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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 346 390
Rank change year-on-year -23 +44 +114
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 201 136 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.40% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 102 122
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% -8.75% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £644
90th Percentile £701 £704 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -10.11% -7.29% +2.13%
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 13,106 9,715 12,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.51% 37.58% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,039 6,546 9,069
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 147 312
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.44 £14.14
25th Percentile £19.19 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.57
Median % change year-on-year +36.65% +27.49% -13.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £48.38 £46.82
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.45 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +25.00% -12.00%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -4 117 £513 -5.31% 23
South East -45 25 £500 -20.00% 20
Midlands -33 23 £500 +25.00% 4
South West -6 15 £575 - 2
West Midlands -41 15 £455 +13.75% 4
North of England -55 14 £560 +40.00% 5
North West -30 8 £518 +29.50% 2
East Midlands - 8 £563 -
Yorkshire -58 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 16 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.99%) Apache
4 4 (1.99%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (1.99%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.49%) Confluence
6 2 (1.00%) CMS
6 2 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Maximo
2 3 (1.49%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 201 (100.00%) Azure
2 117 (58.21%) Azure DevOps
3 69 (34.33%) Entra ID
4 66 (32.84%) GitHub
5 55 (27.36%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (26.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 50 (24.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 49 (24.38%) Azure AKS
9 44 (21.89%) Serverless
10 40 (19.90%) Azure Functions
10 40 (19.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (14.43%) Azure Sentinel
12 25 (12.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (12.44%) Power Platform
13 24 (11.94%) PaaS
14 23 (11.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (10.95%) AWS
15 22 (10.95%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 18 (8.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.41%) Firewall
2 21 (10.45%) VPN
3 15 (7.46%) DNS
4 11 (5.47%) Network Security
5 6 (2.99%) DHCP
6 3 (1.49%) WAN
7 2 (1.00%) LAN
7 2 (1.00%) MPLS
7 2 (1.00%) SSL
7 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.50%) DKIM
8 1 (0.50%) DMARC
8 1 (0.50%) VSAN
8 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (7.46%) Data Lake
3 12 (5.97%) Delta Lake
4 10 (4.98%) NoSQL
4 10 (4.98%) Power BI
5 9 (4.48%) Redis
5 9 (4.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.49%) Parquet
7 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.00%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.50%) Metadata
9 1 (0.50%) PolyBase
9 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (13.43%) Git
2 9 (4.48%) JIRA
3 7 (3.48%) GitLab
3 7 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.99%) Postman
5 3 (1.49%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.49%) Gradle
6 2 (1.00%) MLflow
6 2 (1.00%) Snyk
6 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.00%) TestRail
6 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.50%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.50%) Locust
7 1 (0.50%) Poetry
7 1 (0.50%) Pylint
7 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.93%) Finance
4 13 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.48%) Banking
6 6 (2.99%) Retail
7 5 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.49%) Billing
8 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Legal
9 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Law
9 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (32.34%) Azure Engineer
2 48 (23.88%) Developer
3 36 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (17.91%) Senior
4 26 (12.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.95%) Azure Developer
6 17 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.97%) Lead
9 13 (6.47%) Architect
10 12 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.47%) Security Engineer
12 10 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Azure Security Engineer
13 8 (3.98%) Integration Developer
14 7 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.89%) .NET
2 39 (19.40%) ARM Templates
3 34 (16.92%) REST
4 21 (10.45%) .NET Core
5 19 (9.45%) Node.js
5 19 (9.45%) React
6 18 (8.96%) OAuth
7 17 (8.46%) JSON
8 15 (7.46%) Microsoft Graph
9 13 (6.47%) .NET Framework
9 13 (6.47%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.47%) PyTorch
11 10 (4.98%) SOAP
11 10 (4.98%) YAML
12 9 (4.48%) OAuth2
12 9 (4.48%) PySpark
12 9 (4.48%) TensorFlow
13 8 (3.98%) GraphQL
14 7 (3.48%) ASP.NET
15 5 (2.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.42%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.98%) AI Agents
6 7 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.99%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.49%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.49%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.49%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.45%) Windows
2 15 (7.46%) Linux
3 6 (2.99%) Unix
4 5 (2.49%) VMS
5 4 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (74.13%) DevOps
2 111 (55.22%) Analytics
2 111 (55.22%) CI/CD
3 101 (50.25%) Log Analytics
4 87 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (25.37%) Observability
6 49 (24.38%) Agile
7 48 (23.88%) RBAC
8 39 (19.40%) Containerisation
9 37 (18.41%) AI
10 36 (17.91%) API Management
11 32 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (15.92%) Migration
12 30 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (13.43%) Data Modelling
14 26 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (12.94%) Microservices
15 25 (12.44%) Cloud Security
16 24 (11.94%) Test Automation
17 21 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.33%) Bicep
2 61 (30.35%) Python
3 56 (27.86%) SQL
4 52 (25.87%) PowerShell
5 49 (24.38%) C#
6 24 (11.94%) JavaScript
7 21 (10.45%) Bash
8 19 (9.45%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (6.97%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.48%) Java
11 7 (3.48%) Scala
12 5 (2.49%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.49%) PHP
13 3 (1.49%) X++
14 2 (1.00%) C
15 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 62 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 52 (25.87%) SC Cleared
3 46 (22.89%) Azure Certification
4 21 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (3.98%) CISM
5 8 (3.98%) CISSP
5 8 (3.98%) DV Cleared
5 8 (3.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.49%) Degree
7 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (6.97%) NIST
3 13 (6.47%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.98%) GDPR
5 9 (4.48%) NCSC
6 8 (3.98%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.49%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.49%) QA
7 3 (1.49%) SLA
8 2 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.00%) WCAG
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 47 (23.38%) Docker
2 40 (19.90%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (60.70%) Terraform
2 53 (26.37%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.47%) Grafana
3 13 (6.47%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.99%) Ansible
5 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.99%) Pingdom
5 4 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.00%) Argo
6 2 (1.00%) Kibana
6 2 (1.00%) SCCM
7 1 (0.50%) Control-M
7 1 (0.50%) logstash
7 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 111 (55.22%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.94%) Databricks
3 23 (11.44%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.48%) IBM
6 8 (3.98%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.48%) Google
7 7 (3.48%) Splunk
8 6 (2.99%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.49%) Cisco
9 5 (2.49%) Foundry
9 5 (2.49%) Oracle
9 5 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.49%) VMware
10 4 (1.99%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.99%) Moogsoft
10 4 (1.99%) New Relic
10 4 (1.99%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.99%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.49%) Alibaba