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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 348 380
Rank change year-on-year -18 +32 +116
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 183 169 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.54% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.51% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 121 149
10th Percentile £368 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £473 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £593 £610
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -2.87% +1.67%
75th Percentile £544 £650 £675
90th Percentile £638 £659 £690
UK median daily rate £510 £589 £600
% change year-on-year -13.38% -1.88% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 - -

All Cloud 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 11,701 11,168 14,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.73% 35.82% 35.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,963 7,441 10,265
10th Percentile £304 £313 £296
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 143 284
10th Percentile £15.25 £18.66 £14.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.86
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.42% +40.27%
75th Percentile £44.09 £60.91 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.00
% change year-on-year -25.45% +5.42% +45.45%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +40 114 £500 -8.47% 57
Midlands -7 31 £537 +38.58% 13
West Midlands -16 20 £536 +38.19% 7
South East -47 12 £516 -17.40% 17
East Midlands - 11 £550 - 6
South West +8 9 £510 +36.00% 10
North of England -43 9 £450 -0.28% 18
North West -20 6 £450 +12.50% 13
Yorkshire -34 3 £600 +4.35% 4
East of England -19 2 £650 - 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 16 (8.74%) Apache
2 14 (7.65%) WebLogic
3 12 (6.56%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.09%) CMS
6 2 (1.09%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.64%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 183 (100.00%) Azure
2 86 (46.99%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (36.61%) Entra ID
4 51 (27.87%) Azure Logic Apps
5 44 (24.04%) GitHub
6 43 (23.50%) Serverless
7 41 (22.40%) GitHub Actions
8 39 (21.31%) Azure AKS
9 37 (20.22%) Azure Functions
10 36 (19.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 35 (19.13%) Azure Service Bus
12 31 (16.94%) Power Platform
13 26 (14.21%) AWS
14 22 (12.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 22 (12.02%) Microsoft 365
14 22 (12.02%) Power Automate
15 21 (11.48%) Azure Sentinel
16 20 (10.93%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (9.84%) Azure API Management
18 17 (9.29%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.30%) Firewall
2 18 (9.84%) DNS
2 18 (9.84%) VPN
3 13 (7.10%) Network Security
4 8 (4.37%) DHCP
5 5 (2.73%) WAN
6 3 (1.64%) VSAN
7 2 (1.09%) LAN
7 2 (1.09%) MPLS
7 2 (1.09%) SSL
7 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.09%) VLAN
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.55%) DKIM
8 1 (0.55%) DMARC
8 1 (0.55%) MQTT
8 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (7.10%) Power BI
3 12 (6.56%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.01%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.46%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.19%) Redis
7 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.64%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.09%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.09%) Metadata
9 2 (1.09%) MySQL
9 2 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (11.48%) Git
2 8 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.83%) JIRA
4 5 (2.73%) Postman
5 3 (1.64%) GitLab
5 3 (1.64%) Gradle
5 3 (1.64%) Maven
5 3 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.09%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 2 (1.09%) JMeter
6 2 (1.09%) MLflow
6 2 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.09%) PVCS
6 2 (1.09%) Snyk
6 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.55%) Locust
7 1 (0.55%) Poetry
7 1 (0.55%) TestRail
General
1 50 (27.32%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.66%) Finance
2 25 (13.66%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.37%) Banking
5 7 (3.83%) Law
6 5 (2.73%) Retail
7 3 (1.64%) Billing
7 3 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.09%) Games
8 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Legal
8 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.09%) Military
8 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.55%) Automotive
9 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (24.59%) Azure Engineer
2 43 (23.50%) Developer
3 27 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (11.48%) Senior
5 15 (8.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 15 (8.20%) Security Engineer
6 14 (7.65%) Azure Developer
7 13 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Architect
9 11 (6.01%) Integration Developer
9 11 (6.01%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.46%) Lead
10 10 (5.46%) Monitoring Engineer
11 9 (4.92%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (4.92%) DBA
12 8 (4.37%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Azure Architect
12 8 (4.37%) Azure Security Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.58%) .NET
2 29 (15.85%) ARM Templates
3 27 (14.75%) REST
4 21 (11.48%) OAuth
5 18 (9.84%) .NET Core
6 17 (9.29%) YAML
7 14 (7.65%) Node.js
8 12 (6.56%) React
9 11 (6.01%) JSON
9 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (6.01%) OAuth2
10 9 (4.92%) .NET Framework
11 8 (4.37%) ADO
11 8 (4.37%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.37%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.83%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.83%) SOAP
13 6 (3.28%) Kafka
13 6 (3.28%) PyTorch
13 6 (3.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.37%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.83%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.83%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.73%) Replication
7 4 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.19%) Data Fabric
7 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.64%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.30%) Windows
2 24 (13.11%) Linux
3 18 (9.84%) Unix
4 7 (3.83%) VMS
5 5 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.55%) Android
7 1 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (63.93%) DevOps
2 101 (55.19%) CI/CD
3 100 (54.64%) Analytics
4 92 (50.27%) Log Analytics
5 65 (35.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (22.95%) Agile
6 42 (22.95%) Observability
7 36 (19.67%) API Management
7 36 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (19.67%) RBAC
8 30 (16.39%) AI
9 28 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (14.75%) Containerisation
10 27 (14.75%) Migration
11 26 (14.21%) Incident Response
12 24 (13.11%) Test Automation
13 23 (12.57%) Cloud Security
13 23 (12.57%) Microservices
13 23 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.48%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (32.24%) SQL
2 54 (29.51%) Bicep
3 53 (28.96%) Python
4 50 (27.32%) PowerShell
5 40 (21.86%) C#
6 23 (12.57%) Bash
7 20 (10.93%) JavaScript
8 18 (9.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 13 (7.10%) TypeScript
10 11 (6.01%) Java
10 11 (6.01%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.73%) X++
12 3 (1.64%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) Go
13 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 54 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 33 (18.03%) Azure Certification
4 17 (9.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.37%) Degree
6 3 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.64%) CISM
6 3 (1.64%) CISSP
6 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (1.09%) MCSE
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.55%) CCDP
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.55%) MCP
8 1 (0.55%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.10%) GDPR
1 13 (7.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.56%) NIST
3 6 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.28%) NCSC
4 3 (1.64%) NIST 800
4 3 (1.64%) QA
5 2 (1.09%) EU AI Act
5 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
System Software
1 43 (23.50%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.94%) Docker
3 8 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.64%) vSphere
5 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (38.25%) Terraform
2 43 (23.50%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.65%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.10%) Grafana
5 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.73%) Ansible
6 5 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.19%) Packer
8 3 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.09%) Argo
9 2 (1.09%) Istio
9 2 (1.09%) Kibana
10 1 (0.55%) CASB
10 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.55%) SCCM
10 1 (0.55%) SCOM
10 1 (0.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 104 (56.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.38%) Databricks
3 16 (8.74%) Oracle
3 16 (8.74%) Splunk
4 15 (8.20%) Dynatrace
5 14 (7.65%) AppDynamics
5 14 (7.65%) Cisco
5 14 (7.65%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.28%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.73%) Google
8 4 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.19%) VMware
9 3 (1.64%) Confluent
9 3 (1.64%) IBM
9 3 (1.64%) LogRhythm
9 3 (1.64%) NetApp
10 2 (1.09%) New Relic
10 2 (1.09%) SAP
10 2 (1.09%) Sitecore