Azure Monitor Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 486 486
Rank change year-on-year +85 0 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 192 227 406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.39% 0.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.06% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 154 274
10th Percentile £419 £409 £413
25th Percentile £491 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £555 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +1.83% +8.89%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -1.31% +16.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £50.58
25th Percentile - £66.00 £53.31
Median hourly rate - £67.25 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - +12.55% -4.02%
75th Percentile - £78.63 £64.31
90th Percentile - £93.70 £65.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,922 21,371 33,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.33% 36.84% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,900 15,444 24,526
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 346 412
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.54
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.25 £15.31
Median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £50.83
90th Percentile £62.45 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

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 9 May 2024.

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 12 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 9 May 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
England +103 175 £560 -0.44% 40
London +86 88 £525 -4.55% 17
Work from Home +95 81 £588 +6.82% 32
UK excluding London +55 80 £605 -1.31% 23
South East +59 51 £605 -13.57% 7
Midlands +33 17 £400 -5.88% 4
West Midlands +20 17 £400 -5.88% 2
South West +20 8 £575 - 2
North of England +2 2 £513 -10.87% 8
North West -3 2 £513 -21.15% 5
Scotland +37 1 - -
East of England +8 1 £875 +169.23%

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 24 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.77%) CMS
3 9 (4.69%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.17%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.60%) IIS
6 4 (2.08%) Apache
7 2 (1.04%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.52%) Confluence
8 1 (0.52%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 192 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (43.23%) Azure DevOps
3 73 (38.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 53 (27.60%) Azure Service Bus
4 53 (27.60%) Entra ID
5 47 (24.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (21.88%) Serverless
7 40 (20.83%) Azure Functions
8 27 (14.06%) Azure Key Vault
8 27 (14.06%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (13.54%) PaaS
10 18 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 17 (8.85%) Azure Pipelines
11 17 (8.85%) Azure Storage
12 13 (6.77%) Azure AKS
13 12 (6.25%) GitHub
14 11 (5.73%) Power Platform
15 8 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (3.65%) AWS
16 7 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 37 (19.27%) DNS
2 30 (15.63%) Firewall
3 16 (8.33%) DHCP
4 8 (4.17%) HTTP
4 8 (4.17%) NetScaler
4 8 (4.17%) Network Security
5 5 (2.60%) SSL
5 5 (2.60%) VPN
6 4 (2.08%) Internet
6 4 (2.08%) SSH
6 4 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.56%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.56%) IPsec
8 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (25.52%) SQL Server
2 36 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.73%) Power BI
6 5 (2.60%) Parquet
7 4 (2.08%) Big Data
7 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.08%) Redis
7 4 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.56%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.04%) MySQL
9 2 (1.04%) Power Query
10 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (39.06%) Git
2 13 (6.77%) Selenium
3 12 (6.25%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.13%) Maven
5 5 (2.60%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.08%) Deequ
6 4 (2.08%) Gatling
6 4 (2.08%) GitLab
6 4 (2.08%) Gradle
6 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.08%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.56%) JMeter
7 3 (1.56%) Postman
7 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.52%) gulp
9 1 (0.52%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.94%) Finance
4 20 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 19 (9.90%) Back Office
6 5 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.08%) Banking
7 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.08%) Marketing
8 3 (1.56%) Electronics
8 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.56%) Law
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 70 (36.46%) Developer
2 31 (16.15%) Azure Developer
2 31 (16.15%) Senior
3 27 (14.06%) Lead
4 25 (13.02%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (11.98%) Full Stack Developer
6 19 (9.90%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.85%) C# Developer
8 16 (8.33%) Active Directory Support
8 16 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.81%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.29%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.29%) Architect
10 14 (7.29%) Support Specialist
11 13 (6.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 10 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.21%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 9 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
13 9 (4.69%) Python Developer
14 8 (4.17%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (28.65%) .NET
2 43 (22.40%) ARM Templates
3 42 (21.88%) React
4 40 (20.83%) .NET Core
5 18 (9.38%) JSON
6 16 (8.33%) CSS
7 15 (7.81%) HTML
8 14 (7.29%) jQuery
8 14 (7.29%) PySpark
9 13 (6.77%) ASP.NET
9 13 (6.77%) REST
10 11 (5.73%) YAML
11 10 (5.21%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (4.69%) OAuth
13 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.65%) XML
14 6 (3.13%) Node.js
14 6 (3.13%) OpenID
14 6 (3.13%) SOAP
15 5 (2.60%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.10%) Product Ownership
2 20 (10.42%) PKI
3 16 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.65%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.60%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.56%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.56%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.52%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.52%) Replication
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.00%) Windows
2 33 (17.19%) Linux
3 29 (15.10%) Windows Server
4 17 (8.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.21%) Windows 10
7 7 (3.65%) VMS
8 2 (1.04%) Unix
8 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (71.88%) DevOps
2 90 (46.88%) Agile
3 68 (35.42%) CI/CD
4 60 (31.25%) Analytics
5 53 (27.60%) Log Analytics
6 47 (24.48%) API Management
7 42 (21.88%) TDD
8 41 (21.35%) OO
9 38 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (19.27%) OOD
11 32 (16.67%) Clean Code
11 32 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 28 (14.58%) SDLC
13 27 (14.06%) RBAC
14 24 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
15 23 (11.98%) Change Management
15 23 (11.98%) ITIL
16 21 (10.94%) Microservices
17 20 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (10.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (42.71%) C#
2 64 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 56 (29.17%) Bicep
3 56 (29.17%) SQL
4 49 (25.52%) Python
5 22 (11.46%) JavaScript
6 16 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.33%) VB
6 16 (8.33%) VBScript
7 12 (6.25%) Java
7 12 (6.25%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.13%) Scala
9 4 (2.08%) C
10 3 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.04%) Bash
11 2 (1.04%) PHP
12 1 (0.52%) Go
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
12 1 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.02%) Degree
4 18 (9.38%) DV Cleared
5 16 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.56%) CCIE
8 3 (1.56%) CCNP
8 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.52%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.38%) WCAG
2 17 (8.85%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.08%) NCSC
4 4 (2.08%) NIST
4 4 (2.08%) QA
5 2 (1.04%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 92 (47.92%) Active Directory
2 30 (15.63%) Virtual Desktop
3 21 (10.94%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (5.73%) Docker
5 8 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.17%) XenApp
5 8 (4.17%) XenDesktop
6 6 (3.13%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.08%) NFS
8 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.46%) SCCM
3 21 (10.94%) Terraform
4 20 (10.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (9.90%) SCOM
6 16 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (8.33%) WSUS
7 5 (2.60%) SysTrack
8 4 (2.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (1.56%) Ansible
9 3 (1.56%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.56%) Grafana
9 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.52%) CASB
11 1 (0.52%) Nagios
11 1 (0.52%) QRadar
11 1 (0.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 92 (47.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.81%) Databricks
3 14 (7.29%) Citrix
4 9 (4.69%) New Relic
4 9 (4.69%) Splunk
5 8 (4.17%) NetApp
6 5 (2.60%) Adobe
6 5 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.60%) Qualtrics
7 4 (2.08%) Cisco
8 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.56%) SAP
8 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.56%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.04%) CA
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle
9 2 (1.04%) VMware
10 1 (0.52%) Remedy
10 1 (0.52%) Sybase