Azure Monitor Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 516 630
Rank change year-on-year +7 +114 +85
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 131 94 153
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.63% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 96 84 112
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,688 £52,300
25th Percentile £57,188 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £68,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,313
90th Percentile £120,000 £97,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Azure Monitor falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21,212 14,904 27,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.87% 37.85% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,617 10,123 23,323
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Monitor relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in England

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Monitor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the England region over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +38 74 £85,000 +9.68% 19
North of England -17 24 £47,500 -24.00% 11
South East -14 20 £70,000 +11.11% 11
North West -1 14 £57,500 -20.69% 6
Yorkshire -32 10 £47,500 -17.39% 5
Midlands -9 8 £64,500 -22.99% 9
West Midlands -1 6 £64,500 -22.99% 6
South West -18 2 £47,250 -47.50% 4
East Midlands - 2 £67,500 - 3
East of England -3 1 £43,000 +25.09% 4
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (10.69%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (100.00%) Azure
2 66 (50.38%) Entra ID
3 63 (48.09%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (26.72%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (23.66%) Azure AKS
5 31 (23.66%) GitHub
6 27 (20.61%) SaaS
6 27 (20.61%) Serverless
7 26 (19.85%) Azure Functions
8 25 (19.08%) Power Platform
9 22 (16.79%) IaaS
10 21 (16.03%) Azure Storage
10 21 (16.03%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (16.03%) PaaS
11 19 (14.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 19 (14.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (12.98%) Datadog
13 16 (12.21%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (10.69%) GCP
15 13 (9.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (30.53%) Firewall
2 34 (25.95%) VPN
3 27 (20.61%) DNS
4 23 (17.56%) WAN
5 16 (12.21%) DHCP
6 11 (8.40%) SD-WAN
7 10 (7.63%) Network Security
8 6 (4.58%) TCP/IP
8 6 (4.58%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (3.05%) Wireless
10 1 (0.76%) IPv4
10 1 (0.76%) IPv6
10 1 (0.76%) LAN
10 1 (0.76%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 16 (12.21%) SQL Server
3 13 (9.92%) Power BI
4 10 (7.63%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.87%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) Git
2 6 (4.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.82%) JIRA
4 4 (3.05%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.76%) Gatling
6 1 (0.76%) GitLab
6 1 (0.76%) JMeter
6 1 (0.76%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.76%) Locust
6 1 (0.76%) NUnit
6 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
General
1 52 (39.69%) Finance
2 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Billing
5 8 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.53%) Retail
7 1 (0.76%) Advertising
7 1 (0.76%) Back Office
7 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (33.59%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (20.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineer
3 25 (19.08%) Support Engineer
4 21 (16.03%) Senior
5 17 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (10.69%) Lead
7 12 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Applications Support
8 10 (7.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Security Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Analyst
10 7 (5.34%) Applications Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Applications Support Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (5.34%) Network Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Senior Support Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (19.85%) .NET
2 14 (10.69%) .NET Core
2 14 (10.69%) YAML
3 13 (9.92%) OAuth
4 12 (9.16%) ADO
4 12 (9.16%) SAML
5 9 (6.87%) ARM Templates
5 9 (6.87%) PySpark
6 7 (5.34%) WPF
7 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Web API
8 4 (3.05%) REST
9 3 (2.29%) CSS
9 3 (2.29%) HTML
9 3 (2.29%) React
10 2 (1.53%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.53%) CSS3
10 2 (1.53%) HTML5
10 2 (1.53%) JSON
10 2 (1.53%) XML
10 2 (1.53%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.05%) iPad
5 4 (3.05%) iPhone
5 4 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.76%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.76%) Lidar
7 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.76%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) VMS
2 23 (17.56%) Windows
3 15 (11.45%) Windows Server
4 12 (9.16%) Linux
5 5 (3.82%) Apple iOS
6 4 (3.05%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.49%) DevOps
2 65 (49.62%) Analytics
2 65 (49.62%) Log Analytics
3 62 (47.33%) CI/CD
4 58 (44.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (38.93%) Disaster Recovery
6 42 (32.06%) Observability
7 34 (25.95%) Incident Management
8 33 (25.19%) RBAC
9 31 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (23.66%) Identity Management
9 31 (23.66%) Incident Response
10 28 (21.37%) Cost Management
11 26 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (19.08%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (18.32%) Business Continuity
14 23 (17.56%) Identity Access Management
14 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (16.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.93%) PowerShell
2 49 (37.40%) SQL
3 28 (21.37%) C#
4 25 (19.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (16.79%) Bicep
6 16 (12.21%) Python
7 12 (9.16%) Bash
8 9 (6.87%) Scala
9 4 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.29%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (16.03%) Azure Certification
2 14 (10.69%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.82%) CCNA
6 5 (3.82%) CCNP
6 5 (3.82%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.82%) Degree
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) GDPR
1 17 (12.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (9.16%) SOC 2
3 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.87%) SLA
4 5 (3.82%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) QA
System Software
1 56 (42.75%) Active Directory
2 28 (21.37%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (11.45%) Docker
4 12 (9.16%) Hyper-V
5 11 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.76%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 65 (49.62%) Terraform
2 23 (17.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (13.74%) Kubernetes
4 15 (11.45%) Ansible
5 14 (10.69%) Grafana
6 8 (6.11%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (5.34%) Kibana
7 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.82%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (3.82%) SCOM
9 1 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.76%) Nessus
9 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (52.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) Zscaler
3 12 (9.16%) Palo Alto
4 11 (8.40%) VMware
5 10 (7.63%) Databricks
5 10 (7.63%) Dynatrace
6 9 (6.87%) Splunk
7 8 (6.11%) New Relic
8 7 (5.34%) SolarWinds
9 6 (4.58%) Meraki
10 5 (3.82%) Cisco
11 4 (3.05%) Google
12 3 (2.29%) Oracle
12 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
13 2 (1.53%) Foundry
14 1 (0.76%) Apple
14 1 (0.76%) Clearswift
14 1 (0.76%) DevExpress
14 1 (0.76%) NetApp
14 1 (0.76%) Sophos