Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 75 107
Rank change year-on-year -26 +32 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 12 51 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 2.25% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 7.54% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 45 36
10th Percentile £482 £522 £550
25th Percentile £502 £603 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% -6.92% +27.45%
75th Percentile £604 £650 £701
90th Percentile £675 £651 £750
South East median daily rate £516 £605 £650
% change year-on-year -14.67% -6.92% +23.81%

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 617 676 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 37.60% 29.79% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 463 575
10th Percentile £250 £363 £269
25th Percentile £401 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £650
90th Percentile £663 £663 £733
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 21
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £19.25
Median hourly rate £15.50 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -63.53% +31.58% +53.81%
75th Percentile £32.05 £60.60 £35.00
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £64.50
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £38.50 £28.16
% change year-on-year -51.12% +36.72% +38.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Monitor

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 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the Thames Valley

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure Monitor

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 7 September 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 -20 12 £525 -13.22% 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 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Storage
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Table
5 3 (25.00%) Power Automate
5 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (16.67%) PaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Serverless
7 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) ARM Templates
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 4 (33.33%) ADO
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Swagger
3 1 (8.33%) WSDL
3 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Log Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Code Quality
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Bicep
2 6 (50.00%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (25.00%) Bash
5 3 (25.00%) Python
6 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (8.33%) VB
6 1 (8.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (58.33%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Grafana
3 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (8.33%) SCCM
4 1 (8.33%) SCOM
4 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Snow