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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 360 371
Rank change year-on-year -37 +11 +92
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 197 118 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.32% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 87 120
10th Percentile £400 £340 £419
25th Percentile £433 £413 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -19.64% -0.67%
75th Percentile £600 £582 £626
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £455 £560
% change year-on-year +9.89% -18.75% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £28.89 - -
25th Percentile £30.67 - -
Median hourly rate £35.20 - -
75th Percentile £41.31 - -
90th Percentile £44.02 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.20 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -49.72% - -

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 14,193 8,966 11,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.21% 37.17% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 6,222 8,419
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 194 323
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -34.98%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.50 £34.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £65.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -34 113 £525 +17.45% 24
South East -48 27 £500 - 17
North of England -57 18 £468 +4.00% 10
South West -15 17 £444 - 2
North West -24 12 £518 +15.11% 5
Midlands -47 12 £550 +11.11% 3
West Midlands -53 9 £455 -8.08% 2
Yorkshire - 6 £457 - 4
East of England - 5 £550 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £575 - 1
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 13 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 10 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.57%) IIS
4 4 (2.03%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.52%) Confluence
6 2 (1.02%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.51%) Apache
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (3.05%) Maximo
2 2 (1.02%) Shopify
3 1 (0.51%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.51%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 197 (100.00%) Azure
2 99 (50.25%) Azure DevOps
3 70 (35.53%) GitHub
4 55 (27.92%) Entra ID
5 48 (24.37%) Azure AKS
5 48 (24.37%) GitHub Actions
6 46 (23.35%) Azure Key Vault
7 34 (17.26%) Azure Service Bus
8 33 (16.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 33 (16.75%) Serverless
9 31 (15.74%) Azure Functions
10 29 (14.72%) AWS
11 26 (13.20%) PaaS
12 25 (12.69%) Azure Sentinel
13 22 (11.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (8.63%) Power Platform
15 15 (7.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (7.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 15 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.77%) Firewall
2 20 (10.15%) VPN
3 13 (6.60%) DNS
4 11 (5.58%) Network Security
5 5 (2.54%) DHCP
6 4 (2.03%) VSAN
6 4 (2.03%) WAN
7 3 (1.52%) SNMP
7 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.52%) VLAN
8 2 (1.02%) Internet
8 2 (1.02%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.02%) LAN
8 2 (1.02%) NGFW
9 1 (0.51%) HTTP
9 1 (0.51%) MPLS
9 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.51%) SMTP
9 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.68%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (7.61%) Delta Lake
4 13 (6.60%) Data Lake
5 10 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.06%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.54%) Power BI
7 5 (2.54%) Redis
8 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.03%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.52%) Parquet
10 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.51%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.51%) GIS
11 1 (0.51%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (16.75%) Git
2 8 (4.06%) GitLab
2 8 (4.06%) JIRA
3 5 (2.54%) Gradle
4 4 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.52%) Maven
6 2 (1.02%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.51%) Moq
7 1 (0.51%) MSI
7 1 (0.51%) NUnit
7 1 (0.51%) Postman
7 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.51%) Serilog
7 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.51%) TestRail
7 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.51%) webpack
7 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.74%) Public Sector
3 28 (14.21%) Finance
4 13 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.55%) Banking
6 6 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.54%) Legal
8 2 (1.02%) Publishing
8 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Local Government
9 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (35.53%) Azure Engineer
2 34 (17.26%) Developer
2 34 (17.26%) Senior
3 32 (16.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 24 (12.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 22 (11.17%) Azure Developer
6 20 (10.15%) Architect
7 18 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
9 16 (8.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (7.11%) Data Engineer
11 12 (6.09%) Site Engineer
11 12 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (5.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Migration Engineer
13 8 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.55%) Azure Architect
14 7 (3.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.30%) .NET
2 32 (16.24%) ARM Templates
3 24 (12.18%) REST
4 21 (10.66%) .NET Framework
5 14 (7.11%) Node.js
6 13 (6.60%) JSON
7 12 (6.09%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (6.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (5.58%) OAuth
8 11 (5.58%) SOAP
9 10 (5.08%) PySpark
9 10 (5.08%) Web Services
9 10 (5.08%) YAML
10 9 (4.57%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.57%) OAuth2
10 9 (4.57%) React
10 9 (4.57%) RESTful
11 7 (3.55%) OpenID
12 6 (3.05%) ASP.NET
13 5 (2.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.75%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.57%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.57%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.05%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.54%) Replication
7 5 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.52%) Clustering
9 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.02%) CMDB
10 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.77%) Windows
2 18 (9.14%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.09%) Linux
4 5 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.03%) VMS
6 3 (1.52%) SUSE
7 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (72.08%) DevOps
2 107 (54.31%) CI/CD
3 101 (51.27%) Analytics
4 93 (47.21%) Log Analytics
5 83 (42.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 65 (32.99%) Observability
7 39 (19.80%) RBAC
8 37 (18.78%) Containerisation
9 36 (18.27%) Agile
10 30 (15.23%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (14.72%) Disaster Recovery
12 28 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (13.71%) Migration
13 27 (13.71%) Runbook
14 26 (13.20%) High Availability
15 25 (12.69%) AI
15 25 (12.69%) API Management
16 24 (12.18%) Data Modelling
17 23 (11.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 74 (37.56%) PowerShell
2 61 (30.96%) Python
3 53 (26.90%) Bicep
4 43 (21.83%) C#
4 43 (21.83%) SQL
5 22 (11.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (10.66%) Bash
7 10 (5.08%) Scala
8 8 (4.06%) Java
8 8 (4.06%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.02%) C
10 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (36.55%) Security Cleared
2 59 (29.95%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.32%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.54%) CISM
6 5 (2.54%) CISSP
6 5 (2.54%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.02%) MCSE
8 1 (0.51%) CCNA
8 1 (0.51%) CCNP
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.51%) Degree
8 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.58%) QA
3 10 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.57%) NIST
5 5 (2.54%) NIST 800
6 4 (2.03%) NCSC
7 3 (1.52%) GDPR
8 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.02%) SLA
8 2 (1.02%) WCAG
9 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (19.80%) Docker
2 24 (12.18%) Active Directory
3 19 (9.64%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.55%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.03%) vSphere
8 3 (1.52%) Firmware
8 3 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.51%) IAG
9 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 110 (55.84%) Terraform
2 47 (23.86%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.64%) Grafana
4 18 (9.14%) Prometheus
5 12 (6.09%) Ansible
6 4 (2.03%) Istio
6 4 (2.03%) Kustomize
6 4 (2.03%) linkerd
6 4 (2.03%) Pingdom
7 3 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.52%) VxRail
8 2 (1.02%) SCOM
9 1 (0.51%) Control-M
9 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.51%) Kibana
9 1 (0.51%) Puppet
9 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 86 (43.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.66%) Databricks
3 12 (6.09%) OpenAI
3 12 (6.09%) VMware
4 9 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.57%) Splunk
5 6 (3.05%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.05%) IBM
6 5 (2.54%) Foundry
6 5 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.54%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.03%) Dell
7 4 (2.03%) Google
7 4 (2.03%) Moogsoft
7 4 (2.03%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.52%) Alibaba
8 3 (1.52%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.52%) New Relic
9 2 (1.02%) NetApp
9 2 (1.02%) Virgin Media