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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 380 371
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 259 131 169
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.47% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.27% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 93 127
10th Percentile £400 £350 £402
25th Percentile £450 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +16.11% -19.64% -6.67%
75th Percentile £620 £538 £638
90th Percentile £680 £632 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +16.67% -19.64% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.23 - -
25th Percentile £62.97 - -
Median hourly rate £65.07 - -
75th Percentile £66.30 - -
90th Percentile £66.52 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.07 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.04% - -

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 15,922 10,336 11,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.14% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,615 7,014 7,944
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 269 232
10th Percentile £15.96 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.23% -29.03%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -40 131 £525 +19.32% 50
South East -35 50 £515 +8.42% 21
North of England -27 38 £473 +5.06% 13
North West -28 18 £605 +34.44% 5
Yorkshire - 18 £470 - 5
South West -27 17 £488 -6.25% 2
Midlands -53 13 £500 -2.91% 3
East of England - 8 £552 - 6
East Midlands -5 6 £500 - 1
West Midlands -59 6 £400 -23.08% 2
North East - 2 £500 - 3
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 11 (4.25%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.47%) IIS
4 6 (2.32%) Confluence
5 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.77%) Apache
6 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.39%) Mendix
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.39%) InDesign
2 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 259 (100.00%) Azure
2 117 (45.17%) Azure DevOps
3 100 (38.61%) GitHub
4 95 (36.68%) Entra ID
5 68 (26.25%) GitHub Actions
6 66 (25.48%) Azure AKS
7 51 (19.69%) Azure Key Vault
8 43 (16.60%) AWS
9 33 (12.74%) PaaS
10 30 (11.58%) Serverless
11 29 (11.20%) Power Platform
12 28 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
13 24 (9.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 24 (9.27%) Azure Functions
14 22 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (8.49%) Azure App Service
14 22 (8.49%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (8.11%) IaaS
16 20 (7.72%) Azure Logic Apps
16 20 (7.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (17.76%) Firewall
2 34 (13.13%) DNS
3 33 (12.74%) VPN
4 25 (9.65%) Network Security
5 13 (5.02%) DHCP
5 13 (5.02%) TCP/IP
6 8 (3.09%) SSL
6 8 (3.09%) WAN
7 5 (1.93%) BGP
7 5 (1.93%) SSH
8 4 (1.54%) SNMP
9 3 (1.16%) Kerberos
9 3 (1.16%) NGFW
9 3 (1.16%) VLAN
9 3 (1.16%) VSAN
10 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.77%) Internet
11 1 (0.39%) HTTP
11 1 (0.39%) LAN
11 1 (0.39%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 30 (11.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (6.56%) Power BI
4 14 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 13 (5.02%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.25%) Delta Lake
8 8 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.70%) MySQL
9 7 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.32%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.93%) Redis
11 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
12 4 (1.54%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
13 3 (1.16%) Parquet
14 2 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
15 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 30 (11.58%) Git
2 11 (4.25%) JIRA
3 10 (3.86%) GitLab
4 6 (2.32%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.54%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.54%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.16%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.16%) Gradle
6 3 (1.16%) Maven
7 2 (0.77%) JMeter
7 2 (0.77%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.77%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.77%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.39%) Moq
8 1 (0.39%) MSI
8 1 (0.39%) NUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Postman
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) Serilog
8 1 (0.39%) Zephyr
General
1 68 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.13%) Finance
3 29 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.86%) Banking
7 4 (1.54%) Retail
8 3 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.16%) Legal
8 3 (1.16%) Local Government
8 3 (1.16%) Military
9 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.77%) Billing
9 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (26.64%) Azure Engineer
2 45 (17.37%) Senior
3 33 (12.74%) Developer
4 32 (12.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (10.42%) Architect
7 22 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (6.95%) Azure Developer
