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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 293 296
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 +130
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 115 70 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.21% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 44 59
10th Percentile £400 £371 £425
25th Percentile £419 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £553 £639 £650
90th Percentile £688 £734 £681
England median daily rate £513 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -8.89% -6.25% -1.64%
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 6,387 5,782 6,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.37% 41.20% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,384 3,881 4,978
10th Percentile £343 £350 £329
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 46 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.40
25th Percentile £22.73 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -12.01% +35.42%
75th Percentile £54.88 £47.72 £58.75
90th Percentile £77.92 £64.38 £68.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -0.32%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -4 8 £663 +33.50% 5
South London - 8 £500 -
North London - 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 11 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.48%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) CMS
5 1 (0.87%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (48.70%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (43.48%) Entra ID
4 40 (34.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 39 (33.91%) GitHub
6 36 (31.30%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (26.09%) Serverless
8 28 (24.35%) Azure Functions
9 27 (23.48%) Azure AKS
10 25 (21.74%) Azure Service Bus
11 21 (18.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 20 (17.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 20 (17.39%) Power Platform
13 16 (13.91%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (13.91%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (13.04%) Power Automate
15 13 (11.30%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (10.43%) Azure Machine Learning
17 11 (9.57%) Azure Event Grid
17 11 (9.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.78%) Firewall
2 9 (7.83%) VPN
3 8 (6.96%) DNS
3 8 (6.96%) Network Security
4 5 (4.35%) DHCP
5 3 (2.61%) WAN
6 2 (1.74%) LAN
6 2 (1.74%) MPLS
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.87%) DKIM
7 1 (0.87%) DMARC
7 1 (0.87%) VSAN
7 1 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.83%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.96%) Power BI
4 6 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.22%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.61%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.61%) Redis
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.87%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.87%) KNIME
7 1 (0.87%) PolyBase
7 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.87%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Git
2 5 (4.35%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Gradle
3 3 (2.61%) Postman
4 2 (1.74%) GitLab
4 2 (1.74%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.74%) MLflow
4 2 (1.74%) PVCS
4 2 (1.74%) Snyk
5 1 (0.87%) Ant
5 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.87%) ERwin
5 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) JMeter
5 1 (0.87%) Locust
5 1 (0.87%) Maven
5 1 (0.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.87%) TestRail
General
1 25 (21.74%) Finance
2 20 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.83%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Retail
6 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.74%) Legal
6 2 (1.74%) Local Government
7 1 (0.87%) Back Office
7 1 (0.87%) Billing
7 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.87%) Law
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (34.78%) Developer
2 26 (22.61%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (17.39%) Senior
4 15 (13.04%) Azure Developer
5 13 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Lead
7 8 (6.96%) Administrator
7 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.96%) Security Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Architect
8 7 (6.09%) Azure Administrator
8 7 (6.09%) Database Developer
8 7 (6.09%) DBA
8 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.22%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Consultant
10 5 (4.35%) Integration Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (27.83%) .NET
2 28 (24.35%) REST
3 22 (19.13%) Node.js
4 15 (13.04%) React
5 14 (12.17%) .NET Core
6 13 (11.30%) OAuth
7 12 (10.43%) AngularJS
8 11 (9.57%) JSON
8 11 (9.57%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (7.83%) PyTorch
10 8 (6.96%) ARM Templates
11 7 (6.09%) ASP.NET
11 7 (6.09%) GraphQL
11 7 (6.09%) OAuth2
11 7 (6.09%) TensorFlow
12 6 (5.22%) .NET Framework
12 6 (5.22%) Kafka
12 6 (5.22%) SOAP
13 5 (4.35%) YAML
14 4 (3.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.83%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.48%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.61%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.87%) PKI
8 1 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 8 (6.96%) Linux
3 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Unix
4 3 (2.61%) VMS
5 1 (0.87%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (66.09%) DevOps
2 62 (53.91%) CI/CD
3 54 (46.96%) Analytics
4 49 (42.61%) Log Analytics
5 36 (31.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (27.83%) Agile
7 28 (24.35%) AI
8 26 (22.61%) Observability
9 23 (20.00%) Microservices
10 21 (18.26%) RBAC
11 19 (16.52%) Data Modelling
11 19 (16.52%) Migration
12 17 (14.78%) API Management
13 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
14 15 (13.04%) Containerisation
14 15 (13.04%) Machine Learning
15 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (11.30%) Data Protection
16 11 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.30%) Python
2 34 (29.57%) C#
3 30 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 30 (26.09%) SQL
4 28 (24.35%) Bicep
5 18 (15.65%) Kusto Query Language
6 16 (13.91%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.83%) Java
9 6 (5.22%) Bash
10 1 (0.87%) Go
10 1 (0.87%) Scala
10 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (22.61%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.04%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.48%) Degree
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.87%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) GDPR
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.74%) EU AI Act
3 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (1.74%) NCSC
3 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 28 (24.35%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.26%) Docker
3 4 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (44.35%) Terraform
2 24 (20.87%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.09%) Grafana
4 6 (5.22%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.48%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.61%) Ansible
6 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.61%) Packer
7 1 (0.87%) Argo
7 1 (0.87%) Kibana
7 1 (0.87%) SCCM
7 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) Databricks
2 16 (13.91%) OpenAI
3 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.48%) Google
4 4 (3.48%) Moogsoft
4 4 (3.48%) New Relic
4 4 (3.48%) PagerDuty
4 4 (3.48%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.61%) Confluent
6 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.74%) Foundry
6 2 (1.74%) NetApp
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.74%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco
7 1 (0.87%) Intel
7 1 (0.87%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) Veeam