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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 280 317
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 +117
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 125 72 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.83% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.28% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 49 51
10th Percentile £400 £355 £425
25th Percentile £425 £413 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £594 £636 £630
90th Percentile £750 £734 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
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 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 6,709 5,635 6,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.34% 41.72% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,596 3,755 5,087
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 49 76
10th Percentile £18.12 £22.07 £17.39
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.08 £31.50 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +4.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £55.81 £55.75 £53.31
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.75 £61.25
England median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +30.91% +24.15% -11.40%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -14 8 £663 +22.12% 6
South London - 8 £500 - 1
North London +4 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 12 (9.60%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.20%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.80%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (52.80%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (40.80%) Entra ID
4 46 (36.80%) GitHub
5 39 (31.20%) Azure Logic Apps
6 38 (30.40%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (22.40%) Azure AKS
7 28 (22.40%) Serverless
8 27 (21.60%) Azure Service Bus
9 26 (20.80%) Azure Functions
10 25 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (16.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 21 (16.80%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (14.40%) Power Platform
13 17 (13.60%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (11.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 13 (10.40%) Azure Machine Learning
15 13 (10.40%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (10.40%) Power Automate
16 12 (9.60%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.20%) Firewall
2 9 (7.20%) DNS
2 9 (7.20%) Network Security
2 9 (7.20%) VPN
3 5 (4.00%) DHCP
4 3 (2.40%) WAN
5 2 (1.60%) LAN
5 2 (1.60%) MPLS
6 1 (0.80%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.80%) DKIM
6 1 (0.80%) DMARC
6 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.80%) VSAN
6 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (8.80%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.20%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.40%) Delta Lake
5 6 (4.80%) Power BI
6 4 (3.20%) Redis
6 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.80%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.80%) KNIME
7 1 (0.80%) PolyBase
7 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (15.20%) Git
2 5 (4.00%) JIRA
3 3 (2.40%) GitLab
3 3 (2.40%) Gradle
3 3 (2.40%) Postman
4 2 (1.60%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.60%) MLflow
4 2 (1.60%) PVCS
4 2 (1.60%) Snyk
5 1 (0.80%) Ant
5 1 (0.80%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.80%) ERwin
5 1 (0.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.80%) JMeter
5 1 (0.80%) Locust
5 1 (0.80%) Maven
5 1 (0.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.80%) TestRail
General
1 31 (24.80%) Finance
2 20 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.20%) Banking
5 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Retail
6 2 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.60%) Law
6 2 (1.60%) Legal
6 2 (1.60%) Local Government
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
7 1 (0.80%) Billing
7 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (31.20%) Developer
2 32 (25.60%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (18.40%) Senior
4 17 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (12.80%) Azure Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (8.00%) Lead
8 9 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Administrator
9 8 (6.40%) Data Engineer
9 8 (6.40%) Security Engineer
10 7 (5.60%) Architect
10 7 (5.60%) Azure Administrator
10 7 (5.60%) Database Developer
10 7 (5.60%) DBA
11 6 (4.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (4.00%) Integration Developer
12 5 (4.00%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.40%) .NET
2 28 (22.40%) REST
3 22 (17.60%) Node.js
4 15 (12.00%) React
5 14 (11.20%) .NET Core
6 12 (9.60%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (9.60%) OAuth
7 11 (8.80%) JSON
8 9 (7.20%) ARM Templates
8 9 (7.20%) PyTorch
9 7 (5.60%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.60%) ASP.NET
9 7 (5.60%) GraphQL
9 7 (5.60%) PySpark
9 7 (5.60%) SOAP
9 7 (5.60%) TensorFlow
10 6 (4.80%) Kafka
10 6 (4.80%) OAuth2
11 5 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.20%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Replication
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) IoT
9 1 (0.80%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.40%) Windows
2 10 (8.00%) Linux
3 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) Unix
4 3 (2.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (69.60%) DevOps
2 70 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 61 (48.80%) Analytics
4 56 (44.80%) Log Analytics
5 46 (36.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (24.80%) Agile
7 30 (24.00%) Observability
8 29 (23.20%) AI
9 24 (19.20%) Data Modelling
10 23 (18.40%) RBAC
11 22 (17.60%) Microservices
12 21 (16.80%) Migration
13 17 (13.60%) API Management
14 16 (12.80%) Machine Learning
14 16 (12.80%) Test Automation
15 15 (12.00%) Containerisation
16 14 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (10.40%) Data Science
17 13 (10.40%) Platform Engineering
18 12 (9.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.80%) Python
2 37 (29.60%) SQL
3 35 (28.00%) C#
4 31 (24.80%) Bicep
4 31 (24.80%) PowerShell
5 19 (15.20%) Kusto Query Language
6 16 (12.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.20%) Java
9 7 (5.60%) Bash
10 6 (4.80%) Scala
11 1 (0.80%) C
11 1 (0.80%) Go
11 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.20%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.80%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.20%) Degree
6 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) GDPR
2 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.60%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
4 2 (1.60%) NIST
4 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 27 (21.60%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.80%) Docker
3 6 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (48.80%) Terraform
2 25 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.40%) Grafana
4 7 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.20%) Ansible
5 4 (3.20%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.40%) Packer
7 2 (1.60%) Argo
8 1 (0.80%) Kibana
8 1 (0.80%) SCCM
8 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (57.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (16.80%) Databricks
3 16 (12.80%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.20%) Foundry
5 4 (3.20%) Moogsoft
5 4 (3.20%) New Relic
5 4 (3.20%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.20%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.40%) Confluent
6 3 (2.40%) Google
7 2 (1.60%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.60%) NetApp
7 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.60%) VMware
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco
8 1 (0.80%) IBM
8 1 (0.80%) Intel
8 1 (0.80%) Oracle
8 1 (0.80%) SAP