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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 358 376
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +118
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 189 155 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.41% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 110 142
10th Percentile £377 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% -5.21% +2.13%
75th Percentile £548 £638 £675
90th Percentile £628 £660 £687
UK median daily rate £508 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £31.37 - -
25th Percentile £36.86 - -
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.00 - -

All Cloud 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 11,827 11,024 13,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.28% 36.21% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,094 7,350 9,793
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 148 268
10th Percentile £15.48 £17.00 £14.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.15 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.38 £56.31 £55.63
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -12.33% +14.29% +19.32%

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 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +32 118 £500 -4.76% 20
Midlands 0 33 £537 +34.25% 8
West Midlands -11 23 £534 +33.50% 5
South East -40 12 £483 -22.70% 15
East Midlands - 10 £563 - 3
North of England -50 9 £450 +9.09% 11
South West - 9 £510 - 5
North West -27 6 £450 +12.50% 6
Yorkshire -33 3 £600 +14.29% 5
East of England -15 2 £650 - 3
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 (8.47%) Apache
2 14 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.41%) WebLogic
3 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.06%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.59%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) Azure
2 87 (46.03%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (35.98%) Entra ID
4 59 (31.22%) Azure Logic Apps
5 49 (25.93%) GitHub
6 47 (24.87%) Serverless
7 46 (24.34%) GitHub Actions
8 43 (22.75%) Azure Key Vault
9 42 (22.22%) Azure Functions
10 41 (21.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 39 (20.63%) Azure AKS
12 31 (16.40%) Power Platform
13 25 (13.23%) AWS
13 25 (13.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 23 (12.17%) Azure Sentinel
15 22 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (11.64%) Power Automate
16 21 (11.11%) Azure API Management
16 21 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (9.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.93%) Firewall
2 18 (9.52%) DNS
3 17 (8.99%) VPN
4 15 (7.94%) Network Security
5 9 (4.76%) DHCP
6 5 (2.65%) WAN
7 3 (1.59%) VSAN
8 2 (1.06%) LAN
8 2 (1.06%) MPLS
8 2 (1.06%) SSL
8 2 (1.06%) VLAN
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.53%) DKIM
9 1 (0.53%) DMARC
9 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.53%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (6.35%) NoSQL
2 12 (6.35%) Power BI
2 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.29%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.12%) Delta Lake
5 4 (2.12%) Redis
6 3 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.06%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.06%) Metadata
7 2 (1.06%) MySQL
7 2 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.53%) KNIME
8 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Git
2 8 (4.23%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.70%) JIRA
4 5 (2.65%) Postman
5 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.06%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.06%) JMeter
5 2 (1.06%) MLflow
5 2 (1.06%) PVCS
5 2 (1.06%) Snyk
6 1 (0.53%) Ant
6 1 (0.53%) ERwin
6 1 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Maven
6 1 (0.53%) Pylint
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.53%) TestRail
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.76%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.70%) Finance
4 9 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.23%) Banking
6 7 (3.70%) Law
7 5 (2.65%) Retail
8 3 (1.59%) Billing
8 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Legal
9 2 (1.06%) Local Government
9 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.06%) Military
9 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.53%) Automotive
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (26.98%) Developer
2 45 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (13.76%) Senior
4 24 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (10.58%) Azure Developer
6 15 (7.94%) Security Engineer
7 14 (7.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 14 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (6.35%) Architect
9 12 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.82%) Integration Developer
10 11 (5.82%) Lead
11 10 (5.29%) DBA
11 10 (5.29%) Monitoring Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Administrator
12 9 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.23%) Azure Security Engineer
13 8 (4.23%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.63%) .NET
2 31 (16.40%) REST
3 23 (12.17%) ARM Templates
4 20 (10.58%) .NET Core
4 20 (10.58%) OAuth
5 17 (8.99%) Node.js
5 17 (8.99%) YAML
6 13 (6.88%) JSON
6 13 (6.88%) Microsoft Graph
6 13 (6.88%) React
7 11 (5.82%) .NET Framework
7 11 (5.82%) OAuth2
8 10 (5.29%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.76%) SOAP
10 8 (4.23%) ASP.NET
10 8 (4.23%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.23%) PyTorch
11 6 (3.17%) ADO
11 6 (3.17%) Kafka
11 6 (3.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.23%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.12%) Data Fabric
6 4 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.12%) Replication
6 4 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.87%) Windows
2 23 (12.17%) Linux
3 17 (8.99%) Unix
4 7 (3.70%) VMS
5 6 (3.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (65.08%) DevOps
2 105 (55.56%) Analytics
3 103 (54.50%) CI/CD
4 97 (51.32%) Log Analytics
5 63 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (24.34%) Agile
7 44 (23.28%) Observability
8 38 (20.11%) API Management
8 38 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (19.05%) RBAC
10 33 (17.46%) AI
11 30 (15.87%) Migration
12 28 (14.81%) Containerisation
13 27 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 26 (13.76%) Incident Response
15 25 (13.23%) Microservices
16 24 (12.70%) Data Modelling
17 23 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
18 22 (11.64%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 61 (32.28%) SQL
2 54 (28.57%) Python
3 52 (27.51%) Bicep
4 50 (26.46%) PowerShell
5 45 (23.81%) C#
6 21 (11.11%) Bash
6 21 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 10 (5.29%) Java
9 10 (5.29%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.65%) X++
11 3 (1.59%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) Go
12 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (32.28%) Security Cleared
2 58 (30.69%) SC Cleared
3 31 (16.40%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.23%) Degree
6 3 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.59%) CISM
6 3 (1.59%) CISSP
6 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.59%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) CCNP
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.53%) MCP
7 1 (0.53%) MCSE
7 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 13 (6.88%) NIST
2 12 (6.35%) GDPR
3 6 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.17%) NCSC
4 3 (1.59%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.06%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.06%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.53%) JSP 440
System Software
1 42 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.40%) Docker
3 10 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.59%) vSphere
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 78 (41.27%) Terraform
2 39 (20.63%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.82%) Grafana
3 11 (5.82%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.17%) Ansible
5 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.12%) Packer
6 4 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.06%) Kibana
8 2 (1.06%) Pingdom
9 1 (0.53%) Argo
9 1 (0.53%) CASB
9 1 (0.53%) logstash
9 1 (0.53%) SCCM
9 1 (0.53%) SCOM
9 1 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 107 (56.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.17%) Databricks
3 16 (8.47%) OpenAI
3 16 (8.47%) Oracle
3 16 (8.47%) Splunk
4 14 (7.41%) AppDynamics
4 14 (7.41%) Cisco
4 14 (7.41%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.65%) Google
6 5 (2.65%) VMware
7 4 (2.12%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.59%) Confluent
8 3 (1.59%) IBM
8 3 (1.59%) LogRhythm
8 3 (1.59%) NetApp
9 2 (1.06%) New Relic
9 2 (1.06%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.06%) Qualtrics