Azure Monitor Contract Job Trends 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 and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 283 309
Rank change year-on-year -41 +26 +90
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 68 69 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.49% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 72
10th Percentile £404 £375 £425
25th Percentile £425 £459 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £605 £608
Median % change year-on-year -13.22% -0.41% -6.54%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £656
90th Percentile £613 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £508 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -11.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £44.34 - -

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 5,874 4,632 5,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.13% 31.19% 30.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,065 3,041 4,331
10th Percentile £238 £243 £216
25th Percentile £380 £380 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -0.79%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £659 £675 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 112 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.31 £20.18 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.28 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +15.14% +6.54%
75th Percentile £54.69 £41.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £26.75
% change year-on-year -3.64% +2.80% +18.89%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Monitor relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Monitor

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 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Monitor.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Monitor

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 24 December 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
Midlands -20 31 £537 +34.25% 21
West Midlands -10 23 £534 +33.50% 15
South East -42 13 £459 -26.60% 29
North of England -51 11 £450 +4.35% 25
South West - 10 £575 - 9
North West -29 8 £425 +6.25% 13
East Midlands - 8 £563 - 6
Yorkshire -38 3 £600 +14.29% 10
East of England -14 2 £650 - 15
Wales 0 1 - - 2
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (20.59%) Apache
1 14 (20.59%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (4.41%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 68 (100.00%) Azure
2 28 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (26.47%) AWS
4 17 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 17 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 17 (25.00%) Serverless
5 16 (23.53%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (20.59%) Azure AKS
6 14 (20.59%) Azure Functions
7 11 (16.18%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (16.18%) GitHub
7 11 (16.18%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (14.71%) Azure API Management
9 8 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (7.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
12 4 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (20.59%) Firewall
2 7 (10.29%) DNS
2 7 (10.29%) VPN
3 3 (4.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
4 2 (2.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.94%) Power BI
4 1 (1.47%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.47%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.47%) Metadata
4 1 (1.47%) MySQL
4 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.47%) Redis
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (14.71%) Git
2 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.94%) GitLab
5 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.47%) Poetry
5 1 (1.47%) Postman
5 1 (1.47%) Pylint
5 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Military
6 2 (2.94%) Billing
6 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Automotive
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Developer
4 10 (14.71%) Senior
5 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Monitoring Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Azure Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) Security Engineer
8 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Security Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) Active Directory Engineer
10 3 (4.41%) DBA
10 3 (4.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Integration Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) .NET
1 11 (16.18%) ARM Templates
2 8 (11.76%) .NET Core
3 5 (7.35%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.35%) REST
3 5 (7.35%) YAML
4 4 (5.88%) JSON
4 4 (5.88%) OAuth
4 4 (5.88%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.41%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.41%) OpenID
5 3 (4.41%) React
5 3 (4.41%) SAML
6 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.94%) Kafka
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (2.94%) Node.js
6 2 (2.94%) RESTful
7 1 (1.47%) Jest
7 1 (1.47%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.41%) Data Fabric
4 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.47%) CMDB
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.41%) Windows
2 14 (20.59%) Linux
2 14 (20.59%) Unix
3 3 (4.41%) VMS
3 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (63.24%) Analytics
1 43 (63.24%) DevOps
2 42 (61.76%) Log Analytics
3 31 (45.59%) CI/CD
4 27 (39.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (29.41%) Observability
7 16 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (23.53%) Incident Response
7 16 (23.53%) RBAC
8 15 (22.06%) API Management
8 15 (22.06%) Containerisation
8 15 (22.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (22.06%) Incident Management
9 14 (20.59%) Performance Monitoring
9 14 (20.59%) Proactive Management
9 14 (20.59%) Service Management
9 14 (20.59%) Synthetic Monitoring
9 14 (20.59%) Test Strategy
9 14 (20.59%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) SQL
2 22 (32.35%) Bicep
3 16 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 13 (19.12%) C#
4 13 (19.12%) Python
5 9 (13.24%) Bash
6 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.82%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (4.41%) PHP
8 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.41%) X++
9 2 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 28 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 24 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (26.47%) Azure Certification
4 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.41%) CISM
5 3 (4.41%) CISSP
5 3 (4.41%) Degree
5 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) NIST
2 8 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.41%) NCSC
4 3 (4.41%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.47%) QA
5 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (20.59%) Active Directory
1 14 (20.59%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (51.47%) Terraform
2 17 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (4.41%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) Kibana
5 1 (1.47%) logstash
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.47%) SCOM
5 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.59%) AppDynamics
2 14 (20.59%) Dynatrace
2 14 (20.59%) Oracle
2 14 (20.59%) Splunk
3 13 (19.12%) Cisco
4 5 (7.35%) Databricks
5 3 (4.41%) IBM
5 3 (4.41%) LogRhythm
5 3 (4.41%) Red Hat
5 3 (4.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.47%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.47%) F5
6 1 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow