Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.24% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £652 - -
90th Percentile £675 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £613 - £625

All Cloud Computing Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 96 113 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 43.05% 41.85% 40.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 111 59
10th Percentile £373 £313 £328
25th Percentile £435 £354 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £402 £450
Median % change year-on-year +36.82% -10.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £623 £475 £527
90th Percentile £691 £500 £596
Cheshire median daily rate £490 £416 £450
% change year-on-year +17.72% -7.50% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £17.50 £12.82 -
% change year-on-year +36.51% - -

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in Knutsford over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in Knutsford

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (60.00%) Log Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) SIEM
4 2 (40.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Release Management
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) VMware