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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 358 354
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 +44
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 268 150 183
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.42% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 96 122
10th Percentile £401 £362 £378
25th Percentile £452 £411 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £498 £596
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -16.56% -1.53%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £593
% change year-on-year +4.00% -15.61% -1.25%
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 16,046 10,572 11,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.48% 37.96% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,693 7,158 7,642
10th Percentile £319 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 254 166
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +20.75% -19.70% -5.44%

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 25 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 25 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 -53 139 £520 +15.56% 62
South East -35 50 £538 +2.38% 22
North of England -19 47 £500 +11.11% 28
Yorkshire -17 21 £471 - 9
North West -37 21 £628 +39.47% 14
Midlands -58 11 £406 -22.62% 13
East of England -24 10 £552 -15.08% 5
South West -31 9 £578 +11.15% 3
East Midlands -11 6 £475 -5.00% 3
West Midlands -52 5 £400 -24.46% 10
North East - 5 £500 - 5
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 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.24%) Confluence
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (1.12%) CMS
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
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
1 268 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (45.15%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (38.43%) GitHub
4 99 (36.94%) Entra ID
5 65 (24.25%) GitHub Actions
6 61 (22.76%) Azure AKS
7 49 (18.28%) AWS
8 43 (16.04%) Azure Key Vault
9 33 (12.31%) Power Platform
10 32 (11.94%) Serverless
11 28 (10.45%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (10.07%) PaaS
13 25 (9.33%) Azure Functions
14 23 (8.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 23 (8.58%) Datadog
15 22 (8.21%) Azure App Service
15 22 (8.21%) IaaS
16 20 (7.46%) SaaS
17 19 (7.09%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.66%) Firewall
2 37 (13.81%) DNS
3 32 (11.94%) Network Security
4 31 (11.57%) VPN
5 15 (5.60%) DHCP
6 14 (5.22%) TCP/IP
7 12 (4.48%) SSL
8 8 (2.99%) WAN
9 6 (2.24%) BGP
9 6 (2.24%) SSH
10 5 (1.87%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.87%) NGFW
11 4 (1.49%) SNMP
12 3 (1.12%) VLAN
13 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.75%) VSAN
14 1 (0.37%) NAS
14 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
14 1 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.06%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.33%) Power BI
3 22 (8.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (7.09%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.10%) Delta Lake
6 11 (4.10%) MySQL
6 11 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (1.87%) Redis
8 4 (1.49%) Data Vault
8 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.75%) Big Data
10 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 33 (12.31%) Git
2 14 (5.22%) GitLab
3 10 (3.73%) JIRA
4 7 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.49%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.49%) JMeter
5 4 (1.49%) Postman
5 4 (1.49%) Terragrunt
5 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.75%) Gatling
7 2 (0.75%) Gradle
7 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.75%) Maven
7 2 (0.75%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.75%) Selenium
7 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) Newman
General
1 82 (30.60%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (13.81%) Finance
3 23 (8.58%) Public Sector
4 8 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.61%) Banking
6 5 (1.87%) Retail
7 4 (1.49%) Military
8 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.12%) Billing
8 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.12%) Local Government
9 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.75%) Marketing
10 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.37%) Legal
10 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (22.76%) Azure Engineer
2 46 (17.16%) Senior
3 37 (13.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (13.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (10.82%) Architect
6 27 (10.07%) Developer
7 25 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (6.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 18 (6.72%) Lead
10 12 (4.48%) Consultant
10 12 (4.48%) DBA
11 11 (4.10%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.10%) SQL DBA
12 10 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (57.84%) Terraform
2 41 (15.30%) ARM Templates
3 39 (14.55%) REST
4 31 (11.57%) .NET
5 28 (10.45%) OAuth
6 21 (7.84%) OAuth2
7 18 (6.72%) OpenID
8 12 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
8 12 (4.48%) RESTful
8 12 (4.48%) YAML
9 11 (4.10%) .NET Core
9 11 (4.10%) .NET Framework
9 11 (4.10%) Middleware
10 10 (3.73%) OpenAPI
10 10 (3.73%) Swagger
11 9 (3.36%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.36%) JSON
12 8 (2.99%) Kafka
12 8 (2.99%) React
13 7 (2.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 67 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.84%) CMDB
4 17 (6.34%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.60%) Security Posture
6 14 (5.22%) Clustering
6 14 (5.22%) Replication
7 12 (4.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (4.10%) Cloud Security Posture
9 9 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.99%) ARM Cortex
10 8 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (2.99%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.61%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.24%) PKI
13 5 (1.87%) AI Agents
13 5 (1.87%) Data Centre
14 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 70 (26.12%) Windows
2 44 (16.42%) Windows Server
3 32 (11.94%) Linux
4 14 (5.22%) VMS
5 13 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.24%) 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 2 (0.75%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.81%) DevOps
2 157 (58.58%) CI/CD
3 125 (46.64%) Analytics
4 124 (46.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 111 (41.42%) Log Analytics
6 83 (30.97%) Observability
7 70 (26.12%) RBAC
8 61 (22.76%) Agile
9 54 (20.15%) ITIL
10 51 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (18.66%) Containerisation
12 47 (17.54%) AI
12 47 (17.54%) Deployment Automation
13 46 (17.16%) Platform Engineering
14 42 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 40 (14.93%) Infrastructure Automation
16 36 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 36 (13.43%) Test Automation
17 34 (12.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 122 (45.52%) PowerShell
2 92 (34.33%) Python
3 85 (31.72%) Bicep
4 61 (22.76%) Bash
5 58 (21.64%) SQL
6 45 (16.79%) C#
7 19 (7.09%) Java
8 12 (4.48%) T-SQL
8 12 (4.48%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.73%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.37%) C
11 1 (0.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 92 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 62 (23.13%) Azure Certification
4 25 (9.33%) Degree
4 25 (9.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.34%) DV Cleared
6 13 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (4.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 10 (3.73%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.61%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.87%) CISSP
11 5 (1.87%) 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 (10.82%) QA
2 14 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.85%) GDPR
4 9 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.99%) NIST
6 7 (2.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.12%) SLA
7 3 (1.12%) WCAG
8 2 (0.75%) NCSC
8 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
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 53 (19.78%) Active Directory
2 51 (19.03%) Docker
3 37 (13.81%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (4.10%) IAG
5 11 (4.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (3.36%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.75%) Firmware
7 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.75%) vSphere
8 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (30.22%) Kubernetes
2 41 (15.30%) Grafana
3 35 (13.06%) Ansible
4 26 (9.70%) Prometheus
5 20 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (7.09%) SCOM
7 14 (5.22%) SCCM
8 8 (2.99%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.87%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.75%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.75%) VxRail
13 1 (0.37%) Istio
13 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.37%) linkerd
13 1 (0.37%) Packer
13 1 (0.37%) Podman
13 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 149 (55.60%) Microsoft
2 43 (16.04%) ServiceNow
3 29 (10.82%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.70%) Splunk
5 20 (7.46%) Databricks
6 16 (5.97%) VMware
7 11 (4.10%) Nexthink
8 9 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.99%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.99%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.61%) Google
11 6 (2.24%) Foundry
11 6 (2.24%) Okta
11 6 (2.24%) Red Hat
11 6 (2.24%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.87%) Dell
12 5 (1.87%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (1.49%) MuleSoft
13 4 (1.49%) SAP