Azure Monitor Contracts in the West Midlands

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 98 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 15 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.87% 1.43% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £503 £345 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -5.88% -
75th Percentile £538 £425 £506
90th Percentile £540 £545 £570
England median daily rate £455 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -18.84% -6.67% +8.30%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 523 490 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.55% 26.12% 37.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 355 583
10th Percentile £299 £228 £222
25th Percentile £408 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.43%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £17.70 £15.13 £16.87
25th Percentile £27.19 £17.31 £17.56
Median hourly rate £34.43 £26.69 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.01% +40.46% +8.57%
75th Percentile £41.56 £33.28 £22.94
90th Percentile £58.96 £44.47 £24.94
England median hourly rate £26.00 £24.15 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.66% -25.23% +50.23%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the West Midlands

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the West Midlands

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the West Midlands

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Shropshire - 10 £537 - 7
Birmingham +10 2 £425 +6.25% 1
Coventry -5 1 £495 -17.50%
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 10 (66.67%) Apache
1 10 (66.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Monitoring Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Developer
5 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
1 10 (66.67%) Unix
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Analytics
1 13 (86.67%) Log Analytics
2 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 10 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 10 (66.67%) Observability
2 10 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 10 (66.67%) Proactive Management
2 10 (66.67%) Service Management
2 10 (66.67%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 10 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 10 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) API Design
5 3 (20.00%) API Management
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 10 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
1 10 (66.67%) Splunk
2 9 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft