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

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	303	270	303
Rank change year-on-year	-33	+33	+37
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor	152	91	76
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.74%	0.68%	0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.81%	1.57%	1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	103	54	46
10^th Percentile	£415	£350	£373
25^th Percentile	£450	£393	£458
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£458	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+14.57%	-12.71%	-7.89%
75^th Percentile	£625	£538	£637
90^th Percentile	£723	£646	£719
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£603
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-17.01%	-1.23%

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.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	8,395	5,810	6,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	41.06%	43.71%	41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	5,811	3,933	4,440
10^th Percentile	£363	£350	£350
25^th Percentile	£450	£425	£450
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£525	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-1.79%
75^th Percentile	£650	£650	£675
90^th Percentile	£750	£775	£800
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£530
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	93	102	39
10^th Percentile	£17.85	£21.00	£23.44
25^th Percentile	£21.72	£24.57	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£28.40	£26.30	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+7.97%	-19.08%	-19.75%
75^th Percentile	£57.50	£47.31	£51.25
90^th Percentile	£78.75	£79.88	£68.05
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+27.27%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 October 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.

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 October 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	-17	14	£575	-6.69%	9
West London	-	2	-	-	4
North London	-3	1	£650	-
Azure Monitor England

Azure Monitor Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Azure Monitor also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Azure Monitor.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	152
2	CI/CD	69.1%	105
3	Terraform	65.1%	99
4	DevOps	61.8%	94
5	Microsoft	55.9%	85
6	Azure DevOps	55.3%	84
7	GitHub	53.9%	82
8	Infrastructure as Code	53.3%	81
9	Entra ID	46.1%	70
10	Analytics	45.4%	69
11	Log Analytics	39.5%	60
11	PowerShell	39.5%	60
13	Bicep	38.2%	58
14	Python	36.2%	55
15	Kubernetes	34.9%	53
16	GitHub Actions	33.6%	51
16	Observability	33.6%	51
18	Security Cleared	31.6%	48
19	RBAC	29.6%	45
20	Azure AKS	28.9%	44
21	Stakeholder Management	26.3%	40
22	Agile	25.0%	38
22	AI	25.0%	38
24	SC Cleared	23.7%	36
25	Azure Certification	21.7%	33
26	Docker	21.1%	32
26	Grafana	21.1%	32
26	SQL	21.1%	32
29	Bash	19.1%	29
29	C#	19.1%	29

Azure Monitor Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	152
2	Azure DevOps	55.3%	84
3	GitHub	53.9%	82
4	Entra ID	46.1%	70
5	GitHub Actions	33.6%	51
6	Azure AKS	28.9%	44
7	Azure Key Vault	16.4%	25
8	AWS	15.8%	24
9	Serverless	13.8%	21
10	Azure Functions	12.5%	19
10	Azure Sentinel	12.5%	19
12	Azure API Management	11.8%	18
13	Azure App Service	10.5%	16
14	Azure Service Bus	9.9%	15
14	PaaS	9.9%	15
14	Power Platform	9.9%	15
17	Azure AI	8.6%	13
18	Azure Cosmos DB	7.9%	12
18	Datadog	7.9%	12
20	Azure Event Grid	7.2%	11