Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends 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 and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 150 185
Rank change year-on-year -36 +35 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 7 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.17% 0.34% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.45% 1.07% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 12
10th Percentile £390 - £429
25th Percentile £413 £375 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% -19.23%
75th Percentile £513 £638 £639
90th Percentile £580 - £672
England median daily rate £500 £600 £610
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.64% +1.67%

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 1,555 1,304 1,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.08% 31.99% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 829 1,318
10th Percentile £277 £300 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £673
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 69
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £27.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.96% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £51.13 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.77 £70.98 £62.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the North of England

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 October 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 -18 5 £450 +12.50% 11
Yorkshire -25 2 £625 +8.70% 3
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Military
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (14.29%) CMDB
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) SOAR
4 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) LogRhythm
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow