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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 369 350
Rank change year-on-year -10 -19 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 264 147 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.53% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.38% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 94 121
10th Percentile £400 £361 £375
25th Percentile £450 £408 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £494 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -17.71% -0.91%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £638
90th Percentile £677 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £520 £495 £593
% change year-on-year +5.05% -16.46% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £63.48 - -
75th Percentile £65.94 - -
90th Percentile £66.37 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.31% - -

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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 September 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
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 26 September 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 -41 135 £520 +15.56% 61
South East -34 50 £538 +2.38% 22
North of England -30 47 £500 +11.11% 26
Yorkshire -21 21 £471 - 7
North West -28 21 £628 +39.47% 14
Midlands -58 11 £406 -22.62% 14
East of England -25 10 £552 -15.08% 6
South West -33 9 £578 +11.15% 4
East Midlands -15 6 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands -58 5 £400 -24.46% 11
North East - 5 £500 - 5
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 9 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.27%) Confluence
4 4 (1.52%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.14%) Apache
5 3 (1.14%) CMS
5 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.38%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.14%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 264 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (45.83%) Azure DevOps
3 102 (38.64%) GitHub
4 98 (37.12%) Entra ID
5 65 (24.62%) GitHub Actions
6 60 (22.73%) Azure AKS
7 47 (17.80%) AWS
8 43 (16.29%) Azure Key Vault
9 33 (12.50%) Power Platform
10 31 (11.74%) Serverless
11 28 (10.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (10.23%) PaaS
13 26 (9.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (9.09%) Azure Functions
15 22 (8.33%) Azure App Service
15 22 (8.33%) Datadog
15 22 (8.33%) IaaS
16 20 (7.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 19 (7.20%) Azure API Management
17 19 (7.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (17.80%) Firewall
2 36 (13.64%) DNS
3 30 (11.36%) Network Security
4 28 (10.61%) VPN
5 15 (5.68%) DHCP
6 14 (5.30%) TCP/IP
7 12 (4.55%) SSL
8 7 (2.65%) WAN
9 6 (2.27%) BGP
9 6 (2.27%) SSH
10 5 (1.89%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.89%) NGFW
11 4 (1.52%) SNMP
12 2 (0.76%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.38%) Internet
13 1 (0.38%) LAN
13 1 (0.38%) MPLS
13 1 (0.38%) OSPF
13 1 (0.38%) SAN
13 1 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.26%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.47%) Power BI
3 22 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (7.20%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 11 (4.17%) MySQL
6 11 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.89%) Redis
8 4 (1.52%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.76%) Big Data
10 2 (0.76%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (12.50%) Git
2 14 (5.30%) GitLab
3 10 (3.79%) JIRA
4 7 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.52%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.52%) JMeter
5 4 (1.52%) Postman
5 4 (1.52%) Terragrunt
5 4 (1.52%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.14%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.76%) Gatling
7 2 (0.76%) Gradle
7 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.76%) Maven
7 2 (0.76%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.76%) Selenium
7 2 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.38%) Newman
General
1 80 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.02%) Finance
3 36 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.65%) Banking
7 5 (1.89%) Retail
8 4 (1.52%) Military
9 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.14%) Billing
9 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.14%) Local Government
10 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.76%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (22.35%) Azure Engineer
2 46 (17.42%) Senior
3 37 (14.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (13.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (10.61%) Architect
6 27 (10.23%) Developer
7 25 (9.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (6.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 18 (6.82%) Lead
10 12 (4.55%) Consultant
10 12 (4.55%) DBA
11 11 (4.17%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.17%) SQL DBA
12 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (58.33%) Terraform
2 40 (15.15%) ARM Templates
3 39 (14.77%) REST
4 31 (11.74%) .NET
5 28 (10.61%) OAuth
6 21 (7.95%) OAuth2
7 18 (6.82%) OpenID
8 12 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (4.55%) RESTful
8 12 (4.55%) YAML
9 11 (4.17%) .NET Core
9 11 (4.17%) .NET Framework
9 11 (4.17%) Middleware
10 10 (3.79%) OpenAPI
10 10 (3.79%) Swagger
11 9 (3.41%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.41%) JSON
12 8 (3.03%) Kafka
12 8 (3.03%) React
13 7 (2.65%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.95%) CMDB
4 17 (6.44%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.68%) Security Posture
6 12 (4.55%) Clustering
6 12 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.55%) Replication
7 11 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.03%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (3.03%) Product Ownership
9 8 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.65%) Management Information System
11 6 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.27%) PKI
12 5 (1.89%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.89%) Data Centre
13 3 (1.14%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 68 (25.76%) Windows
2 44 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 30 (11.36%) Linux
4 12 (4.55%) VMS
5 11 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.27%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.52%) Android
7 4 (1.52%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Unix
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (64.02%) DevOps
2 156 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 125 (47.35%) Analytics
4 123 (46.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 111 (42.05%) Log Analytics
6 82 (31.06%) Observability
7 69 (26.14%) RBAC
8 60 (22.73%) Agile
9 53 (20.08%) ITIL
10 49 (18.56%) Containerisation
10 49 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (17.80%) Deployment Automation
12 46 (17.42%) AI
12 46 (17.42%) Platform Engineering
13 42 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 40 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
14 40 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 36 (13.64%) Test Automation
16 33 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 119 (45.08%) PowerShell
2 91 (34.47%) Python
3 85 (32.20%) Bicep
4 61 (23.11%) Bash
5 58 (21.97%) SQL
6 45 (17.05%) C#
7 19 (7.20%) Java
8 12 (4.55%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.38%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) Korn
11 1 (0.38%) X++
Qualifications
1 91 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 59 (22.35%) Azure Certification
4 25 (9.47%) Degree
4 25 (9.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.65%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.89%) CISSP
11 5 (1.89%) MCSE
12 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.38%) CCIE
13 1 (0.38%) CCNP
13 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.38%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.38%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.98%) QA
2 14 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.55%) GDPR
4 9 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.65%) NIST
6 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.14%) SLA
6 3 (1.14%) WCAG
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
7 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.76%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) HL7
8 1 (0.38%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 52 (19.70%) Active Directory
2 51 (19.32%) Docker
3 34 (12.88%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (3.79%) IAG
7 7 (2.65%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 79 (29.92%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.53%) Grafana
3 34 (12.88%) Ansible
4 26 (9.85%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (7.20%) SCOM
7 14 (5.30%) SCCM
8 8 (3.03%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.89%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.38%) Control-M
11 1 (0.38%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.38%) Istio
11 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.38%) linkerd
11 1 (0.38%) Packer
11 1 (0.38%) Podman
11 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 148 (56.06%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.91%) ServiceNow
3 29 (10.98%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.85%) Splunk
5 20 (7.58%) Databricks
6 14 (5.30%) VMware
7 10 (3.79%) Nexthink
8 9 (3.41%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (3.03%) AppDynamics
9 8 (3.03%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.65%) Google
11 6 (2.27%) Foundry
11 6 (2.27%) Okta
11 6 (2.27%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.27%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.89%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.52%) Cribl.io
13 4 (1.52%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.52%) SAP