Azure Monitor Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure Monitor skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 353 472
Rank change year-on-year -11 +119 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 122 186 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.58% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 129 122
10th Percentile £330 £405 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -24.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £638 £688
90th Percentile £685 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £464 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -22.75% +5.26% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £69.20
25th Percentile - - £72.88
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
75th Percentile - - £95.38
90th Percentile - - £100.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.25
% change year-on-year - - +11.16%

All Cloud 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 9,107 11,765 17,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.58% 32.01% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,242 8,481 12,617
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 319 290
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.94 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.01 £21.37 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -38.94% +62.79%
75th Percentile £36.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.60 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 +46 85 £447 -14.86% 44
South East +9 22 £553 -8.68% 27
Midlands +1 6 £498 +33.56% 27
West Midlands 0 5 £495 +32.89% 18
South West +37 2 £520 -5.45% 9
North of England +16 1 £450 -28.00% 32
North West +9 1 £450 -12.20% 17
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 8
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 2 (1.64%) Confluence
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.82%) DataSynapse
2 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (52.46%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (30.33%) Azure AKS
4 31 (25.41%) Azure Sentinel
5 25 (20.49%) Entra ID
6 21 (17.21%) GitHub
7 20 (16.39%) AWS
7 20 (16.39%) Serverless
8 15 (12.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (9.84%) Azure API Management
10 12 (9.84%) Power Platform
11 9 (7.38%) Azure Functions
11 9 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (6.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (6.56%) Azure Storage
13 7 (5.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (5.74%) Power Automate
14 6 (4.92%) IaaS
14 6 (4.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.85%) Firewall
2 15 (12.30%) DNS
3 13 (10.66%) VPN
4 12 (9.84%) TCP/IP
5 9 (7.38%) HTTP
6 7 (5.74%) FTP
6 7 (5.74%) SMTP
6 7 (5.74%) SSL
7 5 (4.10%) DHCP
7 5 (4.10%) WAN
8 2 (1.64%) Network Security
8 2 (1.64%) NGFW
8 2 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.82%) MQTT
9 1 (0.82%) NAS
9 1 (0.82%) SAN
9 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (9.84%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.20%) Power BI
3 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.46%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.46%) Parquet
6 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.46%) SSDT
7 2 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.82%) Big Data
8 1 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.82%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.82%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Git
1 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.28%) CircleCI
2 4 (3.28%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (3.28%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.46%) Postman
3 3 (2.46%) Selenium
4 2 (1.64%) GitLab
4 2 (1.64%) Gradle
4 2 (1.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.64%) JMeter
4 2 (1.64%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.64%) Maven
4 2 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.82%) git-flow
5 1 (0.82%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 29 (23.77%) Finance
3 17 (13.93%) Banking
4 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (0.82%) Back Office
8 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) Front Office
8 1 (0.82%) Games
8 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (32.79%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 14 (11.48%) Senior
4 14 (11.48%) Site Engineer
5 13 (10.66%) Architect
6 12 (9.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Developer
7 10 (8.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Azure Developer
8 6 (4.92%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Lead
9 5 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Consultant
10 4 (3.28%) Grid Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.46%) Python Engineer
11 3 (2.46%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (19.67%) .NET
2 21 (17.21%) ARM Templates
3 11 (9.02%) YAML
4 10 (8.20%) JSON
5 8 (6.56%) OAuth
5 8 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (5.74%) .NET Core
6 7 (5.74%) ADO
7 6 (4.92%) REST
7 6 (4.92%) RESTful
8 5 (4.10%) React
9 4 (3.28%) Web Services
10 3 (2.46%) Node.js
10 3 (2.46%) SAML
11 2 (1.64%) .NET Framework
11 2 (1.64%) CSS
11 2 (1.64%) HTML
11 2 (1.64%) OpenID
11 2 (1.64%) PySpark
11 2 (1.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.56%) PKI
4 7 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.10%) Grid Computing
6 4 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) Replication
8 2 (1.64%) Anti-Spyware
8 2 (1.64%) CMDB
8 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Wiki
9 1 (0.82%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.82%) Equities
9 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.66%) Linux
2 12 (9.84%) Windows
3 11 (9.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (5.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.82%) Solaris
5 1 (0.82%) Unix
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (61.48%) DevOps
2 58 (47.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (44.26%) CI/CD
4 40 (32.79%) Analytics
5 36 (29.51%) Log Analytics
6 30 (24.59%) Microservices
7 28 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (21.31%) Agile
8 26 (21.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 24 (19.67%) Containerisation
10 22 (18.03%) API Management
11 17 (13.93%) Identity Management
12 16 (13.11%) Cost Management
12 16 (13.11%) Observability
12 16 (13.11%) RBAC
13 15 (12.30%) Incident Management
14 12 (9.84%) Cloud Security
14 12 (9.84%) ETL
15 11 (9.02%) ITSM
15 11 (9.02%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.44%) PowerShell
2 37 (30.33%) Python
3 34 (27.87%) Bicep
4 33 (27.05%) C#
5 23 (18.85%) SQL
6 14 (11.48%) Bash
6 14 (11.48%) Java
7 10 (8.20%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (7.38%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.10%) C++
9 5 (4.10%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.28%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.82%) Groovy
11 1 (0.82%) PHP
11 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.82%) VB
11 1 (0.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (15.57%) Azure Certification
1 19 (15.57%) SC Cleared
1 19 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.92%) Degree
4 2 (1.64%) CISSP
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.82%) CCSK
5 1 (0.82%) CEH
5 1 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) GIAC
5 1 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.82%) MCSE
5 1 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.10%) NIST
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
3 4 (3.28%) NCSC
4 2 (1.64%) QA
5 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 17 (13.93%) Active Directory
2 15 (12.30%) Docker
3 14 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.28%) Platform Symphony
4 4 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.82%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.82%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.82%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (49.18%) Terraform
2 47 (38.52%) Kubernetes
3 21 (17.21%) Grafana
4 15 (12.30%) Prometheus
5 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (6.56%) Ansible
6 8 (6.56%) Kibana
7 5 (4.10%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (3.28%) Puppet
8 4 (3.28%) Salt
8 4 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.64%) Istio
9 2 (1.64%) Perfmon
9 2 (1.64%) SCCM
9 2 (1.64%) SCOM
10 1 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.82%) Argo
10 1 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.82%) logstash
10 1 (0.82%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (40.16%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.74%) Databricks
2 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.10%) Google
3 5 (4.10%) TIBCO
4 4 (3.28%) IBM
5 3 (2.46%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.46%) UiPath
6 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.64%) QAD
6 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.64%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.82%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.82%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.82%) LogRhythm
7 1 (0.82%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.82%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.82%) Snow