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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 370 334
Rank change year-on-year -17 -36 +62
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 269 151 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.41% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 90 131
10th Percentile £400 £360 £375
25th Percentile £450 £408 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £494 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -17.71% -
75th Percentile £623 £538 £644
90th Percentile £675 £638 £653
UK median daily rate £520 £495 £596
% change year-on-year +5.05% -16.98% -0.63%
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 16,031 10,713 11,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.23% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,669 7,252 7,558
10th Percentile £321 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -2.75%
75th Percentile £630 £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 569 253 165
10th Percentile £15.30 £15.30 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.77% -24.86% +6.06%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -36 137 £520 +15.56% 82
South East -23 50 £521 -0.71% 46
North of England -30 50 £500 +11.11% 41
Yorkshire -16 22 £471 - 12
North West -34 21 £628 +39.47% 21
Midlands -63 12 £413 -21.43% 22
East of England -16 10 £552 -15.08% 12
South West -31 9 £578 +11.15% 11
North East - 7 £500 - 9
East Midlands -19 6 £475 -5.00% 6
West Midlands -52 6 £400 -24.46% 16
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 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.97%) Confluence
3 7 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) CMS
4 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.12%) nginx
5 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.12%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.12%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 269 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (46.47%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (38.66%) Entra ID
4 102 (37.92%) GitHub
5 64 (23.79%) Azure AKS
5 64 (23.79%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (17.47%) AWS
6 47 (17.47%) Azure Key Vault
7 34 (12.64%) Serverless
8 31 (11.52%) PaaS
8 31 (11.52%) Power Platform
9 29 (10.78%) Azure Sentinel
10 27 (10.04%) Azure Functions
11 26 (9.67%) Azure App Service
12 25 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (9.29%) IaaS
13 23 (8.55%) Azure API Management
14 22 (8.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 22 (8.18%) Datadog
15 19 (7.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.84%) Firewall
2 39 (14.50%) DNS
3 32 (11.90%) Network Security
4 29 (10.78%) VPN
5 15 (5.58%) DHCP
6 14 (5.20%) TCP/IP
7 12 (4.46%) SSL
8 7 (2.60%) WAN
9 6 (2.23%) BGP
9 6 (2.23%) SSH
10 5 (1.86%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.86%) NGFW
11 4 (1.49%) SNMP
12 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.37%) Internet
13 1 (0.37%) LAN
13 1 (0.37%) MPLS
13 1 (0.37%) OSPF
13 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (14.13%) SQL Server
2 27 (10.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (9.67%) Power BI
4 19 (7.06%) Data Lake
5 14 (5.20%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.09%) MySQL
7 11 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (3.35%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.86%) Redis
11 4 (1.49%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.49%) Parquet
11 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.74%) Big Data
13 2 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (13.01%) Git
2 15 (5.58%) GitLab
3 12 (4.46%) JIRA
4 7 (2.60%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.86%) JMeter
6 4 (1.49%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (1.49%) Postman
6 4 (1.49%) Terragrunt
6 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.74%) Gatling
8 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.74%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.74%) Selenium
8 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.37%) Gradle
9 1 (0.37%) Maven
9 1 (0.37%) Newman
General
1 79 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.50%) Finance
3 36 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.60%) Banking
5 7 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.86%) Retail
7 4 (1.49%) Local Government
7 4 (1.49%) Military
8 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.12%) Billing
8 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.37%) Law
10 1 (0.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (22.68%) Azure Engineer
2 45 (16.73%) Senior
3 39 (14.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (10.78%) Developer
6 28 (10.41%) Architect
6 28 (10.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (7.43%) Lead
8 19 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.46%) Consultant
10 12 (4.46%) DBA
10 12 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) SQL DBA
12 10 (3.72%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (58.74%) Terraform
2 43 (15.99%) REST
3 41 (15.24%) ARM Templates
4 32 (11.90%) .NET
5 30 (11.15%) OAuth
6 21 (7.81%) OAuth2
7 20 (7.43%) OpenID
8 14 (5.20%) .NET Core
8 14 (5.20%) RESTful
9 13 (4.83%) .NET Framework
10 12 (4.46%) JSON
11 11 (4.09%) Entity Framework
11 11 (4.09%) Middleware
11 11 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 11 (4.09%) React
11 11 (4.09%) YAML
12 10 (3.72%) OpenAPI
12 10 (3.72%) Swagger
13 8 (2.97%) Kafka
13 8 (2.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (24.54%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.81%) CMDB
4 18 (6.69%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.58%) Security Posture
6 12 (4.46%) Clustering
6 12 (4.46%) Enterprise Cloud
6 12 (4.46%) Replication
7 11 (4.09%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (2.97%) ARM Cortex
8 8 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.97%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.60%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (2.23%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.23%) PKI
11 5 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 71 (26.39%) Windows
2 46 (17.10%) Windows Server
3 31 (11.52%) Linux
4 12 (4.46%) VMS
5 11 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.23%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.49%) Android
7 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.57%) DevOps
2 157 (58.36%) CI/CD
3 125 (46.47%) Analytics
3 125 (46.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (41.26%) Log Analytics
5 83 (30.86%) Observability
6 73 (27.14%) RBAC
7 62 (23.05%) Agile
8 53 (19.70%) ITIL
9 49 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (17.84%) AI
10 48 (17.84%) Deployment Automation
11 47 (17.47%) Containerisation
11 47 (17.47%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 41 (15.24%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (14.87%) Infrastructure Automation
15 39 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 38 (14.13%) Test Automation
17 34 (12.64%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 121 (44.98%) PowerShell
2 91 (33.83%) Python
3 85 (31.60%) Bicep
4 64 (23.79%) SQL
5 61 (22.68%) Bash
6 47 (17.47%) C#
7 19 (7.06%) Java
8 13 (4.83%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.37%) C
12 1 (0.37%) Korn
12 1 (0.37%) VB
12 1 (0.37%) VBA
12 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 95 (35.32%) Security Cleared
2 65 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 58 (21.56%) Azure Certification
4 26 (9.67%) Degree
5 25 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.32%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (4.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.60%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.86%) CISSP
11 5 (1.86%) MCSE
12 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.37%) CCIE
13 1 (0.37%) CCNP
13 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.37%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.37%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.78%) QA
2 14 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.46%) GDPR
4 9 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.97%) NIST
6 7 (2.60%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.12%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) WCAG
8 2 (0.74%) NCSC
8 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.37%) GLBA
9 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) HL7
9 1 (0.37%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (20.82%) Active Directory
2 49 (18.22%) Docker
3 34 (12.64%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (4.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.72%) IAG
6 7 (2.60%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 78 (29.00%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.24%) Grafana
3 35 (13.01%) Ansible
4 26 (9.67%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (7.06%) SCOM
7 14 (5.20%) SCCM
8 9 (3.35%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.86%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Control-M
11 1 (0.37%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.37%) Istio
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) linkerd
11 1 (0.37%) Packer
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 150 (55.76%) Microsoft
2 42 (15.61%) ServiceNow
3 29 (10.78%) Dynatrace
4 25 (9.29%) Splunk
5 19 (7.06%) Databricks
6 14 (5.20%) VMware
7 10 (3.72%) Nexthink
8 9 (3.35%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (3.35%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.97%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.97%) Google
9 8 (2.97%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.60%) Foundry
10 7 (2.60%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.23%) Okta
12 5 (1.86%) Veeam
12 5 (1.86%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.49%) Commvault
13 4 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (1.49%) MuleSoft