Azure Monitor Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 252 263 363
Rank change year-on-year +11 +100 +40
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 52 82 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.48% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 66 82
10th Percentile £372 £450 £387
25th Percentile £413 £519 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £535
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +12.15% -0.93%
75th Percentile £560 £608 £650
90th Percentile £680 £644 £700
UK median daily rate £459 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -18.72% +2.73% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.08
25th Percentile £67.50 - £66.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £67.25
75th Percentile £72.50 - £69.19
90th Percentile - - £69.83
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - £68.50
% change year-on-year - - +14.64%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Azure Monitor
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Monitor trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure Monitor daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (1.92%) DataSynapse
1 1 (1.92%) IIS
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (100.00%) Azure
2 30 (57.69%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (26.92%) Azure AKS
4 12 (23.08%) Azure Sentinel
5 9 (17.31%) GitHub
5 9 (17.31%) Serverless
6 8 (15.38%) AWS
6 8 (15.38%) Entra ID
7 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
8 5 (9.62%) Azure API Management
8 5 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (7.69%) Azure Functions
9 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Event Grid
10 3 (5.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Storage
10 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 6 (11.54%) DNS
2 6 (11.54%) HTTP
3 4 (7.69%) FTP
3 4 (7.69%) SMTP
3 4 (7.69%) SSL
3 4 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.77%) VPN
5 2 (3.85%) DHCP
5 2 (3.85%) WAN
6 1 (1.92%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
1 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.85%) Parquet
5 1 (1.92%) Big Data
5 1 (1.92%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.92%) Power Query
5 1 (1.92%) Redis
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) JMeter
3 2 (3.85%) LoadRunner
3 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.92%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Postman
4 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Banking
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.92%) Front Office
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Site Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (5.77%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
7 2 (3.85%) Administrator
7 2 (3.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Grid Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Performance Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Tester
7 2 (3.85%) TIBCO Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) .NET
2 8 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 6 (11.54%) JSON
4 4 (7.69%) OAuth
4 4 (7.69%) REST
4 4 (7.69%) YAML
5 3 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.85%) SOAP
7 1 (1.92%) ADO
7 1 (1.92%) EDI
7 1 (1.92%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (1.92%) JWT
7 1 (1.92%) LDAP
7 1 (1.92%) PySpark
7 1 (1.92%) SAML
7 1 (1.92%) WCF
7 1 (1.92%) Web Services
7 1 (1.92%) XML
7 1 (1.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.77%) Grid Computing
3 3 (5.77%) Replication
4 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Equities
5 1 (1.92%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Linux
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) DevOps
2 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (44.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (30.77%) Analytics
5 15 (28.85%) Agile
5 15 (28.85%) Log Analytics
6 10 (19.23%) Microservices
7 8 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 8 (15.38%) RBAC
8 7 (13.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (11.54%) API Management
10 5 (9.62%) Cloud Security
10 5 (9.62%) Identity Management
10 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
11 4 (7.69%) API Integration
11 4 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (7.69%) Migration
11 4 (7.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 18 (34.62%) Bicep
3 13 (25.00%) C#
4 12 (23.08%) Python
5 10 (19.23%) SQL
6 8 (15.38%) Java
7 5 (9.62%) Bash
8 4 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (5.77%) C++
9 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.92%) Groovy
10 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.92%) VB
10 1 (1.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.31%) Azure Certification
2 9 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.92%) MCSA
5 1 (1.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (13.46%) Docker
3 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.85%) Platform Symphony
4 2 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.92%) OpenAM
5 1 (1.92%) OpenDJ
5 1 (1.92%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 27 (51.92%) Terraform
2 16 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.38%) Grafana
4 5 (9.62%) Kibana
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (5.77%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.85%) Ansible
7 2 (3.85%) Perfmon
7 2 (3.85%) SCCM
7 2 (3.85%) SCOM
8 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.77%) Databricks
3 3 (5.77%) TIBCO
4 2 (3.85%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.85%) IBM
4 2 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Snow
5 1 (1.92%) Veeam