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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 494 474
Rank change year-on-year +115 -20 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 192 202 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 0.98% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 141 266
10th Percentile £408 £409 £408
25th Percentile £498 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £601 £525
% change year-on-year +0.67% +14.48% +5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - £50.33
25th Percentile - £66.00 £52.69
Median hourly rate - £67.25 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.16% -2.81%
75th Percentile - £78.63 £70.88
90th Percentile - £93.70 £77.85
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 13,865 20,635 33,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.52% 38.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,880 14,925 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 334 406
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.50 £15.56
Median hourly rate £21.37 £36.50 £22.19
Median % change year-on-year -41.45% +64.49% +0.86%
75th Percentile £40.00 £66.00 £53.94
90th Percentile £66.88 £78.83 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £26.48 £20.00
% change year-on-year -33.08% +32.40% +1.27%

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 24 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 24 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 +108 178 £570 -0.87% 62
London +94 86 £523 -6.70% 22
UK excluding London +66 85 £605 +0.67% 47
Work from Home +101 78 £600 +6.67% 54
South East +50 53 £605 -13.57% 26
Midlands +37 18 £373 -12.35% 3
West Midlands +22 18 £373 -12.35% 2
South West +27 10 £550 - 3
North of England +11 3 £625 +19.05% 12
North West +15 2 £513 -10.87% 11
East of England +10 1 £875 +169.23% 2
Yorkshire +7 1 £650 +23.81%

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 28 (14.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.77%) CMS
3 11 (5.73%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.17%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.08%) Apache
6 2 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.04%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) Confluence
7 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 79 (41.15%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (39.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 55 (28.65%) Entra ID
5 54 (28.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 47 (24.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 42 (21.88%) Serverless
8 40 (20.83%) Azure Functions
9 31 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (14.06%) Azure Key Vault
10 27 (14.06%) PaaS
11 20 (10.42%) Azure Storage
12 17 (8.85%) Azure Pipelines
13 16 (8.33%) Azure AKS
13 16 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (6.25%) Power Platform
15 11 (5.73%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (5.73%) GitHub
16 7 (3.65%) AWS
16 7 (3.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 34 (17.71%) DNS
2 27 (14.06%) Firewall
3 18 (9.38%) DHCP
4 8 (4.17%) HTTP
4 8 (4.17%) NetScaler
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
7 3 (1.56%) Network Security
8 1 (0.52%) FTP
8 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (25.52%) SQL Server
2 37 (19.27%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 12 (6.25%) Power BI
5 5 (2.60%) Parquet
6 4 (2.08%) Big Data
6 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.08%) Redis
6 4 (2.08%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.56%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.56%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.04%) MySQL
8 2 (1.04%) Power Query
9 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.52%) Scylla
9 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 78 (40.63%) Git
2 14 (7.29%) Selenium
3 10 (5.21%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.60%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.08%) Deequ
5 4 (2.08%) GitLab
5 4 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.08%) Maven
6 3 (1.56%) Gatling
6 3 (1.56%) JMeter
6 3 (1.56%) Postman
6 3 (1.56%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.56%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.04%) Gradle
7 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.52%) JIRA
8 1 (0.52%) Moq
8 1 (0.52%) NUnit
8 1 (0.52%) WebDriver
General
1 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.42%) Finance
4 19 (9.90%) Back Office
5 18 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.08%) Banking
7 4 (2.08%) Marketing
8 3 (1.56%) Electronics
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.04%) Law
9 2 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 72 (37.50%) Developer
2 33 (17.19%) Azure Developer
3 32 (16.67%) Senior
4 29 (15.10%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (13.02%) Full Stack Developer
6 22 (11.46%) Lead
7 20 (10.42%) Senior Developer
8 18 (9.38%) Active Directory Support
9 17 (8.85%) C# Developer
10 16 (8.33%) Data Engineer
11 15 (7.81%) Architect
11 15 (7.81%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (7.29%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (7.29%) Support Specialist
13 13 (6.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 11 (5.73%) Python Developer
15 10 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (5.21%) Full Stack Python Developer
15 10 (5.21%) Senior Front-End Developer
16 9 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.13%) .NET
2 45 (23.44%) React
3 41 (21.35%) .NET Core
4 39 (20.31%) ARM Templates
5 17 (8.85%) CSS
6 16 (8.33%) HTML
6 16 (8.33%) JSON
7 14 (7.29%) ASP.NET
7 14 (7.29%) jQuery
7 14 (7.29%) PySpark
8 11 (5.73%) YAML
9 10 (5.21%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (5.21%) REST
10 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.65%) OAuth
11 6 (3.13%) Node.js
11 6 (3.13%) XML
12 5 (2.60%) Apache Avro
12 5 (2.60%) JSON Schema
13 4 (2.08%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.15%) Product Ownership
2 22 (11.46%) PKI
3 18 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (8.33%) Cloud Native
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%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.56%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.56%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (25.00%) Windows
2 33 (17.19%) Windows Server
3 32 (16.67%) Linux
4 21 (10.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (10.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.21%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.04%) Unix
8 2 (1.04%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (70.83%) DevOps
2 92 (47.92%) Agile
3 70 (36.46%) CI/CD
4 63 (32.81%) Analytics
5 56 (29.17%) Log Analytics
6 47 (24.48%) API Management
7 43 (22.40%) TDD
8 40 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 39 (20.31%) OO
10 37 (19.27%) OOD
11 33 (17.19%) Test Automation
12 32 (16.67%) Clean Code
13 29 (15.10%) SDLC
14 26 (13.54%) Full Stack Development
15 25 (13.02%) ITIL
16 24 (12.50%) Microservices
16 24 (12.50%) RBAC
17 23 (11.98%) Change Management
18 22 (11.46%) Identity Management
19 21 (10.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 82 (42.71%) C#
2 61 (31.77%) PowerShell
3 59 (30.73%) Bicep
4 53 (27.60%) SQL
5 48 (25.00%) Python
6 22 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 18 (9.38%) VB
7 18 (9.38%) VBScript
8 16 (8.33%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.25%) Java
9 12 (6.25%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.13%) Scala
11 4 (2.08%) C
11 4 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.04%) Bash
13 1 (0.52%) Perl
13 1 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.06%) Degree
4 20 (10.42%) DV Cleared
5 18 (9.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (3.65%) 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 19 (9.90%) 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
5 3 (1.56%) QA
6 2 (1.04%) SLA
7 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (48.44%) Active Directory
2 32 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 27 (14.06%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.21%) Docker
5 8 (4.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.17%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.17%) XenApp
5 8 (4.17%) XenDesktop
6 4 (2.08%) NFS
7 2 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.52%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 30 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 22 (11.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (11.46%) Terraform
3 21 (10.94%) SCCM
3 21 (10.94%) SCOM
4 20 (10.42%) WSUS
5 18 (9.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.60%) SysTrack
7 4 (2.08%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (1.56%) Ansible
8 3 (1.56%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.56%) Grafana
8 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.04%) SCDPM
9 2 (1.04%) SCVMM
10 1 (0.52%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.52%) HP SIM
10 1 (0.52%) Nagios
10 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 97 (50.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.81%) Citrix
2 15 (7.81%) Databricks
3 10 (5.21%) New Relic
4 8 (4.17%) NetApp
4 8 (4.17%) Splunk
5 5 (2.60%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.08%) Adobe
6 4 (2.08%) Cisco
6 4 (2.08%) Qualtrics
7 3 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.56%) Oracle
7 3 (1.56%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.56%) SAP
7 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.56%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.04%) CA
8 2 (1.04%) VMware
9 1 (0.52%) BMC
9 1 (0.52%) Veritas