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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 373 338
Rank change year-on-year +15 -35 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 283 148 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.38% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 89 132
10th Percentile £400 £360 £375
25th Percentile £457 £406 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £596
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -16.98% -0.79%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £641
90th Percentile £675 £638 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £495 £593
% change year-on-year +6.06% -16.46% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £63.48 - -
75th Percentile £65.94 - -
90th Percentile £66.37 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.31% - -

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 15,939 10,738 11,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.46% 38.37% 34.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,607 7,248 7,525
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 253 161
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.04 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% +6.06%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -37 144 £525 +16.67% 79
South East -18 56 £550 +4.76% 30
North of England -13 52 £495 +10.00% 30
Yorkshire -11 24 £471 - 8
North West -27 21 £628 +39.47% 17
Midlands -63 12 £413 -21.43% 16
East of England -26 10 £552 -15.08% 6
South West -33 8 £600 +15.38% 6
North East - 7 £500 - 5
East Midlands -14 6 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands -56 6 £400 -24.46% 12
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 9 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.83%) Confluence
3 7 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.06%) Apache
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.06%) CMS
5 3 (1.06%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.35%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.35%) Mendix
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.06%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 283 (100.00%) Azure
2 133 (47.00%) Azure DevOps
3 113 (39.93%) Entra ID
4 107 (37.81%) GitHub
5 67 (23.67%) Azure AKS
6 64 (22.61%) GitHub Actions
7 50 (17.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 45 (15.90%) AWS
9 35 (12.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 35 (12.37%) Serverless
10 34 (12.01%) PaaS
11 33 (11.66%) Power Platform
12 29 (10.25%) Azure Functions
13 27 (9.54%) Azure App Service
13 27 (9.54%) IaaS
14 26 (9.19%) Azure API Management
15 25 (8.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 24 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (8.48%) Datadog
17 23 (8.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (19.79%) Firewall
2 46 (16.25%) DNS
3 36 (12.72%) Network Security
4 35 (12.37%) VPN
5 21 (7.42%) DHCP
6 18 (6.36%) TCP/IP
7 12 (4.24%) SSL
8 8 (2.83%) SSH
8 8 (2.83%) WAN
9 6 (2.12%) BGP
10 5 (1.77%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.77%) NGFW
11 4 (1.41%) SNMP
12 2 (0.71%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.71%) Internet
12 2 (0.71%) LAN
12 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.35%) MPLS
13 1 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 26 (9.19%) Power BI
4 19 (6.71%) Data Lake
5 15 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (3.89%) MySQL
8 9 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.18%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.47%) Redis
10 6 (2.12%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.41%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.41%) Metadata
11 4 (1.41%) Parquet
12 3 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.71%) Big Data
13 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 37 (13.07%) Git
2 15 (5.30%) GitLab
3 11 (3.89%) JIRA
4 8 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.77%) JMeter
6 4 (1.41%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (1.41%) Postman
6 4 (1.41%) Terragrunt
6 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.71%) Gatling
7 2 (0.71%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.71%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.71%) Selenium
7 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.35%) Newman
General
1 87 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.49%) Finance
3 38 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.47%) Banking
7 5 (1.77%) Military
7 5 (1.77%) Retail
8 4 (1.41%) Local Government
8 4 (1.41%) Police
9 3 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.06%) Billing
9 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.71%) Marketing
10 2 (0.71%) Publishing
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (22.26%) Azure Engineer
2 52 (18.37%) Senior
3 40 (14.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (12.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 35 (12.37%) Architect
6 32 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 28 (9.89%) Developer
8 20 (7.07%) Lead
8 20 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
