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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 272 309
Rank change year-on-year -7 +37 +121
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 122 79 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.62% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.47% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 61 52
10th Percentile £400 £325 £425
25th Percentile £450 £406 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £465 £555
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -16.22% +2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £585 £630
90th Percentile £750 £726 £681
England median daily rate £500 £523 £600
% change year-on-year -4.40% -12.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £31.37 - -
25th Percentile £36.86 - -
Median hourly rate £46.00 - -
75th Percentile £58.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.20 - -
England median hourly rate £44.34 - -

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 7,217 5,372 6,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.75% 42.10% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,946 3,728 4,955
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £447 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £777 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 79
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -2.19% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.19
% change year-on-year +41.51% +25.09% -16.10%

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 20 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Monitor in London over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

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 20 March 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
South London -8 8 £500 +11.11% 1
Central London -26 6 £663 +22.69% 8
North London +1 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 16 (13.11%) SharePoint
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.28%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (60.66%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (46.72%) GitHub
4 44 (36.07%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (34.43%) Entra ID
6 30 (24.59%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (23.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 28 (22.95%) Azure AKS
9 26 (21.31%) Azure Key Vault
10 24 (19.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 23 (18.85%) Serverless
12 22 (18.03%) Azure Functions
13 20 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
14 18 (14.75%) PaaS
15 17 (13.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (12.30%) Azure App Service
17 13 (10.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (10.66%) Power Platform
18 12 (9.84%) Azure Event Grid
18 12 (9.84%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.03%) Firewall
2 10 (8.20%) DNS
2 10 (8.20%) Network Security
3 9 (7.38%) VPN
4 4 (3.28%) WAN
5 3 (2.46%) DHCP
5 3 (2.46%) LAN
5 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.64%) Internet
6 2 (1.64%) MPLS
7 1 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.82%) DKIM
7 1 (0.82%) DMARC
7 1 (0.82%) VSAN
7 1 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.93%) Data Lake
2 14 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (11.48%) Delta Lake
3 7 (5.74%) Redis
4 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.10%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.10%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.82%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.82%) KNIME
7 1 (0.82%) Power BI
7 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.30%) Git
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
3 4 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (1.64%) Gradle
4 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.64%) MLflow
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) ERwin
5 1 (0.82%) Moq
5 1 (0.82%) NUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Serilog
5 1 (0.82%) TestRail
5 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (22.13%) Finance
2 19 (15.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.28%) Retail
6 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Law
7 2 (1.64%) Legal
7 2 (1.64%) Local Government
8 1 (0.82%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (31.15%) Azure Engineer
2 32 (26.23%) Developer
3 25 (20.49%) Senior
4 17 (13.93%) Azure Developer
5 15 (12.30%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Architect
9 8 (6.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Lead
10 6 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Developer
11 5 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.87%) .NET
2 20 (16.39%) REST
3 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Graph
4 15 (12.30%) Node.js
5 12 (9.84%) React
6 11 (9.02%) .NET Core
6 11 (9.02%) .NET Framework
6 11 (9.02%) AngularJS
6 11 (9.02%) ARM Templates
6 11 (9.02%) PySpark
7 10 (8.20%) SOAP
8 9 (7.38%) PyTorch
8 9 (7.38%) Web Services
9 8 (6.56%) OAuth
10 7 (5.74%) JSON
10 7 (5.74%) TensorFlow
11 5 (4.10%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.10%) OAuth2
11 5 (4.10%) YAML
12 4 (3.28%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.46%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Replication
7 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.30%) Windows
2 9 (7.38%) Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.82%) Android
5 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (74.59%) DevOps
2 68 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 65 (53.28%) Analytics
4 58 (47.54%) Log Analytics
5 51 (41.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (34.43%) Observability
7 24 (19.67%) Agile
8 23 (18.85%) AI
9 21 (17.21%) Data Modelling
10 20 (16.39%) Migration
10 20 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (16.39%) RBAC
11 19 (15.57%) Containerisation
11 19 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (15.57%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (14.75%) Microservices
13 17 (13.93%) Data Science
14 16 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
15 15 (12.30%) API Management
16 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (38.52%) Python
2 43 (35.25%) SQL
3 35 (28.69%) PowerShell
4 32 (26.23%) C#
5 30 (24.59%) Bicep
6 18 (14.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (11.48%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.20%) Bash
8 10 (8.20%) Scala
9 8 (6.56%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.46%) Java
11 2 (1.64%) C
Qualifications
1 31 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.57%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.46%) Degree
6 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.82%) CCNA
7 1 (0.82%) CCNP
7 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.10%) GDPR
3 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.64%) NCSC
4 2 (1.64%) QA
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (18.03%) Docker
2 21 (17.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (58.20%) Terraform
2 29 (23.77%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.38%) Grafana
4 8 (6.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.28%) Ansible
5 4 (3.28%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.46%) Istio
6 3 (2.46%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.46%) linkerd
7 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.82%) Argo
8 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.82%) Packer
8 1 (0.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (53.28%) Microsoft
2 25 (20.49%) Databricks
3 14 (11.48%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.10%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.28%) Foundry
6 4 (3.28%) Moogsoft
6 4 (3.28%) New Relic
6 4 (3.28%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.46%) VMware
8 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.64%) NetApp
9 1 (0.82%) Cisco
9 1 (0.82%) Datto
9 1 (0.82%) Google
9 1 (0.82%) IBM
9 1 (0.82%) Okta
9 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.82%) Solace
9 1 (0.82%) Virgin Media