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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 344 381
Rank change year-on-year -27 +37 +91
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 217 128 168
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.53% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.39% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 102 122
10th Percentile £400 £351 £414
25th Percentile £431 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £518 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -11.91% +6.82%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £630
90th Percentile £718 £675 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -12.88% +9.09%
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 13,807 9,206 12,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.81% 37.92% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,518 6,471 8,752
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 176 331
10th Percentile £15.89 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.25% +27.68% -16.00%
75th Percentile £63.24 £43.48 £40.75
90th Percentile £80.06 £74.38 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +41.51% +26.19% -18.64%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -23 124 £525 +15.64% 24
South East -56 25 £425 -32.00% 7
South West +1 22 £500 - 6
North of England -49 21 £501 +2.67% 14
Midlands -53 19 £575 +39.39% 9
North West -24 13 £518 +15.11% 7
West Midlands -45 11 £478 +15.76% 7
Yorkshire -52 8 £493 -6.19% 4
East Midlands - 7 £575 - 2
East of England - 2 £575 - 4
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 23 (10.60%) SharePoint
2 15 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.69%) IIS
4 5 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.84%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.38%) Confluence
7 2 (0.92%) CMS
7 2 (0.92%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.46%) Apache
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.46%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Maximo
2 2 (0.92%) Shopify
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.46%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 217 (100.00%) Azure
2 124 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (36.41%) Entra ID
4 77 (35.48%) GitHub
5 60 (27.65%) GitHub Actions
6 53 (24.42%) Azure Key Vault
7 51 (23.50%) Azure AKS
8 49 (22.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 46 (21.20%) Serverless
10 45 (20.74%) Azure Service Bus
11 42 (19.35%) Azure Functions
12 30 (13.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 30 (13.82%) PaaS
13 29 (13.36%) AWS
13 29 (13.36%) Microsoft 365
14 26 (11.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 23 (10.60%) Power Platform
16 21 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 19 (8.76%) Azure App Service
18 18 (8.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 42 (19.35%) Firewall
2 24 (11.06%) VPN
3 19 (8.76%) DNS
4 13 (5.99%) Network Security
5 7 (3.23%) DHCP
6 4 (1.84%) WAN
7 3 (1.38%) LAN
7 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.92%) Internet
8 2 (0.92%) MPLS
8 2 (0.92%) SSL
8 2 (0.92%) VSAN
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.46%) DKIM
9 1 (0.46%) DMARC
9 1 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.46%) SMTP
9 1 (0.46%) VLAN
9 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (7.83%) Data Lake
2 17 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.91%) Delta Lake
4 9 (4.15%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.15%) Redis
5 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.76%) Power BI
6 3 (1.38%) Parquet
6 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.46%) KNIME
8 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.46%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (12.90%) Git
2 9 (4.15%) JIRA
3 8 (3.69%) GitLab
3 8 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.38%) Gradle
5 2 (0.92%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.92%) MLflow
6 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.46%) Maven
6 1 (0.46%) Moq
6 1 (0.46%) MSI
6 1 (0.46%) NUnit
6 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.46%) Serilog
6 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.46%) TestRail
6 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.46%) webpack
6 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.82%) Finance
4 14 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.23%) Banking
6 6 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.76%) Retail
7 5 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (0.92%) Billing
8 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.92%) Law
8 2 (0.92%) Local Government
8 2 (0.92%) Publishing
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 75 (34.56%) Azure Engineer
2 48 (22.12%) Developer
3 37 (17.05%) Senior
4 34 (15.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.90%) Azure Developer
6 26 (11.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 19 (8.76%) Architect
7 19 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.29%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.99%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Lead
12 9 (4.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.35%) .NET
2 40 (18.43%) ARM Templates
3 33 (15.21%) REST
4 26 (11.98%) .NET Framework
5 23 (10.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.76%) Node.js
7 18 (8.29%) .NET Core
8 15 (6.91%) OAuth
8 15 (6.91%) React
9 14 (6.45%) SOAP
10 12 (5.53%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.53%) JSON
10 12 (5.53%) Web Services
10 12 (5.53%) YAML
11 11 (5.07%) PyTorch
12 10 (4.61%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.61%) PySpark
13 9 (4.15%) TensorFlow
14 8 (3.69%) ASP.NET
14 8 (3.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.15%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.69%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.76%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.84%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.84%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.38%) Replication
11 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.92%) IoT
11 2 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.75%) Windows
2 14 (6.45%) Linux
2 14 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.76%) VMS
4 2 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) SUSE
5 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (74.65%) DevOps
2 117 (53.92%) Analytics
3 115 (53.00%) CI/CD
4 107 (49.31%) Log Analytics
5 93 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (31.80%) Observability
7 54 (24.88%) RBAC
8 43 (19.82%) Containerisation
9 42 (19.35%) Agile
10 37 (17.05%) AI
11 35 (16.13%) Migration
12 34 (15.67%) API Management
13 31 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (14.29%) Runbook
14 29 (13.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (12.44%) High Availability
16 27 (12.44%) Identity Access Management
16 27 (12.44%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.18%) PowerShell
2 69 (31.80%) Python
3 66 (30.41%) Bicep
4 54 (24.88%) SQL
5 49 (22.58%) C#
6 28 (12.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 23 (10.60%) Bash
8 22 (10.14%) JavaScript
9 14 (6.45%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.61%) Scala
11 8 (3.69%) Java
12 3 (1.38%) PHP
13 2 (0.92%) C
13 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.46%) C++
14 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 74 (34.10%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.65%) SC Cleared
3 52 (23.96%) Azure Certification
4 19 (8.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.23%) CISM
5 7 (3.23%) CISSP
5 7 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.30%) Degree
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.46%) CCNA
8 1 (0.46%) CCNP
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.37%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.53%) NIST
4 9 (4.15%) NCSC
4 9 (4.15%) QA
5 7 (3.23%) NIST 800
6 5 (2.30%) GDPR
7 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.92%) SLA
8 2 (0.92%) WCAG
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (20.74%) Docker
2 42 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (3.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.92%) vSphere
8 1 (0.46%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.46%) Firmware
8 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 127 (58.53%) Terraform
2 55 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.83%) Grafana
4 16 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.69%) Ansible
6 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.84%) Pingdom
7 3 (1.38%) Istio
7 3 (1.38%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.38%) linkerd
8 2 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.92%) SCCM
9 1 (0.46%) Control-M
9 1 (0.46%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) SCOM
9 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 118 (54.38%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.36%) Databricks
3 21 (9.68%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.69%) IBM
5 8 (3.69%) VMware
6 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.30%) Foundry
7 5 (2.30%) Google
7 5 (2.30%) New Relic
7 5 (2.30%) SolarWinds
7 5 (2.30%) Splunk
8 4 (1.84%) Moogsoft
8 4 (1.84%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.38%) Alibaba
9 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.38%) Oracle
10 2 (0.92%) Cisco
10 2 (0.92%) NetApp
10 2 (0.92%) Sitecore