Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 83 95
Rank change year-on-year -7 +12 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 1 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.086% 0.46% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 1.26% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £338 £401
25th Percentile - £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -23.81% -19.23%
75th Percentile - £425 £641
90th Percentile - £440 £656
North West median daily rate £425 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% -22.22%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 477 397 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.23% 36.69% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 269 518
10th Percentile £313 £324 £282
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £639 £675 £650
North West median daily rate £448 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 16
10th Percentile £19.13 £29.15 £15.74
25th Percentile £21.46 £29.38 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.33 £44.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +151.13% -72.74%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.94 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.38 £66.23 £78.13
North West median hourly rate £40.00 £31.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year +29.03% +31.30% -22.35%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Monitor relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform