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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 353 376
Rank change year-on-year -32 +23 +117
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 195 136 175
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.46% 1.41% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 101 126
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% -9.58% +2.13%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £640
90th Percentile £716 £704 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £544 £600
% change year-on-year -8.05% -9.38% +4.35%
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 13,318 9,669 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.48% 37.65% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,188 6,547 8,966
10th Percentile £309 £313 £275
25th Percentile £408 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 373 150 322
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.42
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +28.41% -14.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £46.30 £45.57
90th Percentile £79.90 £73.93 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -4 114 £513 -2.38% 22
Midlands -35 23 £500 +25.00% 3
South East -52 23 £500 -20.00% 12
South West -11 16 £550 - 2
North of England -55 14 £560 +40.00% 5
West Midlands -39 13 £455 +13.75% 1
East Midlands - 10 £563 - 2
North West -32 8 £518 +29.50% 2
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 17 (8.72%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.05%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.54%) Confluence
6 2 (1.03%) Apache
6 2 (1.03%) CMS
6 2 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.03%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.51%) IIS
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Maximo
2 3 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 195 (100.00%) Azure
2 118 (60.51%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (34.87%) Entra ID
4 66 (33.85%) GitHub
5 54 (27.69%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (25.64%) Azure Logic Apps
7 49 (25.13%) Azure Key Vault
8 46 (23.59%) Azure AKS
8 46 (23.59%) Serverless
9 42 (21.54%) Azure Functions
10 41 (21.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (14.87%) Azure Sentinel
12 27 (13.85%) Power Platform
13 26 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
14 23 (11.79%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (11.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 22 (11.28%) PaaS
16 20 (10.26%) AWS
17 19 (9.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 18 (9.23%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.95%) Firewall
2 21 (10.77%) VPN
3 15 (7.69%) DNS
4 11 (5.64%) Network Security
5 6 (3.08%) DHCP
6 3 (1.54%) WAN
7 2 (1.03%) LAN
7 2 (1.03%) MPLS
7 2 (1.03%) SSL
7 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.51%) DKIM
8 1 (0.51%) DMARC
8 1 (0.51%) HTTP
8 1 (0.51%) SMTP
8 1 (0.51%) VSAN
8 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 15 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 13 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.62%) Power BI
4 9 (4.62%) Redis
4 9 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.54%) Parquet
6 3 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.03%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.51%) KNIME
8 1 (0.51%) PolyBase
8 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (14.87%) Git
2 9 (4.62%) JIRA
3 7 (3.59%) GitLab
3 7 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.54%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.54%) Postman
5 2 (1.03%) Gradle
5 2 (1.03%) MLflow
5 2 (1.03%) TestRail
6 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.51%) JMeter
6 1 (0.51%) Moq
6 1 (0.51%) NUnit
6 1 (0.51%) Selenium
6 1 (0.51%) Serilog
6 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.51%) webpack
6 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 34 (17.44%) Public Sector
2 32 (16.41%) Social Skills
3 29 (14.87%) Finance
4 13 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.08%) Banking
5 6 (3.08%) Retail
6 5 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.54%) Billing
7 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.54%) Legal
8 2 (1.03%) Law
8 2 (1.03%) Local Government
8 2 (1.03%) Publishing
9 1 (0.51%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Military
Job Titles
1 63 (32.31%) Azure Engineer
2 50 (25.64%) Developer
3 36 (18.46%) Senior
4 34 (17.44%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 22 (11.28%) Azure Developer
7 16 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (6.67%) Architect
9 13 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) Data Engineer
10 12 (6.15%) Lead
11 11 (5.64%) Security Engineer
12 10 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (5.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (4.10%) Azure Security Engineer
14 8 (4.10%) Integration Developer
15 7 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (23.08%) .NET
2 39 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 35 (17.95%) REST
4 20 (10.26%) .NET Core
4 20 (10.26%) Node.js
5 18 (9.23%) React
6 17 (8.72%) JSON
6 17 (8.72%) Microsoft Graph
7 16 (8.21%) OAuth
8 14 (7.18%) .NET Framework
9 13 (6.67%) AngularJS
10 11 (5.64%) PyTorch
11 10 (5.13%) YAML
12 9 (4.62%) PySpark
12 9 (4.62%) SOAP
12 9 (4.62%) TensorFlow
13 8 (4.10%) ASP.NET
13 8 (4.10%) OAuth2
14 6 (3.08%) GraphQL
14 6 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.90%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.13%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.10%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.54%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.54%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.26%) Windows
2 13 (6.67%) Linux
3 5 (2.56%) VMS
4 4 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.51%) Android
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (75.90%) DevOps
2 110 (56.41%) Analytics
2 110 (56.41%) CI/CD
3 100 (51.28%) Log Analytics
4 88 (45.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (26.15%) Observability
6 49 (25.13%) RBAC
7 47 (24.10%) Agile
8 38 (19.49%) Containerisation
9 35 (17.95%) AI
10 33 (16.92%) API Management
11 32 (16.41%) Migration
12 30 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (13.85%) Microservices
15 26 (13.33%) Cloud Security
16 25 (12.82%) Data Modelling
17 24 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 22 (11.28%) Test Automation
19 21 (10.77%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 65 (33.33%) Bicep
2 61 (31.28%) Python
3 56 (28.72%) SQL
4 53 (27.18%) PowerShell
5 50 (25.64%) C#
6 24 (12.31%) JavaScript
7 21 (10.77%) Bash
8 20 (10.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 16 (8.21%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.10%) Java
10 8 (4.10%) Scala
11 5 (2.56%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.54%) PHP
12 3 (1.54%) X++
13 2 (1.03%) C
14 1 (0.51%) C++
14 1 (0.51%) Go
14 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (32.31%) Security Cleared
2 50 (25.64%) SC Cleared
3 47 (24.10%) Azure Certification
4 21 (10.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.10%) CISM
5 8 (4.10%) CISSP
5 8 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.56%) Degree
7 3 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.03%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (7.18%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.18%) NIST
3 9 (4.62%) NCSC
4 8 (4.10%) NIST 800
5 7 (3.59%) GDPR
6 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.03%) QA
7 2 (1.03%) SLA
7 2 (1.03%) WCAG
8 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (22.56%) Docker
2 40 (20.51%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.51%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (61.54%) Terraform
2 50 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.15%) Grafana
3 12 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.08%) Ansible
5 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.05%) Pingdom
6 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.03%) Argo
6 2 (1.03%) Kibana
6 2 (1.03%) SCCM
6 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) Control-M
7 1 (0.51%) logstash
7 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 113 (57.95%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.33%) Databricks
3 22 (11.28%) OpenAI
4 10 (5.13%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.62%) IBM
6 8 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.08%) Google
8 5 (2.56%) Foundry
8 5 (2.56%) Splunk
8 5 (2.56%) VMware
9 4 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.05%) Moogsoft
9 4 (2.05%) New Relic
9 4 (2.05%) Oracle
9 4 (2.05%) PagerDuty
9 4 (2.05%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.54%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.54%) Cisco
10 3 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.03%) Virgin Media