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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 265 317
Rank change year-on-year -12 +52 +100
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 125 81 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 1.51% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 63 52
10th Percentile £400 £313 £425
25th Percentile £451 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £454 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.64% -17.45% +0.92%
75th Percentile £606 £583 £630
90th Percentile £750 £725 £673
England median daily rate £513 £513 £600
% change year-on-year - -14.58% +9.09%
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 7,282 5,363 6,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 42.09% 37.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,989 3,721 4,959
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £445 £438
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 £775 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 46 79
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.27 £17.62
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.30 £21.63
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.21 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% +1.64% -15.09%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.63 £51.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.63 £64.40
England median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
% change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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
South London -8 8 £500 +11.11% 1
Central London -14 7 £650 +25.00% 9
North London +1 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 16 (12.80%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.20%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.80%) CMS
4 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 75 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (47.20%) GitHub
4 45 (36.00%) GitHub Actions
5 42 (33.60%) Entra ID
6 30 (24.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 30 (24.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 29 (23.20%) Azure AKS
8 26 (20.80%) Azure Key Vault
9 25 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (18.40%) Serverless
11 22 (17.60%) Azure Functions
12 20 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
13 18 (14.40%) PaaS
14 17 (13.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (12.00%) Azure App Service
16 14 (11.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (10.40%) Azure Sentinel
17 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
18 12 (9.60%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.60%) Firewall
2 10 (8.00%) DNS
2 10 (8.00%) Network Security
3 9 (7.20%) VPN
4 4 (3.20%) WAN
5 3 (2.40%) DHCP
5 3 (2.40%) LAN
5 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.60%) Internet
6 2 (1.60%) MPLS
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.80%) DKIM
7 1 (0.80%) DMARC
7 1 (0.80%) VSAN
7 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.60%) Data Lake
2 14 (11.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (11.20%) Delta Lake
3 7 (5.60%) Redis
4 6 (4.80%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.60%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.80%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.80%) KNIME
6 1 (0.80%) Power BI
6 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (12.80%) Git
2 6 (4.80%) JIRA
3 5 (4.00%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) Gradle
4 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.60%) MLflow
6 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.80%) ERwin
6 1 (0.80%) Maven
6 1 (0.80%) Moq
6 1 (0.80%) NUnit
6 1 (0.80%) Serilog
6 1 (0.80%) TestRail
6 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 22 (17.60%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.80%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Retail
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Law
7 2 (1.60%) Legal
7 2 (1.60%) Local Government
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (30.40%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (26.40%) Developer
3 26 (20.80%) Senior
4 17 (13.60%) Azure Developer
5 15 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.60%) Data Engineer
8 10 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Architect
10 8 (6.40%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Lead
11 6 (4.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 6 (4.80%) Security Engineer
11 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.20%) .NET
2 20 (16.00%) REST
3 16 (12.80%) Microsoft Graph
4 15 (12.00%) Node.js
5 12 (9.60%) ARM Templates
5 12 (9.60%) React
6 11 (8.80%) .NET Core
6 11 (8.80%) .NET Framework
6 11 (8.80%) AngularJS
6 11 (8.80%) PySpark
7 10 (8.00%) SOAP
8 9 (7.20%) PyTorch
8 9 (7.20%) Web Services
9 8 (6.40%) OAuth
10 7 (5.60%) JSON
10 7 (5.60%) TensorFlow
11 6 (4.80%) YAML
12 5 (4.00%) ASP.NET
12 5 (4.00%) OAuth2
12 5 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.60%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.60%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Replication
7 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.00%) Windows
2 9 (7.20%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.80%) Android
5 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (74.40%) DevOps
2 70 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 66 (52.80%) Analytics
4 59 (47.20%) Log Analytics
5 52 (41.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (34.40%) Observability
7 24 (19.20%) Agile
8 23 (18.40%) AI
9 21 (16.80%) Containerisation
9 21 (16.80%) Data Modelling
9 21 (16.80%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (16.00%) Migration
10 20 (16.00%) RBAC
11 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (15.20%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (15.20%) Microservices
12 18 (14.40%) Data Science
13 16 (12.80%) API Management
13 16 (12.80%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (12.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.40%) Python
2 43 (34.40%) SQL
3 36 (28.80%) PowerShell
4 32 (25.60%) C#
5 31 (24.80%) Bicep
6 19 (15.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (11.20%) JavaScript
8 11 (8.80%) Bash
9 10 (8.00%) Scala
10 8 (6.40%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.20%) Java
12 2 (1.60%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.20%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.00%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.40%) Degree
6 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) CCNA
7 1 (0.80%) CCNP
7 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.80%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.00%) GDPR
3 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (19.20%) Docker
2 21 (16.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (57.60%) Terraform
2 31 (24.80%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.80%) Grafana
4 10 (8.00%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.00%) Ansible
6 4 (3.20%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.40%) Istio
7 3 (2.40%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.40%) linkerd
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.80%) Argo
9 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.80%) Packer
9 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.80%) Puppet
9 1 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (52.80%) Microsoft
2 26 (20.80%) Databricks
3 14 (11.20%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.20%) Foundry
6 4 (3.20%) Moogsoft
6 4 (3.20%) New Relic
6 4 (3.20%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.40%) VMware
8 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.60%) NetApp
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco
9 1 (0.80%) Datto
9 1 (0.80%) Google
9 1 (0.80%) IBM
9 1 (0.80%) Okta
9 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.80%) Solace
9 1 (0.80%) Virgin Media