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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 288 312
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 +115
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 122 73 84
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.53% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.28% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 49 55
10th Percentile £400 £355 £425
25th Percentile £427 £413 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £636 £640
90th Percentile £716 £734 £675
England median daily rate £510 £546 £600
% change year-on-year -6.64% -8.96% -
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 6,594 5,692 6,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.17% 41.49% 37.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,521 3,782 5,109
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
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 95 49 77
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £31.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +3.28% +3.39%
75th Percentile £52.96 £55.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £76.00 £68.75 £61.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -10.00%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -7 8 £663 +22.12% 6
South London - 8 £500 - 2
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 (9.84%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.28%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.82%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 122 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (52.46%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (41.80%) Entra ID
4 45 (36.89%) GitHub
5 38 (31.15%) Azure Logic Apps
5 38 (31.15%) GitHub Actions
6 28 (22.95%) Azure AKS
6 28 (22.95%) Serverless
7 26 (21.31%) Azure Functions
7 26 (21.31%) Azure Service Bus
8 25 (20.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 21 (17.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 20 (16.39%) Azure Data Factory
11 18 (14.75%) Power Platform
12 17 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (10.66%) Azure Sentinel
13 13 (10.66%) Power Automate
14 12 (9.84%) Azure Machine Learning
14 12 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (9.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.57%) Firewall
2 9 (7.38%) Network Security
2 9 (7.38%) VPN
3 8 (6.56%) DNS
4 5 (4.10%) DHCP
5 3 (2.46%) WAN
6 2 (1.64%) LAN
6 2 (1.64%) MPLS
7 1 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.82%) DKIM
7 1 (0.82%) DMARC
7 1 (0.82%) VSAN
7 1 (0.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.20%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (8.20%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.38%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.74%) Delta Lake
5 6 (4.92%) Power BI
6 4 (3.28%) Redis
6 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.82%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.82%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.82%) KNIME
7 1 (0.82%) PolyBase
7 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (14.75%) Git
2 5 (4.10%) JIRA
3 3 (2.46%) Gradle
3 3 (2.46%) Postman
4 2 (1.64%) GitLab
4 2 (1.64%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.64%) MLflow
4 2 (1.64%) PVCS
4 2 (1.64%) Snyk
5 1 (0.82%) Ant
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) ERwin
5 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.82%) JMeter
5 1 (0.82%) Locust
5 1 (0.82%) Maven
5 1 (0.82%) Selenium
5 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.82%) TestRail
General
1 29 (23.77%) Finance
2 20 (16.39%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.38%) Banking
5 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Retail
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.64%) Law
6 2 (1.64%) Legal
6 2 (1.64%) Local Government
7 1 (0.82%) Back Office
7 1 (0.82%) Billing
7 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (31.97%) Developer
2 31 (25.41%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (18.03%) Senior
4 16 (13.11%) Azure Developer
4 16 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 10 (8.20%) Lead
7 9 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Administrator
8 8 (6.56%) Security Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Azure Administrator
9 7 (5.74%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Database Developer
9 7 (5.74%) DBA
10 6 (4.92%) Architect
10 6 (4.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Consultant
11 5 (4.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (27.05%) .NET
2 28 (22.95%) REST
3 22 (18.03%) Node.js
4 15 (12.30%) React
5 14 (11.48%) .NET Core
6 12 (9.84%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.84%) Microsoft Graph
6 12 (9.84%) OAuth
7 11 (9.02%) JSON
8 9 (7.38%) PyTorch
9 8 (6.56%) ARM Templates
10 7 (5.74%) .NET Framework
10 7 (5.74%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.74%) GraphQL
10 7 (5.74%) SOAP
10 7 (5.74%) TensorFlow
11 6 (4.92%) Kafka
11 6 (4.92%) OAuth2
11 6 (4.92%) PySpark
12 5 (4.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.38%) AI Agents
4 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.46%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Replication
9 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.82%) IoT
9 1 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.66%) Windows
2 10 (8.20%) Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.46%) Unix
4 3 (2.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.82%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (69.67%) DevOps
2 69 (56.56%) CI/CD
3 60 (49.18%) Analytics
4 55 (45.08%) Log Analytics
5 44 (36.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (25.41%) Agile
7 30 (24.59%) Observability
8 28 (22.95%) AI
9 23 (18.85%) Data Modelling
9 23 (18.85%) RBAC
10 22 (18.03%) Microservices
11 21 (17.21%) Migration
12 16 (13.11%) API Management
12 16 (13.11%) Test Automation
13 15 (12.30%) Containerisation
13 15 (12.30%) Machine Learning
14 14 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (9.84%) Data Protection
15 12 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
15 12 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.97%) Python
2 35 (28.69%) C#
2 35 (28.69%) SQL
3 31 (25.41%) Bicep
3 31 (25.41%) PowerShell
4 19 (15.57%) Kusto Query Language
5 16 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.38%) Java
8 6 (4.92%) Bash
9 5 (4.10%) Scala
10 1 (0.82%) Go
10 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (22.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.28%) Degree
6 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.82%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) GDPR
2 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.64%) NCSC
4 2 (1.64%) NIST
4 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 27 (22.13%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.39%) Docker
3 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.82%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (48.36%) Terraform
2 25 (20.49%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.56%) Grafana
4 7 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.28%) Pingdom
6 3 (2.46%) Ansible
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.46%) Packer
7 2 (1.64%) Argo
8 1 (0.82%) Kibana
8 1 (0.82%) SCCM
8 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (58.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (16.39%) Databricks
3 16 (13.11%) OpenAI
4 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.28%) Moogsoft
5 4 (3.28%) New Relic
5 4 (3.28%) PagerDuty
5 4 (3.28%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.46%) Confluent
6 3 (2.46%) Foundry
6 3 (2.46%) Google
7 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.64%) NetApp
7 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.64%) VMware
8 1 (0.82%) Datto
8 1 (0.82%) Intel
8 1 (0.82%) Okta
8 1 (0.82%) Solace
8 1 (0.82%) Virgin Media