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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 294 307
Rank change year-on-year +36 +13 +112
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 118 75 98
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.22% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 47 67
10th Percentile £389 £329 £425
25th Percentile £425 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £637 £675
90th Percentile £640 £716 £681
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +2.13%
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 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 6,363 6,155 7,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.03% 41.12% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 4,159 5,198
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £772
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 43 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.09
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%
75th Percentile £49.06 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.29 £65.00 £73.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 -12 8 £599 +5.51% 12
South London - 8 £500 - 3
East London 0 1 £520 -11.11% 1
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 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.39%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 118 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (49.15%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (43.22%) Entra ID
4 39 (33.05%) Azure Logic Apps
5 38 (32.20%) GitHub
6 36 (30.51%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (25.42%) Serverless
8 28 (23.73%) Azure AKS
8 28 (23.73%) Azure Functions
9 24 (20.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (18.64%) Azure Key Vault
11 20 (16.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 20 (16.95%) Power Platform
12 16 (13.56%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (13.56%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (12.71%) Power Automate
14 13 (11.02%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (9.32%) Azure Machine Learning
15 11 (9.32%) PowerApps
16 10 (8.47%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.10%) Firewall
2 11 (9.32%) DNS
2 11 (9.32%) VPN
3 10 (8.47%) Network Security
4 7 (5.93%) DHCP
5 5 (4.24%) WAN
6 3 (2.54%) VSAN
7 2 (1.69%) LAN
7 2 (1.69%) MPLS
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.85%) DKIM
8 1 (0.85%) DMARC
8 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.85%) VLAN
8 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.47%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.78%) Power BI
4 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (4.24%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.24%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.54%) Redis
6 2 (1.69%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.85%) KNIME
7 1 (0.85%) MySQL
7 1 (0.85%) PolyBase
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) Git
2 7 (5.93%) JIRA
3 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.54%) Postman
4 2 (1.69%) GitLab
4 2 (1.69%) Gradle
4 2 (1.69%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.69%) JMeter
4 2 (1.69%) MLflow
4 2 (1.69%) PVCS
4 2 (1.69%) Snyk
5 1 (0.85%) Ant
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 23 (19.49%) Finance
2 21 (17.80%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.63%) Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.39%) Retail
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.69%) Law
6 2 (1.69%) Legal
6 2 (1.69%) Local Government
7 1 (0.85%) Back Office
7 1 (0.85%) Billing
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Games
7 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (33.05%) Developer
2 26 (22.03%) Azure Engineer
3 19 (16.10%) Senior
4 15 (12.71%) Azure Developer
5 13 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Administrator
7 9 (7.63%) Lead
7 9 (7.63%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Architect
8 8 (6.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Azure Administrator
9 7 (5.93%) Database Developer
9 7 (5.93%) DBA
10 6 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Integration Developer
11 5 (4.24%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.27%) .NET
2 27 (22.88%) REST
3 20 (16.95%) Node.js
4 14 (11.86%) .NET Core
4 14 (11.86%) React
5 13 (11.02%) OAuth
6 11 (9.32%) AngularJS
6 11 (9.32%) JSON
6 11 (9.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 9 (7.63%) PyTorch
8 8 (6.78%) ARM Templates
8 8 (6.78%) YAML
9 7 (5.93%) ASP.NET
9 7 (5.93%) OAuth2
9 7 (5.93%) TensorFlow
10 6 (5.08%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.08%) GraphQL
10 6 (5.08%) SOAP
11 5 (4.24%) Web Services
11 5 (4.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.63%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.54%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.54%) Replication
7 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.85%) IoT
8 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.02%) Windows
2 8 (6.78%) Linux
3 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.54%) Unix
4 3 (2.54%) VMS
5 1 (0.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (66.10%) DevOps
2 65 (55.08%) CI/CD
3 55 (46.61%) Analytics
4 50 (42.37%) Log Analytics
5 37 (31.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (28.81%) Agile
7 27 (22.88%) AI
8 26 (22.03%) Observability
9 24 (20.34%) Microservices
10 21 (17.80%) Migration
10 21 (17.80%) RBAC
11 18 (15.25%) Data Modelling
12 17 (14.41%) API Management
12 17 (14.41%) Containerisation
12 17 (14.41%) Test Automation
13 14 (11.86%) Data Protection
13 14 (11.86%) Machine Learning
14 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.20%) Python
2 33 (27.97%) C#
3 32 (27.12%) PowerShell
4 30 (25.42%) SQL
5 29 (24.58%) Bicep
6 18 (15.25%) Kusto Query Language
7 16 (13.56%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.47%) TypeScript
9 9 (7.63%) Java
10 8 (6.78%) Bash
11 1 (0.85%) Go
11 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 26 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.71%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.39%) Degree
6 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.85%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) GDPR
2 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.54%) NIST
4 2 (1.69%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.69%) NCSC
4 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 29 (24.58%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.64%) Docker
3 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.54%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.54%) vSphere
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (42.37%) Terraform
2 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.63%) Grafana
4 6 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.39%) Packer
5 4 (3.39%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.54%) Ansible
6 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.85%) Argo
7 1 (0.85%) CASB
7 1 (0.85%) Kibana
7 1 (0.85%) SCCM
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (61.02%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.56%) Databricks
2 16 (13.56%) OpenAI
3 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.39%) Google
4 4 (3.39%) Moogsoft
4 4 (3.39%) NetApp
4 4 (3.39%) PagerDuty
4 4 (3.39%) SolarWinds
4 4 (3.39%) VMware
5 3 (2.54%) Confluent
5 3 (2.54%) New Relic
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco
7 1 (0.85%) Foundry
7 1 (0.85%) Intel
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.85%) Veeam