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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 269 313
Rank change year-on-year -11 +44 +89
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 125 86 83
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 1.59% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 66 53
10th Percentile £400 £313 £421
25th Percentile £454 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £559 £588
90th Percentile £750 £685 £638
England median daily rate £513 £455 £560
% change year-on-year +12.64% -18.75% -
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 7,542 5,419 6,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.30% 42.63% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,190 3,769 4,943
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 53 75
10th Percentile £18.91 £22.27 £17.78
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -26.76%
75th Percentile £51.46 £53.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £61.50
England median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £20.87
% change year-on-year +64.57% +26.98% -26.33%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -18 12 £575 +10.58% 7
South London -8 8 £500 +11.11%
West London - 1 - - 2
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 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.20%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.80%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (58.40%) Azure DevOps
3 61 (48.80%) GitHub
4 44 (35.20%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (33.60%) Entra ID
6 30 (24.00%) Azure AKS
6 30 (24.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 28 (22.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 26 (20.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 24 (19.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (16.00%) Azure Functions
10 20 (16.00%) Serverless
11 19 (15.20%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (14.40%) PaaS
13 17 (13.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (12.80%) Power Platform
15 15 (12.00%) Azure App Service
15 15 (12.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 14 (11.20%) Azure Event Grid
17 12 (9.60%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.40%) Firewall
2 13 (10.40%) Network Security
3 10 (8.00%) DNS
3 10 (8.00%) VPN
4 4 (3.20%) VSAN
4 4 (3.20%) WAN
5 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.40%) VLAN
6 2 (1.60%) DHCP
6 2 (1.60%) Internet
6 2 (1.60%) LAN
7 1 (0.80%) MPLS
7 1 (0.80%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.00%) Data Lake
2 14 (11.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (11.20%) Delta Lake
3 8 (6.40%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.40%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.00%) Redis
6 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.20%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.60%) Power BI
9 1 (0.80%) Big Data
9 1 (0.80%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.80%) KNIME
9 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (15.20%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) JIRA
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
3 5 (4.00%) Gradle
4 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.40%) Maven
5 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.80%) Moq
5 1 (0.80%) NUnit
5 1 (0.80%) Serilog
5 1 (0.80%) TestRail
5 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (23.20%) Finance
2 24 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.80%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Law
7 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.60%) Local Government
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (32.00%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (28.00%) Developer
3 26 (20.80%) Senior
4 17 (13.60%) Azure Developer
4 17 (13.60%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.20%) Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Lead
9 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365 Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Migration Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.20%) .NET
2 20 (16.00%) REST
3 15 (12.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 15 (12.00%) Node.js
4 12 (9.60%) React
5 11 (8.80%) .NET Core
5 11 (8.80%) .NET Framework
5 11 (8.80%) AngularJS
6 10 (8.00%) ARM Templates
6 10 (8.00%) PySpark
6 10 (8.00%) SOAP
7 9 (7.20%) OAuth
7 9 (7.20%) Web Services
8 8 (6.40%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (5.60%) PyTorch
9 7 (5.60%) TensorFlow
10 6 (4.80%) JSON
10 6 (4.80%) Kafka
10 6 (4.80%) OAuth2
11 5 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.60%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.00%) Replication
6 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.40%) Clustering
7 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) IoT
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.80%) Windows
2 11 (8.80%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) SUSE
4 3 (2.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (76.00%) DevOps
2 70 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 61 (48.80%) Analytics
4 53 (42.40%) Log Analytics
5 51 (40.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (36.00%) Observability
7 26 (20.80%) Agile
8 25 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (18.40%) AI
9 23 (18.40%) Containerisation
10 22 (17.60%) Data Modelling
11 21 (16.80%) Microservices
11 21 (16.80%) Migration
12 19 (15.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (15.20%) RBAC
13 18 (14.40%) API Management
13 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (14.40%) Test Automation
14 17 (13.60%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (13.60%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) Python
2 41 (32.80%) SQL
3 39 (31.20%) PowerShell
4 32 (25.60%) C#
5 29 (23.20%) Bicep
6 18 (14.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.00%) Scala
9 9 (7.20%) Bash
10 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
11 6 (4.80%) Java
12 2 (1.60%) C
13 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 24 (19.20%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.80%) CCNA
6 1 (0.80%) CCNP
6 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) Degree
6 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
4 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.60%) NCSC
6 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (20.00%) Docker
2 21 (16.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.80%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.20%) vSphere
6 3 (2.40%) Firmware
6 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.80%) IAG
7 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (56.00%) Terraform
2 33 (26.40%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.40%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.60%) Grafana
5 6 (4.80%) Ansible
6 4 (3.20%) Istio
6 4 (3.20%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.20%) linkerd
6 4 (3.20%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.40%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.40%) VxRail
8 1 (0.80%) Argo
8 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.80%) Packer
8 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.40%) Databricks
3 14 (11.20%) OpenAI
4 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (4.00%) VMware
6 4 (3.20%) Foundry
6 4 (3.20%) Moogsoft
6 4 (3.20%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.40%) Dell
8 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.60%) NetApp
8 2 (1.60%) New Relic
9 1 (0.80%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.80%) Datto
9 1 (0.80%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.80%) Okta
9 1 (0.80%) Solace
9 1 (0.80%) Splunk
9 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media