Azure Monitor Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 318 369
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 +59
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 31 81 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.39% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.49% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 63 55
10th Percentile £413 £425 £413
25th Percentile £416 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% -3.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £459 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -18.36% +2.27% +1.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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 2 May 2025.

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 2 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
South East +19 25 £615 +1.65% 28
Scotland +14 2 £525 - 5
Midlands +4 2 £425 +6.25% 11
West Midlands 0 2 £425 +6.25% 8
South West +36 1 - - 6
North of England +23 1 £450 +12.50% 17
North West +14 1 £450 +12.50% 6
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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (45.16%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (45.16%) Entra ID
3 10 (32.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 10 (32.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (25.81%) Azure API Management
4 8 (25.81%) Azure Functions
4 8 (25.81%) Serverless
5 7 (22.58%) Azure AKS
6 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Storage
7 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
7 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
8 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (9.68%) GitHub
9 2 (6.45%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (6.45%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.45%) Azure Table
9 2 (6.45%) IaaS
9 2 (6.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
3 5 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.68%) SSDT
6 2 (6.45%) MariaDB
6 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (6.45%) MySQL
6 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (6.45%) Power BI
6 2 (6.45%) Power Query
6 2 (6.45%) Redis
7 1 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) Selenium
3 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 2 (6.45%) Postman
General
1 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Azure Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Python Developer
4 6 (19.35%) React Developer
5 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Lead
7 2 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (6.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) React
2 7 (22.58%) ARM Templates
3 6 (19.35%) .NET
3 6 (19.35%) OAuth
4 5 (16.13%) YAML
5 4 (12.90%) .NET Core
6 3 (9.68%) ADO
6 3 (9.68%) JSON
7 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
7 2 (6.45%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (6.45%) REST
7 2 (6.45%) RESTful
8 1 (3.23%) Entity Framework
8 1 (3.23%) OpenID
8 1 (3.23%) SAML
8 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (3.23%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) DevOps
2 22 (70.97%) CI/CD
3 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (32.26%) Identity Management
5 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.81%) Analytics
6 8 (25.81%) Log Analytics
6 8 (25.81%) Microservices
6 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.81%) RBAC
6 8 (25.81%) Release Management
7 7 (22.58%) SDLC
8 6 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (19.35%) Product Backlog
8 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (16.13%) B2B
9 5 (16.13%) B2C
9 5 (16.13%) ETL
9 5 (16.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (45.16%) PowerShell
1 14 (45.16%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) Bicep
3 7 (22.58%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) Java
5 4 (12.90%) Bash
6 2 (6.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.23%) VB
7 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) CCSK
4 1 (3.23%) CEH
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) GIAC
4 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (32.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) Docker
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (61.29%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (12.90%) Ansible
4 4 (12.90%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (9.68%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (3.23%) CASB
7 1 (3.23%) SCCM
7 1 (3.23%) SCOM
7 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) UiPath
3 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Forcepoint
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Snow