9 15 (5.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.25%) Lead
12 11 (4.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.25%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.86%) Azure Architect
13 10 (3.86%) Consultant
13 10 (3.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.22%) .NET
2 39 (15.06%) ARM Templates
3 36 (13.90%) REST
4 27 (10.42%) .NET Framework
5 21 (8.11%) OAuth
6 15 (5.79%) YAML
7 14 (5.41%) .NET Core
7 14 (5.41%) OAuth2
7 14 (5.41%) OpenID
7 14 (5.41%) RESTful
8 11 (4.25%) Entity Framework
8 11 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (3.47%) JSON
10 9 (3.47%) Web Services
11 8 (3.09%) Middleware
11 8 (3.09%) React
11 8 (3.09%) SOAP
12 6 (2.32%) Kafka
12 6 (2.32%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.25%) CMDB
4 11 (4.25%) Replication
5 10 (3.86%) Clustering
5 10 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.86%) Security Posture
6 8 (3.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.70%) ARM Cortex
7 7 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.32%) Legacy Code
8 6 (2.32%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.93%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 69 (26.64%) Windows
2 43 (16.60%) Windows Server
3 28 (10.81%) Linux
4 13 (5.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.86%) VMS
6 5 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.16%) SUSE
9 2 (0.77%) Android
9 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (66.02%) DevOps
2 142 (54.83%) CI/CD
3 132 (50.97%) Analytics
4 122 (47.10%) Log Analytics
5 107 (41.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 72 (27.80%) Observability
7 63 (24.32%) RBAC
8 46 (17.76%) Agile
9 44 (16.99%) Containerisation
9 44 (16.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 43 (16.60%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (15.44%) ITIL
13 39 (15.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 38 (14.67%) Runbook
15 37 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
15 37 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (13.13%) Deployment Automation
17 32 (12.36%) Test Automation
18 31 (11.97%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (45.56%) PowerShell
2 79 (30.50%) Python
3 72 (27.80%) Bicep
4 66 (25.48%) SQL
5 51 (19.69%) C#
6 46 (17.76%) Bash
7 17 (6.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 15 (5.79%) Java
9 11 (4.25%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.47%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.54%) Scala
12 3 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.77%) C
14 1 (0.39%) C++
14 1 (0.39%) Korn
14 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 92 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 54 (20.85%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.56%) Degree
5 16 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.63%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 5 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.54%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.16%) MCSE
12 2 (0.77%) CISSP
13 1 (0.39%) CCNA
13 1 (0.39%) CCNP
13 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.39%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.65%) QA
2 11 (4.25%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.25%) GDPR
3 8 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.70%) NIST
5 6 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.54%) SLA
6 4 (1.54%) WCAG
7 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.77%) NCSC
8 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.39%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) HL7
9 1 (0.39%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 47 (18.15%) Docker
2 46 (17.76%) Active Directory
3 36 (13.90%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (3.47%) Hyper-V
7 8 (3.09%) IAG
8 3 (1.16%) Firmware
8 3 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.16%) vSphere
9 1 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 135 (52.12%) Terraform
2 70 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 29 (11.20%) Ansible
3 29 (11.20%) Grafana
4 27 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (5.02%) SCOM
7 10 (3.86%) SCCM
8 6 (2.32%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.54%) Istio
10 4 (1.54%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.54%) linkerd
11 3 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.16%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.16%) VxRail
12 2 (0.77%) Packer
12 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 128 (49.42%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 18 (6.95%) VMware
4 17 (6.56%) Databricks
5 15 (5.79%) Dynatrace
5 15 (5.79%) Splunk
6 8 (3.09%) CrowdStrike
6 8 (3.09%) Nexthink
7 5 (1.93%) Google
7 5 (1.93%) Zscaler
8 4 (1.54%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.54%) Dell
8 4 (1.54%) Oracle
8 4 (1.54%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.16%) Adobe
9 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.16%) Foundry
9 3 (1.16%) Okta
9 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.77%) Salesforce