Azure Monitor Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 77 93 141
Rank change year-on-year +16 +48 +17
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 25 52 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.65% 1.94% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 6.89% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 49 10
10th Percentile £410 £500 £649
25th Percentile £428 £575 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £605 £700
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -13.57% +32.08%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £750
90th Percentile £679 £675 £799
South East median daily rate £615 £605 £700
% change year-on-year +1.65% -13.57% +34.94%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +3 23 £625 +3.31% 7
Buckinghamshire +17 2 £421 +20.14% 2
Azure Monitor
South East

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) Entra ID
3 10 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 10 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (32.00%) Azure API Management
4 8 (32.00%) Azure Functions
4 8 (32.00%) Serverless
5 7 (28.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (24.00%) Azure AKS
7 4 (16.00%) Azure Storage
8 3 (12.00%) GitHub
8 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (8.00%) Azure App Service
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (8.00%) PaaS
9 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (12.00%) SSDT
5 2 (8.00%) Power BI
6 1 (4.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Postman
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Azure Developer
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Python Developer
3 6 (24.00%) React Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) Consultant
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Support
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) React
2 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 6 (24.00%) OAuth
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (16.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (12.00%) YAML
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) ADO
5 2 (8.00%) REST
5 2 (8.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) OpenID
6 1 (4.00%) SAML
6 1 (4.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) PKI
4 1 (4.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) DevOps
2 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (36.00%) Identity Management
5 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (32.00%) Microservices
5 8 (32.00%) Release Management
6 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) RBAC
6 7 (28.00%) SDLC
7 6 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (24.00%) Product Backlog
7 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (20.00%) Analytics
8 5 (20.00%) B2B
8 5 (20.00%) B2C
8 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (20.00%) ETL
8 5 (20.00%) Log Analytics
8 5 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (28.00%) Bicep
3 7 (28.00%) C#
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 3 (12.00%) Java
6 2 (8.00%) Bash
7 1 (4.00%) VB
7 1 (4.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CCSK
4 1 (4.00%) CEH
4 1 (4.00%) CISSP
4 1 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) GIAC
4 1 (4.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (12.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (8.00%) Ansible
4 2 (8.00%) Grafana
5 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.00%) CASB
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.00%) SCCM
5 1 (4.00%) SCOM
5 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) UiPath
3 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Snow