Azure Monitor Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 356 404
Rank change year-on-year +87 +48 -29
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 83 115 238
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.44% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.12% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 82 188
10th Percentile £446 £387 £407
25th Percentile £516 £475 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -0.93% +2.86%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £643 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £563 £550 £540
% change year-on-year +2.27% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £66.08 £50.58
25th Percentile - £66.19 £53.31
Median hourly rate - £67.25 £59.75
Median % change year-on-year - +12.55% -4.02%
75th Percentile - £69.19 £64.31
90th Percentile - £69.83 £65.93
UK median hourly rate - £68.50 £59.75
% change year-on-year - +14.64% -4.02%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,577 10,240 18,500
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.27% 39.60% 41.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,989 7,519 13,811
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.43 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% +83.33% -21.83%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £64.37 £78.40 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -5.54%

Azure Monitor
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Monitor trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 15 (18.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.64%) CMS
3 4 (4.82%) IIS
4 3 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.41%) NServiceBus
6 1 (1.20%) Apache
6 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (100.00%) Azure
2 31 (37.35%) Azure DevOps
2 31 (37.35%) Entra ID
3 27 (32.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 21 (25.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (21.69%) Azure Service Bus
6 17 (20.48%) Azure Key Vault
6 17 (20.48%) Azure Storage
7 16 (19.28%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (14.46%) Serverless
9 10 (12.05%) Azure Functions
10 9 (10.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (9.64%) Azure Pipelines
11 8 (9.64%) GitHub
12 7 (8.43%) Azure API Management
13 6 (7.23%) AWS
14 5 (6.02%) Azure Cognitive Search
14 5 (6.02%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (6.02%) PaaS
15 4 (4.82%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (26.51%) Firewall
2 21 (25.30%) DNS
3 16 (19.28%) DHCP
4 4 (4.82%) Network Security
4 4 (4.82%) SSL
5 1 (1.20%) HTTP
5 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.69%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.46%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.41%) Parquet
6 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.20%) Big Data
7 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.20%) MySQL
7 1 (1.20%) Power BI
7 1 (1.20%) Power Query
7 1 (1.20%) Redis
7 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.20%) Scylla
7 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (31.33%) Git
2 8 (9.64%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.23%) Maven
4 5 (6.02%) Gradle
4 5 (6.02%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.82%) GitLab
5 4 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.41%) Selenium
7 1 (1.20%) Ant
7 1 (1.20%) Axure RP
7 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.20%) Deequ
7 1 (1.20%) JIRA
7 1 (1.20%) Moq
7 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.46%) Finance
2 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.23%) Back Office
5 5 (6.02%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Law
7 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Electronics
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Developer
2 15 (18.07%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (18.07%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (16.87%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (16.87%) Azure Developer
3 14 (16.87%) Support Specialist
4 13 (15.66%) Lead
5 11 (13.25%) Senior
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.43%) C# Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (8.43%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Integration Developer
9 5 (6.02%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.82%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 4 (4.82%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (33.73%) ARM Templates
2 17 (20.48%) .NET
3 15 (18.07%) React
4 12 (14.46%) .NET Core
5 10 (12.05%) CSS
6 9 (10.84%) ASP.NET
7 8 (9.64%) HTML
7 8 (9.64%) jQuery
8 7 (8.43%) REST
9 6 (7.23%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (7.23%) JSON
9 6 (7.23%) PySpark
10 5 (6.02%) AngularJS
10 5 (6.02%) Node.js
11 3 (3.61%) OAuth
11 3 (3.61%) OpenID
11 3 (3.61%) SOAP
11 3 (3.61%) XML
12 2 (2.41%) Apache Avro
12 2 (2.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) PKI
1 16 (19.28%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (13.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (6.02%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) STIX
6 1 (1.20%) TAXII
6 1 (1.20%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 26 (31.33%) Windows
2 23 (27.71%) Linux
3 18 (21.69%) Windows Server
4 15 (18.07%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (18.07%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (4.82%) VMS
6 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (74.70%) DevOps
2 43 (51.81%) CI/CD
3 39 (46.99%) Agile
4 33 (39.76%) Log Analytics
5 32 (38.55%) Analytics
6 24 (28.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (24.10%) RBAC
8 18 (21.69%) Service Management
9 17 (20.48%) Identity Management
9 17 (20.48%) ITIL
9 17 (20.48%) Release Management
10 16 (19.28%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (19.28%) Privileged Identity Management
11 14 (16.87%) API Management
11 14 (16.87%) OO
11 14 (16.87%) TDD
12 12 (14.46%) Test Automation
13 11 (13.25%) Clean Code
13 11 (13.25%) OOD
14 9 (10.84%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) C#
2 32 (38.55%) PowerShell
3 27 (32.53%) Bicep
4 22 (26.51%) SQL
5 20 (24.10%) Python
6 16 (19.28%) VB
6 16 (19.28%) VBScript
7 14 (16.87%) JavaScript
8 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
9 3 (3.61%) Java
9 3 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (3.61%) PHP
9 3 (3.61%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.41%) Scala
11 1 (1.20%) Bash
11 1 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (1.20%) Groovy
11 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 23 (27.71%) SC Cleared
3 21 (25.30%) Degree
4 16 (19.28%) DV Cleared
4 16 (19.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.20%) MCTS
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) Accessibility
1 9 (10.84%) WCAG
2 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.82%) NCSC
2 4 (4.82%) NIST
3 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 41 (49.40%) Active Directory
2 17 (20.48%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (20.48%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (28.92%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.30%) SCCM
3 19 (22.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (22.89%) SCOM
4 16 (19.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (19.28%) WSUS
5 10 (12.05%) Terraform
6 4 (4.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (2.41%) Grafana
7 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.20%) Ansible
8 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.20%) QRadar
8 1 (1.20%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 40 (48.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Databricks
3 4 (4.82%) Splunk
4 1 (1.20%) BMC
4 1 (1.20%) Citrix
4 1 (1.20%) ESET
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle
4 1 (1.20%) Remedy
4 1 (1.20%) SAP
4 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow