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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 275 299
Rank change year-on-year -32 +24 +48
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 140 95 92
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.71% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.64% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 63 54
10th Percentile £420 £329 £385
25th Percentile £450 £364 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £506
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -13.09% -10.40%
75th Percentile £625 £513 £574
90th Percentile £744 £583 £684
England median daily rate £523 £475 £565
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.93% -5.83%

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 8,291 5,781 6,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.29% 43.19% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,959 4,743
10th Percentile £360 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £748 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 53
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £30.00 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +14.10% -1.93% -30.48%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £44.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 1 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 1 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 -13 15 £550 +10.83% 3
West London - 3 - - 1
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 6 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.14%) CMS
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.71%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (55.71%) GitHub
3 73 (52.14%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (39.29%) Entra ID
5 50 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (31.43%) Azure AKS
7 24 (17.14%) AWS
8 19 (13.57%) Serverless
9 17 (12.14%) Azure Functions
9 17 (12.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (11.43%) PaaS
10 16 (11.43%) Power Platform
11 14 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (9.29%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (8.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (8.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (8.57%) IaaS
14 11 (7.86%) Azure Event Grid
15 10 (7.14%) SaaS
16 9 (6.43%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.00%) Firewall
2 17 (12.14%) Network Security
3 16 (11.43%) VPN
4 9 (6.43%) DNS
5 4 (2.86%) DHCP
6 3 (2.14%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.14%) NGFW
6 3 (2.14%) VLAN
6 3 (2.14%) VSAN
7 2 (1.43%) Internet
7 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.43%) WAN
8 1 (0.71%) LAN
8 1 (0.71%) NAS
8 1 (0.71%) SAN
8 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.86%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (6.43%) Delta Lake
4 9 (6.43%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (4.29%) Power BI
7 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.86%) Redis
8 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.14%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.14%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.71%) Big Data
10 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Git
2 7 (5.00%) GitLab
2 7 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.86%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.14%) Gradle
5 3 (2.14%) Maven
5 3 (2.14%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.43%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.43%) Gatling
6 2 (1.43%) Selenium
6 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.71%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) Newman
7 1 (0.71%) Postman
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Legal
6 3 (2.14%) Local Government
6 3 (2.14%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (18.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (16.43%) Senior
4 20 (14.29%) Architect
5 19 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.71%) Developer
7 14 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Azure Architect
10 7 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) CloudOps Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.57%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (60.00%) Terraform
2 18 (12.86%) .NET
2 18 (12.86%) ARM Templates
3 13 (9.29%) REST
4 11 (7.86%) OAuth
5 10 (7.14%) OAuth2
6 9 (6.43%) YAML
7 8 (5.71%) Middleware
7 8 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (5.00%) Kafka
8 7 (5.00%) OpenID
8 7 (5.00%) RESTful
9 6 (4.29%) Spring
9 6 (4.29%) Spring Boot
10 5 (3.57%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.57%) .NET Framework
10 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.86%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.86%) Entity Framework
11 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.86%) Security Posture
3 10 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
4 8 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (4.29%) CMDB
6 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.57%) Clustering
7 5 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.14%) Life Science
9 3 (2.14%) Replication
10 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) ARM Cortex
11 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.86%) Windows
2 12 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.86%) VMS
4 7 (5.00%) Linux
5 5 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.14%) SUSE
7 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 89 (63.57%) DevOps
3 67 (47.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (47.14%) Analytics
5 58 (41.43%) Log Analytics
6 41 (29.29%) Observability
7 37 (26.43%) RBAC
8 35 (25.00%) Agile
9 34 (24.29%) Containerisation
10 29 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (19.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 25 (17.86%) AI
12 25 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (17.86%) Test Automation
13 24 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (16.43%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (14.29%) API Management
17 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 19 (13.57%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 65 (46.43%) PowerShell
2 53 (37.86%) Bicep
3 49 (35.00%) Python
4 30 (21.43%) SQL
5 28 (20.00%) Bash
5 28 (20.00%) C#
6 9 (6.43%) Java
7 7 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.71%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.71%) Korn
10 1 (0.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.86%) Azure Certification
3 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.57%) Degree
6 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.14%) MCSE
7 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.71%) CCNA
8 1 (0.71%) CCNP
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) QA
2 10 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (5.00%) GDPR
4 7 (5.00%) NIST
5 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.14%) SLA
5 3 (2.14%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HL7
7 1 (0.71%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.71%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (22.14%) Docker
2 22 (15.71%) Active Directory
3 21 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.71%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.14%) Firmware
7 3 (2.14%) IAG
7 3 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 50 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (16.43%) Grafana
3 14 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.14%) Ansible
5 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.14%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.14%) VxRail
8 2 (1.43%) Packer
9 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.71%) Istio
9 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.71%) linkerd
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) Puppet
9 1 (0.71%) SCCM
9 1 (0.71%) SCOM
9 1 (0.71%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 67 (47.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.86%) Splunk
3 9 (6.43%) VMware
4 8 (5.71%) Databricks
4 8 (5.71%) ServiceNow
5 7 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.57%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.86%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.86%) Foundry
7 4 (2.86%) Okta
8 3 (2.14%) Aprimo
8 3 (2.14%) Confluent
8 3 (2.14%) Dell
8 3 (2.14%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (2.14%) Nexthink
8 3 (2.14%) OneTrust
8 3 (2.14%) Optimizely
9 2 (1.43%) Adobe
9 2 (1.43%) New Relic
9 2 (1.43%) Qualtrics