Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 114 127
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 31 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.98% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.97% 1.12% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 3
10th Percentile £413 £352 £335
25th Percentile £475 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +34.25% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £552 £425 £556
90th Percentile £613 £545 £575
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +5.73%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,045 716 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.20% 31.16% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 472 699
10th Percentile £289 £210 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £492 £460
Median % change year-on-year +0.15% +6.85% -8.00%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £559
90th Percentile £675 £684 £675
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 25
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.05 £12.30
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £30.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.87% +66.89% +16.13%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £65.30 £42.74 £88.75
England median hourly rate £27.21 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -9.30% +29.09% +3.29%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the Midlands

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
West Midlands -17 23 £534 +33.50% 5
East Midlands - 8 £563 - 2
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 14 (45.16%) Apache
1 14 (45.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) AWS
3 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (22.58%) Azure Functions
4 7 (22.58%) Azure Service Bus
4 7 (22.58%) Serverless
5 6 (19.35%) Azure API Management
5 6 (19.35%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (16.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (12.90%) Azure AKS
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (12.90%) GitHub
7 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
8 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
8 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
9 2 (6.45%) dbt
9 2 (6.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) CircleCI
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Monitoring Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Integration Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) DevOps Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Data Fabric
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
1 14 (45.16%) Unix
1 14 (45.16%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Log Analytics
2 23 (74.19%) Analytics
3 19 (61.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (54.84%) DevOps
5 15 (48.39%) Incident Response
5 15 (48.39%) Observability
6 14 (45.16%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (45.16%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (45.16%) Incident Management
6 14 (45.16%) Performance Monitoring
6 14 (45.16%) Proactive Management
6 14 (45.16%) Service Management
6 14 (45.16%) Synthetic Monitoring
6 14 (45.16%) Test Strategy
6 14 (45.16%) Visualisation
7 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
8 10 (32.26%) API Management
9 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
10 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (19.35%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.68%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
3 3 (9.68%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
2 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.90%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.68%) Ansible
5 2 (6.45%) Grafana
6 1 (3.23%) Kibana
6 1 (3.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) AppDynamics
1 14 (45.16%) Dynatrace
1 14 (45.16%) Oracle
1 14 (45.16%) Splunk
2 13 (41.94%) Cisco
3 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Databricks
5 1 (3.23%) F5