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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 287 300
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 +81
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 124 89 87
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.51% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 66 53
10th Percentile £413 £335 £384
25th Percentile £450 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £513
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -14.15% -8.89%
75th Percentile £650 £524 £573
90th Percentile £750 £638 £670
England median daily rate £525 £450 £570
% change year-on-year +16.67% -21.05% -1.30%

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 8,333 5,887 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.47% 42.88% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,692 4,040 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 86 52
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%
75th Percentile £55.56 £47.31 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £67.50 £65.65
England median hourly rate £37.24 £25.58 £23.80
% change year-on-year +45.61% +7.46% -27.88%

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 3 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 3 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 -12 14 £575 +15.00% 2
West London - 3 - - 2
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 9 (7.26%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) Apache
5 1 (0.81%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (58.87%) GitHub
3 67 (54.03%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (39.52%) GitHub Actions
5 48 (38.71%) Entra ID
6 38 (30.65%) Azure AKS
7 22 (17.74%) Azure Key Vault
8 18 (14.52%) AWS
9 17 (13.71%) PaaS
10 15 (12.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 14 (11.29%) Serverless
12 13 (10.48%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (9.68%) Azure Functions
13 12 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (9.68%) Power Platform
14 11 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (8.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (8.87%) SaaS
15 10 (8.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.13%) Firewall
2 15 (12.10%) VPN
3 14 (11.29%) Network Security
4 10 (8.06%) DNS
5 4 (3.23%) DHCP
5 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.42%) VLAN
6 3 (2.42%) VSAN
7 2 (1.61%) Internet
7 2 (1.61%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.61%) NGFW
7 2 (1.61%) WAN
8 1 (0.81%) LAN
8 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.81%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (12.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (9.68%) Delta Lake
4 11 (8.87%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.03%) Redis
6 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.23%) Data Vault
7 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.23%) Power BI
7 4 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (2.42%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) Big Data
9 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (10.48%) Git
2 6 (4.84%) JIRA
3 5 (4.03%) GitLab
3 5 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.23%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (3.23%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.42%) Gradle
5 3 (2.42%) Maven
6 2 (1.61%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.81%) Gatling
7 1 (0.81%) Moq
7 1 (0.81%) NUnit
7 1 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.81%) Serilog
7 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.81%) TestRail
7 1 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.77%) Finance
3 18 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Banking
6 3 (2.42%) Legal
6 3 (2.42%) Local Government
7 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Military
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (33.87%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (16.94%) Senior
3 20 (16.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (13.71%) Architect
4 17 (13.71%) Developer
5 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (11.29%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (10.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (8.06%) Data Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Azure Architect
10 7 (5.65%) Azure Developer
10 7 (5.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365 Developer
12 5 (4.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.71%) .NET
1 17 (13.71%) ARM Templates
2 11 (8.87%) REST
3 10 (8.06%) .NET Framework
4 8 (6.45%) OAuth
4 8 (6.45%) OAuth2
4 8 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (6.45%) YAML
5 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (5.65%) OpenID
6 6 (4.84%) Middleware
6 6 (4.84%) PySpark
6 6 (4.84%) RESTful
7 5 (4.03%) .NET Core
7 5 (4.03%) React
7 5 (4.03%) SOAP
7 5 (4.03%) Web Services
8 4 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.23%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (5.65%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.03%) CMDB
3 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (3.23%) Clustering
4 4 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.42%) Replication
6 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.81%) IoT
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.35%) Windows
2 12 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 7 (5.65%) Linux
4 5 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.03%) VMS
5 3 (2.42%) SUSE
6 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (65.32%) DevOps
2 75 (60.48%) CI/CD
3 64 (51.61%) Analytics
4 58 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (46.77%) Log Analytics
5 37 (29.84%) Observability
6 31 (25.00%) RBAC
7 26 (20.97%) Containerisation
7 26 (20.97%) Disaster Recovery
7 26 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
8 22 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (15.32%) Agile
10 19 (15.32%) Identity Access Management
11 17 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (13.71%) Test Automation
12 16 (12.90%) AI
12 16 (12.90%) DevSecOps
13 15 (12.10%) API Management
13 15 (12.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (46.77%) PowerShell
2 41 (33.06%) Python
3 37 (29.84%) Bicep
3 37 (29.84%) SQL
4 26 (20.97%) C#
5 22 (17.74%) Bash
6 8 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.03%) Java
8 5 (4.03%) Scala
9 2 (1.61%) C
10 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.81%) Korn
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (33.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 25 (20.16%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.23%) Degree
6 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.61%) MCSE
7 1 (0.81%) CCNA
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.87%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.06%) QA
3 7 (5.65%) GDPR
3 7 (5.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.84%) NIST
5 4 (3.23%) SLA
6 3 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.61%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.81%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.81%) GRC
8 1 (0.81%) HL7
8 1 (0.81%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.81%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.81%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (20.97%) Docker
2 19 (15.32%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.32%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.65%) Hyper-V
3 7 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.42%) Firmware
4 3 (2.42%) IAG
4 3 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 70 (56.45%) Terraform
2 40 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 18 (14.52%) Grafana
4 17 (13.71%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.06%) Ansible
6 5 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.23%) Istio
7 4 (3.23%) Kustomize
7 4 (3.23%) linkerd
8 3 (2.42%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.42%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.42%) VxRail
9 1 (0.81%) Argo
9 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (41.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.06%) Databricks
3 9 (7.26%) VMware
4 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.03%) Splunk
6 4 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.23%) Foundry
7 3 (2.42%) Dell
7 3 (2.42%) Nexthink
7 3 (2.42%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle
8 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.81%) Adobe
9 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.81%) Citrix
9 1 (0.81%) IBM
9 1 (0.81%) Qualys
9 1 (0.81%) SAP
9 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds