Azure Monitor Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure Monitor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 384 430
Rank change year-on-year +72 +46 -42
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 81 74 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 0.92% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 51 60
10th Percentile £425 £413 £403
25th Percentile £525 £475 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +1.82% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 £59.75
% change year-on-year - +14.64% -4.02%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Azure Monitor is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,442 8,026 9,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.34% 33.28% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,948 7,281
10th Percentile £213 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 235 290
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.11
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.69 £15.04
Median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £25.00
90th Percentile £60.42 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East +63 51 £605 -12.00% 7
West Midlands +27 17 £400 -5.88% 1
Midlands +20 17 £400 -5.88% 2
South West +28 9 £575 - 1
Scotland +32 1 - - 3
East of England +17 1 £875 +169.23% 1
Wales +15 1 £650 -3.70% 1
North of England +2 1 £400 -36.00% 3
North West -6 1 £400 -39.62% 2
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (27.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 33 (40.74%) Entra ID
3 28 (34.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 24 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (27.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 22 (27.16%) Azure Functions
5 22 (27.16%) Serverless
6 16 (19.75%) Azure Storage
7 15 (18.52%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (12.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (12.35%) Power Platform
10 9 (11.11%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 8 (9.88%) PaaS
12 6 (7.41%) Azure API Management
12 6 (7.41%) OneDrive
13 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (6.17%) AWS
13 5 (6.17%) Azure AKS
13 5 (6.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (30.86%) DNS
2 19 (23.46%) Firewall
3 16 (19.75%) DHCP
4 8 (9.88%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.35%) Power BI
3 7 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.47%) Redis
7 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.23%) MySQL
7 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.47%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.47%) Selenium
4 1 (1.23%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.23%) Gradle
4 1 (1.23%) gulp
4 1 (1.23%) Hudson
4 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.23%) Maven
4 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
General
1 20 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.99%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.23%) Back Office
4 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Developer
2 18 (22.22%) Azure Developer
3 16 (19.75%) Azure Specialist
4 15 (18.52%) Active Directory Support
4 15 (18.52%) Full Stack Developer
5 14 (17.28%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (17.28%) Support Specialist
6 9 (11.11%) Lead
7 8 (9.88%) Designer
7 8 (9.88%) Lead Designer
8 7 (8.64%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (7.41%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 6 (7.41%) Python Developer
10 5 (6.17%) Architect
10 5 (6.17%) Citrix Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Deployment Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Desktop Engineer
10 5 (6.17%) Senior
11 4 (4.94%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (29.63%) ARM Templates
2 15 (18.52%) React
3 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 9 (11.11%) Node.js
4 4 (4.94%) .NET
4 4 (4.94%) CSS
4 4 (4.94%) HTML
4 4 (4.94%) JSON
4 4 (4.94%) OAuth
5 3 (3.70%) ADO
5 3 (3.70%) Flask
5 3 (3.70%) OpenID
5 3 (3.70%) Pandas
5 3 (3.70%) REST
5 3 (3.70%) SOAP
5 3 (3.70%) XML
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.23%) RESTful
6 1 (1.23%) Sensu
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) PKI
1 16 (19.75%) Product Ownership
1 16 (19.75%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.94%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.70%) Fat Client
4 3 (3.70%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.04%) Windows
2 23 (28.40%) Windows Server
3 18 (22.22%) Linux
4 15 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (18.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (9.88%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.47%) VMS
7 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (66.67%) DevOps
2 43 (53.09%) CI/CD
3 34 (41.98%) Agile
4 31 (38.27%) Analytics
5 26 (32.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (32.10%) Log Analytics
6 24 (29.63%) ITIL
7 18 (22.22%) Change Management
7 18 (22.22%) Service Management
8 17 (20.99%) Identity Management
8 17 (20.99%) Release Management
9 16 (19.75%) Full Stack Development
9 16 (19.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (19.75%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (19.75%) Product Backlog
9 16 (19.75%) RBAC
10 15 (18.52%) Microservices
11 14 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (17.28%) SDLC
12 13 (16.05%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (49.38%) PowerShell
2 25 (30.86%) C#
3 23 (28.40%) Python
4 20 (24.69%) Bicep
5 16 (19.75%) VB
5 16 (19.75%) VBScript
6 13 (16.05%) SQL
7 6 (7.41%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.17%) PHP
9 3 (3.70%) C
9 3 (3.70%) Java
9 3 (3.70%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.23%) Bash
10 1 (1.23%) Go
10 1 (1.23%) Groovy
10 1 (1.23%) Ruby
10 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.40%) SC Cleared
3 18 (22.22%) Degree
3 18 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.23%) MCTS
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.94%) NCSC
2 4 (4.94%) NIST
3 2 (2.47%) SLA
4 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 42 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 29 (35.80%) Virtual Desktop
3 19 (23.46%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (9.88%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (9.88%) XenApp
4 8 (9.88%) XenDesktop
5 2 (2.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (20.99%) SCCM
3 16 (19.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (19.75%) SCOM
3 16 (19.75%) WSUS
4 6 (7.41%) Terraform
5 5 (6.17%) SysTrack
6 4 (4.94%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (2.47%) Ansible
7 2 (2.47%) Grafana
7 2 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.23%) Nagios
8 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 41 (50.62%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.05%) Citrix
3 8 (9.88%) NetApp
4 5 (6.17%) New Relic
4 5 (6.17%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.94%) Splunk
6 2 (2.47%) CA
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) VMware
7 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.23%) BMC
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.23%) Remedy