Azure Monitor Contracts

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 390 390 478
Rank change year-on-year 0 +88 +11
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 131 194 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.45% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.19% 1.38% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 131 168
10th Percentile £319 £425 £409
25th Percentile £411 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +2.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £653
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £605 £625
% change year-on-year -15.29% -3.20% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.15
25th Percentile £67.50 - £66.38
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £68.50
75th Percentile £72.50 - £87.00
90th Percentile - - £97.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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
England -1 116 £450 -20.35% 83
London +33 81 £440 -16.19% 47
Work from Home +11 52 £475 -20.83% 58
UK excluding London +13 31 £513 -15.29% 49
South East +19 25 £615 +1.65% 19
Scotland +14 2 £525 - 5
Midlands +7 2 £425 +6.25% 4
West Midlands -1 2 £425 +6.25% 3
South West +39 1 - - 5
North of England +19 1 £450 +12.50% 8
North West +17 1 £450 +12.50% 3

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.53%) Confluence
3 1 (0.76%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.76%) DataSynapse
3 1 (0.76%) IIS
3 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 71 (54.20%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (29.77%) Azure AKS
4 34 (25.95%) Azure Sentinel
5 27 (20.61%) Serverless
6 26 (19.85%) Entra ID
7 24 (18.32%) GitHub
8 19 (14.50%) AWS
9 18 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (11.45%) Azure Functions
11 13 (9.92%) Azure API Management
11 13 (9.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 11 (8.40%) Power Platform
13 10 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (5.34%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (5.34%) Azure Storage
15 7 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (4.58%) Azure Service Bus
16 6 (4.58%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.08%) Firewall
2 16 (12.21%) DNS
3 11 (8.40%) TCP/IP
3 11 (8.40%) VPN
4 9 (6.87%) HTTP
5 7 (5.34%) FTP
5 7 (5.34%) SMTP
5 7 (5.34%) SSL
6 6 (4.58%) DHCP
7 5 (3.82%) WAN
8 2 (1.53%) Network Security
8 2 (1.53%) NGFW
9 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.76%) NAS
9 1 (0.76%) SAN
9 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.50%) NoSQL
2 13 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.11%) Power BI
5 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.05%) Big Data
7 4 (3.05%) Parquet
8 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.29%) SSDT
9 2 (1.53%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.53%) MySQL
9 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.53%) Power Query
9 2 (1.53%) Redis
9 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.82%) Selenium
3 4 (3.05%) CircleCI
4 3 (2.29%) JIRA
4 3 (2.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (2.29%) Postman
5 2 (1.53%) JMeter
5 2 (1.53%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.53%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.76%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.76%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.90%) Finance
3 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Banking
4 10 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.53%) Military
7 1 (0.76%) Arabic Language
7 1 (0.76%) Back Office
7 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.76%) Front Office
7 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Legal
7 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (32.82%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (12.21%) Developer
4 14 (10.69%) Senior
5 11 (8.40%) Architect
5 11 (8.40%) Azure Developer
5 11 (8.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Site Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.11%) Lead
8 8 (6.11%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.34%) React Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Azure Architect
10 6 (4.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Consultant
11 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.08%) .NET
2 20 (15.27%) ARM Templates
3 15 (11.45%) JSON
4 14 (10.69%) YAML
5 11 (8.40%) React
6 9 (6.87%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (6.11%) OAuth
8 7 (5.34%) REST
9 6 (4.58%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.82%) ADO
11 4 (3.05%) RESTful
12 3 (2.29%) Node.js
12 3 (2.29%) SOAP
13 2 (1.53%) .NET Framework
13 2 (1.53%) AngularJS
13 2 (1.53%) CSS
13 2 (1.53%) HTML
13 2 (1.53%) HTML5 Canvas
13 2 (1.53%) PySpark
13 2 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) PKI
4 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.82%) Grid Computing
5 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.29%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.29%) Replication
7 2 (1.53%) Anti-Spyware
7 2 (1.53%) CMDB
7 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.76%) Equities
8 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.45%) Linux
2 14 (10.69%) Windows
3 12 (9.16%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (67.18%) DevOps
2 63 (48.09%) CI/CD
2 63 (48.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (31.30%) Analytics
4 38 (29.01%) Log Analytics
5 36 (27.48%) Microservices
6 28 (21.37%) Agile
7 25 (19.08%) API Management
8 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (16.79%) Containerisation
10 21 (16.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 15 (11.45%) Cost Management
11 15 (11.45%) Full-Stack Development
11 15 (11.45%) Identity Management
11 15 (11.45%) Observability
11 15 (11.45%) RBAC
12 14 (10.69%) Test Automation
13 12 (9.16%) Cloud Security
14 11 (8.40%) API Integration
15 10 (7.63%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (46.56%) PowerShell
2 44 (33.59%) Python
3 40 (30.53%) Bicep
4 28 (21.37%) C#
5 22 (16.79%) SQL
6 17 (12.98%) Java
7 14 (10.69%) Bash
7 14 (10.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (7.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.82%) C++
10 4 (3.05%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.76%) Groovy
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.76%) VB
12 1 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.21%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.34%) Degree
5 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) CCSK
8 1 (0.76%) CEH
8 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.76%) GIAC
8 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.76%) MCSA
8 1 (0.76%) MCSE
8 1 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.82%) NIST
3 4 (3.05%) GDPR
3 4 (3.05%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.27%) Active Directory
2 18 (13.74%) Docker
3 14 (10.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.05%) Platform Symphony
5 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.76%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.76%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.76%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 68 (51.91%) Terraform
2 47 (35.88%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.03%) Grafana
4 14 (10.69%) Prometheus
5 11 (8.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (7.63%) Ansible
7 7 (5.34%) Kibana
8 5 (3.82%) ITRS Geneos
8 5 (3.82%) Puppet
9 4 (3.05%) Salt
10 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
10 3 (2.29%) SCCM
10 3 (2.29%) SCOM
10 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.53%) Perfmon
12 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.76%) CASB
12 1 (0.76%) linkerd
12 1 (0.76%) logstash
12 1 (0.76%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 44 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Databricks
3 7 (5.34%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.82%) Google
4 5 (3.82%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.05%) IBM
5 4 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.29%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.29%) Splunk
6 3 (2.29%) UiPath
7 2 (1.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.53%) QAD
7 2 (1.53%) SAP
7 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.76%) Dell
8 1 (0.76%) EMC
8 1 (0.76%) Forcepoint
8 1 (0.76%) Informatica
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle
8 1 (0.76%) VMware