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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 363 382
Rank change year-on-year -43 +19 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 211 126 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.50% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.32% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 96 124
10th Percentile £400 £335 £410
25th Percentile £451 £404 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £584
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -22.91% +1.52%
75th Percentile £628 £539 £638
90th Percentile £723 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £593
% change year-on-year +16.67% -24.05% +3.04%

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 15,208 9,531 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.81% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,462 8,623
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 337
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -47 110 £530 +20.45% 14
South East -44 32 £500 +5.26% 12
North of England - 29 £471 - 6
Yorkshire - 19 £470 -
South West -18 18 £488 -6.25% 2
Midlands -58 13 £500 +0.50% 6
North West - 10 £560 - 6
West Midlands -56 7 £400 -19.19% 4
East of England - 6 £550 - 5
East Midlands -7 5 £500 - 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 13 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.27%) IIS
4 5 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.95%) Confluence
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.47%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.47%) Mendix
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.47%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (1.42%) Maximo
2 1 (0.47%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.47%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 211 (100.00%) Azure
2 101 (47.87%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (40.28%) GitHub
4 65 (30.81%) Entra ID
5 60 (28.44%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (22.75%) Azure AKS
7 43 (20.38%) Azure Key Vault
8 34 (16.11%) AWS
9 31 (14.69%) Serverless
10 27 (12.80%) Azure Functions
11 26 (12.32%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (11.85%) PaaS
13 23 (10.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 23 (10.90%) Azure Sentinel
14 22 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (10.43%) Power Platform
15 20 (9.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 18 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (8.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 34 (16.11%) Firewall
2 20 (9.48%) VPN
3 17 (8.06%) DNS
4 14 (6.64%) Network Security
5 8 (3.79%) WAN
6 5 (2.37%) BGP
7 4 (1.90%) DHCP
8 3 (1.42%) SNMP
8 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.42%) VLAN
8 3 (1.42%) VSAN
9 2 (0.95%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.95%) Internet
9 2 (0.95%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.95%) NGFW
10 1 (0.47%) HTTP
10 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.47%) SMTP
10 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 27 (12.80%) SQL Server
3 18 (8.53%) Data Lake
4 16 (7.58%) Delta Lake
5 10 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.74%) Power BI
6 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.84%) Redis
8 5 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.90%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.42%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.42%) Parquet
11 2 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.95%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.47%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 29 (13.74%) Git
2 9 (4.27%) JIRA
3 6 (2.84%) GitLab
4 5 (2.37%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.90%) Gradle
6 3 (1.42%) Maven
7 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.47%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.47%) Moq
8 1 (0.47%) MSI
8 1 (0.47%) NUnit
8 1 (0.47%) Postman
8 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.47%) Serilog
8 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.47%) webpack
8 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.22%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.32%) Finance
4 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.79%) Banking
5 8 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.37%) Legal
7 3 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.42%) Local Government
7 3 (1.42%) Retail
8 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.95%) Military
8 2 (0.95%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 65 (30.81%) Azure Engineer
2 42 (19.91%) Senior
3 31 (14.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (13.27%) Architect
5 26 (12.32%) Developer
6 23 (10.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (9.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (8.06%) Azure Developer
9 17 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
10 16 (7.58%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.69%) Site Engineer
11 12 (5.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (5.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (4.27%) Azure Architect
14 9 (4.27%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (4.27%) Consultant
14 9 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.06%) ARM Templates
2 35 (16.59%) .NET
3 22 (10.43%) REST
4 20 (9.48%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Graph
5 12 (5.69%) RESTful
6 11 (5.21%) OAuth
6 11 (5.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 11 (5.21%) PySpark
7 10 (4.74%) JSON
7 10 (4.74%) Web Services
7 10 (4.74%) YAML
8 9 (4.27%) OAuth2
8 9 (4.27%) SOAP
9 7 (3.32%) .NET Core
9 7 (3.32%) OpenID
10 6 (2.84%) Node.js
11 5 (2.37%) React
12 4 (1.90%) Kafka
12 4 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.84%) CMDB
6 6 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.84%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.37%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.37%) Replication
8 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.90%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.42%) Blog
9 3 (1.42%) Clustering
9 3 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 44 (20.85%) Windows
2 19 (9.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (6.64%) Linux
4 8 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.37%) VMS
5 5 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.42%) SUSE
8 2 (0.95%) Android
8 2 (0.95%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (65.88%) DevOps
2 118 (55.92%) CI/CD
3 111 (52.61%) Analytics
4 102 (48.34%) Log Analytics
5 95 (45.02%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (30.33%) Observability
7 41 (19.43%) RBAC
8 37 (17.54%) Containerisation
9 36 (17.06%) Agile
10 35 (16.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 35 (16.59%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (15.64%) Migration
11 33 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (14.22%) High Availability
13 29 (13.74%) Runbook
14 28 (13.27%) Incident Response
15 27 (12.80%) AI
16 26 (12.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 26 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 22 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.91%) PowerShell
2 62 (29.38%) Python
3 54 (25.59%) SQL
4 51 (24.17%) Bicep
5 40 (18.96%) C#
6 25 (11.85%) Bash
7 18 (8.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (4.74%) Java
8 10 (4.74%) Scala
9 6 (2.84%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.42%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.95%) C
11 2 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) C++
12 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 35 (16.59%) Azure Certification
4 10 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.90%) Degree
6 4 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.95%) CISM
8 2 (0.95%) CISSP
8 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 2 (0.95%) MCSE
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNP
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) QA
2 17 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.74%) GDPR
3 10 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.27%) NIST
5 5 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.37%) NCSC
6 4 (1.90%) SLA
6 4 (1.90%) WCAG
7 3 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.95%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.95%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.47%) GRC
9 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (18.01%) Docker
2 29 (13.74%) Active Directory
3 26 (12.32%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.90%) IAG
8 3 (1.42%) Firmware
8 3 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.42%) vSphere
9 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 107 (50.71%) Terraform
2 51 (24.17%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.90%) Grafana
4 21 (9.95%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.16%) Ansible
6 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.84%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.90%) Istio
8 4 (1.90%) Kustomize
8 4 (1.90%) linkerd
9 3 (1.42%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (1.42%) SCCM
9 3 (1.42%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.42%) VxRail
10 2 (0.95%) SCOM
11 1 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 92 (43.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.48%) Databricks
3 14 (6.64%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.69%) VMware
5 11 (5.21%) Splunk
6 9 (4.27%) Dynatrace
7 8 (3.79%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.84%) Google
9 5 (2.37%) Foundry
9 5 (2.37%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.90%) Dell
10 4 (1.90%) Nexthink
10 4 (1.90%) Oracle
11 3 (1.42%) Alibaba
11 3 (1.42%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.42%) IBM
11 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.95%) New Relic
12 2 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.95%) Virgin Media