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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 359 373
Rank change year-on-year -27 +14 +91
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 207 120 176
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.32% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 91 122
10th Percentile £400 £313 £408
25th Percentile £450 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £560
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% -0.22%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £455 £560
% change year-on-year +12.64% -18.75% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £30.07 - -
25th Percentile £33.62 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £57.92 - -
90th Percentile £65.17 - -
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.02% - -

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 14,371 9,067 11,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.29% 37.20% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,865 6,335 8,560
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 459 197 320
10th Percentile £15.87 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.29 £41.97 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.00 £61.64
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.36% +30.95% -40.00%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -27 120 £525 +18.38% 25
South East -40 27 £500 -17.36% 16
South West -13 19 £475 - 1
North of England -38 19 £476 +5.78% 9
Midlands -66 13 £550 +11.11% 2
North West -26 12 £518 +15.11% 5
West Midlands -56 9 £455 -8.08% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £460 - 3
East of England - 5 £550 - 3
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 1
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 14 (6.76%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.35%) IIS
4 4 (1.93%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.45%) Confluence
6 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) Apache
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Maximo
2 2 (0.97%) Shopify
3 1 (0.48%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.48%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 207 (100.00%) Azure
2 106 (51.21%) Azure DevOps
3 75 (36.23%) GitHub
4 61 (29.47%) Entra ID
5 54 (26.09%) Azure AKS
6 53 (25.60%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (23.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 37 (17.87%) Azure Logic Apps
8 37 (17.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 36 (17.39%) Serverless
10 32 (15.46%) Azure Functions
11 30 (14.49%) AWS
12 26 (12.56%) Azure Sentinel
12 26 (12.56%) PaaS
13 24 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 17 (8.21%) Power Platform
17 16 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 15 (7.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 39 (18.84%) Firewall
2 21 (10.14%) VPN
3 15 (7.25%) DNS
4 12 (5.80%) Network Security
5 6 (2.90%) DHCP
6 4 (1.93%) VSAN
6 4 (1.93%) WAN
7 3 (1.45%) SNMP
7 3 (1.45%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.97%) Internet
8 2 (0.97%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.97%) LAN
8 2 (0.97%) NGFW
9 1 (0.48%) HTTP
9 1 (0.48%) MPLS
9 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.48%) SMTP
9 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (7.25%) Delta Lake
4 14 (6.76%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.90%) Power BI
7 6 (2.90%) Redis
8 4 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.93%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.45%) Parquet
9 3 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.48%) Big Data
10 1 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.48%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (16.91%) Git
2 8 (3.86%) GitLab
2 8 (3.86%) JIRA
3 5 (2.42%) Gradle
4 4 (1.93%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.45%) Maven
6 2 (0.97%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.48%) Moq
7 1 (0.48%) MSI
7 1 (0.48%) NUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Postman
7 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.48%) Serilog
7 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.48%) TestRail
7 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.48%) webpack
7 1 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.46%) Public Sector
3 30 (14.49%) Finance
4 13 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.38%) Banking
5 7 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.42%) Legal
7 3 (1.45%) Retail
8 2 (0.97%) Law
8 2 (0.97%) Local Government
8 2 (0.97%) Publishing
9 1 (0.48%) Back Office
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 71 (34.30%) Azure Engineer
2 37 (17.87%) Developer
3 35 (16.91%) Senior
4 32 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (12.56%) Azure Developer
6 24 (11.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 22 (10.63%) Architect
8 19 (9.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (6.76%) Data Engineer
11 13 (6.28%) Site Engineer
11 13 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (5.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.35%) Lead
13 9 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
14 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (3.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.38%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (21.26%) .NET
2 34 (16.43%) ARM Templates
3 25 (12.08%) REST
4 22 (10.63%) .NET Framework
5 17 (8.21%) Node.js
6 13 (6.28%) JSON
6 13 (6.28%) OAuth
6 13 (6.28%) YAML
7 12 (5.80%) Microsoft Graph
7 12 (5.80%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (5.31%) .NET Core
8 11 (5.31%) OAuth2
8 11 (5.31%) SOAP
9 10 (4.83%) PySpark
9 10 (4.83%) React
9 10 (4.83%) Web Services
10 9 (4.35%) RESTful
11 8 (3.86%) OpenID
12 7 (3.38%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (4.83%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.86%) AI Agents
6 8 (3.86%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.90%) Legacy Code
8 5 (2.42%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.42%) Replication
8 5 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.45%) Clustering
10 3 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.97%) CMDB
11 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (17.39%) Windows
2 19 (9.18%) Windows Server
3 13 (6.28%) Linux
4 5 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.93%) VMS
6 3 (1.45%) SUSE
7 1 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (72.95%) DevOps
2 115 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 104 (50.24%) Analytics
4 95 (45.89%) Log Analytics
5 89 (43.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (32.37%) Observability
7 42 (20.29%) Containerisation
7 42 (20.29%) RBAC
8 39 (18.84%) Agile
9 31 (14.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 31 (14.98%) Migration
9 31 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
10 29 (14.01%) High Availability
11 28 (13.53%) AI
11 28 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 28 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (13.53%) Runbook
12 27 (13.04%) API Management
13 26 (12.56%) Test Automation
14 24 (11.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 75 (36.23%) PowerShell
2 65 (31.40%) Python
3 58 (28.02%) Bicep
4 47 (22.71%) C#
4 47 (22.71%) SQL
5 22 (10.63%) Bash
5 22 (10.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 12 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (4.83%) Scala
8 9 (4.35%) Java
9 7 (3.38%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.97%) C
10 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (36.23%) Security Cleared
2 62 (29.95%) SC Cleared
3 47 (22.71%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.42%) CISM
6 5 (2.42%) CISSP
6 5 (2.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (0.97%) MCSE
8 1 (0.48%) CCNA
8 1 (0.48%) CCNP
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.48%) Degree
8 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.31%) QA
3 9 (4.35%) NIST
4 5 (2.42%) NIST 800
5 4 (1.93%) GDPR
5 4 (1.93%) NCSC
6 2 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.97%) SLA
6 2 (0.97%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (21.74%) Docker
2 28 (13.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (9.66%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.38%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.93%) vSphere
8 3 (1.45%) Firmware
8 3 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.48%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.48%) IAG
9 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (57.97%) Terraform
2 53 (25.60%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.66%) Grafana
3 20 (9.66%) Prometheus
4 13 (6.28%) Ansible
5 4 (1.93%) Istio
5 4 (1.93%) Kustomize
5 4 (1.93%) linkerd
5 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.93%) Pingdom
6 3 (1.45%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.45%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.45%) VxRail
7 2 (0.97%) SCOM
8 1 (0.48%) Control-M
8 1 (0.48%) Packer
8 1 (0.48%) Puppet
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (46.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.11%) Databricks
3 15 (7.25%) OpenAI
4 12 (5.80%) VMware
5 9 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 9 (4.35%) Splunk
6 6 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.90%) IBM
7 5 (2.42%) Foundry
7 5 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.42%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.93%) Dell
8 4 (1.93%) Google
8 4 (1.93%) Moogsoft
8 4 (1.93%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.45%) Alibaba
9 3 (1.45%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.45%) New Relic
10 2 (0.97%) NetApp
10 2 (0.97%) Virgin Media