Azure Monitor Contracts in the South East

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 134 183
Rank change year-on-year -5 +49 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 17 62 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.50% 1.15% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 4.83% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 57 32
10th Percentile £400 £506 £600
25th Percentile £435 £575 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £675
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% -10.37% +32.03%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £750
90th Percentile £688 £663 -
England median daily rate £450 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -21.74% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,039 1,283 1,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.50% 23.87% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 887 1,210
10th Percentile £250 £300 £247
25th Percentile £380 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -5.49% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £621 £638
90th Percentile £651 £675 £715
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 42 48
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.03
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.82 £27.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +1.85% +35.00%
75th Percentile £32.12 £58.06 £63.94
90th Percentile £47.95 £61.01 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.63% -37.86% +60.70%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the South East

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the South East

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the South East over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the South East

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the South East

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Berkshire -19 16 £500 -17.36% 2
Thames Valley -23 16 £500 -17.36% 4
Hampshire +30 1 £675 +50.00% 2
Surrey - 1 - - 5
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) Azure AKS
4 6 (35.29%) Azure Storage
4 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
5 5 (29.41%) Azure API Management
5 5 (29.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (17.65%) Azure Table
7 3 (17.65%) PaaS
7 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
7 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
8 2 (11.76%) Azure App Service
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Data Vault
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Parquet
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Postman
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
3 5 (29.41%) .NET Core
4 4 (23.53%) ADO
5 3 (17.65%) OAuth
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 2 (11.76%) REST
6 2 (11.76%) RESTful
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
7 1 (5.88%) JSON
7 1 (5.88%) Kafka
7 1 (5.88%) OpenID
7 1 (5.88%) React
7 1 (5.88%) SAML
7 1 (5.88%) SOAP
7 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (47.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 7 (41.18%) Analytics
4 7 (41.18%) Identity Management
4 7 (41.18%) Log Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Incident Management
5 5 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) Observability
6 4 (23.53%) RBAC
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Cost Management
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) Release Management
7 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) Bicep
2 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
3 8 (47.06%) C#
4 7 (41.18%) SQL
5 6 (35.29%) Python
6 3 (17.65%) Bash
7 1 (5.88%) VB
7 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Azure Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CCSK
4 1 (5.88%) CEH
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) GIAC
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (5.88%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (29.41%) Prometheus
4 4 (23.53%) Grafana
5 2 (11.76%) Ansible
6 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (5.88%) CASB
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (5.88%) SCCM
6 1 (5.88%) SCOM
6 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) CyberArk
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Forcepoint
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Snow
2 1 (5.88%) UiPath