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

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 303 331
Rank change year-on-year +22 +28 +99
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 99 72 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.13% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 45 66
10th Percentile £350 £418 £425
25th Percentile £400 £473 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -3.93% -2.55%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £675
90th Percentile £642 £722 £694
England median daily rate £500 £593 £610
% change year-on-year -15.61% -2.87% +1.67%

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 6,012 6,372 7,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.20% 41.02% 38.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 4,327 5,792
10th Percentile £350 £350 £344
25th Percentile £425 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.26%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 37 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -8.79% +35.24%
75th Percentile £44.00 £55.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £85.47
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

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 3 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
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 3 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 -8 7 £523 -7.93% 14
East London +5 1 £520 -11.11% 1
North London - 1 - -
South London - 1 £500 -
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 8 (8.08%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (49.49%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (43.43%) Entra ID
4 29 (29.29%) GitHub
5 28 (28.28%) Azure Logic Apps
6 26 (26.26%) GitHub Actions
7 22 (22.22%) Serverless
8 20 (20.20%) Azure AKS
8 20 (20.20%) Power Platform
9 19 (19.19%) Azure Functions
10 17 (17.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 17 (17.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (16.16%) Power Automate
12 13 (13.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (11.11%) PowerApps
14 10 (10.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (9.09%) IaaS
16 8 (8.08%) Azure API Management
16 8 (8.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.11%) Firewall
1 11 (11.11%) VPN
2 10 (10.10%) DNS
3 9 (9.09%) Network Security
4 7 (7.07%) DHCP
5 4 (4.04%) WAN
6 3 (3.03%) VSAN
7 2 (2.02%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.02%) VLAN
8 1 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (1.01%) DKIM
8 1 (1.01%) DMARC
8 1 (1.01%) LAN
8 1 (1.01%) MPLS
8 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.01%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) Power BI
2 8 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.05%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.02%) Redis
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.01%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.01%) Metadata
8 1 (1.01%) MySQL
8 1 (1.01%) PolyBase
8 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) JIRA
3 5 (5.05%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.03%) GitLab
4 3 (3.03%) Gradle
4 3 (3.03%) Maven
4 3 (3.03%) Postman
4 3 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.02%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.02%) JMeter
5 2 (2.02%) MLflow
5 2 (2.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.02%) PVCS
5 2 (2.02%) Snyk
5 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.01%) Ant
6 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.01%) ERwin
6 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 22 (22.22%) Finance
2 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.09%) Banking
5 6 (6.06%) Law
6 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.03%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Games
8 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Legal
8 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Billing
9 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.01%) French Language
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (24.24%) Developer
2 23 (23.23%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (17.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Architect
5 9 (9.09%) Senior
6 7 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Administrator
7 6 (6.06%) Azure Developer
7 6 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Consultant
8 5 (5.05%) Integration Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Power Platform Developer
8 5 (5.05%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Administrator
9 4 (4.04%) Azure Security Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.17%) ARM Templates
1 17 (17.17%) REST
2 15 (15.15%) .NET
3 12 (12.12%) OAuth
3 12 (12.12%) YAML
4 10 (10.10%) Node.js
5 8 (8.08%) React
6 7 (7.07%) .NET Core
6 7 (7.07%) ADO
7 6 (6.06%) JSON
7 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (6.06%) OAuth2
8 5 (5.05%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.05%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.05%) Next.js
8 5 (5.05%) XML
9 4 (4.04%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.04%) CSS
9 4 (4.04%) HTML
9 4 (4.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.03%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.03%) Legacy Code
5 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.02%) Replication
6 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.01%) IoT
7 1 (1.01%) PKI
7 1 (1.01%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Windows
2 7 (7.07%) Linux
3 4 (4.04%) Unix
3 4 (4.04%) VMS
3 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.01%) Android
5 1 (1.01%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.61%) DevOps
2 58 (58.59%) CI/CD
3 47 (47.47%) Analytics
4 44 (44.44%) Log Analytics
5 35 (35.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (22.22%) Agile
6 22 (22.22%) AI
7 19 (19.19%) RBAC
8 18 (18.18%) API Management
9 15 (15.15%) Observability
9 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (14.14%) Data Modelling
10 14 (14.14%) Data Protection
10 14 (14.14%) Microservices
10 14 (14.14%) Test Automation
11 13 (13.13%) Containerisation
11 13 (13.13%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (12.12%) DevSecOps
13 11 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
13 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.37%) Python
2 32 (32.32%) PowerShell
3 25 (25.25%) Bicep
4 22 (22.22%) SQL
5 20 (20.20%) C#
6 16 (16.16%) Bash
7 10 (10.10%) TypeScript
8 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
8 9 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
9 8 (8.08%) Java
10 1 (1.01%) Go
10 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.05%) Degree
5 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.01%) CCDP
7 1 (1.01%) CCNP
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.01%) MCP
7 1 (1.01%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) GDPR
2 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.03%) NIST
3 2 (2.02%) EU AI Act
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.02%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.01%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 27 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (17.17%) Docker
3 6 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.03%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (28.28%) Terraform
2 19 (19.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.09%) Grafana
4 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.04%) Packer
6 3 (3.03%) Ansible
7 2 (2.02%) Argo
7 2 (2.02%) Istio
7 2 (2.02%) Kibana
7 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.01%) CASB
8 1 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.01%) SCCM
8 1 (1.01%) vRealize
Vendors
1 53 (53.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) Databricks
2 9 (9.09%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.04%) Google
3 4 (4.04%) VMware
4 3 (3.03%) Confluent
4 3 (3.03%) NetApp
5 2 (2.02%) New Relic
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco
6 1 (1.01%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.01%) iManage
6 1 (1.01%) Intel
6 1 (1.01%) Okta
6 1 (1.01%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.01%) SAP