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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 369 368
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +87
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 214 116 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.28% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 86 121
10th Percentile £400 £313 £425
25th Percentile £446 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -20.35% +2.73%
75th Percentile £597 £630 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £459 £565
% change year-on-year +8.87% -18.72% +2.73%
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 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.65% - -

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 14,317 9,065 11,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.46% 37.24% 31.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,856 6,343 8,545
10th Percentile £316 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 194 321
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.84 £40.50 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.38 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -9 126 £525 +19.32% 29
South East -55 26 £500 -18.70% 15
South West -11 20 £475 - 2
North of England -48 19 £476 +5.78% 6
Midlands -64 14 £575 +35.29% 5
North West -30 12 £518 +15.11% 4
West Midlands -55 9 £455 +7.06% 4
Yorkshire - 7 £460 - 1
East of England - 5 £550 - 5
East Midlands - 4 £575 - 1
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 16 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.21%) IIS
4 4 (1.87%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.40%) Confluence
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.47%) Apache
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.47%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (3.27%) Maximo
2 2 (0.93%) Shopify
3 1 (0.47%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 214 (100.00%) Azure
2 110 (51.40%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (35.98%) GitHub
4 66 (30.84%) Entra ID
5 55 (25.70%) Azure AKS
5 55 (25.70%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (23.36%) Azure Key Vault
7 40 (18.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 39 (18.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 38 (17.76%) Serverless
10 34 (15.89%) Azure Functions
11 31 (14.49%) AWS
12 28 (13.08%) PaaS
13 26 (12.15%) Azure Sentinel
14 25 (11.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (9.81%) Microsoft 365
16 20 (9.35%) Power Platform
17 19 (8.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 17 (7.94%) Azure App Service
19 16 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.16%) Firewall
2 22 (10.28%) VPN
3 17 (7.94%) DNS
4 13 (6.07%) Network Security
5 6 (2.80%) DHCP
6 4 (1.87%) VSAN
6 4 (1.87%) WAN
7 3 (1.40%) SNMP
7 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.40%) VLAN
8 2 (0.93%) Internet
8 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.93%) LAN
8 2 (0.93%) NGFW
9 1 (0.47%) HTTP
9 1 (0.47%) MPLS
9 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.47%) SMTP
9 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (7.01%) Delta Lake
4 14 (6.54%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.14%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.21%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.27%) Power BI
8 6 (2.80%) Redis
9 4 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.87%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.40%) Parquet
10 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.47%) Big Data
12 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.47%) GIS
12 1 (0.47%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (15.42%) Git
2 8 (3.74%) GitLab
2 8 (3.74%) JIRA
3 5 (2.34%) Gradle
4 4 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.40%) Maven
6 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) MSI
7 1 (0.47%) NUnit
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) Serilog
7 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.47%) TestRail
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.47%) webpack
7 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.42%) Public Sector
3 31 (14.49%) Finance
4 14 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.27%) Banking
5 7 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.34%) Legal
7 3 (1.40%) Retail
8 2 (0.93%) Law
8 2 (0.93%) Local Government
8 2 (0.93%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Back Office
9 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 76 (35.51%) Azure Engineer
2 41 (19.16%) Developer
3 38 (17.76%) Senior
4 32 (14.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (12.62%) Azure Developer
6 25 (11.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 21 (9.81%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (9.35%) Architect
8 20 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.54%) Data Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Site Engineer
10 13 (6.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Lead
12 9 (4.21%) Migration Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (22.43%) .NET
2 35 (16.36%) ARM Templates
3 27 (12.62%) REST
4 24 (11.21%) .NET Framework
5 18 (8.41%) Node.js
6 15 (7.01%) Microsoft Graph
7 13 (6.07%) OAuth
7 13 (6.07%) SOAP
8 12 (5.61%) .NET Core
8 12 (5.61%) JSON
8 12 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (5.61%) React
8 12 (5.61%) YAML
9 11 (5.14%) Web Services
10 10 (4.67%) OAuth2
10 10 (4.67%) PySpark
11 9 (4.21%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.21%) RESTful
12 8 (3.74%) OpenID
12 8 (3.74%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.14%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.21%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.74%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.80%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.34%) Replication
8 5 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.40%) Clustering
10 3 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.93%) CMDB
11 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.93%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.29%) Windows
2 19 (8.88%) Windows Server
3 14 (6.54%) Linux
4 5 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.87%) VMS
6 3 (1.40%) SUSE
7 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (72.43%) DevOps
2 118 (55.14%) CI/CD
3 110 (51.40%) Analytics
4 99 (46.26%) Log Analytics
5 92 (42.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (32.71%) Observability
7 46 (21.50%) RBAC
8 43 (20.09%) Containerisation
9 42 (19.63%) Agile
10 32 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (14.49%) Disaster Recovery
11 31 (14.49%) Migration
12 30 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.55%) AI
13 29 (13.55%) API Management
13 29 (13.55%) High Availability
13 29 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 29 (13.55%) Runbook
14 27 (12.62%) Test Automation
15 26 (12.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.51%) PowerShell
2 68 (31.78%) Python
3 63 (29.44%) Bicep
4 51 (23.83%) C#
5 49 (22.90%) SQL
6 26 (12.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 20 (9.35%) Bash
8 15 (7.01%) JavaScript
9 10 (4.67%) Scala
10 9 (4.21%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.74%) Java
12 2 (0.93%) C
12 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.47%) C++
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 63 (29.44%) SC Cleared
3 50 (23.36%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.80%) CISM
6 6 (2.80%) CISSP
6 6 (2.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.93%) Degree
8 2 (0.93%) MCSE
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNP
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.01%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.14%) QA
4 10 (4.67%) NIST
5 6 (2.80%) NCSC
5 6 (2.80%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.87%) GDPR
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.93%) SLA
7 2 (0.93%) WCAG
8 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (21.96%) Docker
2 31 (14.49%) Active Directory
3 20 (9.35%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.27%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.87%) vSphere
8 3 (1.40%) Firmware
8 3 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.47%) IAG
9 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (58.88%) Terraform
2 58 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.35%) Grafana
3 20 (9.35%) Prometheus
4 12 (5.61%) Ansible
5 4 (1.87%) Istio
5 4 (1.87%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.87%) linkerd
5 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.87%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.40%) VxRail
7 2 (0.93%) SCOM
8 1 (0.47%) Control-M
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (49.07%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.68%) Databricks
3 17 (7.94%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.61%) VMware
5 9 (4.21%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.21%) Splunk
6 7 (3.27%) IBM
7 6 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.80%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.34%) Foundry
8 5 (2.34%) Google
8 5 (2.34%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.87%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.87%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.40%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.40%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.40%) Dell
10 3 (1.40%) New Relic
11 2 (0.93%) NetApp
11 2 (0.93%) Oracle
52 Azure Monitor jobs in England