Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 112 130
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 8 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.32% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 1.21% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £383 £350 £401
25th Percentile £394 £375 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.81% -20.75%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £641
90th Percentile - £525 £656
England median daily rate £513 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -10.87% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.34 - -

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 869 662 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.47% 31.01% 36.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 429 718
10th Percentile £219 £250 £265
25th Percentile £358 £375 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £539 £565 £575
90th Percentile £638 £646 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 53
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.05 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +22.83% -32.54%
75th Percentile £69.25 £58.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.95 £50.84
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.62% +16.00% +11.11%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 23 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
Lancashire -6 4 £450 +9.09% 6
Cheshire -15 3 - - 6
Manchester -19 1 £400 - 7
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (12.50%) Datadog
6 1 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DBA
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Log Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
3 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 3 (37.50%) SOAR
3 3 (37.50%) Threat Detection
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
1 3 (37.50%) Kusto Query Language
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) LogRhythm
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft