Serverless
9 46 (21.10%) Azure Service Bus
10 45 (20.64%) Azure Logic Apps
11 44 (20.18%) Azure Functions
12 31 (14.22%) PaaS
13 30 (13.76%) Azure Sentinel
13 30 (13.76%) Microsoft 365
14 28 (12.84%) Power Platform
15 27 (12.39%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (11.47%) AWS
17 20 (9.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 20 (9.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 19 (8.72%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 41 (18.81%) Firewall
2 23 (10.55%) VPN
3 19 (8.72%) DNS
4 12 (5.50%) Network Security
5 7 (3.21%) DHCP
6 4 (1.83%) WAN
7 3 (1.38%) LAN
7 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.92%) Internet
8 2 (0.92%) MPLS
8 2 (0.92%) SSL
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.46%) DKIM
9 1 (0.46%) DMARC
9 1 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.46%) SMTP
9 1 (0.46%) VSAN
9 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (7.80%) Data Lake
3 15 (6.88%) Delta Lake
3 15 (6.88%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.13%) Power BI
4 9 (4.13%) Redis
5 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.38%) Parquet
7 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.92%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.46%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.46%) GIS
9 1 (0.46%) PolyBase
9 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.22%) Git
2 9 (4.13%) JIRA
3 8 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.21%) GitLab
5 3 (1.38%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.92%) Gradle
6 2 (0.92%) MLflow
7 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.46%) ERwin
7 1 (0.46%) Moq
7 1 (0.46%) MSI
7 1 (0.46%) NUnit
7 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.46%) Serilog
7 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.46%) TestRail
7 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.46%) webpack
7 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (16.51%) Public Sector
2 34 (15.60%) Social Skills
3 30 (13.76%) Finance
4 14 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.67%) Banking
6 7 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.21%) Retail
7 5 (2.29%) Legal
8 2 (0.92%) Billing
8 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.92%) Law
8 2 (0.92%) Local Government
8 2 (0.92%) Publishing
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 75 (34.40%) Azure Engineer
2 51 (23.39%) Developer
3 37 (16.97%) Senior
4 34 (15.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.30%) Azure Developer
6 26 (11.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 19 (8.72%) Architect
7 19 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) Lead
10 11 (5.05%) Security Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.23%) .NET
2 39 (17.89%) ARM Templates
3 34 (15.60%) REST
4 24 (11.01%) .NET Framework
5 23 (10.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.72%) .NET Core
7 18 (8.26%) Node.js
8 15 (6.88%) OAuth
8 15 (6.88%) React
9 14 (6.42%) SOAP
10 12 (5.50%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.50%) JSON
10 12 (5.50%) Web Services
10 12 (5.50%) YAML
11 11 (5.05%) PySpark
11 11 (5.05%) PyTorch
12 10 (4.59%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.13%) ASP.NET
13 9 (4.13%) TensorFlow
14 8 (3.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.13%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.13%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.75%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.38%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.38%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.84%) Windows
2 13 (5.96%) Linux
3 11 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.29%) VMS
5 2 (0.92%) Unix
6 1 (0.46%) Android
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (75.69%) DevOps
2 122 (55.96%) Analytics
3 120 (55.05%) CI/CD
4 112 (51.38%) Log Analytics
5 94 (43.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (30.28%) Observability
7 55 (25.23%) RBAC
8 43 (19.72%) Agile
8 43 (19.72%) Containerisation
9 36 (16.51%) AI
9 36 (16.51%) Migration
10 35 (16.06%) API Management
11 32 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 30 (13.76%) Cloud Security
13 30 (13.76%) Runbook
14 29 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (12.84%) Disaster Recovery
16 27 (12.39%) Identity Access Management
17 26 (11.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 71 (32.57%) Python
2 70 (32.11%) PowerShell
3 68 (31.19%) Bicep
4 60 (27.52%) SQL
5 52 (23.85%) C#
6 26 (11.93%) Kusto Query Language
7 23 (10.55%) Bash
7 23 (10.55%) JavaScript
8 14 (6.42%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.59%) Scala
10 7 (3.21%) Java
11 5 (2.29%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.38%) PHP
12 3 (1.38%) X++
13 2 (0.92%) C
14 1 (0.46%) C++
14 1 (0.46%) Go
14 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.06%) SC Cleared
3 52 (23.85%) Azure Certification
4 20 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.21%) CISM
5 7 (3.21%) CISSP
5 7 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.29%) Degree
7 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.46%) CCNA
9 1 (0.46%) CCNP
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) Data Quality
1 16 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.96%) NIST
3 9 (4.13%) NCSC
4 7 (3.21%) NIST 800
5 5 (2.29%) GDPR
5 5 (2.29%) QA
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 2 (0.92%) WCAG
8 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (20.64%) Docker
2 43 (19.72%) Active Directory
3 13 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 129 (59.17%) Terraform
2 55 (25.23%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.88%) Grafana
3 15 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.21%) Ansible
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.83%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.38%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.38%) linkerd
7 2 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.92%) Argo
7 2 (0.92%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) Control-M
8 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) logstash
8 1 (0.46%) Packer
8 1 (0.46%) SCOM
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (55.50%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.30%) Databricks
3 21 (9.63%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.67%) IBM
6 7 (3.21%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.21%) VMware
7 5 (2.29%) Foundry
7 5 (2.29%) Google
7 5 (2.29%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.29%) Splunk
8 4 (1.83%) Moogsoft
8 4 (1.83%) New Relic
8 4 (1.83%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.38%) Alibaba
9 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco
10 2 (0.92%) NetApp
10 2 (0.92%) Sitecore