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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 79 98
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.30% 0.48% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 1.20% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £423 £338 £275
25th Percentile £457 £375 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year +29.50% -13.51% -28.85%
75th Percentile £563 £425 £538
90th Percentile £568 £440 -
North West median daily rate £518 £400 £463
% change year-on-year +29.50% -13.51% -31.48%

All Cloud Computing 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 544 416 619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 40.96% 40.15% 39.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 307 494
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £486
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.26% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 1 17
10th Percentile £20.16 - £17.13
25th Percentile £39.48 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £71.25 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +145.69% +11.54% -60.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £80.25
North West median hourly rate £47.50 £24.18 £21.00
% change year-on-year +96.44% +15.14% -67.69%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in Manchester

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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) API Management
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (25.00%) SBOM
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Foundry
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI