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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 273 302
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 +96
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 122 82 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 1.54% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 62 54
10th Percentile £402 £313 £410
25th Percentile £455 £400 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -16.19% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £541 £575
90th Percentile £750 £650 £630
England median daily rate £514 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +14.22% -19.64% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.54 - -
25th Percentile £37.28 - -
Median hourly rate £47.86 - -
75th Percentile £59.43 - -
90th Percentile £65.77 - -
England median hourly rate £42.69 - -

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 7,552 5,326 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.74% 42.37% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 3,706 4,979
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
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 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 52 68
10th Percentile £19.41 £22.42 £17.32
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £21.81
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%
75th Percentile £53.35 £50.00 £38.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £73.13 £59.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 14 £625 +30.89% 8
South London -8 6 £513 +13.89%
West London - 1 - - 3
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 9 (7.38%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.28%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (52.46%) Azure DevOps
3 57 (46.72%) GitHub
4 39 (31.97%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (27.87%) Entra ID
6 33 (27.05%) Azure AKS
7 24 (19.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 22 (18.03%) Azure Key Vault
8 22 (18.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 21 (17.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (14.75%) Azure Functions
10 18 (14.75%) Serverless
11 16 (13.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (12.30%) PaaS
13 14 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (9.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 12 (9.84%) Azure Event Grid
15 11 (9.02%) AWS
15 11 (9.02%) Azure App Service
15 11 (9.02%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.67%) Firewall
2 12 (9.84%) Network Security
3 10 (8.20%) VPN
4 8 (6.56%) DNS
5 4 (3.28%) VSAN
5 4 (3.28%) WAN
6 3 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.46%) VLAN
7 2 (1.64%) DHCP
7 2 (1.64%) Internet
7 2 (1.64%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.64%) LAN
7 2 (1.64%) NGFW
8 1 (0.82%) MPLS
8 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.48%) Data Lake
1 14 (11.48%) Delta Lake
2 13 (10.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.84%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.38%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.10%) Redis
7 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.28%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.46%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.82%) Big Data
10 1 (0.82%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.82%) Power BI
10 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (15.57%) Git
2 5 (4.10%) Gradle
2 5 (4.10%) JIRA
3 4 (3.28%) GitLab
4 3 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.46%) Maven
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) Moq
5 1 (0.82%) NUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Serilog
5 1 (0.82%) TestRail
5 1 (0.82%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (23.77%) Finance
2 26 (21.31%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.92%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Law
7 2 (1.64%) Legal
7 2 (1.64%) Local Government
8 1 (0.82%) Back Office
8 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (33.61%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (21.31%) Developer
3 25 (20.49%) Senior
4 15 (12.30%) Azure Developer
4 15 (12.30%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (10.66%) Data Engineer
7 12 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.20%) Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.92%) Lead
11 6 (4.92%) Migration Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.31%) .NET
2 15 (12.30%) REST
3 13 (10.66%) Node.js
4 10 (8.20%) .NET Framework
4 10 (8.20%) PySpark
5 9 (7.38%) ARM Templates
5 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Graph
5 9 (7.38%) OAuth
6 8 (6.56%) .NET Core
6 8 (6.56%) OAuth2
6 8 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (6.56%) React
6 8 (6.56%) SOAP
7 7 (5.74%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.74%) JSON
7 7 (5.74%) OpenID
7 7 (5.74%) Web Services
8 6 (4.92%) Kafka
9 5 (4.10%) RESTful
9 5 (4.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.92%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.10%) Replication
5 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.46%) Clustering
6 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.64%) CMDB
7 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.21%) Windows
2 11 (9.02%) Linux
3 6 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.46%) SUSE
5 3 (2.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (70.49%) DevOps
2 68 (55.74%) CI/CD
3 55 (45.08%) Analytics
3 55 (45.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (40.98%) Log Analytics
5 43 (35.25%) Observability
6 25 (20.49%) Agile
7 24 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (17.21%) Migration
9 20 (16.39%) Containerisation
9 20 (16.39%) Data Modelling
9 20 (16.39%) RBAC
10 18 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (14.75%) Test Automation
11 17 (13.93%) AI
11 17 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (13.11%) API Management
12 16 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (13.11%) High Availability
12 16 (13.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 43 (35.25%) PowerShell
2 42 (34.43%) Python
3 40 (32.79%) SQL
4 32 (26.23%) C#
5 27 (22.13%) Bicep
6 15 (12.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (8.20%) Bash
7 10 (8.20%) Scala
8 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.92%) Java
10 2 (1.64%) C
10 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 23 (18.85%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.64%) MCSE
6 1 (0.82%) CCNA
6 1 (0.82%) CCNP
6 1 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.82%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.10%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
3 4 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (19.67%) Docker
2 15 (12.30%) Active Directory
3 14 (11.48%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.28%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.28%) vSphere
6 3 (2.46%) Firmware
6 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.82%) IAG
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (59.02%) Terraform
2 35 (28.69%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.66%) Prometheus
4 12 (9.84%) Grafana
5 6 (4.92%) Ansible
6 4 (3.28%) Istio
6 4 (3.28%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.28%) linkerd
6 4 (3.28%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.46%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.46%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.46%) VxRail
8 1 (0.82%) Argo
8 1 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.82%) Packer
8 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (46.72%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.39%) Databricks
3 9 (7.38%) OpenAI
4 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.92%) VMware
5 5 (4.10%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.28%) Foundry
6 4 (3.28%) Moogsoft
6 4 (3.28%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.46%) Dell
7 3 (2.46%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.64%) NetApp
8 2 (1.64%) New Relic
9 1 (0.82%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.82%) IBM
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle
9 1 (0.82%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.82%) SAP
9 1 (0.82%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.82%) Veeam