Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Reading

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -29 +11 +33
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 2 54 37
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.30% 4.91% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 13.67% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 41 36
10th Percentile - £525 £550
25th Percentile £406 £563 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £625 £610
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% +2.46% +16.19%
75th Percentile £419 £650 £675
90th Percentile - £653 £681
Berkshire median daily rate £516 £625 £610
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.46% +16.19%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 290 395 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 43.15% 35.91% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 251 251
10th Percentile £255 £385 £413
25th Percentile £412 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +11.01%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £650 £670 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -13.30% -1.30% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 1
10th Percentile - £23.50 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.94 £16.84
Median hourly rate £81.00 £35.75 £17.34
Median % change year-on-year +126.57% +106.17% -67.28%
75th Percentile £95.00 £59.17 £17.84
90th Percentile £100.00 £67.21 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -4.86% -32.54% +183.15%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in Reading

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) B2C
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft