Azure Monitor Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Azure Monitor skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 184 188
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 1 1 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% 0.021% 0.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.090% 0.071% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 26
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile - £375 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £625
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -36.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £425 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -20.35% +2.73% -

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the North of England

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the North of England

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +17 1 £450 +12.50% 15
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks