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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 370 352
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 274 144 182
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.52% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.40% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 93 129
10th Percentile £400 £350 £392
25th Percentile £450 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.93% -5.83%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £638
90th Percentile £681 £597 £651
UK median daily rate £521 £475 £560
% change year-on-year +9.74% -15.18% -4.27%
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 15,878 10,301 11,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 37.35% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,601 6,975 7,846
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 196
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 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 1 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 -32 140 £525 +19.32% 53
South East -22 52 £518 -1.43% 21
North of England -32 41 £495 +10.00% 29
North West -39 21 £613 +36.22% 17
Yorkshire - 17 £470 - 6
South West -25 16 £450 -13.46% 1
Midlands -61 13 £444 -15.48% 11
East of England - 9 £552 - 9
East Midlands -11 6 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands -60 6 £400 -24.46% 8
North East - 3 £500 - 6
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 8 (2.92%) IIS
2 6 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.82%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.09%) CMS
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.73%) nginx
6 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.36%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 274 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (44.16%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (37.96%) GitHub
4 93 (33.94%) Entra ID
5 66 (24.09%) Azure AKS
6 64 (23.36%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (19.34%) AWS
8 40 (14.60%) Azure Key Vault
9 35 (12.77%) Power Platform
10 34 (12.41%) Serverless
11 30 (10.95%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (9.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (9.85%) Azure Functions
13 26 (9.49%) PaaS
14 24 (8.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 22 (8.03%) Azure Logic Apps
15 22 (8.03%) SaaS
16 20 (7.30%) IaaS
17 18 (6.57%) Datadog
18 17 (6.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 51 (18.61%) Firewall
2 37 (13.50%) DNS
3 35 (12.77%) VPN
4 29 (10.58%) Network Security
5 16 (5.84%) DHCP
6 14 (5.11%) TCP/IP
7 11 (4.01%) SSL
8 8 (2.92%) WAN
9 6 (2.19%) SSH
10 5 (1.82%) BGP
11 4 (1.46%) SNMP
12 3 (1.09%) Kerberos
12 3 (1.09%) NGFW
12 3 (1.09%) VLAN
12 3 (1.09%) VSAN
13 2 (0.73%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.73%) Internet
14 1 (0.36%) LAN
14 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
14 1 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.96%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.76%) Power BI
3 23 (8.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 17 (6.20%) Data Lake
5 14 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (3.65%) MySQL
6 10 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.28%) Delta Lake
8 6 (2.19%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.46%) Redis
9 4 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.09%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 29 (10.58%) Git
2 12 (4.38%) GitLab
3 9 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.28%) JIRA
4 4 (1.46%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (1.46%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.09%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.09%) Gradle
5 3 (1.09%) JMeter
5 3 (1.09%) Maven
5 3 (1.09%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.73%) Gatling
6 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.73%) NeoLoad
6 2 (0.73%) Postman
6 2 (0.73%) Selenium
6 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Newman
7 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 83 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.23%) Finance
3 35 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.65%) Banking
5 10 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.82%) Retail
7 4 (1.46%) Military
8 3 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.09%) Legal
8 3 (1.09%) Local Government
9 2 (0.73%) Billing
9 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (24.09%) Azure Engineer
2 47 (17.15%) Senior
3 35 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (10.95%) Architect
6 28 (10.22%) Developer
7 27 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (5.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.11%) Lead
11 12 (4.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Consultant
11 12 (4.38%) DBA
11 12 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.01%) Azure Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.65%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (53.28%) Terraform
2 43 (15.69%) ARM Templates
3 40 (14.60%) .NET
4 30 (10.95%) REST
5 20 (7.30%) OAuth
6 18 (6.57%) .NET Framework
7 15 (5.47%) RESTful
7 15 (5.47%) YAML
8 13 (4.74%) .NET Core
8 13 (4.74%) OAuth2
8 13 (4.74%) OpenID
9 12 (4.38%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (3.65%) Middleware
11 9 (3.28%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.28%) Kafka
12 8 (2.92%) JSON
13 7 (2.55%) React
13 7 (2.55%) Spring
13 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
14 6 (2.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.47%) Security Posture
5 14 (5.11%) Clustering
5 14 (5.11%) CMDB
5 14 (5.11%) Replication
6 11 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.65%) Cloud Security Posture
8 9 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
8 9 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.92%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.19%) Legacy Code
10 6 (2.19%) Management Information System
10 6 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.46%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 76 (27.74%) Windows
2 50 (18.25%) Windows Server
3 33 (12.04%) Linux
4 14 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.11%) VMS
5 5 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.46%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.09%) SUSE
8 2 (0.73%) Android
8 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) Unix
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (65.33%) DevOps
2 154 (56.20%) CI/CD
3 131 (47.81%) Analytics
4 119 (43.43%) Log Analytics
5 115 (41.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 77 (28.10%) Observability
7 66 (24.09%) RBAC
8 61 (22.26%) Agile
9 51 (18.61%) Containerisation
9 51 (18.61%) ITIL
10 50 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
13 43 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (14.96%) Runbook
15 39 (14.23%) AI
15 39 (14.23%) Deployment Automation
16 38 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 37 (13.50%) Test Automation
18 36 (13.14%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 129 (47.08%) PowerShell
2 87 (31.75%) Python
3 85 (31.02%) Bicep
4 60 (21.90%) Bash
5 59 (21.53%) SQL
6 48 (17.52%) C#
7 17 (6.20%) Java
8 11 (4.01%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (4.01%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
11 1 (0.36%) Scala
11 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 94 (34.31%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 60 (21.90%) Azure Certification
4 23 (8.39%) Degree
5 21 (7.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.20%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (4.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (3.65%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (2.19%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.09%) CISSP
10 3 (1.09%) MCSE
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.36%) CCNA
12 1 (0.36%) CCNP
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.31%) QA
2 11 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.01%) GDPR
3 9 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.92%) NIST
5 6 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.09%) SLA
6 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.09%) WCAG
7 2 (0.73%) NCSC
7 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) HL7
8 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 52 (18.98%) Docker
2 50 (18.25%) Active Directory
3 37 (13.50%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (4.01%) Hyper-V
5 11 (4.01%) IAG
6 10 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.09%) Firmware
7 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.09%) vSphere
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (29.93%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.60%) Grafana
3 36 (13.14%) Ansible
4 29 (10.58%) Prometheus
5 18 (6.57%) SCOM
6 16 (5.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (4.38%) SCCM
8 8 (2.92%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.19%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.09%) VxRail
12 2 (0.73%) Packer
13 1 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.36%) linkerd
13 1 (0.36%) Podman
13 1 (0.36%) Puppet
13 1 (0.36%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 141 (51.46%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.04%) ServiceNow
3 22 (8.03%) Dynatrace
4 20 (7.30%) Splunk
5 19 (6.93%) VMware
6 17 (6.20%) Databricks
7 11 (4.01%) Nexthink
8 9 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (2.55%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.19%) Google
11 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.82%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.46%) Cribl.io
12 4 (1.46%) Dell
12 4 (1.46%) Foundry
12 4 (1.46%) Okta
13 3 (1.09%) New Relic
13 3 (1.09%) Optimizely
13 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds