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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 273 314
Rank change year-on-year -10 +41 +105
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 114 79 74
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.59% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.41% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 57 50
10th Percentile £400 £376 £425
25th Percentile £427 £420 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £598 £645 £630
90th Percentile £750 £734 £681
England median daily rate £513 £543 £600
% change year-on-year -5.53% -9.58% +2.13%
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 6,981 5,596 6,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.66% 37.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,786 3,784 5,001
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 50 79
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +6.87% +10.20% -2.56%
75th Percentile £54.25 £58.00 £53.38
90th Percentile £75.17 £74.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.46
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.15% -14.16%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 £500 -
Central London -11 7 £663 +22.40% 6
North London +2 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 12 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.51%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.88%) CMS
4 1 (0.88%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Shopify
2 1 (0.88%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 114 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (59.65%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (44.74%) GitHub
4 41 (35.96%) GitHub Actions
5 40 (35.09%) Entra ID
6 35 (30.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (24.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 24 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (21.05%) Serverless
9 23 (20.18%) Azure Key Vault
10 22 (19.30%) Azure AKS
10 22 (19.30%) Azure Functions
11 16 (14.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 16 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (13.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 15 (13.16%) Power Platform
13 13 (11.40%) Azure Machine Learning
13 13 (11.40%) PaaS
14 12 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
15 11 (9.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.91%) Firewall
2 9 (7.89%) Network Security
3 7 (6.14%) DNS
3 7 (6.14%) VPN
4 3 (2.63%) WAN
5 2 (1.75%) DHCP
5 2 (1.75%) LAN
5 2 (1.75%) MPLS
5 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.88%) DKIM
6 1 (0.88%) DMARC
6 1 (0.88%) VSAN
6 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.16%) Data Lake
2 13 (11.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (10.53%) Delta Lake
4 7 (6.14%) Redis
5 6 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.51%) Power BI
8 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.75%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.88%) KNIME
10 1 (0.88%) PolyBase
10 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (14.04%) Git
2 6 (5.26%) JIRA
3 4 (3.51%) GitLab
4 3 (2.63%) Postman
5 2 (1.75%) Gradle
5 2 (1.75%) MLflow
5 2 (1.75%) Snyk
5 2 (1.75%) TestRail
6 1 (0.88%) Ant
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) ERwin
6 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.88%) JMeter
6 1 (0.88%) Locust
6 1 (0.88%) Moq
6 1 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Serilog
6 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (25.44%) Finance
2 19 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.26%) Banking
5 4 (3.51%) Retail
6 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Law
7 2 (1.75%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Back Office
8 1 (0.88%) Billing
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (29.82%) Developer
2 30 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (21.05%) Senior
4 14 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Azure Developer
6 12 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (9.65%) Data Engineer
8 10 (8.77%) Lead
9 9 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 7 (6.14%) Architect
12 6 (5.26%) Security Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 5 (4.39%) Integration Developer
13 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Developer
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (4.39%) Senior Developer
13 5 (4.39%) Site Engineer
13 5 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (27.19%) .NET
2 25 (21.93%) REST
3 17 (14.91%) Node.js
4 16 (14.04%) React
5 12 (10.53%) AngularJS
5 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Graph
6 11 (9.65%) .NET Core
6 11 (9.65%) ARM Templates
6 11 (9.65%) JSON
7 10 (8.77%) OAuth
8 9 (7.89%) PySpark
8 9 (7.89%) PyTorch
9 7 (6.14%) .NET Framework
9 7 (6.14%) SOAP
9 7 (6.14%) TensorFlow
10 5 (4.39%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.39%) Web Services
11 4 (3.51%) XML
11 4 (3.51%) XSLT
11 4 (3.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.14%) AI Agents
2 7 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.75%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) IoT
7 1 (0.88%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.77%) Windows
2 8 (7.02%) Linux
3 3 (2.63%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (73.68%) DevOps
2 65 (57.02%) CI/CD
3 60 (52.63%) Analytics
4 53 (46.49%) Log Analytics
5 49 (42.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (26.32%) Observability
7 28 (24.56%) Agile
8 25 (21.93%) AI
9 22 (19.30%) Data Modelling
10 21 (18.42%) Migration
11 20 (17.54%) RBAC
12 19 (16.67%) Microservices
13 16 (14.04%) Containerisation
14 15 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (13.16%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (13.16%) Data Science
15 14 (12.28%) Machine Learning
15 14 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (12.28%) Test Automation
16 13 (11.40%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) Python
2 40 (35.09%) SQL
3 33 (28.95%) C#
4 29 (25.44%) Bicep
5 28 (24.56%) PowerShell
6 16 (14.04%) JavaScript
7 15 (13.16%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (9.65%) TypeScript
9 8 (7.02%) Bash
9 8 (7.02%) Scala
10 4 (3.51%) Java
11 2 (1.75%) C
12 1 (0.88%) Go
12 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.04%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.63%) Degree
6 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.02%) GDPR
3 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.75%) NCSC
5 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.88%) QA
5 1 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (21.05%) Docker
2 21 (18.42%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.14%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (57.89%) Terraform
2 24 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.26%) Grafana
4 5 (4.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.51%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.63%) Ansible
7 2 (1.75%) Argo
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.88%) Kibana
8 1 (0.88%) SCCM
8 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (56.14%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.18%) Databricks
3 16 (14.04%) OpenAI
4 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.51%) Foundry
5 4 (3.51%) Moogsoft
5 4 (3.51%) New Relic
5 4 (3.51%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.51%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.63%) Google
6 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.75%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.75%) NetApp
7 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) Datto
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) Solace
8 1 (0.88%) Virgin Media