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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 283 310
Rank change year-on-year -25 +27 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 146 90 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.68% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.54% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 54 49
10th Percentile £413 £350 £380
25th Percentile £450 £388 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.46% -8.77%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £625
90th Percentile £730 £646 £704
England median daily rate £525 £498 £600
% change year-on-year +5.53% -17.08% -

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 8,354 5,826 6,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.01% 43.83% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,769 3,964 4,507
10th Percentile £363 £347 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.95% -4.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 100 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.45 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.79 £24.77 £24.15
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -15.08% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.40 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 13 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.

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 13 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 -15 14 £575 -6.69% 7
West London - 2 - - 2
North London -2 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 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.05%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.05%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.37%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 146 (100.00%) Azure
2 81 (55.48%) GitHub
3 80 (54.79%) Azure DevOps
4 67 (45.89%) Entra ID
5 50 (34.25%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (28.08%) Azure AKS
7 24 (16.44%) Azure Key Vault
8 22 (15.07%) AWS
9 21 (14.38%) Serverless
10 19 (13.01%) Azure Functions
11 17 (11.64%) Azure API Management
11 17 (11.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 16 (10.96%) Azure App Service
13 15 (10.27%) Azure Service Bus
13 15 (10.27%) PaaS
13 15 (10.27%) Power Platform
14 13 (8.90%) Azure AI
15 12 (8.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (7.53%) Azure Event Grid
16 11 (7.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.64%) Firewall
2 16 (10.96%) Network Security
3 12 (8.22%) DNS
4 11 (7.53%) VPN
5 5 (3.42%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.42%) NGFW
6 4 (2.74%) DHCP
7 2 (1.37%) Internet
8 1 (0.68%) LAN
8 1 (0.68%) NAS
8 1 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.68%) SAN
8 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.68%) SSL
8 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.68%) WAN
8 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.90%) Data Lake
3 11 (7.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (5.48%) Delta Lake
4 8 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.48%) Power BI
5 7 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.79%) Redis
6 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.11%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.74%) Data Vault
8 3 (2.05%) Metadata
8 3 (2.05%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.68%) Big Data
10 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (12.33%) Git
2 9 (6.16%) GitLab
3 6 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.42%) JIRA
5 4 (2.74%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (2.74%) Terragrunt
5 4 (2.74%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.05%) Postman
7 2 (1.37%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.37%) Gatling
7 2 (1.37%) JMeter
7 2 (1.37%) Selenium
7 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) Newman
General
1 54 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.55%) Finance
3 23 (15.75%) Public Sector
4 13 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.74%) Banking
5 4 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.74%) Local Government
5 4 (2.74%) Police
5 4 (2.74%) Retail
6 2 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.37%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Military
7 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (26.03%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (19.86%) Architect
3 26 (17.81%) Senior
4 25 (17.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (16.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.90%) Developer
8 12 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (8.22%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.16%) Lead
9 9 (6.16%) Senior Architect
10 8 (5.48%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.79%) CloudOps Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Operations Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Azure Architect
13 5 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (3.42%) Security Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (64.38%) Terraform
2 27 (18.49%) REST
3 21 (14.38%) .NET
4 19 (13.01%) OAuth
5 18 (12.33%) OAuth2
6 14 (9.59%) ARM Templates
7 12 (8.22%) Middleware
7 12 (8.22%) OpenID
8 8 (5.48%) YAML
9 6 (4.11%) JSON
9 6 (4.11%) LangChain
9 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (4.11%) OpenAPI
9 6 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (4.11%) Swagger
10 5 (3.42%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.42%) .NET Framework
10 5 (3.42%) Kafka
10 5 (3.42%) React
10 5 (3.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.60%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.90%) CMDB
3 10 (6.85%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.85%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (5.48%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.79%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.11%) AI Agents
8 5 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.05%) Life Science
11 2 (1.37%) Clustering
11 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.37%) PKI
11 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.70%) Windows
2 10 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.16%) VMS
4 5 (3.42%) Linux
5 3 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (67.81%) CI/CD
2 90 (61.64%) DevOps
3 77 (52.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (45.21%) Analytics
5 57 (39.04%) Log Analytics
6 50 (34.25%) Observability
7 44 (30.14%) RBAC
8 40 (27.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 37 (25.34%) Agile
9 37 (25.34%) AI
10 28 (19.18%) Containerisation
11 27 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (18.49%) Deployment Automation
12 26 (17.81%) API Management
12 26 (17.81%) Infrastructure Automation
13 25 (17.12%) Disaster Recovery
13 25 (17.12%) Test Automation
14 22 (15.07%) Runbook
15 20 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (13.01%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 55 (37.67%) PowerShell
2 54 (36.99%) Bicep
3 52 (35.62%) Python
4 31 (21.23%) SQL
5 29 (19.86%) C#
6 27 (18.49%) Bash
7 10 (6.85%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.16%) Java
9 7 (4.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.68%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.68%) C
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) VB
11 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 34 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 30 (20.55%) Azure Certification
4 10 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.11%) Degree
6 5 (3.42%) MCSE
7 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.22%) QA
3 7 (4.79%) NIST
4 6 (4.11%) GDPR
4 6 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.05%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.05%) SLA
6 3 (2.05%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.68%) GLBA
7 1 (0.68%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) HL7
7 1 (0.68%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.68%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.68%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 29 (19.86%) Docker
2 23 (15.75%) Active Directory
3 18 (12.33%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (6.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.74%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.37%) IAG
8 1 (0.68%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 49 (33.56%) Kubernetes
2 29 (19.86%) Grafana
3 9 (6.16%) Ansible
3 9 (6.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (6.16%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.68%) Control-M
5 1 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.68%) Packer
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) SCCM
5 1 (0.68%) SCOM
5 1 (0.68%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 81 (55.48%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.70%) Splunk
3 18 (12.33%) Dynatrace
4 14 (9.59%) ServiceNow
5 11 (7.53%) Databricks
6 8 (5.48%) OpenAI
7 7 (4.79%) Foundry
8 6 (4.11%) Okta
9 5 (3.42%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.42%) VMware
10 4 (2.74%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (2.05%) Adobe
11 3 (2.05%) Aprimo
11 3 (2.05%) Confluent
11 3 (2.05%) OneTrust
11 3 (2.05%) Optimizely
11 3 (2.05%) Oracle
11 3 (2.05%) SAP
12 2 (1.37%) CrowdStrike
12 2 (1.37%) Qualtrics