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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 354 372
Rank change year-on-year -14 +18 +128
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 200 130 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.50% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.33% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 93 132
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £575 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £685 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -10.11% -7.29% -
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 12,808 9,780 12,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.70% 37.51% 33.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,532 9,040
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £603 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 141 299
10th Percentile £14.47 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £59.86 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 12 February 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 +11 120 £513 -2.38% 22
Midlands -32 23 £500 +29.03% 7
South East -47 22 £500 -20.00% 16
South West -5 15 £575 - 1
West Midlands -37 15 £455 +17.42% 6
North of England -56 14 £560 +40.00% 5
North West -21 8 £518 +29.50% 2
East Midlands - 8 £563 - 2
Yorkshire -55 6 £575 +9.52% 3
East of England - 2 £650 - 2
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 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.00%) Apache
3 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.00%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (2.00%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.00%) CMS
4 2 (1.00%) Confluence
4 2 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Maximo
2 3 (1.50%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (100.00%) Azure
2 112 (56.00%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (36.00%) Entra ID
4 61 (30.50%) GitHub
5 55 (27.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 51 (25.50%) GitHub Actions
7 48 (24.00%) Azure AKS
8 47 (23.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 45 (22.50%) Serverless
10 41 (20.50%) Azure Functions
11 39 (19.50%) Azure Service Bus
12 31 (15.50%) Azure Sentinel
13 28 (14.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 26 (13.00%) Power Platform
15 24 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (11.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 22 (11.00%) PaaS
18 20 (10.00%) AWS
19 18 (9.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 18 (9.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.00%) Firewall
2 22 (11.00%) VPN
3 15 (7.50%) DNS
4 11 (5.50%) Network Security
5 6 (3.00%) DHCP
6 3 (1.50%) WAN
7 2 (1.00%) LAN
7 2 (1.00%) MPLS
7 2 (1.00%) SSL
7 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.50%) DKIM
8 1 (0.50%) DMARC
8 1 (0.50%) VSAN
8 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.00%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.00%) Power BI
5 9 (4.50%) Delta Lake
5 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.00%) Redis
8 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.00%) Parquet
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.50%) KNIME
10 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (14.50%) Git
2 7 (3.50%) GitLab
2 7 (3.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.50%) JIRA
3 4 (2.00%) Postman
4 3 (1.50%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.50%) Gradle
5 2 (1.00%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.00%) MLflow
5 2 (1.00%) PVCS
5 2 (1.00%) Snyk
5 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.50%) Ant
6 1 (0.50%) ERwin
6 1 (0.50%) JMeter
6 1 (0.50%) Locust
6 1 (0.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) Poetry
6 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (16.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.50%) Finance
3 30 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Banking
6 7 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.50%) Retail
8 4 (2.00%) Legal
9 3 (1.50%) Billing
9 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.00%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 2 (1.00%) Military
11 1 (0.50%) Back Office
11 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (32.50%) Azure Engineer
2 50 (25.00%) Developer
3 36 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (16.50%) Senior
5 26 (13.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 22 (11.00%) Azure Developer
7 16 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (7.00%) Lead
9 13 (6.50%) Security Engineer
10 12 (6.00%) Architect
10 12 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Azure Security Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Data Engineer
12 9 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Integration Developer
14 7 (3.50%) Azure Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.50%) .NET
2 35 (17.50%) ARM Templates
2 35 (17.50%) REST
3 23 (11.50%) .NET Core
3 23 (11.50%) Node.js
4 18 (9.00%) OAuth
5 17 (8.50%) JSON
5 17 (8.50%) React
6 15 (7.50%) Microsoft Graph
7 13 (6.50%) AngularJS
8 12 (6.00%) .NET Framework
9 11 (5.50%) PyTorch
10 10 (5.00%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.00%) OAuth2
10 10 (5.00%) SOAP
11 9 (4.50%) ASP.NET
11 9 (4.50%) TensorFlow
12 8 (4.00%) PySpark
13 7 (3.50%) Kafka
13 7 (3.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.00%) AI Agents
7 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.50%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.00%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.50%) Data Centre
10 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.50%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.00%) Windows
2 16 (8.00%) Linux
3 7 (3.50%) Unix
4 5 (2.50%) VMS
5 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Android
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (72.50%) DevOps
2 108 (54.00%) CI/CD
3 107 (53.50%) Analytics
4 99 (49.50%) Log Analytics
5 82 (41.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (25.00%) Observability
7 49 (24.50%) Agile
7 49 (24.50%) RBAC
8 37 (18.50%) AI
8 37 (18.50%) API Management
9 36 (18.00%) Containerisation
10 33 (16.50%) Migration
11 32 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (14.50%) Data Modelling
12 29 (14.50%) Microservices
13 26 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (12.50%) Test Automation
15 24 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 23 (11.50%) Cloud Security
17 22 (11.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.00%) Bicep
2 56 (28.00%) Python
3 54 (27.00%) SQL
4 51 (25.50%) PowerShell
5 50 (25.00%) C#
6 24 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 21 (10.50%) Bash
7 21 (10.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (6.50%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.00%) Java
10 6 (3.00%) Scala
11 5 (2.50%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.50%) PHP
12 3 (1.50%) X++
13 2 (1.00%) C
14 1 (0.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (31.50%) Security Cleared
2 55 (27.50%) SC Cleared
3 45 (22.50%) Azure Certification
4 21 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.00%) CISM
5 8 (4.00%) CISSP
5 8 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 7 (3.50%) Degree
7 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (8.00%) NIST
3 11 (5.50%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.00%) GDPR
5 9 (4.50%) NCSC
6 8 (4.00%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.50%) SLA
8 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.00%) QA
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.50%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (21.00%) Docker
2 40 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (57.00%) Terraform
2 50 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.00%) Grafana
3 14 (7.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.00%) Ansible
5 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.00%) Pingdom
6 4 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.00%) Argo
8 2 (1.00%) Kibana
8 2 (1.00%) SCCM
9 1 (0.50%) Control-M
9 1 (0.50%) logstash
9 1 (0.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 110 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.50%) Databricks
3 23 (11.50%) OpenAI
4 9 (4.50%) IBM
5 8 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.50%) Google
6 7 (3.50%) Splunk
7 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco
8 5 (2.50%) Foundry
8 5 (2.50%) Oracle
8 5 (2.50%) VMware
9 4 (2.00%) AppDynamics
9 4 (2.00%) Moogsoft
9 4 (2.00%) New Relic
9 4 (2.00%) PagerDuty
9 4 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.00%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.50%) Alibaba