Azure Monitor Contracts in Scotland

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 114 128 158
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.12% 0.045% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.31% 0.14% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £453
25th Percentile £513 - £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £469
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.77%
75th Percentile £538 - £483
90th Percentile - - £489
UK median daily rate £459 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -18.72% +2.73% +1.85%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in Scotland

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in Scotland

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +6 2 £525 - 2
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Power Query
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft