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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 275 290
Rank change year-on-year -38 +15 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 131 85 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.46% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 62 53
10th Percentile £413 £327 £384
25th Percentile £450 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £513
Median % change year-on-year +18.38% -13.46% -10.09%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £560
90th Percentile £746 £638 £648
England median daily rate £523 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +16.11% -19.64% -6.67%

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 8,334 5,812 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.34% 42.82% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,685 3,993 4,780
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £658 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 86 52
10th Percentile £19.10 £23.00 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £76.05 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 11 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 11 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 -20 16 £575 +15.00% 1
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 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (58.78%) GitHub
3 69 (52.67%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (40.46%) Entra ID
4 53 (40.46%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (32.06%) Azure AKS
6 21 (16.03%) AWS
7 20 (15.27%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (14.50%) PaaS
9 14 (10.69%) Serverless
10 13 (9.92%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (9.92%) Power Platform
11 12 (9.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 12 (9.16%) Azure Functions
11 12 (9.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (9.16%) IaaS
11 12 (9.16%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (8.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (8.40%) SaaS
13 10 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 21 (16.03%) Firewall
2 16 (12.21%) VPN
3 15 (11.45%) Network Security
4 9 (6.87%) DNS
5 4 (3.05%) DHCP
6 3 (2.29%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.29%) NGFW
6 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.29%) VLAN
6 3 (2.29%) VSAN
7 2 (1.53%) Internet
7 2 (1.53%) WAN
8 1 (0.76%) LAN
8 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.79%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.16%) Delta Lake
4 11 (8.40%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) Redis
7 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.82%) Power BI
7 5 (3.82%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.05%) Data Vault
8 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (2.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.29%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.76%) Big Data
10 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) GitLab
2 6 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.58%) JIRA
3 4 (3.05%) JetBrains Rider
3 4 (3.05%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.29%) Gradle
4 3 (2.29%) Maven
4 3 (2.29%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.76%) Gatling
6 1 (0.76%) Moq
6 1 (0.76%) NUnit
6 1 (0.76%) Selenium
6 1 (0.76%) Serilog
6 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.76%) TestRail
6 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Finance
3 19 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.34%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Banking
6 3 (2.29%) Legal
6 3 (2.29%) Local Government
7 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Military
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (34.35%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (18.32%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (16.79%) Senior
4 16 (12.21%) Architect
4 16 (12.21%) Developer
5 15 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (11.45%) Platform Engineer
6 14 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Azure Architect
10 7 (5.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Azure Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.82%) CloudOps Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Architect
12 5 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.98%) .NET
2 16 (12.21%) ARM Templates
3 12 (9.16%) REST
4 11 (8.40%) OAuth
4 11 (8.40%) OAuth2
5 9 (6.87%) .NET Framework
6 8 (6.11%) OpenID
6 8 (6.11%) YAML
7 7 (5.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (4.58%) Middleware
8 6 (4.58%) RESTful
9 5 (3.82%) .NET Core
9 5 (3.82%) Kafka
9 5 (3.82%) PySpark
9 5 (3.82%) React
9 5 (3.82%) Spring
9 5 (3.82%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (3.05%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.90%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Security Posture
3 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.58%) CMDB
4 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) Clustering
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.29%) Replication
8 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.76%) NHS
9 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.85%) Windows
2 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.34%) Linux
3 7 (5.34%) VMS
4 5 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.29%) SUSE
6 2 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (64.12%) DevOps
2 82 (62.60%) CI/CD
3 66 (50.38%) Analytics
4 63 (48.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (45.04%) Log Analytics
6 39 (29.77%) Observability
7 33 (25.19%) RBAC
8 29 (22.14%) Containerisation
9 27 (20.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 25 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (18.32%) Agile
12 21 (16.03%) Test Automation
13 20 (15.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (14.50%) Identity Access Management
15 18 (13.74%) AI
15 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
16 17 (12.98%) API Management
16 17 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (12.21%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (47.33%) PowerShell
2 43 (32.82%) Python
3 40 (30.53%) Bicep
4 38 (29.01%) SQL
5 28 (21.37%) C#
6 23 (17.56%) Bash
7 7 (5.34%) Java
7 7 (5.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (5.34%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.05%) Scala
9 1 (0.76%) C
9 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.76%) Korn
9 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 31 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (21.37%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.05%) Degree
6 3 (2.29%) MCSE
7 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CCNA
8 1 (0.76%) CCNP
8 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.63%) QA
3 7 (5.34%) GDPR
3 7 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.58%) NIST
5 4 (3.05%) SLA
6 3 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.76%) GRC
8 1 (0.76%) HL7
8 1 (0.76%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.76%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.76%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (20.61%) Docker
2 21 (16.03%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (15.27%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.34%) Hyper-V
4 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.29%) Firmware
6 3 (2.29%) IAG
6 3 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.29%) vSphere
7 1 (0.76%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 77 (58.78%) Terraform
2 45 (34.35%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.98%) Grafana
4 16 (12.21%) Prometheus
5 9 (6.87%) Ansible
6 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.05%) Istio
7 4 (3.05%) Kustomize
7 4 (3.05%) linkerd
8 3 (2.29%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.29%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.29%) VxRail
9 2 (1.53%) Packer
10 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.76%) Puppet
10 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (43.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.63%) Databricks
3 9 (6.87%) VMware
4 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.34%) Splunk
5 4 (3.05%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.29%) Dell
6 3 (2.29%) Foundry
6 3 (2.29%) MicroStrategy
6 3 (2.29%) Nexthink
6 3 (2.29%) Okta
6 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.53%) Confluent
7 2 (1.53%) Oracle
7 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.76%) Citrix
8 1 (0.76%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.76%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.76%) SAP