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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 273 305
Rank change year-on-year -25 +32 +45
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 141 91 90
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.68% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 1.57% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 58 54
10th Percentile £424 £321 £385
25th Percentile £450 £361 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £506
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -13.09% -10.40%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £560
90th Percentile £739 £581 £634
England median daily rate £520 £450 £560
% change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% -6.67%

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 8,289 5,780 6,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.33% 43.22% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,663 3,951 4,757
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -3.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 89 46
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.90 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £25.01 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +2.90% -46.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £40.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £68.40 £61.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.84% -3.15% -18.18%

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 August 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 25 August 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 -13 16 £575 +15.87% 6
West London - 3 - - 1
North London - 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 (5.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.71%) EPiServer
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 141 (100.00%) Azure
2 77 (54.61%) GitHub
3 72 (51.06%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (41.13%) Entra ID
5 51 (36.17%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (33.33%) Azure AKS
7 22 (15.60%) AWS
8 20 (14.18%) Azure Key Vault
9 19 (13.48%) PaaS
9 19 (13.48%) Serverless
10 17 (12.06%) Azure Functions
11 16 (11.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (11.35%) Power Platform
12 13 (9.22%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (8.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 12 (8.51%) IaaS
13 12 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (7.80%) Azure API Management
14 11 (7.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 11 (7.80%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.89%) Firewall
2 17 (12.06%) Network Security
3 16 (11.35%) VPN
4 8 (5.67%) DNS
5 4 (2.84%) DHCP
6 3 (2.13%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.13%) NGFW
6 3 (2.13%) VLAN
6 3 (2.13%) VSAN
7 2 (1.42%) Internet
7 2 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.42%) WAN
8 1 (0.71%) LAN
8 1 (0.71%) NAS
8 1 (0.71%) SAN
8 1 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.71%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.67%) Delta Lake
4 7 (4.96%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.55%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.55%) Power BI
6 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.13%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.13%) Redis
7 3 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.71%) Big Data
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (9.93%) Git
2 7 (4.96%) GitLab
2 7 (4.96%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.55%) JIRA
4 4 (2.84%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (2.84%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.13%) Gradle
5 3 (2.13%) Maven
5 3 (2.13%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.42%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.42%) Gatling
6 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 2 (1.42%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (35.46%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.99%) Finance
3 18 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.26%) Banking
7 3 (2.13%) Legal
7 3 (2.13%) Local Government
8 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (32.62%) Azure Engineer
2 26 (18.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (14.89%) Senior
4 20 (14.18%) Architect
5 19 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (12.06%) Developer
7 16 (11.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) Azure Architect
11 7 (4.96%) Azure Developer
11 7 (4.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.96%) CloudOps Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Data Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Operations Engineer
12 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (3.55%) Senior Architect
13 5 (3.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (56.74%) Terraform
2 20 (14.18%) .NET
3 18 (12.77%) ARM Templates
4 16 (11.35%) REST
5 12 (8.51%) OAuth
6 11 (7.80%) OAuth2
7 9 (6.38%) .NET Framework
7 9 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 9 (6.38%) YAML
8 8 (5.67%) Middleware
8 8 (5.67%) OpenID
9 7 (4.96%) Kafka
10 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (4.26%) Spring
10 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
11 5 (3.55%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.55%) RESTful
11 5 (3.55%) SOAP
12 4 (2.84%) Entity Framework
12 4 (2.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.09%) Security Posture
4 8 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.96%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (4.96%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.26%) CMDB
6 6 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (3.55%) Clustering
7 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.84%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.13%) Replication
10 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.42%) Life Science
10 2 (1.42%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.15%) Windows
2 13 (9.22%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.80%) VMS
4 7 (4.96%) Linux
5 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.13%) SUSE
7 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (64.54%) CI/CD
2 90 (63.83%) DevOps
3 67 (47.52%) Analytics
4 66 (46.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 62 (43.97%) Log Analytics
6 42 (29.79%) Observability
7 36 (25.53%) RBAC
8 35 (24.82%) Containerisation
9 32 (22.70%) Agile
10 27 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (18.44%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (18.44%) Test Automation
12 25 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (15.60%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 20 (14.18%) API Management
16 19 (13.48%) AI
16 19 (13.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 69 (48.94%) PowerShell
2 48 (34.04%) Bicep
3 43 (30.50%) Python
4 32 (22.70%) SQL
5 30 (21.28%) C#
6 25 (17.73%) Bash
7 9 (6.38%) Java
8 7 (4.96%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (4.26%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.71%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.71%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.71%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 32 (22.70%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.55%) Degree
6 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.13%) MCSE
7 2 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CCNA
8 1 (0.71%) CCNP
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.51%) QA
2 8 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.26%) GDPR
4 6 (4.26%) NIST
5 3 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.13%) SLA
6 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.42%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.71%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) HL7
7 1 (0.71%) IEC 62304
7 1 (0.71%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.71%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 32 (22.70%) Docker
2 22 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.60%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (5.67%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.13%) Firmware
6 3 (2.13%) IAG
6 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.13%) vSphere
7 1 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 53 (37.59%) Kubernetes
2 25 (17.73%) Grafana
3 17 (12.06%) Prometheus
4 10 (7.09%) Ansible
5 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.84%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (2.84%) Istio
6 4 (2.84%) Kustomize
6 4 (2.84%) linkerd
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.13%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.13%) VxRail
8 2 (1.42%) Packer
9 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.71%) Puppet
9 1 (0.71%) SCCM
9 1 (0.71%) SCOM
9 1 (0.71%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 67 (47.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.09%) Splunk
3 9 (6.38%) Databricks
3 9 (6.38%) VMware
4 7 (4.96%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.26%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.84%) Okta
6 4 (2.84%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.13%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.13%) Confluent
7 3 (2.13%) Dell
7 3 (2.13%) Foundry
7 3 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
7 3 (2.13%) Nexthink
8 2 (1.42%) Adobe
8 2 (1.42%) Aprimo
8 2 (1.42%) New Relic
8 2 (1.42%) OneTrust
8 2 (1.42%) Optimizely
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle