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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 385 358
Rank change year-on-year +13 -27 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 274 134 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.49% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 1.30% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 85 130
10th Percentile £403 £350 £405
25th Percentile £451 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% -6.67%
75th Percentile £622 £525 £638
90th Percentile £678 £594 £651
UK median daily rate £520 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +15.56% -18.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £62.23 - -
25th Percentile £62.97 - -
Median hourly rate £65.07 - -
75th Percentile £66.30 - -
90th Percentile £66.52 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.07 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -7.04% - -

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 16,032 10,294 11,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.31% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,712 6,972 7,902
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 275 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.29 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.10 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 22 August 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
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 22 August 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 -29 141 £525 +19.32% 41
South East -29 51 £516 -6.14% 22
North of England -32 39 £483 +7.22% 23
North West -35 18 £609 +35.33% 11
Yorkshire - 18 £470 - 7
South West -26 17 £488 -6.25% 2
Midlands -51 15 £488 -6.25% 6
East of England - 9 £552 - 6
East Midlands -12 8 £500 - 2
West Midlands -55 6 £400 -23.81% 4
North East - 3 £500 - 5
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 11 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (3.28%) IIS
4 5 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
7 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.36%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.36%) Mendix
7 1 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.36%) InDesign
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 274 (100.00%) Azure
2 120 (43.80%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (37.59%) GitHub
4 100 (36.50%) Entra ID
5 69 (25.18%) Azure AKS
6 67 (24.45%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (17.88%) AWS
8 48 (17.52%) Azure Key Vault
9 36 (13.14%) Serverless
10 33 (12.04%) Power Platform
11 32 (11.68%) PaaS
12 30 (10.95%) Azure Sentinel
13 29 (10.58%) Azure Functions
14 27 (9.85%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (8.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 21 (7.66%) Azure App Service
17 21 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (7.66%) SaaS
18 20 (7.30%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.25%) Firewall
2 35 (12.77%) DNS
3 34 (12.41%) VPN
4 29 (10.58%) Network Security
5 15 (5.47%) DHCP
6 13 (4.74%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.92%) SSL
7 8 (2.92%) WAN
8 6 (2.19%) SSH
9 5 (1.82%) BGP
10 4 (1.46%) SNMP
11 3 (1.09%) Kerberos
11 3 (1.09%) NGFW
11 3 (1.09%) VLAN
11 3 (1.09%) VSAN
12 2 (0.73%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.73%) Internet
13 1 (0.36%) HTTP
13 1 (0.36%) SAN
13 1 (0.36%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.96%) SQL Server
2 27 (9.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (6.57%) Power BI
4 14 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.01%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.92%) Delta Lake
8 7 (2.55%) MySQL
8 7 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.19%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.46%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.09%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.09%) Redis
11 3 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
13 1 (0.36%) GIS
13 1 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (11.68%) Git
2 11 (4.01%) GitLab
3 9 (3.28%) JIRA
4 8 (2.92%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.46%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.46%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.09%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.09%) Gradle
6 3 (1.09%) Maven
6 3 (1.09%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.73%) Gatling
7 2 (0.73%) JMeter
7 2 (0.73%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.73%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.73%) Selenium
7 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) MSI
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.36%) webpack
General
1 78 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.23%) Finance
3 32 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.65%) Banking
7 4 (1.46%) Retail
8 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.09%) Legal
8 3 (1.09%) Local Government
8 3 (1.09%) Military
9 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.73%) Billing
9 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (25.18%) Azure Engineer
2 45 (16.42%) Senior
3 35 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (12.77%) Developer
4 33 (12.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (10.95%) Architect
6 29 (10.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (6.93%) Azure Developer
9 15 (5.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 15 (5.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Lead
11 12 (4.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.01%) Consultant
12 11 (4.01%) Site Engineer
12 11 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.28%) Azure Architect
14 9 (3.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (51.46%) Terraform
2 46 (16.79%) .NET
3 42 (15.33%) ARM Templates
4 40 (14.60%) REST
5 26 (9.49%) .NET Framework
6 23 (8.39%) OAuth
7 15 (5.47%) OAuth2
7 15 (5.47%) YAML
8 14 (5.11%) OpenID
9 13 (4.74%) .NET Core
9 13 (4.74%) OpenTelemetry
9 13 (4.74%) RESTful
10 10 (3.65%) Entity Framework
10 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (3.65%) Middleware
10 10 (3.65%) Web Services
11 9 (3.28%) SOAP
12 8 (2.92%) JSON
12 8 (2.92%) Kafka
13 7 (2.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.47%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.74%) CMDB
4 13 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.74%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.01%) Clustering
5 11 (4.01%) Replication
6 9 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 9 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.92%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (2.92%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.19%) Legacy Code
8 6 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 74 (27.01%) Windows
2 47 (17.15%) Windows Server
3 31 (11.31%) Linux
4 14 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (5.11%) VMS
5 5 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.46%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.09%) SUSE
8 2 (0.73%) Android
8 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (65.69%) DevOps
2 153 (55.84%) CI/CD
3 134 (48.91%) Analytics
4 125 (45.62%) Log Analytics
5 112 (40.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 80 (29.20%) Observability
7 67 (24.45%) RBAC
8 59 (21.53%) Agile
9 52 (18.98%) Containerisation
10 48 (17.52%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (16.06%) ITIL
13 43 (15.69%) Disaster Recovery
14 42 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (14.60%) Runbook
16 39 (14.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 38 (13.87%) Deployment Automation
17 38 (13.87%) Test Automation
18 35 (12.77%) Identity Access Management
19 34 (12.41%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 129 (47.08%) PowerShell
2 83 (30.29%) Bicep
3 79 (28.83%) Python
4 59 (21.53%) SQL
5 54 (19.71%) C#
6 53 (19.34%) Bash
7 18 (6.57%) Java
8 16 (5.84%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (4.01%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.28%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.46%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.73%) Scala
13 1 (0.36%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.36%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) Korn
13 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 100 (36.50%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 58 (21.17%) Azure Certification
4 20 (7.30%) Degree
5 18 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.20%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 6 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.09%) CISSP
11 3 (1.09%) MCSE
12 1 (0.36%) CCNA
12 1 (0.36%) CCNP
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.58%) QA
2 10 (3.65%) GDPR
3 9 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.55%) NIST
6 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.09%) SLA
7 3 (1.09%) WCAG
8 2 (0.73%) NCSC
8 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) HL7
9 1 (0.36%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.36%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 52 (18.98%) Docker
2 50 (18.25%) Active Directory
3 35 (12.77%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (3.65%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.65%) IAG
5 10 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.09%) Firmware
6 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.09%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (29.93%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.87%) Grafana
3 32 (11.68%) Ansible
4 29 (10.58%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (5.47%) SCOM
7 12 (4.38%) SCCM
8 7 (2.55%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.19%) FortiGate
10 4 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.46%) Istio
10 4 (1.46%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.46%) linkerd
11 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.09%) VxRail
12 2 (0.73%) Packer
13 1 (0.36%) Puppet
13 1 (0.36%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 143 (52.19%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.85%) ServiceNow
3 19 (6.93%) Dynatrace
4 18 (6.57%) Splunk
4 18 (6.57%) VMware
5 17 (6.20%) Databricks
6 10 (3.65%) Nexthink
7 9 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (2.55%) Google
9 5 (1.82%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.82%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.46%) Adobe
10 4 (1.46%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.46%) Dell
10 4 (1.46%) Okta
10 4 (1.46%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.46%) Oracle
11 3 (1.09%) Foundry
11 3 (1.09%) MicroStrategy