9 18 (6.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 15 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (4.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.24%) Consultant
12 12 (4.24%) DBA
12 12 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
13 11 (3.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.89%) SQL DBA
14 10 (3.53%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (61.13%) Terraform
2 48 (16.96%) REST
3 46 (16.25%) ARM Templates
4 33 (11.66%) .NET
5 31 (10.95%) OAuth
6 22 (7.77%) OAuth2
7 21 (7.42%) OpenID
8 14 (4.95%) .NET Core
9 13 (4.59%) JSON
9 13 (4.59%) Middleware
9 13 (4.59%) RESTful
10 12 (4.24%) .NET Framework
10 12 (4.24%) YAML
11 11 (3.89%) Entity Framework
11 11 (3.89%) OpenAPI
11 11 (3.89%) React
11 11 (3.89%) Swagger
12 10 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
13 9 (3.18%) SAML
14 7 (2.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (7.77%) CMDB
3 22 (7.77%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.30%) Security Posture
5 14 (4.95%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (4.59%) Replication
7 12 (4.24%) ARM Cortex
7 12 (4.24%) Clustering
7 12 (4.24%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 10 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (2.83%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.47%) AI Agents
11 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (2.47%) PKI
12 6 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 77 (27.21%) Windows
2 51 (18.02%) Windows Server
3 38 (13.43%) Linux
4 12 (4.24%) VMS
5 11 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.47%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.41%) Android
7 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.35%) Unix
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (64.31%) DevOps
2 167 (59.01%) CI/CD
3 140 (49.47%) Analytics
4 139 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (44.88%) Log Analytics
6 94 (33.22%) Observability
7 82 (28.98%) RBAC
8 63 (22.26%) Agile
9 57 (20.14%) Deployment Automation
10 56 (19.79%) ITIL
11 54 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (18.73%) Platform Engineering
13 52 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 49 (17.31%) AI
15 48 (16.96%) Containerisation
16 44 (15.55%) Infrastructure Automation
16 44 (15.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 42 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (14.13%) Test Automation
19 38 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 128 (45.23%) PowerShell
2 95 (33.57%) Bicep
3 93 (32.86%) Python
4 69 (24.38%) Bash
5 65 (22.97%) SQL
6 47 (16.61%) C#
7 19 (6.71%) Java
8 13 (4.59%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.24%) T-SQL
10 11 (3.89%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.35%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.35%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) Korn
12 1 (0.35%) VB
12 1 (0.35%) VBA
12 1 (0.35%) X++
Qualifications
1 105 (37.10%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.73%) SC Cleared
3 62 (21.91%) Azure Certification
4 27 (9.54%) Degree
5 25 (8.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (7.77%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (4.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 9 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.47%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.77%) CISSP
11 5 (1.77%) MCSE
12 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.35%) CCIE
14 1 (0.35%) CCNP
14 1 (0.35%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.35%) FFIEC
14 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.25%) QA
2 15 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.59%) GDPR
4 10 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.83%) NIST
6 3 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.06%) SLA
6 3 (1.06%) WCAG
7 2 (0.71%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.35%) GLBA
8 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.35%) GRC
8 1 (0.35%) HL7
8 1 (0.35%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 62 (21.91%) Active Directory
2 50 (17.67%) Docker
3 34 (12.01%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (3.53%) IAG
7 7 (2.47%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 81 (28.62%) Kubernetes
2 48 (16.96%) Grafana
3 41 (14.49%) Ansible
4 26 (9.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (8.83%) Prometheus
6 19 (6.71%) SCCM
6 19 (6.71%) SCOM
7 9 (3.18%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.77%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Control-M
9 1 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.35%) Packer
9 1 (0.35%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 164 (57.95%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.19%) ServiceNow
3 38 (13.43%) Dynatrace
4 26 (9.19%) Splunk
5 19 (6.71%) Databricks
6 14 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
6 14 (4.95%) VMware
7 10 (3.53%) Nexthink
7 10 (3.53%) OpenAI
8 8 (2.83%) AppDynamics
8 8 (2.83%) Foundry
8 8 (2.83%) Google
8 8 (2.83%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.47%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.12%) Okta
11 5 (1.77%) Veeam
11 5 (1.77%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.41%) Commvault
12 4 (1.41%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (1.41%) MuleSoft