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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 301 309
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 +116
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 117 76 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.49% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.19% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 50 67
10th Percentile £386 £331 £425
25th Percentile £425 £433 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £534 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.92% -6.36% +3.64%
75th Percentile £550 £637 £675
90th Percentile £640 £734 £681
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +4.35%
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 £46.00 - -

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 6,245 6,397 7,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.69% 41.00% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,258 4,362 5,513
10th Percentile £349 £350 £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 £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 38 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.37
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -6.67% +22.95%
75th Percentile £46.75 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 8 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Azure Monitor in London over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 -1 8 £599 +5.51% 6
South London - 8 £500 -
East London +3 1 £520 -11.11%
North London - 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 11 (9.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.71%) Apache
4 2 (1.71%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 117 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (50.43%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (43.59%) Entra ID
4 39 (33.33%) GitHub
5 37 (31.62%) Azure Logic Apps
6 36 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (25.64%) Serverless
8 28 (23.93%) Azure AKS
8 28 (23.93%) Azure Functions
9 25 (21.37%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (19.66%) Azure Key Vault
11 20 (17.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 20 (17.09%) Power Platform
12 17 (14.53%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
14 15 (12.82%) Power Automate
15 14 (11.97%) Azure Sentinel
16 12 (10.26%) Azure Machine Learning
17 11 (9.40%) PowerApps
18 10 (8.55%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.09%) Firewall
2 12 (10.26%) DNS
3 11 (9.40%) VPN
4 10 (8.55%) Network Security
5 8 (6.84%) DHCP
6 5 (4.27%) WAN
7 3 (2.56%) VSAN
8 2 (1.71%) LAN
8 2 (1.71%) MPLS
8 2 (1.71%) VLAN
9 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.85%) DKIM
9 1 (0.85%) DMARC
9 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.55%) MongoDB
3 8 (6.84%) Power BI
4 6 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.56%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.56%) Redis
7 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.85%) Metadata
8 1 (0.85%) MySQL
8 1 (0.85%) PolyBase
8 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Git
2 7 (5.98%) JIRA
3 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.56%) Postman
4 2 (1.71%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) Jaeger
4 2 (1.71%) JMeter
4 2 (1.71%) MLflow
4 2 (1.71%) PVCS
4 2 (1.71%) Snyk
5 1 (0.85%) Ant
5 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) Gradle
5 1 (0.85%) Locust
5 1 (0.85%) Maven
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 23 (19.66%) Finance
2 21 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Retail
6 3 (2.56%) Law
7 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Legal
7 2 (1.71%) Local Government
7 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Billing
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) French Language
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) Developer
2 26 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 17 (14.53%) Senior
4 15 (12.82%) Azure Developer
5 12 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Administrator
7 9 (7.69%) Architect
7 9 (7.69%) Security Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Lead
9 7 (5.98%) Azure Administrator
9 7 (5.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Database Developer
9 7 (5.98%) DBA
10 6 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Power Platform Developer
10 6 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Azure Architect
11 5 (4.27%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (25.64%) .NET
2 24 (20.51%) REST
3 19 (16.24%) Node.js
4 14 (11.97%) .NET Core
5 13 (11.11%) OAuth
5 13 (11.11%) React
6 11 (9.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 10 (8.55%) AngularJS
8 9 (7.69%) ARM Templates
8 9 (7.69%) PyTorch
8 9 (7.69%) YAML
9 8 (6.84%) JSON
10 7 (5.98%) ASP.NET
10 7 (5.98%) OAuth2
10 7 (5.98%) TensorFlow
11 6 (5.13%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.13%) SOAP
12 5 (4.27%) GraphQL
12 5 (4.27%) Web Services
12 5 (4.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.42%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.56%) Replication
7 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.85%) IoT
8 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.26%) Windows
2 9 (7.69%) Linux
3 5 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.42%) VMS
5 3 (2.56%) Unix
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (64.96%) DevOps
2 67 (57.26%) CI/CD
3 58 (49.57%) Analytics
4 52 (44.44%) Log Analytics
5 39 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (29.06%) Agile
7 28 (23.93%) AI
8 24 (20.51%) Microservices
8 24 (20.51%) Observability
9 22 (18.80%) RBAC
10 18 (15.38%) API Management
10 18 (15.38%) Data Modelling
11 17 (14.53%) Containerisation
11 17 (14.53%) Migration
11 17 (14.53%) Test Automation
12 15 (12.82%) Data Protection
12 15 (12.82%) Machine Learning
13 13 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.48%) Python
2 32 (27.35%) C#
2 32 (27.35%) PowerShell
3 31 (26.50%) SQL
4 30 (25.64%) Bicep
5 18 (15.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 15 (12.82%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.55%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.69%) Bash
9 8 (6.84%) Java
10 1 (0.85%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (23.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.27%) Degree
4 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.85%) CCDP
6 1 (0.85%) CCNP
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.85%) MCP
6 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.69%) GDPR
2 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.56%) NIST
4 2 (1.71%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (1.71%) NCSC
4 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.71%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 29 (24.79%) Active Directory
2 22 (18.80%) Docker
3 5 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.56%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.56%) vSphere
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (41.88%) Terraform
2 23 (19.66%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.69%) Grafana
4 6 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.42%) Packer
6 3 (2.56%) Ansible
6 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.71%) Pingdom
8 1 (0.85%) Argo
8 1 (0.85%) CASB
8 1 (0.85%) Kibana
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.85%) vRealize
Vendors
1 73 (62.39%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.53%) Databricks
3 16 (13.68%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.42%) Google
5 4 (3.42%) NetApp
5 4 (3.42%) VMware
6 3 (2.56%) Confluent
7 2 (1.71%) Moogsoft
7 2 (1.71%) New Relic
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle
7 2 (1.71%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.71%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.71%) Splunk
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco
8 1 (0.85%) Foundry
8 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.85%) SAP