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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 366 390
Rank change year-on-year -4 +24 +70
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 220 120 165
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.31% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 92 115
10th Percentile £400 £328 £418
25th Percentile £434 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £470 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% -18.26% +3.60%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £628
90th Percentile £725 £686 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +3.60%
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 14,147 9,154 12,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.16% 37.61% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 6,438 8,636
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £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 434 185 317
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.28 £18.50 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -23.78%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.97 £32.75
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.30 £59.97
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £20.97
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.78% -27.69%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -33 127 £525 +16.67% 24
South East -51 27 £463 -23.55% 7
South West -8 23 £475 - 6
North of England -46 21 £501 +11.22% 14
Midlands -49 17 £575 +35.29% 9
North West -16 13 £518 +15.11% 7
West Midlands -53 11 £478 +12.35% 7
Yorkshire - 8 £493 - 4
East Midlands - 5 £575 - 2
East of England - 1 £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 (10.45%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.09%) IIS
4 4 (1.82%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.91%) Apache
6 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.64%) Maximo
2 2 (0.91%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 220 (100.00%) Azure
2 120 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (36.36%) GitHub
4 79 (35.91%) Entra ID
5 60 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (24.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 52 (23.64%) Azure AKS
8 47 (21.36%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (19.55%) Azure Service Bus
9 43 (19.55%) Serverless
10 39 (17.73%) Azure Functions
11 30 (13.64%) AWS
11 30 (13.64%) PaaS
12 29 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (12.73%) Azure Sentinel
14 27 (12.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (11.36%) Power Platform
16 21 (9.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 19 (8.64%) Azure App Service
17 19 (8.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 43 (19.55%) Firewall
2 25 (11.36%) VPN
3 19 (8.64%) DNS
4 15 (6.82%) Network Security
5 7 (3.18%) DHCP
6 4 (1.82%) VSAN
6 4 (1.82%) WAN
7 3 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.36%) VLAN
8 2 (0.91%) Internet
8 2 (0.91%) LAN
8 2 (0.91%) SSL
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.45%) DKIM
9 1 (0.45%) DMARC
9 1 (0.45%) HTTP
9 1 (0.45%) MPLS
9 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.45%) SMTP
9 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (8.64%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.82%) Data Lake
3 15 (6.82%) Delta Lake
4 11 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.18%) Power BI
7 6 (2.73%) Redis
8 4 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.82%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.36%) Parquet
9 3 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.45%) Big Data
11 1 (0.45%) GIS
11 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.09%) Git
2 10 (4.55%) JIRA
3 8 (3.64%) GitLab
4 7 (3.18%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.27%) Gradle
6 3 (1.36%) Maven
7 2 (0.91%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) Moq
8 1 (0.45%) MSI
8 1 (0.45%) NUnit
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) Serilog
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) TestRail
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) webpack
8 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.45%) Public Sector
3 31 (14.09%) Finance
4 15 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.18%) Banking
5 7 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.27%) Legal
7 4 (1.82%) Retail
8 2 (0.91%) Billing
8 2 (0.91%) Law
8 2 (0.91%) Local Government
8 2 (0.91%) Publishing
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (36.82%) Azure Engineer
2 48 (21.82%) Developer
3 39 (17.73%) Senior
4 36 (16.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.73%) Azure Developer
5 28 (12.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 21 (9.55%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (8.64%) Architect
8 16 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (6.36%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.91%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Lead
11 10 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Migration Engineer
13 8 (3.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.45%) .NET
2 40 (18.18%) ARM Templates
3 33 (15.00%) REST
4 26 (11.82%) .NET Framework
5 23 (10.45%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.64%) Node.js
7 17 (7.73%) .NET Core
8 16 (7.27%) OAuth
9 14 (6.36%) React
9 14 (6.36%) SOAP
10 12 (5.45%) JSON
10 12 (5.45%) Web Services
10 12 (5.45%) YAML
11 11 (5.00%) AngularJS
11 11 (5.00%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.55%) PySpark
13 9 (4.09%) OpenID
13 9 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (4.09%) RESTful
13 9 (4.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.09%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.09%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.73%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.27%) Replication
7 5 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.36%) Clustering
9 3 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.45%) Windows
2 15 (6.82%) Linux
2 15 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.18%) VMS
4 4 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.36%) SUSE
6 2 (0.91%) Unix
7 1 (0.45%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (74.55%) DevOps
2 117 (53.18%) Analytics
2 117 (53.18%) CI/CD
3 106 (48.18%) Log Analytics
4 92 (41.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (32.27%) Observability
6 53 (24.09%) RBAC
7 45 (20.45%) Containerisation
8 44 (20.00%) Agile
9 37 (16.82%) AI
10 34 (15.45%) API Management
10 34 (15.45%) Migration
11 33 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (13.64%) Runbook
14 29 (13.18%) High Availability
14 29 (13.18%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (13.18%) Microservices
14 29 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (12.27%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.00%) PowerShell
2 73 (33.18%) Python
3 65 (29.55%) Bicep
4 51 (23.18%) C#
5 50 (22.73%) SQL
6 28 (12.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 22 (10.00%) JavaScript
8 21 (9.55%) Bash
9 14 (6.36%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.55%) Java
10 10 (4.55%) Scala
11 3 (1.36%) PHP
12 2 (0.91%) C
12 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.45%) C++
13 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.18%) SC Cleared
3 55 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 17 (7.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.18%) CISM
5 7 (3.18%) CISSP
5 7 (3.18%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.82%) Degree
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
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%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.91%) NIST
4 11 (5.00%) QA
5 9 (4.09%) NCSC
6 7 (3.18%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.82%) GDPR
8 3 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.91%) SLA
9 2 (0.91%) WCAG
10 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (20.91%) Docker
2 42 (19.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.73%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.18%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.82%) vSphere
7 3 (1.36%) Firmware
7 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.45%) IAG
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (57.27%) Terraform
2 56 (25.45%) Kubernetes
3 18 (8.18%) Grafana
3 18 (8.18%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.09%) Ansible
5 4 (1.82%) Istio
5 4 (1.82%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.82%) linkerd
5 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.82%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.36%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.36%) VxRail
7 2 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.91%) SCCM
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) Control-M
8 1 (0.45%) Packer
8 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (52.73%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.18%) Databricks
3 21 (9.55%) OpenAI
4 11 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.55%) VMware
6 8 (3.64%) IBM
7 7 (3.18%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.18%) Splunk
8 5 (2.27%) Foundry
8 5 (2.27%) Google
8 5 (2.27%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.82%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.82%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.36%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.36%) Dell
10 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.36%) New Relic
10 3 (1.36%) Oracle
11 2 (0.91%) Cisco
11 2 (0.91%) NetApp