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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 264 307
Rank change year-on-year -23 +43 +95
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 118 83 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.67% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% 1.57% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 63 54
10th Percentile £400 £313 £410
25th Percentile £455 £403 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -14.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £540 £575
90th Percentile £750 £650 £630
England median daily rate £517 £450 £555
% change year-on-year +14.89% -18.92% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.54 - -
25th Percentile £37.28 - -
Median hourly rate £47.86 - -
75th Percentile £59.43 - -
90th Percentile £65.77 - -
England median hourly rate £42.69 - -

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 7,570 5,284 6,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 42.41% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 3,666 4,994
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 53 69
10th Percentile £20.04 £22.58 £17.47
25th Percentile £26.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -42.94%
75th Percentile £54.81 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.75 £72.50 £57.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +80.17% +23.69% -34.98%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 13 £600 +25.65% 8
South London -13 6 £513 +13.89%
West London - 1 - - 3
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 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.39%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (53.39%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (49.15%) GitHub
4 39 (33.05%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (28.81%) Azure AKS
6 32 (27.12%) Entra ID
7 23 (19.49%) Azure Key Vault
7 23 (19.49%) Azure Service Bus
8 21 (17.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (17.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (14.41%) Azure Functions
9 17 (14.41%) Serverless
10 16 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 14 (11.86%) PaaS
12 12 (10.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (10.17%) Azure Event Grid
13 11 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (8.47%) AWS
14 10 (8.47%) Azure App Service
14 10 (8.47%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.64%) Firewall
2 12 (10.17%) Network Security
3 9 (7.63%) VPN
4 6 (5.08%) DNS
5 4 (3.39%) VSAN
5 4 (3.39%) WAN
6 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.54%) VLAN
7 2 (1.69%) Internet
7 2 (1.69%) Kerberos
7 2 (1.69%) LAN
7 2 (1.69%) NGFW
8 1 (0.85%) DHCP
8 1 (0.85%) MPLS
8 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) Data Lake
1 14 (11.86%) Delta Lake
2 13 (11.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.63%) MongoDB
5 8 (6.78%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.24%) Redis
7 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.39%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.85%) Big Data
10 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.85%) Power BI
10 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (16.95%) Git
2 5 (4.24%) GitLab
2 5 (4.24%) Gradle
3 4 (3.39%) JIRA
4 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.54%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) Moq
5 1 (0.85%) NUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Serilog
5 1 (0.85%) TestRail
5 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (22.88%) Finance
2 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.41%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.08%) Banking
5 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Law
7 2 (1.69%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Back Office
8 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (33.90%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (20.34%) Developer
2 24 (20.34%) Senior
3 15 (12.71%) Azure Developer
4 14 (11.86%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (11.02%) Data Engineer
6 12 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Architect
7 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Migration Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (20.34%) .NET
2 14 (11.86%) REST
3 13 (11.02%) Node.js
4 10 (8.47%) ARM Templates
4 10 (8.47%) PySpark
5 9 (7.63%) .NET Framework
6 8 (6.78%) .NET Core
6 8 (6.78%) OAuth
6 8 (6.78%) OAuth2
6 8 (6.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (6.78%) React
7 7 (5.93%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.93%) JSON
7 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (5.93%) OpenID
7 7 (5.93%) SOAP
7 7 (5.93%) Web Services
8 6 (5.08%) Kafka
8 6 (5.08%) YAML
9 5 (4.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.08%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.24%) Replication
5 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.54%) Clustering
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.69%) CMDB
7 2 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.10%) Windows
2 9 (7.63%) Linux
3 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.39%) VMS
5 3 (2.54%) SUSE
6 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (72.03%) DevOps
2 69 (58.47%) CI/CD
3 54 (45.76%) Analytics
4 53 (44.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (41.53%) Log Analytics
6 39 (33.05%) Observability
7 24 (20.34%) Agile
7 24 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (17.80%) Containerisation
9 20 (16.95%) Data Modelling
9 20 (16.95%) Migration
10 19 (16.10%) RBAC
11 18 (15.25%) Test Automation
12 17 (14.41%) AI
12 17 (14.41%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (13.56%) API Management
13 16 (13.56%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (13.56%) High Availability
14 15 (12.71%) Data Science
14 15 (12.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.44%) PowerShell
2 42 (35.59%) Python
3 39 (33.05%) SQL
4 30 (25.42%) C#
5 26 (22.03%) Bicep
6 12 (10.17%) Bash
6 12 (10.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 10 (8.47%) Scala
8 7 (5.93%) Java
8 7 (5.93%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.69%) C
10 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (31.36%) Security Cleared
2 33 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 21 (17.80%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) MCSE
6 1 (0.85%) CCNA
6 1 (0.85%) CCNP
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.24%) QA
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (20.34%) Docker
2 14 (11.86%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (11.02%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.39%) vSphere
6 3 (2.54%) Firmware
6 3 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.85%) IAG
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 69 (58.47%) Terraform
2 34 (28.81%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.86%) Prometheus
4 13 (11.02%) Grafana
5 6 (5.08%) Ansible
6 4 (3.39%) Istio
6 4 (3.39%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.39%) linkerd
6 4 (3.39%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.54%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.54%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.54%) VxRail
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.85%) Argo
9 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.85%) Packer
9 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 52 (44.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.95%) Databricks
3 8 (6.78%) OpenAI
4 6 (5.08%) VMware
5 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.24%) SolarWinds
6 4 (3.39%) Foundry
6 4 (3.39%) Moogsoft
6 4 (3.39%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.54%) Dell
7 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.69%) NetApp
8 2 (1.69%) New Relic
9 1 (0.85%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.85%) IBM
9 1 (0.85%) Oracle
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) SAP
9 1 (0.85%) Solace
9 1 (0.85%) Virgin Media