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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 365 349
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 +64
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 268 140 177
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.36% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 93 130
10th Percentile £400 £350 £405
25th Percentile £450 £413 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £454 £555
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% -18.20% -7.50%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £638
90th Percentile £684 £606 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £455 £550
% change year-on-year +15.51% -17.36% -8.33%
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 15,971 10,257 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.19% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,675 6,951 7,933
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 272 218
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £83.36 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%

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 19 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 19 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 -35 136 £525 +17.45% 41
South East -33 52 £515 +8.42% 19
North of England -43 40 £483 +7.22% 19
North West -38 19 £609 +35.33% 7
Yorkshire - 18 £470 - 6
South West -28 17 £488 -6.25% 1
Midlands -45 13 £500 -2.91% 4
East of England - 9 £552 - 6
East Midlands -12 6 £500 - 2
West Midlands -64 6 £400 -23.08% 2
North East - 3 £500 - 6
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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.36%) IIS
4 6 (2.24%) Confluence
5 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.75%) Apache
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Mendix
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.37%) InDesign
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.37%) ResourceLink
1 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 268 (100.00%) Azure
2 115 (42.91%) Azure DevOps
3 102 (38.06%) GitHub
4 100 (37.31%) Entra ID
5 69 (25.75%) Azure AKS
6 67 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (18.28%) AWS
8 48 (17.91%) Azure Key Vault
9 33 (12.31%) PaaS
10 32 (11.94%) Serverless
11 30 (11.19%) Azure Sentinel
11 30 (11.19%) Power Platform
12 26 (9.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (9.33%) Azure Functions
14 24 (8.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 23 (8.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (8.21%) Azure App Service
17 21 (7.84%) IaaS
17 21 (7.84%) SaaS
18 20 (7.46%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (18.28%) Firewall
2 35 (13.06%) DNS
3 34 (12.69%) VPN
4 27 (10.07%) Network Security
5 14 (5.22%) DHCP
6 12 (4.48%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.99%) SSL
7 8 (2.99%) WAN
8 5 (1.87%) BGP
8 5 (1.87%) SSH
9 4 (1.49%) SNMP
10 3 (1.12%) Kerberos
10 3 (1.12%) NGFW
10 3 (1.12%) VLAN
10 3 (1.12%) VSAN
11 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.75%) Internet
12 1 (0.37%) HTTP
12 1 (0.37%) LAN
12 1 (0.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (15.30%) SQL Server
2 28 (10.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (6.72%) Power BI
4 13 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 13 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.48%) Data Lake
6 9 (3.36%) Delta Lake
7 7 (2.61%) MySQL
7 7 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.12%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.12%) Redis
10 3 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.75%) Parquet
12 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (11.19%) Git
2 11 (4.10%) JIRA
3 10 (3.73%) GitLab
4 7 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.49%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.49%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.12%) Gradle
6 3 (1.12%) Maven
6 3 (1.12%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.75%) Gatling
7 2 (0.75%) JMeter
7 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.75%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.75%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) MSI
8 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.37%) TestRail
8 1 (0.37%) webpack
8 1 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 37 (13.81%) Finance
3 33 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.07%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.73%) Banking
7 5 (1.87%) Retail
8 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.12%) Legal
8 3 (1.12%) Local Government
8 3 (1.12%) Military
9 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.75%) Billing
9 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 43 (16.04%) Senior
3 34 (12.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (12.31%) Developer
5 30 (11.19%) Architect
6 28 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (8.58%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (6.72%) Azure Developer
9 15 (5.60%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Lead
12 11 (4.10%) Consultant
12 11 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.10%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) Azure Architect
14 9 (3.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (16.04%) .NET
2 38 (14.18%) ARM Templates
2 38 (14.18%) REST
3 27 (10.07%) .NET Framework
4 21 (7.84%) OAuth
5 14 (5.22%) .NET Core
5 14 (5.22%) OAuth2
5 14 (5.22%) OpenID
6 13 (4.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (4.85%) RESTful
6 13 (4.85%) YAML
7 11 (4.10%) Entity Framework
8 10 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
8 10 (3.73%) Middleware
9 9 (3.36%) Web Services
10 8 (2.99%) JSON
10 8 (2.99%) SOAP
11 7 (2.61%) Kafka
11 7 (2.61%) React
11 7 (2.61%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.85%) CMDB
6 12 (4.48%) Security Posture
7 11 (4.10%) Clustering
7 11 (4.10%) Replication
8 9 (3.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.99%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.61%) Product Ownership
11 6 (2.24%) Legacy Code
11 6 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.24%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.87%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 73 (27.24%) Windows
2 46 (17.16%) Windows Server
3 30 (11.19%) Linux
4 14 (5.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (4.48%) VMS
6 5 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.49%) Windows 10
8 3 (1.12%) SUSE
9 2 (0.75%) Android
9 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (65.30%) DevOps
2 150 (55.97%) CI/CD
3 134 (50.00%) Analytics
4 125 (46.64%) Log Analytics
5 108 (40.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 79 (29.48%) Observability
7 66 (24.63%) RBAC
8 52 (19.40%) Agile
9 48 (17.91%) Containerisation
10 47 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
11 44 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (16.42%) ITIL
12 43 (16.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 42 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 39 (14.55%) Runbook
15 37 (13.81%) Identity Access Management
16 36 (13.43%) Test Automation
17 35 (13.06%) Deployment Automation
18 34 (12.69%) AI
Programming Languages
1 124 (46.27%) PowerShell
2 76 (28.36%) Bicep
2 76 (28.36%) Python
3 60 (22.39%) SQL
4 51 (19.03%) C#
5 47 (17.54%) Bash
6 18 (6.72%) Java
7 16 (5.97%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.36%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.12%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.12%) Scala
11 1 (0.37%) C++
11 1 (0.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 66 (24.63%) SC Cleared
3 55 (20.52%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.09%) Degree
5 17 (6.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (5.97%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.36%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.12%) CISSP
11 3 (1.12%) MCSE
12 1 (0.37%) CCNA
12 1 (0.37%) CCNP
12 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.45%) QA
2 11 (4.10%) GDPR
3 10 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.61%) NIST
6 6 (2.24%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.49%) WCAG
8 3 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.12%) SLA
9 2 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.75%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.37%) GRC
10 1 (0.37%) HL7
10 1 (0.37%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 50 (18.66%) Active Directory
2 48 (17.91%) Docker
3 36 (13.43%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.73%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.73%) IAG
5 10 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.12%) Firmware
6 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.12%) vSphere
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 135 (50.37%) Terraform
2 78 (29.10%) Kubernetes
3 36 (13.43%) Grafana
4 31 (11.57%) Ansible
5 29 (10.82%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (5.60%) SCOM
8 12 (4.48%) SCCM
9 7 (2.61%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.24%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.49%) Istio
11 4 (1.49%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.49%) linkerd
12 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.12%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.12%) VxRail
13 2 (0.75%) Packer
14 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 136 (50.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.45%) ServiceNow
3 19 (7.09%) Dynatrace
4 18 (6.72%) Splunk
4 18 (6.72%) VMware
5 17 (6.34%) Databricks
6 10 (3.73%) Nexthink
7 9 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.61%) Google
9 5 (1.87%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.87%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.49%) Adobe
10 4 (1.49%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.49%) Dell
10 4 (1.49%) Okta
10 4 (1.49%) Oracle
11 3 (1.12%) Foundry
11 3 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (1.12%) New Relic