Azure Monitor Contracts in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 317 395
Rank change year-on-year +45 +78 +25
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 94 82 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.47% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.17% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 49 63
10th Percentile £316 £405 £426
25th Percentile £400 £431 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £518 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -8.34% -0.09%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £650
90th Percentile £646 £678 £710
England median daily rate £450 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -24.05% +3.04% +4.55%

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 5,677 7,024 10,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.94% 39.86% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 5,155 7,429
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 75
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £17.54
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £24.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -52.73% +29.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.32
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
% change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 July 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 +3 15 £500 +1.27% 16
East London +15 1 £585 +30.00%
South London 0 1 £450 -13.46% 5
North London - 1 £413 -
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.06%) DataSynapse
2 1 (1.06%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 94 (100.00%) Azure
2 52 (55.32%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (29.79%) Azure Sentinel
4 26 (27.66%) Azure AKS
5 18 (19.15%) GitHub
6 16 (17.02%) AWS
7 12 (12.77%) Entra ID
7 12 (12.77%) Serverless
8 9 (9.57%) Power Platform
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.38%) Azure API Management
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Storage
10 6 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.34%) Firewall
2 14 (14.89%) DNS
3 13 (13.83%) VPN
4 12 (12.77%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.51%) HTTP
6 7 (7.45%) FTP
6 7 (7.45%) Network Security
6 7 (7.45%) SMTP
6 7 (7.45%) SSL
7 6 (6.38%) WAN
8 4 (4.26%) DHCP
9 2 (2.13%) NGFW
9 2 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (2.13%) VSAN
10 1 (1.06%) HTTPS
10 1 (1.06%) NAS
10 1 (1.06%) SAN
10 1 (1.06%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) NoSQL
2 7 (7.45%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (7.45%) Power BI
3 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.06%) Metadata
6 1 (1.06%) Parquet
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.06%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (4.26%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.19%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.13%) Git
4 2 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.13%) Gradle
4 2 (2.13%) JMeter
4 2 (2.13%) LoadRunner
4 2 (2.13%) Maven
4 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.06%) git-flow
5 1 (1.06%) Postman
5 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 29 (30.85%) Finance
2 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.09%) Banking
4 10 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.38%) Law
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Back Office
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) French Language
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
8 1 (1.06%) Games
8 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (34.04%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (12.77%) Senior
2 12 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) Site Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) Architect
4 10 (10.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Grid Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.19%) TIBCO Engineer
10 2 (2.13%) Consultant
10 2 (2.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) ARM Templates
2 14 (14.89%) .NET
3 13 (13.83%) YAML
4 8 (8.51%) ADO
4 8 (8.51%) JSON
4 8 (8.51%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.26%) REST
6 3 (3.19%) PySpark
7 2 (2.13%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.13%) Node.js
7 2 (2.13%) OAuth
7 2 (2.13%) RESTful
7 2 (2.13%) SAML
8 1 (1.06%) CSS
8 1 (1.06%) HTML
8 1 (1.06%) JPA
8 1 (1.06%) LDAP
8 1 (1.06%) OpenID
8 1 (1.06%) SOAP
8 1 (1.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.32%) Grid Computing
3 5 (5.32%) PKI
4 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.13%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (1.06%) CMDB
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Equities
7 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.06%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.77%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Windows
2 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
3 7 (7.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.06%) Solaris
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (57.45%) DevOps
2 48 (51.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 36 (38.30%) Analytics
4 35 (37.23%) CI/CD
5 32 (34.04%) Log Analytics
6 24 (25.53%) Microservices
7 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (21.28%) API Management
9 19 (20.21%) Agile
10 18 (19.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (14.89%) DevSecOps
12 13 (13.83%) Cost Management
12 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Automation
13 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
13 12 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (11.70%) GitOps
14 11 (11.70%) Identity Access Management
14 11 (11.70%) Observability
15 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) PowerShell
2 32 (34.04%) Python
3 30 (31.91%) Bicep
4 21 (22.34%) C#
5 17 (18.09%) Bash
6 15 (15.96%) SQL
7 12 (12.77%) Java
8 9 (9.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
10 5 (5.32%) C++
11 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.19%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.06%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (18.09%) SC Cleared
1 17 (18.09%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.32%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.19%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CCDP
5 1 (1.06%) CCNP
5 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.06%) CISSP
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.19%) NCSC
2 3 (3.19%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (9.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (9.57%) Docker
3 4 (4.26%) Platform Symphony
4 3 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.13%) vSphere
6 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.06%) OpenAM
6 1 (1.06%) OpenDJ
6 1 (1.06%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 37 (39.36%) Terraform
2 33 (35.11%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.02%) Grafana
4 8 (8.51%) Kibana
4 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.32%) Ansible
5 5 (5.32%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (4.26%) Puppet
6 4 (4.26%) Salt
7 2 (2.13%) Istio
7 2 (2.13%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.06%) Argo
8 1 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.06%) logstash
8 1 (1.06%) SCCM
8 1 (1.06%) SCOM
8 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.06%) vRealize
Vendors
1 38 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.32%) Databricks
3 5 (5.32%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.26%) IBM
5 3 (3.19%) Google
5 3 (3.19%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.19%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.19%) Splunk
5 3 (3.19%) VMware
6 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.13%) NetApp
6 2 (2.13%) QAD
6 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.06%) Cisco
7 1 (1.06%) Dell
7 1 (1.06%) EMC
7 1 (1.06%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.06%) Informatica
7 1 (1.06%) SAP