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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 365 372
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 222 120 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.30% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 91 121
10th Percentile £400 £313 £420
25th Percentile £439 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £454 £560
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% -18.93% +0.90%
75th Percentile £598 £608 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £464 £560
% change year-on-year +7.87% -17.23% -
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 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -36.65% - -

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 14,244 9,210 11,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 37.47% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 6,447 8,583
10th Percentile £315 £313 £284
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 194 320
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.74 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.63 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -37.78%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -6 129 £525 +16.67% 12
South East -48 29 £492 -18.72% 5
South West -12 20 £475 - 3
North of England -44 20 £476 +5.78% 15
Midlands -47 16 £575 +35.29% 5
North West -24 13 £518 +15.11% 12
West Midlands -52 10 £455 +7.06% 4
Yorkshire - 7 £460 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £575 - 1
East of England - 4 £551 - 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 19 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.05%) IIS
4 4 (1.80%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.90%) Apache
6 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.45%) CMS
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 7 (3.15%) Maximo
2 2 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 222 (100.00%) Azure
2 118 (53.15%) Azure DevOps
3 84 (37.84%) GitHub
4 74 (33.33%) Entra ID
5 63 (28.38%) GitHub Actions
6 57 (25.68%) Azure AKS
7 52 (23.42%) Azure Key Vault
8 44 (19.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (19.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 42 (18.92%) Serverless
11 38 (17.12%) Azure Functions
12 31 (13.96%) AWS
13 30 (13.51%) PaaS
14 27 (12.16%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (11.71%) Azure Sentinel
16 25 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (10.36%) Power Platform
18 21 (9.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 19 (8.56%) Azure API Management
19 19 (8.56%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 40 (18.02%) Firewall
2 22 (9.91%) VPN
3 18 (8.11%) DNS
4 13 (5.86%) Network Security
5 6 (2.70%) DHCP
6 4 (1.80%) VSAN
6 4 (1.80%) WAN
7 3 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.35%) VLAN
8 2 (0.90%) Internet
8 2 (0.90%) LAN
8 2 (0.90%) SNMP
8 2 (0.90%) SSL
9 1 (0.45%) HTTP
9 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.45%) MPLS
9 1 (0.45%) NGFW
9 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.45%) SMTP
9 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 21 (9.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (6.76%) Data Lake
3 15 (6.76%) Delta Lake
4 11 (4.95%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.15%) Power BI
7 6 (2.70%) Redis
8 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.80%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.35%) Parquet
9 3 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.45%) Big Data
11 1 (0.45%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.45%) GIS
11 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (14.41%) Git
2 9 (4.05%) JIRA
3 8 (3.60%) GitLab
4 7 (3.15%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.25%) Gradle
6 3 (1.35%) Maven
7 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.45%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.45%) Moq
8 1 (0.45%) MSI
8 1 (0.45%) NUnit
8 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) Serilog
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.45%) TestRail
8 1 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.45%) webpack
8 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.32%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.41%) Finance
4 16 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.15%) Banking
7 5 (2.25%) Legal
8 4 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (0.90%) Billing
9 2 (0.90%) Law
9 2 (0.90%) Local Government
9 2 (0.90%) Publishing
10 1 (0.45%) Back Office
10 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (36.04%) Azure Engineer
2 46 (20.72%) Developer
3 41 (18.47%) Senior
4 36 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.61%) Azure Developer
5 28 (12.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 21 (9.46%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (9.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (8.56%) Architect
9 14 (6.31%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Site Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (4.50%) Lead
11 10 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.05%) Migration Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (25.23%) .NET
2 38 (17.12%) ARM Templates
3 32 (14.41%) REST
4 27 (12.16%) .NET Framework
5 20 (9.01%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.56%) Node.js
7 17 (7.66%) .NET Core
8 16 (7.21%) OAuth
9 14 (6.31%) React
9 14 (6.31%) SOAP
10 12 (5.41%) JSON
10 12 (5.41%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.41%) Web Services
10 12 (5.41%) YAML
11 11 (4.95%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.95%) OpenTelemetry
12 10 (4.50%) OpenID
12 10 (4.50%) PySpark
13 9 (4.05%) RESTful
13 9 (4.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.12%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (4.05%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.70%) Legacy Code
6 6 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.25%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.25%) Replication
7 5 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) Clustering
9 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.57%) Windows
2 19 (8.56%) Windows Server
3 15 (6.76%) Linux
4 5 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.25%) VMS
5 3 (1.35%) SUSE
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (72.97%) DevOps
2 123 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 117 (52.70%) Analytics
4 105 (47.30%) Log Analytics
5 93 (41.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (32.88%) Observability
7 49 (22.07%) RBAC
8 44 (19.82%) Containerisation
9 43 (19.37%) Agile
10 35 (15.77%) AI
11 34 (15.32%) API Management
11 34 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (14.41%) Migration
13 31 (13.96%) Platform Engineering
14 30 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 29 (13.06%) High Availability
15 29 (13.06%) Microservices
15 29 (13.06%) Test Automation
16 28 (12.61%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.04%) PowerShell
2 73 (32.88%) Python
3 62 (27.93%) Bicep
4 57 (25.68%) C#
5 53 (23.87%) SQL
6 28 (12.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 21 (9.46%) Bash
7 21 (9.46%) JavaScript
8 11 (4.95%) TypeScript
9 10 (4.50%) Java
9 10 (4.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.35%) PHP
11 2 (0.90%) C
11 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 65 (29.28%) SC Cleared
3 52 (23.42%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.15%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.70%) CISM
6 6 (2.70%) CISSP
6 6 (2.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 5 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.35%) Degree
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.45%) CCNA
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.95%) QA
3 10 (4.50%) NIST
4 6 (2.70%) NCSC
4 6 (2.70%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.80%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) WCAG
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (21.17%) Docker
2 37 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (9.01%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.80%) vSphere
7 3 (1.35%) Firmware
7 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.45%) IAG
8 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (57.66%) Terraform
2 60 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.01%) Grafana
3 20 (9.01%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.95%) Ansible
5 4 (1.80%) Istio
5 4 (1.80%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.80%) linkerd
5 4 (1.80%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.35%) VxRail
7 2 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.90%) SCOM
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) Control-M
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.61%) Databricks
3 19 (8.56%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.41%) VMware
5 10 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 9 (4.05%) Splunk
7 7 (3.15%) IBM
8 6 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.70%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.25%) Foundry
9 5 (2.25%) Google
9 5 (2.25%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.80%) Moogsoft
10 4 (1.80%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.35%) Alibaba
11 3 (1.35%) Dell
11 3 (1.35%) New Relic
11 3 (1.35%) Oracle
12 2 (0.90%) NetApp
12 2 (0.90%) Okta