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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 280 321
Rank change year-on-year -7 +41 +102
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 118 77 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.57% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.37% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 55 48
10th Percentile £400 £373 £436
25th Percentile £422 £423 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £648 £633
90th Percentile £750 £734 £677
England median daily rate £513 £545 £600
% change year-on-year -5.96% -9.17% -
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 6,870 5,621 6,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.93% 41.49% 37.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,704 3,775 5,050
10th Percentile £348 £355 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £443
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 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 51 80
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.96 £57.25 £53.56
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £62.63
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.08% -13.44%

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 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 20 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 20 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
Central London -13 8 £663 +22.40% 6
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London +4 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 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.39%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.85%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (55.93%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (42.37%) GitHub
4 43 (36.44%) Entra ID
5 41 (34.75%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (29.66%) Azure Logic Apps
7 28 (23.73%) Azure Service Bus
8 26 (22.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 25 (21.19%) Azure AKS
9 25 (21.19%) Serverless
10 23 (19.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (19.49%) Azure Functions
11 17 (14.41%) Power Platform
12 16 (13.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (12.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (11.02%) Azure Machine Learning
14 13 (11.02%) PaaS
15 12 (10.17%) Azure Event Grid
15 12 (10.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.41%) Firewall
2 9 (7.63%) Network Security
3 7 (5.93%) DNS
3 7 (5.93%) VPN
4 3 (2.54%) WAN
5 2 (1.69%) DHCP
5 2 (1.69%) LAN
5 2 (1.69%) MPLS
5 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.85%) DKIM
6 1 (0.85%) DMARC
6 1 (0.85%) VSAN
6 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) Data Lake
2 12 (10.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (9.32%) Delta Lake
4 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.93%) Redis
5 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.24%) Power BI
6 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.69%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.85%) KNIME
9 1 (0.85%) PolyBase
9 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) Git
2 5 (4.24%) JIRA
3 4 (3.39%) GitLab
4 3 (2.54%) Gradle
4 3 (2.54%) Postman
5 2 (1.69%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.69%) MLflow
5 2 (1.69%) PVCS
5 2 (1.69%) Snyk
6 1 (0.85%) Ant
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) ERwin
6 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.85%) JMeter
6 1 (0.85%) Locust
6 1 (0.85%) Maven
6 1 (0.85%) NUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Serilog
6 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 29 (24.58%) Finance
2 20 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.93%) Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Retail
6 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.69%) Law
7 2 (1.69%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Back Office
8 1 (0.85%) Billing
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) Developer
2 30 (25.42%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (20.34%) Senior
4 16 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.02%) Azure Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Data Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Lead
8 9 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Architect
10 7 (5.93%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 6 (5.08%) Site Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) Consultant
12 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.27%) .NET
2 26 (22.03%) REST
3 19 (16.10%) Node.js
4 16 (13.56%) React
5 12 (10.17%) AngularJS
5 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Graph
6 11 (9.32%) .NET Core
6 11 (9.32%) ARM Templates
6 11 (9.32%) JSON
6 11 (9.32%) OAuth
7 9 (7.63%) PyTorch
8 8 (6.78%) PySpark
9 7 (5.93%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.93%) SOAP
9 7 (5.93%) TensorFlow
10 5 (4.24%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.24%) GraphQL
10 5 (4.24%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.24%) Web Services
11 4 (3.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.78%) AI Agents
3 7 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.54%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.54%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Replication
7 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Linux
1 10 (8.47%) Windows
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) VMS
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (72.03%) DevOps
2 66 (55.93%) CI/CD
3 61 (51.69%) Analytics
4 54 (45.76%) Log Analytics
5 48 (40.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (25.42%) Observability
7 29 (24.58%) Agile
8 26 (22.03%) AI
9 21 (17.80%) Data Modelling
9 21 (17.80%) Migration
9 21 (17.80%) RBAC
10 19 (16.10%) Microservices
11 16 (13.56%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.71%) Machine Learning
13 14 (11.86%) API Management
13 14 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (11.86%) Data Science
14 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (11.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.59%) Python
2 39 (33.05%) SQL
3 33 (27.97%) C#
4 29 (24.58%) Bicep
5 28 (23.73%) PowerShell
6 17 (14.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 16 (13.56%) JavaScript
8 11 (9.32%) TypeScript
9 8 (6.78%) Bash
10 7 (5.93%) Java
10 7 (5.93%) Scala
11 2 (1.69%) C
12 1 (0.85%) Go
12 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.19%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.56%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.54%) Degree
6 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.78%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.78%) GDPR
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.54%) SLA
3 2 (1.69%) NCSC
3 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (20.34%) Docker
2 22 (18.64%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.93%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 65 (55.08%) Terraform
2 26 (22.03%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.78%) Grafana
4 7 (5.93%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.39%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.54%) Ansible
7 2 (1.69%) Argo
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.85%) Kibana
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (55.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (18.64%) Databricks
3 16 (13.56%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.39%) Foundry
5 4 (3.39%) Moogsoft
5 4 (3.39%) New Relic
5 4 (3.39%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.39%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.54%) Google
7 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.69%) NetApp
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.69%) VMware
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco
8 1 (0.85%) Confluent
8 1 (0.85%) Datto
8 1 (0.85%) Okta
8 1 (0.85%) Solace
8 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media