Azure Monitor Contracts in England

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Monitor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 462 461
Rank change year-on-year +88 -1 +52
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 175 199 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.39% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.07% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 137 211
10th Percentile £420 £409 £409
25th Percentile £500 £475 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - +11.68%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +1.82% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £69.20 -
25th Percentile - £72.88 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +58.10% +17.98%
75th Percentile - £95.38 £56.25
90th Percentile - £100.40 -
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 £59.75
% change year-on-year - +14.64% -4.02%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Monitor is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,854 18,544 27,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.89% 36.60% 38.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,537 13,550 20,064
10th Percentile £288 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 320 351
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.86 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £41.88
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 26 April 2024. 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 +95 85 £525 -2.33% 21
South East +62 51 £605 -12.00% 7
West Midlands +28 17 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands +25 17 £400 -5.88% 3
South West +28 9 £575 - 1
East of England +13 1 £875 +169.23% 1
North West -2 1 £400 -39.62% 2
North of England -4 1 £400 -36.00% 3
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (13.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.43%) CMS
3 7 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.43%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.71%) Apache
6 2 (1.14%) IIS
6 2 (1.14%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (38.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 45 (25.71%) Entra ID
5 44 (25.14%) Azure Service Bus
6 41 (23.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (21.71%) Serverless
8 35 (20.00%) Azure Functions
9 29 (16.57%) Azure Key Vault
10 26 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (13.14%) PaaS
12 18 (10.29%) Azure Storage
13 17 (9.71%) Azure Pipelines
14 15 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (6.29%) Power Platform
16 10 (5.71%) AWS
16 10 (5.71%) Azure AKS
16 10 (5.71%) GitHub
17 9 (5.14%) Azure Cognitive Search
18 7 (4.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 34 (19.43%) DNS
2 25 (14.29%) Firewall
3 16 (9.14%) DHCP
4 8 (4.57%) NetScaler
5 7 (4.00%) HTTP
6 5 (2.86%) VPN
7 4 (2.29%) Internet
7 4 (2.29%) SSH
7 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.71%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.71%) IPsec
9 2 (1.14%) Network Security
9 2 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (26.86%) SQL Server
2 30 (17.14%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.29%) Power BI
6 4 (2.29%) Parquet
6 4 (2.29%) Redis
7 3 (1.71%) Big Data
7 3 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.14%) MySQL
8 2 (1.14%) Power Query
8 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.57%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 68 (38.86%) Git
2 12 (6.86%) Visual Studio
3 10 (5.71%) Selenium
4 6 (3.43%) Maven
5 5 (2.86%) GitLab
5 5 (2.86%) SpecFlow
5 5 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.29%) Gatling
6 4 (2.29%) Gradle
6 4 (2.29%) Postman
6 4 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.71%) Deequ
7 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.14%) JMeter
8 2 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.57%) Ant
9 1 (0.57%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.57%) JIRA
9 1 (0.57%) Moq
General
1 34 (19.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.00%) Finance
4 19 (10.86%) Public Sector
5 18 (10.29%) Back Office
6 5 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.29%) Law
7 4 (2.29%) Marketing
8 3 (1.71%) Banking
8 3 (1.71%) Electronics
8 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Local Government
9 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 60 (34.29%) Developer
2 30 (17.14%) Senior
3 27 (15.43%) Azure Developer
4 25 (14.29%) Lead
5 23 (13.14%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (10.86%) Full Stack Developer
7 18 (10.29%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.14%) Azure Specialist
9 15 (8.57%) Active Directory Support
10 14 (8.00%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (8.00%) Data Engineer
10 14 (8.00%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.43%) C# Developer
11 13 (7.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 10 (5.71%) Architect
12 10 (5.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 9 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
14 8 (4.57%) Designer
14 8 (4.57%) Lead Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (30.29%) .NET
2 39 (22.29%) .NET Core
3 36 (20.57%) ARM Templates
3 36 (20.57%) React
4 18 (10.29%) CSS
5 17 (9.71%) JSON
6 16 (9.14%) HTML
7 14 (8.00%) ASP.NET
7 14 (8.00%) jQuery
7 14 (8.00%) REST
8 12 (6.86%) PySpark
9 11 (6.29%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (5.14%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.14%) Node.js
10 9 (5.14%) YAML
11 8 (4.57%) OAuth
12 6 (3.43%) OpenID
12 6 (3.43%) SOAP
12 6 (3.43%) XML
13 4 (2.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.43%) Product Ownership
2 20 (11.43%) PKI
3 16 (9.14%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.14%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.71%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.71%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.86%) Windows
2 26 (14.86%) Linux
3 25 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (5.14%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.29%) VMS
8 2 (1.14%) Unix
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.57%) CentOS
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (71.43%) DevOps
2 92 (52.57%) Agile
3 63 (36.00%) CI/CD
4 52 (29.71%) Analytics
5 45 (25.71%) API Management
5 45 (25.71%) Log Analytics
6 40 (22.86%) TDD
7 39 (22.29%) OO
8 35 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (20.00%) OOD
9 30 (17.14%) Clean Code
10 29 (16.57%) Test Automation
11 25 (14.29%) ITIL
12 24 (13.71%) SDLC
13 23 (13.14%) RBAC
14 21 (12.00%) Full Stack Development
15 20 (11.43%) Change Management
16 19 (10.86%) Scrum
17 18 (10.29%) Identity Management
17 18 (10.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 75 (42.86%) C#
2 58 (33.14%) PowerShell
3 51 (29.14%) Bicep
4 43 (24.57%) Python
5 42 (24.00%) SQL
6 23 (13.14%) JavaScript
7 16 (9.14%) VB
7 16 (9.14%) VBScript
8 14 (8.00%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.57%) Java
9 8 (4.57%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.86%) Scala
11 4 (2.29%) PHP
12 3 (1.71%) C
13 1 (0.57%) Bash
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 26 (14.86%) Degree
4 18 (10.29%) DV Cleared
5 16 (9.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.71%) CCIE
8 3 (1.71%) CCNP
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) MCTS
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.29%) Accessibility
1 18 (10.29%) WCAG
2 6 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.29%) NCSC
3 4 (2.29%) NIST
4 3 (1.71%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 30 (17.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (6.86%) Docker
5 8 (4.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.57%) XenApp
5 8 (4.57%) XenDesktop
6 6 (3.43%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.29%) NFS
8 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.00%) Terraform
3 19 (10.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (10.86%) SCCM
4 16 (9.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (9.14%) SCOM
4 16 (9.14%) WSUS
5 5 (2.86%) SysTrack
6 4 (2.29%) Grafana
6 4 (2.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.71%) Ansible
7 3 (1.71%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.57%) CASB
9 1 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 84 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.00%) Citrix
3 13 (7.43%) Databricks
4 10 (5.71%) New Relic
5 9 (5.14%) Splunk
6 8 (4.57%) NetApp
7 5 (2.86%) Adobe
7 5 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.86%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.86%) Qualtrics
8 4 (2.29%) Cisco
9 3 (1.71%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.71%) SAP
9 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.14%) CA
10 2 (1.14%) Google
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle
10 2 (1.14%) VMware
11 1 (0.57%) Sybase