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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 344 379
Rank change year-on-year -37 +35 +122
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 188 133 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.39% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 99 126
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £427 £420 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £598 £648 £640
90th Percentile £748 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -7.41% -10.00% +4.35%
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 13,196 9,555 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.37% 37.74% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 6,485 8,919
10th Percentile £309 £313 £272
25th Percentile £408 £419 £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 £708 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 374 149 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.15
25th Percentile £20.31 £21.05 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £79.28 £74.10 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -14 109 £518 -1.43% 27
South East -52 23 £500 -20.00% 12
Midlands -38 22 £500 +25.00% 4
South West -5 15 £550 - 2
North of England -52 14 £560 +40.00% 8
West Midlands -42 12 £440 +10.00% 1
East Midlands - 10 £563 - 2
North West -30 8 £518 +29.50% 5
Yorkshire -57 6 £575 +9.52% 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 17 (9.04%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.13%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.60%) Confluence
6 2 (1.06%) CMS
6 2 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.53%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) IIS
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Maximo
2 3 (1.60%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) Azure
2 119 (63.30%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (35.11%) Entra ID
3 66 (35.11%) GitHub
4 53 (28.19%) GitHub Actions
5 49 (26.06%) Azure Key Vault
6 45 (23.94%) Azure AKS
6 45 (23.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 44 (23.40%) Serverless
8 40 (21.28%) Azure Functions
9 38 (20.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 28 (14.89%) Azure Sentinel
11 27 (14.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (12.77%) Power Platform
13 23 (12.23%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (11.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 21 (11.17%) PaaS
16 20 (10.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 19 (10.11%) AWS
18 15 (7.98%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.62%) Firewall
2 20 (10.64%) VPN
3 15 (7.98%) DNS
4 11 (5.85%) Network Security
5 6 (3.19%) DHCP
6 3 (1.60%) WAN
7 2 (1.06%) LAN
7 2 (1.06%) MPLS
7 2 (1.06%) SSL
7 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.53%) DKIM
8 1 (0.53%) DMARC
8 1 (0.53%) HTTP
8 1 (0.53%) SMTP
8 1 (0.53%) VSAN
8 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (8.51%) Data Lake
3 14 (7.45%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.79%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.79%) Power BI
4 9 (4.79%) Redis
5 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.60%) Parquet
7 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.06%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.53%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.53%) KNIME
9 1 (0.53%) PolyBase
9 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (15.96%) Git
2 9 (4.79%) JIRA
3 7 (3.72%) GitLab
3 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.06%) Gradle
5 2 (1.06%) MLflow
5 2 (1.06%) TestRail
6 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.53%) Locust
6 1 (0.53%) Moq
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) Serilog
6 1 (0.53%) Snyk
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.53%) webpack
6 1 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (17.02%) Public Sector
2 31 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.83%) Finance
4 13 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.19%) Banking
5 6 (3.19%) Retail
6 4 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Billing
7 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.60%) Legal
8 2 (1.06%) Law
8 2 (1.06%) Local Government
8 2 (1.06%) Publishing
9 1 (0.53%) Back Office
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (32.98%) Azure Engineer
2 45 (23.94%) Developer
3 34 (18.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (17.55%) Senior
5 26 (13.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 22 (11.70%) Azure Developer
7 16 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.91%) Architect
9 13 (6.91%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.91%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.85%) Lead
10 11 (5.85%) Security Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.26%) Azure Security Engineer
13 7 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Developer
14 6 (3.19%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.94%) .NET
2 38 (20.21%) ARM Templates
3 30 (15.96%) REST
4 20 (10.64%) .NET Core
4 20 (10.64%) Node.js
5 18 (9.57%) React
6 17 (9.04%) Microsoft Graph
7 14 (7.45%) .NET Framework
8 13 (6.91%) AngularJS
8 13 (6.91%) JSON
8 13 (6.91%) OAuth
9 11 (5.85%) PyTorch
10 10 (5.32%) PySpark
10 10 (5.32%) YAML
11 9 (4.79%) TensorFlow
12 8 (4.26%) ASP.NET
12 8 (4.26%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.26%) SOAP
13 6 (3.19%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.32%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.26%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.66%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.60%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.11%) Windows
2 12 (6.38%) Linux
3 5 (2.66%) VMS
4 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (78.72%) DevOps
2 108 (57.45%) CI/CD
3 105 (55.85%) Analytics
4 95 (50.53%) Log Analytics
5 87 (46.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (26.60%) Observability
7 48 (25.53%) RBAC
8 46 (24.47%) Agile
9 38 (20.21%) Containerisation
10 35 (18.62%) AI
11 32 (17.02%) API Management
11 32 (17.02%) Migration
12 30 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (14.36%) Microservices
15 25 (13.30%) Cloud Security
16 23 (12.23%) Data Modelling
16 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 20 (10.64%) SIEM
17 20 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 63 (33.51%) Bicep
2 62 (32.98%) Python
3 55 (29.26%) SQL
4 48 (25.53%) PowerShell
5 45 (23.94%) C#
6 24 (12.77%) JavaScript
7 21 (11.17%) Bash
8 20 (10.64%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (8.51%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.79%) Scala
11 8 (4.26%) Java
12 5 (2.66%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.60%) PHP
13 3 (1.60%) X++
14 2 (1.06%) C
15 1 (0.53%) C++
15 1 (0.53%) Go
15 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (24.47%) Azure Certification
3 45 (23.94%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.72%) CISM
5 7 (3.72%) CISSP
5 7 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.66%) Degree
7 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) Data Quality
1 15 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (6.91%) NIST
3 9 (4.79%) NCSC
4 7 (3.72%) NIST 800
5 6 (3.19%) GDPR
6 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.06%) QA
7 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 2 (1.06%) WCAG
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (23.40%) Docker
2 40 (21.28%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (62.77%) Terraform
2 49 (26.06%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.38%) Grafana
3 12 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.19%) Ansible
5 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.13%) Pingdom
6 2 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.06%) Argo
6 2 (1.06%) Kibana
6 2 (1.06%) SCCM
7 1 (0.53%) Control-M
7 1 (0.53%) logstash
7 1 (0.53%) SCOM
7 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (57.45%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.36%) Databricks
3 22 (11.70%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.32%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.26%) IBM
6 7 (3.72%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.19%) Google
8 5 (2.66%) Foundry
8 5 (2.66%) VMware
9 4 (2.13%) Moogsoft
9 4 (2.13%) New Relic
9 4 (2.13%) PagerDuty
9 4 (2.13%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.13%) Splunk
10 3 (1.60%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.60%) Oracle
11 2 (1.06%) LogRhythm
11 2 (1.06%) NetApp
11 2 (1.06%) Virgin Media