Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 114 133
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +34
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.062% 0.12% 0.043%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.31% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% - -
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +6.19%

All Cloud Computing 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 621 638 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.76% 38.69% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 441 490
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £534 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 10
10th Percentile £12.23 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £18.65 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.77% +42.24% -51.43%
75th Percentile £60.50 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 10 March 2026. 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 -1 1 £800 +52.38% 2
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft