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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 371 344
Rank change year-on-year +6 -27 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 270 149 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.54% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.42% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 98 124
10th Percentile £400 £350 £408
25th Percentile £453 £400 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £484 £593
Median % change year-on-year +7.49% -18.35% -1.25%
75th Percentile £622 £538 £638
90th Percentile £681 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £520 £494 £584
% change year-on-year +5.32% -15.42% -2.71%
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 15,929 10,493 11,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.50% 37.73% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 7,098 7,761
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 247 174
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.40 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.92 £64.48
90th Percentile £82.34 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -8.06% -11.43%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -31 141 £523 +16.89% 56
South East -24 53 £518 -1.43% 23
North of England -24 45 £500 +11.11% 30
North West -34 20 £628 +39.47% 17
Yorkshire - 20 £471 - 8
Midlands -57 11 £406 -23.28% 15
South West -29 9 £578 +11.15% 1
East of England - 9 £552 - 9
East Midlands -15 6 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands -55 5 £400 -25.09% 13
North East - 5 £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 8 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.22%) Confluence
4 4 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.11%) Apache
5 3 (1.11%) CMS
5 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.37%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (1.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) Azure
2 121 (44.81%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (38.52%) GitHub
4 97 (35.93%) Entra ID
5 65 (24.07%) GitHub Actions
6 60 (22.22%) Azure AKS
7 50 (18.52%) AWS
8 41 (15.19%) Azure Key Vault
9 33 (12.22%) Power Platform
9 33 (12.22%) Serverless
10 32 (11.85%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (10.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 26 (9.63%) Azure Functions
12 26 (9.63%) PaaS
13 24 (8.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 23 (8.52%) Datadog
15 21 (7.78%) Azure App Service
15 21 (7.78%) IaaS
16 20 (7.41%) SaaS
17 19 (7.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.52%) Firewall
2 36 (13.33%) DNS
3 32 (11.85%) Network Security
3 32 (11.85%) VPN
4 15 (5.56%) DHCP
5 14 (5.19%) TCP/IP
6 12 (4.44%) SSL
7 8 (2.96%) WAN
8 6 (2.22%) BGP
8 6 (2.22%) SSH
9 5 (1.85%) Kerberos
9 5 (1.85%) NGFW
10 4 (1.48%) SNMP
10 4 (1.48%) VLAN
11 3 (1.11%) VSAN
12 2 (0.74%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
13 1 (0.37%) LAN
13 1 (0.37%) MPLS
13 1 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.96%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.26%) Power BI
3 22 (8.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 19 (7.04%) Data Lake
5 14 (5.19%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (4.07%) Delta Lake
7 11 (4.07%) MySQL
7 11 (4.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.85%) Redis
9 4 (1.48%) Data Vault
9 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.74%) Big Data
11 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.74%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (12.22%) Git
2 14 (5.19%) GitLab
3 10 (3.70%) JIRA
4 8 (2.96%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.48%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.48%) JMeter
5 4 (1.48%) Postman
5 4 (1.48%) Terragrunt
5 4 (1.48%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.11%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.11%) Gradle
6 3 (1.11%) Maven
7 2 (0.74%) Gatling
7 2 (0.74%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.74%) NeoLoad
7 2 (0.74%) Selenium
7 2 (0.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) Newman
General
1 86 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.07%) Finance
3 36 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.59%) Banking
7 5 (1.85%) Retail
8 4 (1.48%) Military
9 3 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.11%) Local Government
10 2 (0.74%) Billing
10 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 46 (17.04%) Senior
3 37 (13.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (10.74%) Architect
6 28 (10.37%) Developer
7 25 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (6.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 17 (6.30%) Lead
10 13 (4.81%) Consultant
11 12 (4.44%) DBA
12 11 (4.07%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.07%) SQL DBA
13 10 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (3.33%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (56.67%) Terraform
2 42 (15.56%) ARM Templates
3 37 (13.70%) REST
4 31 (11.48%) .NET
5 28 (10.37%) OAuth
6 21 (7.78%) OAuth2
7 18 (6.67%) OpenID
8 13 (4.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 13 (4.81%) RESTful
8 13 (4.81%) YAML
9 11 (4.07%) .NET Core
9 11 (4.07%) .NET Framework
9 11 (4.07%) Middleware
10 10 (3.70%) OpenAPI
10 10 (3.70%) Swagger
11 9 (3.33%) Entity Framework
11 9 (3.33%) JSON
11 9 (3.33%) Kafka
12 8 (2.96%) React
12 8 (2.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 26 (9.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (7.41%) CMDB
4 17 (6.30%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.56%) Clustering
5 15 (5.56%) Replication
5 15 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.07%) Cloud Security Posture
6 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.96%) ARM Cortex
9 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (2.96%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.59%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.85%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.85%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.48%) PKI
13 3 (1.11%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 70 (25.93%) Windows
2 44 (16.30%) Windows Server
3 33 (12.22%) Linux
4 15 (5.56%) VMS
5 14 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.85%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.11%) Android
8 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 3 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 3 (1.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.37%) Unix
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (63.33%) DevOps
2 157 (58.15%) CI/CD
3 128 (47.41%) Analytics
4 123 (45.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 114 (42.22%) Log Analytics
6 83 (30.74%) Observability
7 68 (25.19%) RBAC
8 61 (22.59%) Agile
9 53 (19.63%) ITIL
10 51 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (18.52%) Containerisation
12 47 (17.41%) Platform Engineering
13 46 (17.04%) Deployment Automation
14 45 (16.67%) AI
15 43 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
16 39 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
16 39 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (14.07%) Test Automation
18 35 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 33 (12.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 123 (45.56%) PowerShell
2 92 (34.07%) Python
3 85 (31.48%) Bicep
4 62 (22.96%) Bash
5 58 (21.48%) SQL
6 45 (16.67%) C#
7 20 (7.41%) Java
8 14 (5.19%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (4.44%) T-SQL
9 12 (4.44%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.37%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.37%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.37%) C
11 1 (0.37%) Korn
11 1 (0.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 92 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.96%) Azure Certification
2 62 (22.96%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.26%) Degree
3 25 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.30%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (4.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.59%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.85%) CISSP
10 5 (1.85%) MCSE
11 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.37%) CCIE
12 1 (0.37%) CCNP
12 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.37%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.37%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.74%) QA
2 14 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.44%) GDPR
4 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.96%) NIST
5 7 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.11%) SLA
6 3 (1.11%) WCAG
7 2 (0.74%) NCSC
7 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.74%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.37%) GRC
8 1 (0.37%) HL7
8 1 (0.37%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 52 (19.26%) Active Directory
1 52 (19.26%) Docker
2 38 (14.07%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (4.07%) IAG
4 11 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (3.70%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.11%) Firmware
6 3 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.11%) vSphere
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 82 (30.37%) Kubernetes
2 42 (15.56%) Grafana
3 36 (13.33%) Ansible
4 27 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 19 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (7.04%) SCOM
6 13 (4.81%) SCCM
7 9 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.85%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.48%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (1.11%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.11%) VxRail
11 1 (0.37%) Control-M
11 1 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.37%) Packer
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 150 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.19%) ServiceNow
3 27 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 25 (9.26%) Splunk
5 20 (7.41%) Databricks
6 17 (6.30%) VMware
7 11 (4.07%) Nexthink
8 9 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.96%) OpenAI
10 7 (2.59%) AppDynamics
10 7 (2.59%) Google
11 6 (2.22%) Dell
11 6 (2.22%) Foundry
11 6 (2.22%) Okta
11 6 (2.22%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.85%) SAP
12 5 (1.85%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.85%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.48%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (1.48%) MuleSoft