Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Preston

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 1.09% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £413 -
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -
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 - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £42.69 - -

All Cloud Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 31 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 33.70% 15.22% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 6
10th Percentile £400 £359 £189
25th Percentile £425 £527 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +34.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £614 £543 £475
90th Percentile £674 £554 £488
Lancashire median daily rate £450 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -14.29% -16.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £38.63 - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +105.38%
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile £62.89 - £48.51
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.50 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.67% - +105.38%

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
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%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform