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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 268 318
Rank change year-on-year -40 +50 +101
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 111 83 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.69% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.61% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 62 52
10th Percentile £413 £313 £408
25th Percentile £455 £401 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £449 £523
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -14.16% -6.70%
75th Percentile £638 £543 £575
90th Percentile £750 £649 £630
England median daily rate £523 £450 £570
% change year-on-year +16.11% -21.05% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.71 - -
England median hourly rate £35.20 - -

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 7,722 5,168 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.20% 42.77% 38.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,343 3,538 5,006
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £430 £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 £775
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 54 67
10th Percentile £20.87 £22.71 £17.16
25th Percentile £26.88 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +11.67% -50.48%
75th Percentile £54.81 £42.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -19 12 £575 +15.00% 7
South London -12 2 £519 +15.28%
West London - 1 - - 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 7 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.60%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.90%) Apache
5 1 (0.90%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Shopify
2 1 (0.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 111 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (53.15%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (46.85%) GitHub
4 33 (29.73%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (25.23%) Azure AKS
6 27 (24.32%) Entra ID
7 16 (14.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (13.51%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (13.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (13.51%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (12.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (11.71%) Azure Functions
10 13 (11.71%) Serverless
11 12 (10.81%) AWS
11 12 (10.81%) PaaS
12 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
13 9 (8.11%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (7.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (7.21%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.41%) Firewall
2 10 (9.01%) Network Security
3 8 (7.21%) DNS
3 8 (7.21%) VPN
4 4 (3.60%) VSAN
5 3 (2.70%) DHCP
5 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.70%) VLAN
5 3 (2.70%) WAN
6 2 (1.80%) Internet
6 2 (1.80%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.80%) NGFW
7 1 (0.90%) LAN
7 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.51%) Delta Lake
2 14 (12.61%) Data Lake
3 12 (10.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (9.91%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.31%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.50%) Redis
8 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
9 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.70%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.80%) Power BI
11 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.90%) Big Data
11 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.22%) Git
2 5 (4.50%) GitLab
2 5 (4.50%) Gradle
3 4 (3.60%) JIRA
4 3 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.70%) Maven
5 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.90%) Moq
5 1 (0.90%) NUnit
5 1 (0.90%) Serilog
5 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.90%) TestRail
5 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Finance
3 19 (17.12%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.50%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Legal
7 1 (0.90%) Back Office
7 1 (0.90%) Law
7 1 (0.90%) Local Government
7 1 (0.90%) Military
7 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (21.62%) Senior
3 17 (15.32%) Developer
4 15 (13.51%) Data Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) Architect
7 11 (9.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (9.01%) Azure Developer
8 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Architect
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 5 (4.50%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.60%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.41%) .NET
2 14 (12.61%) ARM Templates
3 11 (9.91%) REST
4 10 (9.01%) PySpark
5 8 (7.21%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (6.31%) JSON
6 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Graph
6 7 (6.31%) Node.js
6 7 (6.31%) OAuth
6 7 (6.31%) OAuth2
7 6 (5.41%) .NET Framework
7 6 (5.41%) OpenID
8 5 (4.50%) Kafka
8 5 (4.50%) RESTful
8 5 (4.50%) SOAP
8 5 (4.50%) Web Services
8 5 (4.50%) YAML
9 4 (3.60%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.60%) React
10 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.50%) Replication
4 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.70%) Clustering
5 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) CMDB
6 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.90%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Windows
2 9 (8.11%) Linux
3 7 (6.31%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.60%) VMS
5 3 (2.70%) SUSE
6 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (68.47%) DevOps
2 60 (54.05%) CI/CD
3 57 (51.35%) Analytics
4 55 (49.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (45.95%) Log Analytics
6 36 (32.43%) Observability
7 23 (20.72%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (17.12%) Containerisation
8 19 (17.12%) Data Modelling
8 19 (17.12%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (16.22%) RBAC
10 16 (14.41%) Agile
10 16 (14.41%) Data Governance
10 16 (14.41%) ETL
10 16 (14.41%) High Availability
10 16 (14.41%) Migration
10 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
11 15 (13.51%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (13.51%) Data Science
11 15 (13.51%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (40.54%) PowerShell
2 41 (36.94%) Python
3 34 (30.63%) SQL
4 28 (25.23%) Bicep
5 22 (19.82%) C#
6 14 (12.61%) Bash
7 10 (9.01%) Scala
8 9 (8.11%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (5.41%) Java
10 3 (2.70%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.80%) C
12 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 30 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.12%) Azure Certification
4 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.80%) MCSE
6 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) CCNA
6 1 (0.90%) CCNP
6 1 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Degree
6 1 (0.90%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.50%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.70%) SLA
4 2 (1.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 13 (11.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.91%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (5.41%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.60%) vSphere
7 3 (2.70%) Firmware
7 3 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.90%) IAG
8 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 65 (58.56%) Terraform
2 30 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.61%) Prometheus
4 13 (11.71%) Grafana
5 6 (5.41%) Ansible
6 4 (3.60%) Istio
6 4 (3.60%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.60%) linkerd
6 4 (3.60%) Pingdom
7 3 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.70%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.70%) VxRail
8 1 (0.90%) Argo
8 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.90%) Packer
8 1 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (38.74%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) Databricks
3 8 (7.21%) VMware
4 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.50%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.60%) Foundry
5 4 (3.60%) Moogsoft
5 4 (3.60%) OpenAI
5 4 (3.60%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.70%) Dell
6 3 (2.70%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.80%) NetApp
7 2 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.90%) Citrix
8 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.90%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.90%) SAP