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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 350 361
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +128
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 194 144 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.53% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.46% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 101 139
10th Percentile £400 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £552 £650 £675
90th Percentile £638 £671 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
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 11,846 9,889 12,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.06% 36.71% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,191 6,593 9,074
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 132 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.31 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.45 £65.00 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +35 115 £500 -4.76% 16
Midlands -15 31 £537 +38.58% 9
West Midlands -13 23 £534 +37.81% 2
South East -37 16 £500 -20.63% 20
South West - 15 £575 - 7
North of England -41 10 £450 +4.35% 18
East Midlands - 8 £563 - 6
North West -25 7 £425 +6.25% 12
Yorkshire -48 3 £600 +14.29% 5
East of England -16 2 £650 - 9
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 15 (7.73%) Apache
1 15 (7.73%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.22%) WebLogic
3 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.06%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (1.03%) CMS
5 2 (1.03%) Confluence
5 2 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.12%) Maximo
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 194 (100.00%) Azure
2 91 (46.91%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (37.11%) Entra ID
4 58 (29.90%) Azure Logic Apps
5 50 (25.77%) GitHub
6 48 (24.74%) Serverless
7 47 (24.23%) Azure AKS
8 46 (23.71%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (22.16%) Azure Functions
10 41 (21.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 36 (18.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 30 (15.46%) Azure Sentinel
12 30 (15.46%) Power Platform
13 26 (13.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 24 (12.37%) AWS
15 22 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
15 22 (11.34%) Power Automate
16 18 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (9.28%) PowerApps
17 17 (8.76%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.01%) Firewall
2 21 (10.82%) VPN
3 15 (7.73%) DNS
4 11 (5.67%) Network Security
5 9 (4.64%) DHCP
6 4 (2.06%) WAN
7 2 (1.03%) LAN
7 2 (1.03%) MPLS
7 2 (1.03%) SSL
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.52%) DKIM
8 1 (0.52%) DMARC
8 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.52%) VSAN
8 1 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.70%) Power BI
2 12 (6.19%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (5.67%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.06%) Redis
7 3 (1.55%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) KNIME
9 1 (0.52%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) PolyBase
9 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (11.86%) Git
2 8 (4.12%) JIRA
3 7 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.58%) Postman
5 4 (2.06%) GitLab
6 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.55%) Gradle
7 2 (1.03%) Jaeger
7 2 (1.03%) MLflow
7 2 (1.03%) PVCS
7 2 (1.03%) Snyk
8 1 (0.52%) Ant
8 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.52%) ERwin
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
8 1 (0.52%) Locust
8 1 (0.52%) Maven
8 1 (0.52%) Poetry
8 1 (0.52%) Pylint
8 1 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (22.68%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.92%) Public Sector
3 24 (12.37%) Finance
4 9 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.64%) Banking
5 7 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.58%) Retail
7 3 (1.55%) Billing
7 3 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.03%) Legal
8 2 (1.03%) Local Government
8 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (28.35%) Azure Engineer
2 52 (26.80%) Developer
3 29 (14.95%) Senior
4 28 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 21 (10.82%) Azure Developer
6 18 (9.28%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 17 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (7.22%) Security Engineer
10 13 (6.70%) Lead
11 10 (5.15%) Administrator
11 10 (5.15%) Architect
11 10 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (5.15%) DBA
11 10 (5.15%) Monitoring Engineer
12 9 (4.64%) Integration Developer
13 8 (4.12%) Azure Security Engineer
13 8 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (22.16%) .NET
2 36 (18.56%) REST
3 25 (12.89%) ARM Templates
4 22 (11.34%) .NET Core
4 22 (11.34%) Node.js
5 20 (10.31%) OAuth
6 17 (8.76%) React
7 15 (7.73%) JSON
8 13 (6.70%) AngularJS
8 13 (6.70%) Microsoft Graph
9 11 (5.67%) .NET Framework
9 11 (5.67%) OAuth2
9 11 (5.67%) YAML
10 10 (5.15%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.64%) ASP.NET
11 9 (4.64%) PyTorch
11 9 (4.64%) SOAP
12 7 (3.61%) Kafka
12 7 (3.61%) TensorFlow
13 5 (2.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.46%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.67%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.64%) AI Agents
5 8 (4.12%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.61%) Security Posture
7 6 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.55%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.01%) Windows
2 23 (11.86%) Linux
3 17 (8.76%) Unix
4 8 (4.12%) Windows Server
5 6 (3.09%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (67.01%) DevOps
2 106 (54.64%) Analytics
3 97 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 97 (50.00%) Log Analytics
4 64 (32.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (25.77%) Observability
6 48 (24.74%) Agile
7 46 (23.71%) RBAC
8 38 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (18.04%) API Management
10 32 (16.49%) AI
11 31 (15.98%) Containerisation
12 30 (15.46%) Migration
13 28 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (13.92%) Microservices
15 26 (13.40%) Cloud Security
16 25 (12.89%) Data Modelling
16 25 (12.89%) Incident Response
17 24 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 24 (12.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.41%) Bicep
2 56 (28.87%) SQL
3 50 (25.77%) Python
4 49 (25.26%) C#
5 48 (24.74%) PowerShell
6 24 (12.37%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 14 (7.22%) Bash
9 13 (6.70%) TypeScript
10 11 (5.67%) Java
11 7 (3.61%) T-SQL
12 3 (1.55%) PHP
12 3 (1.55%) X++
13 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 63 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 57 (29.38%) SC Cleared
3 40 (20.62%) Azure Certification
4 19 (9.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.12%) CISM
5 8 (4.12%) CISSP
5 8 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 8 (4.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 6 (3.09%) Degree
7 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (8.76%) NIST
2 11 (5.67%) GDPR
3 8 (4.12%) NIST 800
4 7 (3.61%) NCSC
5 6 (3.09%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.03%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.03%) SLA
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.52%) QA
8 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (23.20%) Active Directory
2 35 (18.04%) Docker
3 5 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 93 (47.94%) Terraform
2 47 (24.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.19%) Prometheus
4 11 (5.67%) Grafana
5 6 (3.09%) Ansible
6 4 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.06%) Packer
6 4 (2.06%) Pingdom
6 4 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.03%) Kibana
8 1 (0.52%) Argo
8 1 (0.52%) CASB
8 1 (0.52%) logstash
8 1 (0.52%) SCCM
8 1 (0.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 109 (56.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.82%) Databricks
3 19 (9.79%) OpenAI
4 16 (8.25%) Dynatrace
5 15 (7.73%) Oracle
5 15 (7.73%) Splunk
6 14 (7.22%) AppDynamics
6 14 (7.22%) Cisco
7 8 (4.12%) IBM
7 8 (4.12%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.58%) Google
8 5 (2.58%) VMware
9 4 (2.06%) Moogsoft
9 4 (2.06%) New Relic
9 4 (2.06%) PagerDuty
9 4 (2.06%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.06%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.55%) Confluent
11 2 (1.03%) NetApp