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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 273 298
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 140 91 93
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.69% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.58% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 60 50
10th Percentile £425 £350 £408
25th Percentile £450 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -13.88% -9.13%
75th Percentile £628 £538 £614
90th Percentile £738 £639 £704
England median daily rate £520 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% -

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 8,279 5,766 6,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.44% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 3,926 4,623
10th Percentile £360 £343 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £530
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 92 45
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.12 £24.15
Median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -21.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.10
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +30.73% -21.21% -

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -9 18 £550 -10.75% 7
West London - 3 - - 1
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 8 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.14%) CMS
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.14%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.43%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (54.29%) GitHub
3 70 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (43.57%) Entra ID
5 50 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (26.43%) Azure AKS
7 25 (17.86%) AWS
8 19 (13.57%) Azure Key Vault
9 18 (12.86%) Serverless
10 16 (11.43%) Azure Functions
11 14 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (10.00%) PaaS
11 14 (10.00%) Power Platform
12 13 (9.29%) Azure App Service
12 13 (9.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (9.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 13 (9.29%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (8.57%) Azure API Management
13 12 (8.57%) Azure Event Grid
14 11 (7.86%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.57%) Firewall
2 17 (12.14%) Network Security
3 14 (10.00%) VPN
4 10 (7.14%) DNS
5 5 (3.57%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.57%) NGFW
6 3 (2.14%) DHCP
6 3 (2.14%) VLAN
6 3 (2.14%) VSAN
7 1 (0.71%) Internet
7 1 (0.71%) NAS
7 1 (0.71%) SAN
7 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.71%) SSL
7 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.14%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.29%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 9 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.00%) Power BI
7 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.57%) Redis
9 4 (2.86%) Data Vault
9 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.14%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.43%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.71%) Big Data
12 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.71%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (12.86%) Git
2 8 (5.71%) GitLab
3 6 (4.29%) JIRA
4 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.86%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (2.86%) Terragrunt
5 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.14%) Postman
7 2 (1.43%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.43%) Gatling
7 2 (1.43%) Gradle
7 2 (1.43%) JMeter
7 2 (1.43%) Maven
7 2 (1.43%) Selenium
7 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.71%) Newman
General
1 51 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.57%) Finance
3 16 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Banking
6 4 (2.86%) Retail
7 3 (2.14%) Local Government
8 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Military
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (27.86%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (17.14%) Architect
4 22 (15.71%) Senior
5 20 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.00%) Developer
7 12 (8.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.00%) CloudOps Engineer
10 7 (5.00%) Lead
11 6 (4.29%) Azure Architect
11 6 (4.29%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (60.71%) Terraform
2 21 (15.00%) REST
3 18 (12.86%) OAuth
4 17 (12.14%) .NET
4 17 (12.14%) OAuth2
5 15 (10.71%) ARM Templates
6 11 (7.86%) OpenID
7 10 (7.14%) Middleware
8 8 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (5.00%) YAML
10 6 (4.29%) Kafka
10 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (4.29%) RESTful
11 5 (3.57%) .NET Framework
11 5 (3.57%) LangChain
11 5 (3.57%) OpenAPI
11 5 (3.57%) Spring
11 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.57%) Swagger
12 4 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.57%) CMDB
3 10 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (3.57%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.57%) Clustering
9 4 (2.86%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.14%) Life Science
10 3 (2.14%) Replication
11 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.71%) ARM Cortex
12 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.00%) Windows
2 12 (8.57%) VMS
3 10 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.29%) Linux
5 4 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.14%) SUSE
7 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 84 (60.00%) DevOps
3 68 (48.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (42.86%) Analytics
5 50 (35.71%) Log Analytics
6 45 (32.14%) Observability
7 40 (28.57%) RBAC
8 35 (25.00%) Agile
8 35 (25.00%) AI
9 33 (23.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (22.14%) Containerisation
11 24 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
12 23 (16.43%) Deployment Automation
12 23 (16.43%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (15.71%) API Management
14 21 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
14 21 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (15.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 57 (40.71%) PowerShell
2 51 (36.43%) Python
3 49 (35.00%) Bicep
4 27 (19.29%) SQL
5 26 (18.57%) Bash
5 26 (18.57%) C#
6 9 (6.43%) Java
6 9 (6.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.71%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.71%) C
9 1 (0.71%) Korn
9 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.86%) Azure Certification
3 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.57%) Degree
5 5 (3.57%) MCSE
6 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.71%) CISSP
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.29%) QA
2 12 (8.57%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.00%) GDPR
3 7 (5.00%) NIST
4 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.14%) SLA
6 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HL7
7 1 (0.71%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.71%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (21.43%) Docker
2 23 (16.43%) Active Directory
3 22 (15.71%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (2.14%) Firmware
7 3 (2.14%) IAG
7 3 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 48 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.71%) Grafana
3 10 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.71%) Ansible
4 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (2.14%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.14%) VxRail
7 1 (0.71%) Control-M
7 1 (0.71%) Istio
7 1 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.71%) linkerd
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.71%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) SCOM
7 1 (0.71%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (52.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.86%) Splunk
3 14 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.86%) Databricks
4 11 (7.86%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.71%) VMware
6 7 (5.00%) OpenAI
7 6 (4.29%) Foundry
7 6 (4.29%) Okta
8 5 (3.57%) AppDynamics
8 5 (3.57%) Dell
9 4 (2.86%) MicroStrategy
9 4 (2.86%) SAP
10 3 (2.14%) Aprimo
10 3 (2.14%) Confluent
10 3 (2.14%) Nexthink
10 3 (2.14%) OneTrust
10 3 (2.14%) Optimizely
11 2 (1.43%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.43%) SolarWinds