Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 272 300
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 +42
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 139 98 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.71% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 65 50
10th Percentile £417 £333 £379
25th Percentile £450 £364 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £440 £506
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -13.09% -10.40%
75th Percentile £625 £513 £604
90th Percentile £738 £616 £689
England median daily rate £520 £475 £584
% change year-on-year +9.47% -18.63% -2.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,320 5,745 6,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.22% 43.24% 41.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,695 3,913 4,690
10th Percentile £360 £341 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 94 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +3.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £46.68
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.45 £30.59
% change year-on-year +29.02% -13.53% -7.30%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Monitor relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in London over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in London

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London -16 15 £550 +11.68% 6
West London - 3 - -
North London - 1 £650 -
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (5.76%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.16%) CMS
3 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.72%) Apache
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.72%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 139 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (56.12%) GitHub
3 72 (51.80%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (40.29%) Entra ID
5 50 (35.97%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (28.78%) Azure AKS
7 26 (18.71%) AWS
8 19 (13.67%) Serverless
9 18 (12.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (12.23%) Azure Functions
10 17 (12.23%) Power Platform
11 15 (10.79%) PaaS
12 14 (10.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 13 (9.35%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (9.35%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (8.63%) Azure Event Grid
14 12 (8.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 11 (7.91%) IaaS
16 10 (7.19%) Azure App Service
16 10 (7.19%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.39%) Firewall
2 17 (12.23%) Network Security
3 16 (11.51%) VPN
4 9 (6.47%) DNS
5 4 (2.88%) DHCP
6 3 (2.16%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.16%) NGFW
6 3 (2.16%) VLAN
6 3 (2.16%) VSAN
7 2 (1.44%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.44%) WAN
8 1 (0.72%) Internet
8 1 (0.72%) LAN
8 1 (0.72%) NAS
8 1 (0.72%) SAN
8 1 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.23%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.35%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.19%) Delta Lake
4 9 (6.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (6.47%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (5.04%) Power BI
6 5 (3.60%) Redis
7 4 (2.88%) Data Vault
7 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.16%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.16%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.72%) Big Data
9 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (9.35%) Git
2 8 (5.76%) GitLab
3 7 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.88%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (2.88%) JIRA
4 4 (2.88%) Terragrunt
4 4 (2.88%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.16%) Gradle
5 3 (2.16%) Maven
6 2 (1.44%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.44%) Gatling
6 2 (1.44%) JMeter
6 2 (1.44%) Selenium
6 2 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.72%) Newman
7 1 (0.72%) Postman
7 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.42%) Finance
3 15 (10.79%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.88%) Banking
6 4 (2.88%) Retail
7 3 (2.16%) Local Government
8 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.44%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.72%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Military
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (29.50%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (17.27%) Cloud Engineer
2 24 (17.27%) Senior
3 19 (13.67%) Architect
3 19 (13.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (11.51%) Developer
5 13 (9.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (7.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.04%) CloudOps Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Architect
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Consultant
10 5 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.60%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (59.71%) Terraform
2 18 (12.95%) .NET
2 18 (12.95%) ARM Templates
3 14 (10.07%) REST
4 13 (9.35%) OAuth
5 12 (8.63%) OAuth2
6 9 (6.47%) OpenID
6 9 (6.47%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (6.47%) YAML
7 8 (5.76%) Middleware
7 8 (5.76%) RESTful
8 7 (5.04%) Kafka
9 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (4.32%) Spring
9 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.60%) .NET Framework
11 4 (2.88%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (2.88%) Entity Framework
11 4 (2.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.18%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.91%) Security Posture
3 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.76%) Cloud Security Posture
4 8 (5.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (4.32%) CMDB
6 6 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.60%) Clustering
7 5 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.16%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.16%) Life Science
9 3 (2.16%) Replication
10 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 1 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.55%) Windows
2 12 (8.63%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.91%) VMS
4 7 (5.04%) Linux
5 5 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.16%) SUSE
7 2 (1.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.44%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (64.75%) CI/CD
2 87 (62.59%) DevOps
3 67 (48.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (47.48%) Analytics
5 56 (40.29%) Log Analytics
6 42 (30.22%) Observability
7 37 (26.62%) RBAC
8 33 (23.74%) Agile
8 33 (23.74%) Containerisation
9 30 (21.58%) AI
9 30 (21.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (17.99%) Disaster Recovery
11 24 (17.27%) Test Automation
12 23 (16.55%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (16.55%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (15.83%) API Management
14 19 (13.67%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (13.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.04%) PowerShell
2 53 (38.13%) Bicep
2 53 (38.13%) Python
3 30 (21.58%) Bash
4 28 (20.14%) SQL
5 27 (19.42%) C#
6 9 (6.47%) Java
7 8 (5.76%) TypeScript
8 7 (5.04%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.72%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.72%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.72%) Korn
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.30%) Azure Certification
3 25 (17.99%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.60%) Degree
6 3 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) MCSE
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CCNA
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.35%) QA
2 12 (8.63%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.76%) GDPR
3 8 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.04%) NIST
5 3 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.16%) SLA
5 3 (2.16%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) HL7
7 1 (0.72%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.72%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.72%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (22.30%) Docker
2 22 (15.83%) Active Directory
3 21 (15.11%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.76%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.16%) Firmware
7 3 (2.16%) IAG
7 3 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.72%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 48 (34.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.83%) Grafana
3 13 (9.35%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.19%) Ansible
5 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.88%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.16%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.16%) VxRail
8 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.72%) Istio
8 1 (0.72%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.72%) linkerd
8 1 (0.72%) Packer
8 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.72%) Puppet
8 1 (0.72%) SCCM
8 1 (0.72%) SCOM
8 1 (0.72%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (48.92%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.91%) Splunk
3 9 (6.47%) Databricks
3 9 (6.47%) VMware
4 8 (5.76%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.04%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.60%) Foundry
6 5 (3.60%) Okta
6 5 (3.60%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.88%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.88%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (2.16%) Aprimo
8 3 (2.16%) Confluent
8 3 (2.16%) Dell
8 3 (2.16%) Nexthink
8 3 (2.16%) OneTrust
8 3 (2.16%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.44%) New Relic
9 2 (1.44%) Qualtrics
9 2 (1.44%) SolarWinds