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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 355 388
Rank change year-on-year -14 +33 +111
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 212 126 173
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.51% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.35% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 100 125
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £450 £414 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £598 £639 £638
90th Percentile £733 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +6.19%
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 13,494 9,353 12,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.04% 37.96% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,274 6,490 8,861
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £412 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £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 403 155 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.41 £19.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.44
90th Percentile £79.90 £71.75 £62.63
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.38% +21.67% -14.52%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +4 124 £525 +1.20% 26
South East -60 23 £500 -20.00% 9
Midlands -42 22 £525 +27.27% 7
South West -2 19 £513 - 4
North of England -50 18 £501 +25.13% 10
West Midlands -53 12 £440 +6.67% 5
North West -31 9 £518 +29.50% 4
Yorkshire -55 9 £493 -6.19% 5
East Midlands - 9 £575 - 2
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 23 (10.85%) SharePoint
2 15 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.36%) IIS
4 4 (1.89%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.42%) Confluence
6 2 (0.94%) CMS
6 2 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Apache
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 8 (3.77%) Maximo
2 3 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 212 (100.00%) Azure
2 127 (59.91%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (37.26%) Entra ID
4 77 (36.32%) GitHub
5 63 (29.72%) GitHub Actions
6 56 (26.42%) Azure Key Vault
7 54 (25.47%) Azure AKS
8 47 (22.17%) Serverless
9 46 (21.70%) Azure Service Bus
10 45 (21.23%) Azure Logic Apps
11 44 (20.75%) Azure Functions
12 31 (14.62%) PaaS
13 30 (14.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 30 (14.15%) Microsoft 365
14 27 (12.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 26 (12.26%) Power Platform
16 25 (11.79%) AWS
17 20 (9.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 20 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 19 (8.96%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 41 (19.34%) Firewall
2 23 (10.85%) VPN
3 19 (8.96%) DNS
4 12 (5.66%) Network Security
5 7 (3.30%) DHCP
6 4 (1.89%) WAN
7 3 (1.42%) LAN
7 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.94%) Internet
8 2 (0.94%) MPLS
8 2 (0.94%) SSL
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.47%) DKIM
9 1 (0.47%) DMARC
9 1 (0.47%) HTTP
9 1 (0.47%) SMTP
9 1 (0.47%) VSAN
9 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 17 (8.02%) Data Lake
3 15 (7.08%) Delta Lake
3 15 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.25%) Power BI
4 9 (4.25%) Redis
5 8 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.42%) Parquet
7 3 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.94%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.47%) PolyBase
9 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (14.62%) Git
2 9 (4.25%) JIRA
3 8 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.30%) GitLab
5 3 (1.42%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.94%) Gradle
6 2 (0.94%) MLflow
7 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.47%) ERwin
7 1 (0.47%) Moq
7 1 (0.47%) MSI
7 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.47%) Serilog
7 1 (0.47%) Snyk
7 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.47%) TestRail
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.47%) webpack
7 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (16.51%) Public Sector
2 32 (15.09%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.15%) Finance
4 14 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.77%) Banking
6 7 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.30%) Retail
7 5 (2.36%) Legal
8 2 (0.94%) Billing
8 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.94%) Law
8 2 (0.94%) Local Government
8 2 (0.94%) Publishing
9 1 (0.47%) Back Office
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (33.96%) Azure Engineer
2 51 (24.06%) Developer
3 37 (17.45%) Senior
4 33 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.68%) Azure Developer
6 25 (11.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 19 (8.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (8.96%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (8.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (7.55%) Architect
10 14 (6.60%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.19%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.19%) Lead
11 11 (5.19%) Security Engineer
12 10 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (4.25%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.25%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.94%) .NET
2 39 (18.40%) ARM Templates
3 35 (16.51%) REST
4 24 (11.32%) .NET Framework
5 23 (10.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 19 (8.96%) .NET Core
7 18 (8.49%) Node.js
8 16 (7.55%) OAuth
8 16 (7.55%) React
9 14 (6.60%) SOAP
10 12 (5.66%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.66%) JSON
10 12 (5.66%) Web Services
10 12 (5.66%) YAML
11 11 (5.19%) OAuth2
11 11 (5.19%) PySpark
11 11 (5.19%) PyTorch
12 9 (4.25%) ASP.NET
12 9 (4.25%) TensorFlow
13 8 (3.77%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.72%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.25%) AI Agents
5 9 (4.25%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.30%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.83%) Security Posture
8 5 (2.36%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.89%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.42%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.42%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.21%) Windows
2 13 (6.13%) Linux
3 11 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.36%) VMS
5 2 (0.94%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (76.42%) DevOps
2 119 (56.13%) CI/CD
3 118 (55.66%) Analytics
4 108 (50.94%) Log Analytics
5 94 (44.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 66 (31.13%) Observability
7 51 (24.06%) RBAC
8 44 (20.75%) Agile
9 43 (20.28%) Containerisation
10 37 (17.45%) AI
11 35 (16.51%) API Management
11 35 (16.51%) Migration
12 31 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
14 28 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (12.26%) Cloud Security
15 26 (12.26%) Microservices
15 26 (12.26%) Runbook
16 25 (11.79%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.60%) Python
2 66 (31.13%) PowerShell
3 65 (30.66%) Bicep
4 60 (28.30%) SQL
5 52 (24.53%) C#
6 26 (12.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 23 (10.85%) JavaScript
8 22 (10.38%) Bash
9 15 (7.08%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.72%) Scala
11 7 (3.30%) Java
12 5 (2.36%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.42%) PHP
13 3 (1.42%) X++
14 2 (0.94%) C
15 1 (0.47%) C++
15 1 (0.47%) Go
15 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.36%) SC Cleared
3 49 (23.11%) Azure Certification
4 20 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.30%) CISM
5 7 (3.30%) CISSP
5 7 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 5 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.36%) Degree
7 3 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNP
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 13 (6.13%) NIST
4 9 (4.25%) NCSC
5 7 (3.30%) NIST 800
6 6 (2.83%) GDPR
7 5 (2.36%) QA
8 3 (1.42%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.94%) SLA
9 2 (0.94%) WCAG
10 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 46 (21.70%) Docker
2 43 (20.28%) Active Directory
3 13 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 128 (60.38%) Terraform
2 55 (25.94%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.08%) Grafana
3 15 (7.08%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.30%) Ansible
5 4 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.89%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.42%) Istio
6 3 (1.42%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.42%) linkerd
7 2 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.94%) Argo
7 2 (0.94%) SCCM
8 1 (0.47%) Control-M
8 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.47%) Kibana
8 1 (0.47%) logstash
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) SCOM
8 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (56.60%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.68%) Databricks
3 22 (10.38%) OpenAI
4 10 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.77%) IBM
6 7 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.83%) Google
7 6 (2.83%) VMware
8 5 (2.36%) Foundry
8 5 (2.36%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.89%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.89%) New Relic
9 4 (1.89%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.89%) Splunk
10 3 (1.42%) Alibaba
10 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.42%) Oracle
11 2 (0.94%) Cisco
11 2 (0.94%) LogRhythm
11 2 (0.94%) Sitecore