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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 273 290
Rank change year-on-year -35 +17 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 134 96 89
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.71% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 1.65% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 65 56
10th Percentile £413 £333 £388
25th Percentile £450 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £506
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £647 £538 £560
90th Percentile £746 £668 £644
England median daily rate £525 £455 £555
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.02% -7.50%

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 8,327 5,801 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 43.09% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,683 3,974 4,771
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -4 16 £575 +15.00% 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 8 (5.97%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.75%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.75%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (55.22%) GitHub
3 67 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 56 (41.79%) Entra ID
5 50 (37.31%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (32.84%) Azure AKS
7 21 (15.67%) AWS
8 19 (14.18%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (14.18%) PaaS
9 14 (10.45%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (10.45%) Serverless
10 13 (9.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 13 (9.70%) Power Platform
11 12 (8.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (8.96%) Azure Functions
11 12 (8.96%) IaaS
11 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (8.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 10 (7.46%) Azure API Management
13 10 (7.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (15.67%) Firewall
2 16 (11.94%) Network Security
2 16 (11.94%) VPN
3 8 (5.97%) DNS
4 4 (2.99%) DHCP
5 3 (2.24%) Kerberos
5 3 (2.24%) NGFW
5 3 (2.24%) VLAN
5 3 (2.24%) VSAN
6 2 (1.49%) Internet
6 2 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.49%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) LAN
7 1 (0.75%) NAS
7 1 (0.75%) SAN
7 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.72%) Delta Lake
4 8 (5.97%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.73%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.73%) Power BI
8 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.24%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.24%) Redis
9 3 (2.24%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.75%) Big Data
10 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Git
2 6 (4.48%) GitLab
2 6 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.48%) JIRA
3 4 (2.99%) JetBrains Rider
3 4 (2.99%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.24%) Gradle
4 3 (2.24%) Maven
4 3 (2.24%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.49%) Gatling
5 2 (1.49%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.75%) TestRail
6 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Finance
3 17 (12.69%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.48%) Banking
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
7 3 (2.24%) Local Government
8 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (32.84%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (18.66%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (14.93%) Senior
4 18 (13.43%) Architect
5 16 (11.94%) Developer
5 16 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (11.19%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Azure Architect
9 7 (5.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Azure Developer
10 6 (4.48%) CloudOps Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.73%) Operations Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.43%) .NET
2 14 (10.45%) ARM Templates
2 14 (10.45%) REST
3 11 (8.21%) OAuth
3 11 (8.21%) OAuth2
4 9 (6.72%) .NET Framework
4 9 (6.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (5.97%) OpenID
6 7 (5.22%) Middleware
7 6 (4.48%) Kafka
7 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Graph
7 6 (4.48%) Spring
7 6 (4.48%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.48%) YAML
8 5 (3.73%) .NET Core
8 5 (3.73%) RESTful
9 4 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (2.99%) Entity Framework
9 4 (2.99%) SOAP
9 4 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.72%) Security Posture
4 8 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (5.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.48%) Cloud Security Posture
6 6 (4.48%) CMDB
7 5 (3.73%) Clustering
7 5 (3.73%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.99%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (2.24%) Replication
10 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.75%) Life Science
11 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (20.15%) Windows
2 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.97%) VMS
4 7 (5.22%) Linux
5 5 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.24%) SUSE
7 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (63.43%) CI/CD
2 84 (62.69%) DevOps
3 65 (48.51%) Analytics
4 62 (46.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (44.78%) Log Analytics
6 41 (30.60%) Observability
7 33 (24.63%) RBAC
8 29 (21.64%) Containerisation
9 27 (20.15%) Agile
9 27 (20.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 27 (20.15%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (16.42%) Test Automation
12 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 19 (14.18%) AI
13 19 (14.18%) API Management
14 18 (13.43%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (13.43%) Mentoring
14 18 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (47.01%) PowerShell
2 41 (30.60%) Bicep
3 38 (28.36%) Python
4 33 (24.63%) SQL
5 28 (20.90%) C#
6 20 (14.93%) Bash
7 9 (6.72%) Java
8 7 (5.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (4.48%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.24%) Scala
11 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.75%) Korn
11 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (30.60%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 28 (20.90%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.99%) Degree
6 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.24%) MCSE
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.21%) QA
2 9 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.22%) GDPR
3 7 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.48%) NIST
5 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.24%) SLA
6 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.49%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.75%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.75%) HL7
7 1 (0.75%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.75%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (19.40%) Docker
2 22 (16.42%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (15.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.97%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (3.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.24%) Firmware
7 3 (2.24%) IAG
7 3 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.24%) vSphere
8 1 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 74 (55.22%) Terraform
2 47 (35.07%) Kubernetes
3 21 (15.67%) Grafana
4 17 (12.69%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.72%) Ansible
6 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.99%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (2.99%) Istio
7 4 (2.99%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.99%) linkerd
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.24%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.24%) VxRail
9 2 (1.49%) Packer
10 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.75%) Puppet
10 1 (0.75%) SCCM
10 1 (0.75%) SCOM
10 1 (0.75%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 61 (45.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.46%) Splunk
3 9 (6.72%) Databricks
3 9 (6.72%) VMware
4 7 (5.22%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.73%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.99%) Okta
7 3 (2.24%) Confluent
7 3 (2.24%) Dell
7 3 (2.24%) Foundry
7 3 (2.24%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (2.24%) Nexthink
7 3 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.49%) Adobe
8 2 (1.49%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.49%) Oracle
8 2 (1.49%) Qualtrics
8 2 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.75%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) Optimizely