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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 345 380
Rank change year-on-year -22 +35 +104
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 218 122 167
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.33% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 96 120
10th Percentile £400 £338 £424
25th Percentile £433 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -14.89% +6.82%
75th Percentile £592 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £681 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £588
% change year-on-year - -14.89% +6.82%
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 13,995 9,174 12,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.84% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,640 6,466 8,691
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 323
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.05 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -16 126 £525 +15.64% 24
South East -54 27 £463 -24.80% 7
South West -4 22 £500 - 6
North of England -49 21 £501 +2.67% 14
Midlands -49 17 £575 +35.29% 9
North West -22 13 £518 +15.11% 7
West Midlands -54 11 £478 +12.35% 7
Yorkshire -49 8 £493 -6.19% 4
East Midlands - 5 £575 - 2
East of England - 1 £575 - 4
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 23 (10.55%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.67%) IIS
4 4 (1.83%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.38%) Confluence
6 2 (0.92%) Apache
6 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.46%) CMS
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Maximo
2 2 (0.92%) Shopify
3 1 (0.46%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 218 (100.00%) Azure
2 120 (55.05%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (36.24%) Entra ID
3 79 (36.24%) GitHub
4 60 (27.52%) GitHub Actions
5 55 (25.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 52 (23.85%) Azure AKS
7 47 (21.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 42 (19.27%) Azure Service Bus
8 42 (19.27%) Serverless
9 38 (17.43%) Azure Functions
10 31 (14.22%) PaaS
11 30 (13.76%) AWS
12 29 (13.30%) Microsoft 365
13 28 (12.84%) Azure Sentinel
14 26 (11.93%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (11.01%) Power Platform
16 21 (9.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 20 (9.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 19 (8.72%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 44 (20.18%) Firewall
2 26 (11.93%) VPN
3 19 (8.72%) DNS
4 15 (6.88%) Network Security
5 7 (3.21%) DHCP
6 4 (1.83%) VSAN
6 4 (1.83%) WAN
7 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.38%) VLAN
8 2 (0.92%) Internet
8 2 (0.92%) LAN
8 2 (0.92%) SSL
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.46%) DKIM
9 1 (0.46%) DMARC
9 1 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.46%) MPLS
9 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.46%) SMTP
9 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (7.80%) SQL Server
3 16 (7.34%) Data Lake
4 15 (6.88%) Delta Lake
5 10 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.75%) Power BI
7 6 (2.75%) Redis
8 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.38%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.38%) Parquet
8 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
10 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.46%) KNIME
10 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (13.76%) Git
2 9 (4.13%) JIRA
3 8 (3.67%) GitLab
3 8 (3.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.83%) Gradle
5 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.92%) Maven
6 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) Moq
6 1 (0.46%) MSI
6 1 (0.46%) NUnit
6 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.46%) Serilog
6 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.46%) TestRail
6 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
6 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.76%) Finance
4 16 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.21%) Banking
5 7 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.29%) Legal
7 4 (1.83%) Retail
8 2 (0.92%) Billing
8 2 (0.92%) Law
8 2 (0.92%) Local Government
8 2 (0.92%) Publishing
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (35.78%) Azure Engineer
2 47 (21.56%) Developer
3 38 (17.43%) Senior
4 36 (16.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.84%) Azure Developer
6 27 (12.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 20 (9.17%) Architect
7 20 (9.17%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (7.34%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.96%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.50%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.59%) Lead
13 9 (4.13%) Migration Engineer
14 8 (3.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.23%) .NET
2 41 (18.81%) ARM Templates
3 33 (15.14%) REST
4 25 (11.47%) .NET Framework
5 23 (10.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.72%) Node.js
7 17 (7.80%) .NET Core
8 15 (6.88%) OAuth
9 14 (6.42%) React
9 14 (6.42%) SOAP
10 12 (5.50%) JSON
10 12 (5.50%) Web Services
10 12 (5.50%) YAML
11 11 (5.05%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.59%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.59%) PySpark
13 9 (4.13%) PyTorch
13 9 (4.13%) TensorFlow
14 8 (3.67%) OpenID
14 8 (3.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.60%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.13%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.75%) Legacy Code
7 6 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.29%) Replication
8 5 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.38%) Clustering
10 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.14%) Windows
2 15 (6.88%) Linux
3 14 (6.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.67%) VMS
5 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.38%) SUSE
7 2 (0.92%) Unix
8 1 (0.46%) Android
8 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (74.77%) DevOps
2 117 (53.67%) Analytics
2 117 (53.67%) CI/CD
3 107 (49.08%) Log Analytics
4 93 (42.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (31.65%) Observability
6 54 (24.77%) RBAC
7 44 (20.18%) Containerisation
8 43 (19.72%) Agile
9 38 (17.43%) AI
10 36 (16.51%) Migration
11 34 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (15.14%) API Management
13 32 (14.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 30 (13.76%) Identity Access Management
14 30 (13.76%) Runbook
15 29 (13.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (13.30%) High Availability
16 28 (12.84%) Incident Response
16 28 (12.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.32%) PowerShell
2 73 (33.49%) Python
3 66 (30.28%) Bicep
4 51 (23.39%) SQL
5 50 (22.94%) C#
6 28 (12.84%) Kusto Query Language
7 22 (10.09%) JavaScript
8 21 (9.63%) Bash
9 14 (6.42%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.59%) Scala
11 9 (4.13%) Java
12 3 (1.38%) PHP
13 2 (0.92%) C
14 1 (0.46%) C++
14 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.52%) SC Cleared
3 56 (25.69%) Azure Certification
4 19 (8.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.21%) CISM
5 7 (3.21%) CISSP
5 7 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.29%) Degree
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CCNA
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.96%) NIST
4 10 (4.59%) QA
5 9 (4.13%) NCSC
6 7 (3.21%) NIST 800
7 5 (2.29%) GDPR
8 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.92%) SLA
9 2 (0.92%) WCAG
10 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (20.64%) Docker
2 43 (19.72%) Active Directory
3 17 (7.80%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.83%) vSphere
7 3 (1.38%) Firmware
7 3 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.46%) IAG
8 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 127 (58.26%) Terraform
2 56 (25.69%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.34%) Grafana
3 16 (7.34%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.13%) Ansible
5 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.83%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.38%) Istio
6 3 (1.38%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.38%) linkerd
6 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.38%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.38%) VxRail
7 2 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.92%) SCCM
8 1 (0.46%) Control-M
8 1 (0.46%) Packer
8 1 (0.46%) SCOM
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 118 (54.13%) Microsoft
2 30 (13.76%) Databricks
3 21 (9.63%) OpenAI
4 11 (5.05%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.59%) VMware
6 8 (3.67%) IBM
7 7 (3.21%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.21%) Splunk
8 5 (2.29%) Foundry
8 5 (2.29%) Google
8 5 (2.29%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.83%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.83%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.38%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.38%) Dell
10 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.38%) New Relic
10 3 (1.38%) Oracle
11 2 (0.92%) Cisco
11 2 (0.92%) NetApp