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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 291 338
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 +102
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 95 94 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.58% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.40% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 51 66
10th Percentile £329 £395 £419
25th Percentile £364 £445 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% -9.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £614 £675
90th Percentile £638 £704 £747
England median daily rate £484 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -18.35% -1.25% -

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 5,816 6,704 8,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.25% 41.16% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,957 4,691 6,392
10th Percentile £339 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 46 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.16 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £52.50 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £89.31
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor 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 18 September 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
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 18 September 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 -11 8 £493 -0.25% 1
East London +8 1 £520 +15.56%
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.11%) Apache
1 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (49.47%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (35.79%) Entra ID
4 23 (24.21%) Azure AKS
5 20 (21.05%) Azure Logic Apps
6 19 (20.00%) GitHub
6 19 (20.00%) Serverless
7 16 (16.84%) Power Platform
8 14 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (13.68%) Azure Functions
9 13 (13.68%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (11.58%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (11.58%) Power Automate
11 10 (10.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (7.37%) Azure API Management
12 7 (7.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (7.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (7.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (7.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.95%) DNS
2 15 (15.79%) Firewall
3 13 (13.68%) VPN
4 11 (11.58%) TCP/IP
5 9 (9.47%) DHCP
6 8 (8.42%) Network Security
7 6 (6.32%) FTP
7 6 (6.32%) HTTP
7 6 (6.32%) SMTP
7 6 (6.32%) SSL
8 5 (5.26%) WAN
9 3 (3.16%) VSAN
10 2 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (2.11%) VLAN
11 1 (1.05%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.53%) Power BI
3 6 (6.32%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.11%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.05%) Metadata
7 1 (1.05%) MySQL
7 1 (1.05%) Parquet
7 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Git
2 5 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.21%) JIRA
4 3 (3.16%) Gradle
4 3 (3.16%) JMeter
4 3 (3.16%) Maven
4 3 (3.16%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.16%) Postman
4 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.16%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.11%) GitLab
5 2 (2.11%) Jaeger
5 2 (2.11%) PVCS
5 2 (2.11%) Snyk
6 1 (1.05%) Ant
6 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.05%) Locust
6 1 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 25 (26.32%) Finance
2 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.74%) Banking
4 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Law
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Games
7 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Billing
8 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.05%) French Language
8 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (16.84%) Developer
4 11 (11.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Senior
6 9 (9.47%) Architect
7 8 (8.42%) Administrator
7 8 (8.42%) Site Engineer
7 8 (8.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Integration Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Administrator
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Database Developer
9 4 (4.21%) DBA
9 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) REST
1 15 (15.79%) YAML
2 14 (14.74%) ARM Templates
3 12 (12.63%) .NET
4 10 (10.53%) OAuth
5 9 (9.47%) Node.js
6 8 (8.42%) JSON
7 7 (7.37%) ADO
8 6 (6.32%) OAuth2
9 5 (5.26%) .NET Core
9 5 (5.26%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.26%) Next.js
9 5 (5.26%) React
9 5 (5.26%) XML
10 4 (4.21%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.21%) CSS
10 4 (4.21%) HTML
10 4 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (4.21%) XSLT
11 3 (3.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (12.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.21%) PKI
3 4 (4.21%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.16%) Legacy Code
4 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Replication
5 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.05%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.47%) Windows
2 7 (7.37%) Linux
2 7 (7.37%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.16%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Solaris
4 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (60.00%) DevOps
2 50 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 35 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (33.68%) Analytics
5 30 (31.58%) Log Analytics
6 25 (26.32%) Agile
7 20 (21.05%) API Management
8 18 (18.95%) Microservices
9 16 (16.84%) Test Automation
10 15 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (15.79%) RBAC
11 14 (14.74%) DevSecOps
12 13 (13.68%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (12.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (12.63%) Data Protection
14 11 (11.58%) Data Modelling
14 11 (11.58%) Observability
15 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
15 10 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (42.11%) PowerShell
2 31 (32.63%) Python
3 27 (28.42%) Bicep
4 24 (25.26%) C#
5 15 (15.79%) SQL
6 14 (14.74%) Bash
7 9 (9.47%) Java
8 8 (8.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.05%) Go
10 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
1 23 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.11%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) CCDP
4 1 (1.05%) CCNP
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.05%) MCP
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) NCSC
3 3 (3.16%) NIST
4 2 (2.11%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.11%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (11.58%) Docker
2 11 (11.58%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.16%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.16%) vSphere
5 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (30.53%) Terraform
2 19 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.53%) Grafana
4 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.21%) Ansible
5 4 (4.21%) Packer
6 3 (3.16%) Kibana
7 2 (2.11%) Argo
7 2 (2.11%) Istio
7 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.05%) CASB
8 1 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.05%) Perfmon
8 1 (1.05%) Puppet
8 1 (1.05%) Salt
8 1 (1.05%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (46.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Google
3 4 (4.21%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.16%) Confluent
4 3 (3.16%) NetApp
4 3 (3.16%) VMware
5 2 (2.11%) QAD
5 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) iManage
6 1 (1.05%) Intel
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle
6 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.05%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.05%) Splunk