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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 278 300
Rank change year-on-year -42 +22 +42
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 136 92 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.60% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 58 49
10th Percentile £423 £350 £403
25th Percentile £450 £393 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -10.64%
75th Percentile £625 £534 £625
90th Percentile £740 £641 £704
England median daily rate £520 £494 £600
% change year-on-year +5.32% -17.71% -1.64%

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 8,263 5,767 6,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.86% 43.44% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,693 3,928 4,551
10th Percentile £358 £340 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.41% -3.51%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 92 42
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.55 £22.18
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.15 £23.89
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.25 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -5.02% -23.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £47.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 September 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 September 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 16 £550 -10.75% 5
West London - 2 - - 1
North London 0 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.21%) CMS
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
1 3 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.47%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (54.41%) GitHub
3 69 (50.74%) Azure DevOps
4 59 (43.38%) Entra ID
5 49 (36.03%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (26.47%) Azure AKS
7 23 (16.91%) AWS
8 19 (13.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 16 (11.76%) Serverless
10 14 (10.29%) Azure Functions
10 14 (10.29%) Azure Sentinel
10 14 (10.29%) PaaS
10 14 (10.29%) Power Platform
11 13 (9.56%) Azure App Service
11 13 (9.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (8.82%) Azure API Management
12 12 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (8.09%) Azure AI
13 11 (8.09%) Azure Event Grid
14 10 (7.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.03%) Firewall
2 14 (10.29%) Network Security
3 10 (7.35%) VPN
4 9 (6.62%) DNS
5 5 (3.68%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.68%) NGFW
6 3 (2.21%) DHCP
7 1 (0.74%) Internet
7 1 (0.74%) NAS
7 1 (0.74%) SAN
7 1 (0.74%) SSL
7 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.56%) Data Lake
3 10 (7.35%) Delta Lake
4 9 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 8 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (5.15%) Power BI
7 6 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.68%) Redis
9 4 (2.94%) Data Vault
9 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
10 3 (2.21%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.47%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.74%) Big Data
12 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.74%) Pinecone
12 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) Git
2 8 (5.88%) GitLab
3 6 (4.41%) JIRA
4 5 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.94%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (2.94%) Terragrunt
5 4 (2.94%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.21%) Postman
7 2 (1.47%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.47%) Gatling
7 2 (1.47%) Gradle
7 2 (1.47%) JMeter
7 2 (1.47%) Maven
7 2 (1.47%) Selenium
7 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.74%) Newman
General
1 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.12%) Finance
3 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Banking
6 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Local Government
8 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (27.21%) Azure Engineer
2 25 (18.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (16.18%) Architect
3 22 (16.18%) Senior
4 20 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) Developer
6 12 (8.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) CloudOps Engineer
9 7 (5.15%) Lead
9 7 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.41%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (4.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Azure Architect
11 5 (3.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.68%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (3.68%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (62.50%) Terraform
2 21 (15.44%) REST
3 18 (13.24%) OAuth
4 17 (12.50%) .NET
4 17 (12.50%) OAuth2
5 14 (10.29%) ARM Templates
6 11 (8.09%) OpenID
7 10 (7.35%) Middleware
8 8 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (5.15%) YAML
10 6 (4.41%) Kafka
10 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (4.41%) RESTful
11 5 (3.68%) .NET Framework
11 5 (3.68%) LangChain
11 5 (3.68%) OpenAPI
11 5 (3.68%) Spring
11 5 (3.68%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.68%) Swagger
12 4 (2.94%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.26%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.82%) CMDB
3 10 (7.35%) Security Posture
4 9 (6.62%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (5.88%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.68%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 3 (2.21%) Life Science
10 3 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.47%) Clustering
11 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.47%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.74%) ARM Cortex
12 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.24%) Windows
2 10 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.62%) VMS
4 3 (2.21%) Linux
5 2 (1.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (66.18%) CI/CD
2 81 (59.56%) DevOps
3 68 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (44.12%) Analytics
5 50 (36.76%) Log Analytics
6 43 (31.62%) Observability
7 38 (27.94%) RBAC
8 34 (25.00%) Agile
8 34 (25.00%) AI
9 33 (24.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (22.06%) Containerisation
11 24 (17.65%) Test Automation
12 23 (16.91%) Deployment Automation
12 23 (16.91%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (16.18%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (15.44%) API Management
14 21 (15.44%) Runbook
15 20 (14.71%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 53 (38.97%) PowerShell
2 50 (36.76%) Python
3 49 (36.03%) Bicep
4 27 (19.85%) SQL
5 26 (19.12%) Bash
5 26 (19.12%) C#
6 9 (6.62%) Java
6 9 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.74%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.74%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.32%) Azure Certification
3 27 (19.85%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.68%) Degree
5 5 (3.68%) MCSE
6 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) QA
2 12 (8.82%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.41%) GDPR
3 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.41%) NIST
4 3 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.21%) SLA
5 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.47%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.74%) HL7
6 1 (0.74%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.74%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (22.06%) Docker
2 22 (16.18%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.24%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.94%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (1.47%) IAG
8 1 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 46 (33.82%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.18%) Grafana
3 10 (7.35%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (5.15%) Ansible
6 1 (0.74%) Control-M
6 1 (0.74%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.74%) Istio
6 1 (0.74%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.74%) linkerd
6 1 (0.74%) Packer
6 1 (0.74%) SCCM
6 1 (0.74%) SCOM
6 1 (0.74%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.24%) Splunk
3 13 (9.56%) ServiceNow
4 11 (8.09%) Databricks
4 11 (8.09%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.15%) OpenAI
6 6 (4.41%) Foundry
6 6 (4.41%) Okta
7 5 (3.68%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.68%) VMware
8 4 (2.94%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (2.21%) Aprimo
9 3 (2.21%) Confluent
9 3 (2.21%) OneTrust
9 3 (2.21%) Optimizely
9 3 (2.21%) SAP
10 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.47%) New Relic
10 2 (1.47%) Qualtrics
10 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds