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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 301 321
Rank change year-on-year +40 +20 +117
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 111 74 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.16% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 48 69
10th Percentile £362 £355 £425
25th Percentile £406 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -6.36% -0.87%
75th Percentile £544 £637 £675
90th Percentile £669 £713 £688
England median daily rate £513 £585 £610
% change year-on-year -12.39% -4.10% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48.00 - -
25th Percentile £51.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 - -

All Cloud 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 6,137 6,393 7,809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.32% 40.96% 38.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 4,344 5,729
10th Percentile £350 £350 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 69
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -9.68% +51.96%
75th Percentile £41.25 £55.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.33 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%

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 17 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Monitor in London over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Azure Monitor in London

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 17 November 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
Central London -7 10 £599 +5.51% 28
South London - 4 £500 - 1
East London +5 1 £520 -11.11% 1
North London - 1 - -
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 10 (9.01%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.90%) CMS
5 1 (0.90%) Confluence
5 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (51.35%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (43.24%) Entra ID
4 33 (29.73%) Azure Logic Apps
4 33 (29.73%) GitHub
5 30 (27.03%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (23.42%) Serverless
7 25 (22.52%) Azure AKS
8 24 (21.62%) Azure Service Bus
9 23 (20.72%) Azure Functions
10 22 (19.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 20 (18.02%) Power Platform
12 17 (15.32%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (14.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (13.51%) Power Automate
15 13 (11.71%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (10.81%) Azure Sentinel
17 10 (9.01%) Azure API Management
17 10 (9.01%) Azure Machine Learning
17 10 (9.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) Firewall
2 14 (12.61%) DNS
3 12 (10.81%) VPN
4 10 (9.01%) Network Security
5 8 (7.21%) DHCP
6 5 (4.50%) WAN
7 3 (2.70%) VSAN
8 2 (1.80%) LAN
8 2 (1.80%) MPLS
8 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.80%) VLAN
9 1 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.90%) DKIM
9 1 (0.90%) DMARC
9 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) NoSQL
1 9 (8.11%) Power BI
2 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.41%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.70%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.70%) Redis
6 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.90%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.90%) Metadata
7 1 (0.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.90%) PolyBase
7 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) Git
2 7 (6.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.70%) GitLab
3 3 (2.70%) Gradle
3 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.70%) Maven
3 3 (2.70%) Postman
3 3 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.80%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.80%) JMeter
4 2 (1.80%) MLflow
4 2 (1.80%) PVCS
4 2 (1.80%) Snyk
5 1 (0.90%) Ant
5 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.90%) ERwin
5 1 (0.90%) git-flow
5 1 (0.90%) Locust
5 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 24 (21.62%) Finance
2 21 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.21%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Law
6 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Legal
9 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Billing
10 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.90%) French Language
10 1 (0.90%) Games
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Local Government
10 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (27.03%) Developer
2 25 (22.52%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.81%) Senior
5 11 (9.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Architect
6 9 (8.11%) Azure Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.31%) Lead
9 6 (5.41%) Administrator
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Integration Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Azure Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.72%) .NET
2 20 (18.02%) REST
3 17 (15.32%) ARM Templates
4 14 (12.61%) Node.js
4 14 (12.61%) OAuth
5 13 (11.71%) YAML
6 11 (9.91%) React
7 10 (9.01%) .NET Core
8 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (6.31%) ADO
9 7 (6.31%) AngularJS
9 7 (6.31%) OAuth2
10 6 (5.41%) JSON
10 6 (5.41%) PyTorch
11 5 (4.50%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.50%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.50%) Next.js
11 5 (4.50%) XML
12 4 (3.60%) CSS
12 4 (3.60%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.32%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.41%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.60%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.70%) Legacy Code
5 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Replication
6 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) PKI
7 1 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Windows
2 9 (8.11%) Linux
3 5 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.60%) Unix
4 4 (3.60%) VMS
5 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.90%) Android
6 1 (0.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (63.06%) DevOps
2 65 (58.56%) CI/CD
3 56 (50.45%) Analytics
4 52 (46.85%) Log Analytics
5 41 (36.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (24.32%) Agile
7 24 (21.62%) AI
8 22 (19.82%) Observability
9 20 (18.02%) API Management
9 20 (18.02%) RBAC
10 19 (17.12%) Microservices
11 16 (14.41%) Containerisation
11 16 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.61%) Data Modelling
12 14 (12.61%) Migration
13 13 (11.71%) Machine Learning
14 12 (10.81%) Data Protection
14 12 (10.81%) DevSecOps
14 12 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.04%) Python
2 35 (31.53%) PowerShell
3 31 (27.93%) Bicep
4 25 (22.52%) C#
4 25 (22.52%) SQL
5 16 (14.41%) Bash
6 15 (13.51%) Kusto Query Language
7 13 (11.71%) JavaScript
8 11 (9.91%) TypeScript
9 9 (8.11%) Java
10 1 (0.90%) Go
10 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.50%) Degree
5 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.90%) CCDP
7 1 (0.90%) CCNP
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.90%) MCP
7 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) GDPR
2 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.70%) NIST
4 2 (1.80%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.80%) NCSC
4 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) QA
4 2 (1.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 29 (26.13%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.92%) Docker
3 7 (6.31%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.70%) vSphere
5 2 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (36.04%) Terraform
2 24 (21.62%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.01%) Grafana
4 7 (6.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.60%) Ansible
6 4 (3.60%) Packer
7 2 (1.80%) Argo
7 2 (1.80%) Istio
7 2 (1.80%) Kibana
7 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.90%) CASB
8 1 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.90%) SCCM
8 1 (0.90%) vRealize
Vendors
1 67 (60.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Databricks
2 13 (11.71%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.60%) Google
3 4 (3.60%) VMware
4 3 (2.70%) Confluent
4 3 (2.70%) NetApp
4 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.80%) New Relic
5 2 (1.80%) Oracle
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.80%) Splunk
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco
6 1 (0.90%) Intel
6 1 (0.90%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.90%) SAP
6 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.90%) Solace
6 1 (0.90%) Veeam