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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 258 323
Rank change year-on-year -44 +65 +65
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 111 92 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.72% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.67% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 73 49
10th Percentile £418 £315 £405
25th Percentile £459 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £440 £518
Median % change year-on-year +20.45% -15.03% -8.34%
75th Percentile £668 £538 £573
90th Percentile £750 £648 £678
England median daily rate £525 £450 £593
% change year-on-year +16.67% -24.05% +3.04%

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 8,063 5,500 6,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.96% 42.93% 39.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,540 3,728 5,118
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 74 66
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.65 £18.89
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +19.58% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -16 14 £575 +15.00% 4
West London - 2 - - 1
North London +1 1 £650 +57.58% 2
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 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.90%) Apache
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Maximo
1 1 (0.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 65 (58.56%) GitHub
3 61 (54.95%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (39.64%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (31.53%) Entra ID
6 31 (27.93%) Azure AKS
7 18 (16.22%) Azure Key Vault
8 17 (15.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 15 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (13.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (12.61%) AWS
10 14 (12.61%) PaaS
10 14 (12.61%) Serverless
11 12 (10.81%) Azure Functions
11 12 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
13 10 (9.01%) Azure Event Grid
13 10 (9.01%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (7.21%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) Firewall
2 11 (9.91%) Network Security
2 11 (9.91%) VPN
3 8 (7.21%) DNS
4 3 (2.70%) DHCP
4 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.70%) VLAN
4 3 (2.70%) VSAN
5 2 (1.80%) Internet
5 2 (1.80%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.80%) NGFW
5 2 (1.80%) WAN
6 1 (0.90%) LAN
6 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) Azure SQL Database
1 17 (15.32%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.41%) Delta Lake
3 15 (13.51%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.50%) Redis
6 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.60%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.70%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.70%) Power BI
7 3 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.90%) Big Data
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (14.41%) Git
2 5 (4.50%) JIRA
3 4 (3.60%) GitLab
3 4 (3.60%) Gradle
4 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.70%) Maven
5 2 (1.80%) JetBrains Rider
5 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.90%) Moq
6 1 (0.90%) NUnit
6 1 (0.90%) Serilog
6 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.90%) TestRail
6 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Finance
3 18 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Banking
6 3 (2.70%) Local Government
7 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.90%) Law
8 1 (0.90%) Military
8 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (32.43%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (21.62%) Senior
3 17 (15.32%) Architect
4 15 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Data Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Developer
5 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
9 7 (6.31%) Azure Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Architect
11 4 (3.60%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) ARM Templates
2 15 (13.51%) .NET
3 11 (9.91%) PySpark
4 8 (7.21%) .NET Framework
4 8 (7.21%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (7.21%) REST
5 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (6.31%) OAuth
5 7 (6.31%) OAuth2
6 6 (5.41%) OpenID
7 5 (4.50%) RESTful
7 5 (4.50%) SOAP
7 5 (4.50%) Web Services
7 5 (4.50%) YAML
8 4 (3.60%) Kafka
8 4 (3.60%) React
9 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.70%) Middleware
9 3 (2.70%) Node.js
9 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.62%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.60%) CMDB
4 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.70%) Clustering
5 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.70%) Replication
6 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.90%) IoT
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.72%) Windows
2 9 (8.11%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.41%) Linux
4 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.60%) VMS
5 3 (2.70%) SUSE
6 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (66.67%) DevOps
2 69 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 58 (52.25%) Analytics
4 55 (49.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (47.75%) Log Analytics
6 35 (31.53%) Observability
7 25 (22.52%) Platform Engineering
8 24 (21.62%) RBAC
9 21 (18.92%) Containerisation
9 21 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (15.32%) Agile
11 17 (15.32%) Data Governance
11 17 (15.32%) Data Modelling
11 17 (15.32%) ETL
12 16 (14.41%) API Management
12 16 (14.41%) High Availability
12 16 (14.41%) Mentoring
13 15 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
13 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 46 (41.44%) PowerShell
2 39 (35.14%) SQL
3 38 (34.23%) Python
4 27 (24.32%) Bicep
5 24 (21.62%) C#
6 15 (13.51%) Bash
7 10 (9.01%) Scala
8 8 (7.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (4.50%) Java
10 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.80%) C
12 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (27.93%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.02%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.80%) MCSE
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) CCNA
6 1 (0.90%) CCNP
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.31%) QA
3 6 (5.41%) GDPR
3 6 (5.41%) NIST
4 3 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.70%) SLA
5 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.90%) GRC
6 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 17 (15.32%) Active Directory
3 15 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.31%) Hyper-V
4 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.70%) Firmware
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.70%) vSphere
6 2 (1.80%) IAG
7 1 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 62 (55.86%) Terraform
2 34 (30.63%) Kubernetes
3 16 (14.41%) Prometheus
4 15 (13.51%) Grafana
5 7 (6.31%) Ansible
6 4 (3.60%) Istio
6 4 (3.60%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.60%) linkerd
7 3 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.70%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.70%) VxRail
8 1 (0.90%) Argo
8 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.90%) Packer
8 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.71%) Databricks
3 9 (8.11%) VMware
4 6 (5.41%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.60%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.60%) Foundry
6 3 (2.70%) Dell
6 3 (2.70%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.80%) Nexthink
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
8 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.90%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) New Relic
8 1 (0.90%) Okta
8 1 (0.90%) Qualys
8 1 (0.90%) SAP
8 1 (0.90%) Virgin Media