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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 347 399
Rank change year-on-year -21 +52 +115
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 151 183 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.57% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.63% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 131 145
10th Percentile £363 £375 £425
25th Percentile £413 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £675
90th Percentile £638 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £601
% change year-on-year -16.67% -0.08% +4.43%

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 10,868 11,255 14,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.63% 35.35% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,329 7,489 10,705
10th Percentile £303 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 158 297
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.21 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.51 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £70.00 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +44.91%

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 19 October 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
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 19 October 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 +34 91 £458 -12.30% 13
Midlands +2 28 £520 +34.19% 5
West Midlands -1 20 £525 +35.48% 4
South East -44 11 £525 -16.00% 10
East Midlands - 8 £500 - 2
North of England -36 7 £450 -8.16% 15
South West +13 6 £520 +38.67% 5
North West -18 5 £450 +12.50% 11
East of England -6 2 £650 -
Yorkshire -25 2 £625 +8.70% 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 15 (9.93%) Apache
2 13 (8.61%) WebLogic
3 5 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.66%) CMS
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
5 1 (0.66%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.31%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 151 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (43.05%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (30.46%) Entra ID
4 39 (25.83%) Azure Logic Apps
5 35 (23.18%) Serverless
6 30 (19.87%) Azure AKS
6 30 (19.87%) Azure Functions
7 26 (17.22%) Azure Key Vault
7 26 (17.22%) GitHub
7 26 (17.22%) Power Platform
8 25 (16.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 24 (15.89%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (15.23%) AWS
11 20 (13.25%) Power Automate
12 16 (10.60%) Azure Sentinel
13 15 (9.93%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (9.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (8.61%) Azure API Management
15 13 (8.61%) PowerApps
16 12 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.26%) Firewall
2 15 (9.93%) VPN
3 13 (8.61%) DNS
4 10 (6.62%) Network Security
5 7 (4.64%) DHCP
6 4 (2.65%) WAN
7 3 (1.99%) VSAN
8 2 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.32%) VLAN
9 1 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.66%) DKIM
9 1 (0.66%) DMARC
9 1 (0.66%) LAN
9 1 (0.66%) MPLS
9 1 (0.66%) MQTT
9 1 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (9.27%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.61%) Power BI
4 11 (7.28%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.30%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.97%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.99%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.99%) Redis
9 2 (1.32%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.32%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.32%) Metadata
9 2 (1.32%) MySQL
9 2 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (12.58%) Git
2 7 (4.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.31%) Postman
4 4 (2.65%) JIRA
5 3 (1.99%) Gradle
5 3 (1.99%) Maven
5 3 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.32%) GitLab
6 2 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.32%) JMeter
6 2 (1.32%) MLflow
6 2 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.32%) PVCS
6 2 (1.32%) Snyk
6 2 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.66%) Ant
7 1 (0.66%) ERwin
7 1 (0.66%) Poetry
General
1 42 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.23%) Finance
3 20 (13.25%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.62%) Banking
5 8 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Law
7 4 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.99%) Retail
9 2 (1.32%) Games
9 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.32%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Military
9 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) French Language
10 1 (0.66%) Marketing
10 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (25.17%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (19.21%) Developer
3 24 (15.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (9.27%) Senior
5 13 (8.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 13 (8.61%) Integration Developer
6 12 (7.95%) Architect
6 12 (7.95%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.96%) DBA
8 9 (5.96%) Monitoring Engineer
9 8 (5.30%) Azure Architect
9 8 (5.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 8 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Developer
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Azure Security Engineer
10 7 (4.64%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.23%) ARM Templates
2 19 (12.58%) .NET
3 17 (11.26%) REST
4 14 (9.27%) YAML
5 13 (8.61%) OAuth
6 12 (7.95%) .NET Core
7 10 (6.62%) ADO
7 10 (6.62%) JSON
8 9 (5.96%) Node.js
9 8 (5.30%) RESTful
10 6 (3.97%) OAuth2
10 6 (3.97%) React
10 6 (3.97%) XML
11 5 (3.31%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.31%) GraphQL
11 5 (3.31%) Kafka
11 5 (3.31%) Next.js
11 5 (3.31%) XSLT
12 4 (2.65%) CSS
12 4 (2.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.58%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.31%) Replication
6 5 (3.31%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.65%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.99%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.89%) Windows
2 21 (13.91%) Linux
3 17 (11.26%) Unix
4 5 (3.31%) VMS
5 4 (2.65%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.66%) Android
7 1 (0.66%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (60.93%) DevOps
2 78 (51.66%) Analytics
2 78 (51.66%) CI/CD
3 73 (48.34%) Log Analytics
4 53 (35.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (21.85%) Agile
6 29 (19.21%) API Management
6 29 (19.21%) Observability
7 27 (17.88%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (16.56%) RBAC
10 23 (15.23%) Migration
11 21 (13.91%) Incident Management
12 20 (13.25%) Data Protection
12 20 (13.25%) Incident Response
13 19 (12.58%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (11.92%) AI
14 18 (11.92%) Containerisation
14 18 (11.92%) Data Modelling
14 18 (11.92%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (34.44%) SQL
2 43 (28.48%) Bicep
3 42 (27.81%) PowerShell
4 40 (26.49%) Python
5 28 (18.54%) C#
6 21 (13.91%) Bash
7 11 (7.28%) T-SQL
8 8 (5.30%) Java
8 8 (5.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.97%) JavaScript
10 5 (3.31%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.31%) X++
11 1 (0.66%) Go
11 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (32.45%) Security Cleared
2 46 (30.46%) SC Cleared
3 24 (15.89%) Azure Certification
4 15 (9.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.97%) Degree
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.32%) CISM
6 2 (1.32%) CISSP
6 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (1.32%) MCSE
7 1 (0.66%) CCDP
7 1 (0.66%) CCNP
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.66%) MCP
7 1 (0.66%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.95%) GDPR
2 11 (7.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (6.62%) NIST
4 4 (2.65%) NCSC
5 3 (1.99%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.99%) QA
6 2 (1.32%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.32%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.66%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.66%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (18.54%) Active Directory
2 22 (14.57%) Docker
3 10 (6.62%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.99%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (31.79%) Terraform
2 32 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.95%) Grafana
3 12 (7.95%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.65%) Packer
5 4 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.99%) Ansible
7 2 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.32%) Argo
7 2 (1.32%) Istio
7 2 (1.32%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) CASB
8 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.66%) SCCM
8 1 (0.66%) SCOM
8 1 (0.66%) vRealize
Vendors
1 74 (49.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.93%) Oracle
3 14 (9.27%) Dynatrace
3 14 (9.27%) Splunk
4 13 (8.61%) AppDynamics
4 13 (8.61%) Cisco
5 11 (7.28%) Databricks
6 5 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.65%) Google
7 4 (2.65%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.65%) VMware
8 3 (1.99%) Confluent
8 3 (1.99%) NetApp
9 2 (1.32%) IBM
9 2 (1.32%) LogRhythm
9 2 (1.32%) New Relic
9 2 (1.32%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.32%) SAP
10 1 (0.66%) Intel