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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 559 496
Rank change year-on-year +65 -63 +214
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 115 116 172
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.22% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.62% 0.64% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 86 86 135
10th Percentile £42,250 £53,688 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,438 £74,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £96,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 18,592 18,130 18,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.68% 36.56% 41.70%
Number of salaries quoted 10,337 10,828 15,884
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,440 £45,026
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,575 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +70 61 £80,000 +14.29% 38
North of England +26 19 £55,000 +4.76% 57
North West +42 17 £57,500 +27.78% 29
South East +4 17 £70,000 +7.69% 71
Midlands +29 7 £62,250 +46.47% 61
West Midlands +28 6 £64,500 -32.11% 36
South West - 5 £42,500 - 40
East of England +22 3 £55,000 +59.99% 43
Yorkshire -7 2 £43,750 -23.91% 24
East Midlands -13 1 £60,000 +50.00% 20
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 16 (13.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (5.22%) Confluence
4 3 (2.61%) IIS
5 2 (1.74%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
2 54 (46.96%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (43.48%) Entra ID
4 29 (25.22%) GitHub
4 29 (25.22%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (21.74%) Azure AKS
5 25 (21.74%) SaaS
6 23 (20.00%) Serverless
7 22 (19.13%) Azure Functions
8 21 (18.26%) Power Platform
9 19 (16.52%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (15.65%) IaaS
11 17 (14.78%) GCP
11 17 (14.78%) PaaS
12 15 (13.04%) Power Automate
13 13 (11.30%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (11.30%) Azure Storage
13 13 (11.30%) OneDrive
14 12 (10.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (9.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 32 (27.83%) DNS
2 26 (22.61%) Firewall
2 26 (22.61%) VPN
3 18 (15.65%) DHCP
4 12 (10.43%) WAN
5 10 (8.70%) Network Security
6 5 (4.35%) SD-WAN
6 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.48%) Wireless
8 1 (0.87%) IPv4
8 1 (0.87%) IPv6
8 1 (0.87%) LAN
8 1 (0.87%) MPLS
8 1 (0.87%) NAS
8 1 (0.87%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.87%) SAN
8 1 (0.87%) SNMP
8 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (20.87%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (11.30%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.22%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.35%) Power BI
5 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) Looker
6 1 (0.87%) Metadata
6 1 (0.87%) Redis
6 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) Git
2 11 (9.57%) JIRA
3 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.48%) Postman
3 4 (3.48%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.61%) JMeter
4 3 (2.61%) Selenium
4 3 (2.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (36.52%) Finance
2 29 (25.22%) Social Skills
3 18 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.22%) Retail
7 4 (3.48%) Billing
8 2 (1.74%) Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.87%) Back Office
9 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.87%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (21.74%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (19.13%) Platform Engineer
2 22 (19.13%) Senior
3 20 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Developer
6 11 (9.57%) Analyst
6 11 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Applications Support
9 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (5.22%) Lead
12 5 (4.35%) Support Analyst
13 4 (3.48%) .NET Developer
13 4 (3.48%) Data Analyst
13 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 4 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.78%) .NET
2 12 (10.43%) ARM Templates
3 10 (8.70%) YAML
4 9 (7.83%) OAuth
5 7 (6.09%) ADO
5 7 (6.09%) CSS
5 7 (6.09%) HTML
5 7 (6.09%) SAML
6 6 (5.22%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.22%) React
6 6 (5.22%) REST
7 5 (4.35%) PySpark
7 5 (4.35%) RESTful
8 4 (3.48%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.61%) JSON
9 3 (2.61%) Nuxt
9 3 (2.61%) OpenAPI
9 3 (2.61%) Swagger
9 3 (2.61%) Vue
9 3 (2.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.43%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.83%) Onboarding
4 8 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.96%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.48%) iPad
5 4 (3.48%) iPhone
5 4 (3.48%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.61%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.61%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.74%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.87%) Windows
2 18 (15.65%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.30%) Linux
4 10 (8.70%) VMS
5 4 (3.48%) Apple iOS
5 4 (3.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.87%) DevOps
2 52 (45.22%) CI/CD
3 49 (42.61%) Analytics
3 49 (42.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (41.74%) Log Analytics
5 43 (37.39%) Observability
6 38 (33.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (24.35%) RBAC
8 26 (22.61%) High Availability
9 25 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
10 23 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (18.26%) Incident Response
12 20 (17.39%) Business Continuity
12 20 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (16.52%) Agile
13 19 (16.52%) Incident Management
13 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (15.65%) Identity Management
14 18 (15.65%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.61%) PowerShell
2 40 (34.78%) SQL
3 22 (19.13%) C#
4 21 (18.26%) Bicep
4 21 (18.26%) Python
5 16 (13.91%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (8.70%) Bash
7 7 (6.09%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.22%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.35%) Scala
10 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.87%) Go
11 1 (0.87%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (13.91%) Azure Certification
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (10.43%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) MCP
7 1 (0.87%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) GDPR
2 7 (6.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.09%) SLA
2 7 (6.09%) SOC 2
3 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.48%) QA
5 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.61%) WCAG
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (41.74%) Active Directory
2 24 (20.87%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (16.52%) Docker
4 15 (13.04%) Hyper-V
5 14 (12.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.87%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 59 (51.30%) Terraform
2 23 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.91%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.43%) Grafana
6 11 (9.57%) Ansible
7 8 (6.96%) SCOM
7 8 (6.96%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.61%) SCCM
9 2 (1.74%) Kibana
9 2 (1.74%) WSUS
10 1 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.87%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.87%) Istio
10 1 (0.87%) linkerd
10 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.87%) Nessus
Vendors
1 75 (65.22%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) VMware
3 15 (13.04%) Dynatrace
4 12 (10.43%) Splunk
5 8 (6.96%) New Relic
5 8 (6.96%) Zscaler
6 7 (6.09%) Databricks
6 7 (6.09%) Palo Alto
7 6 (5.22%) Google
7 6 (5.22%) SolarWinds
8 4 (3.48%) Foundry
8 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.61%) Oracle
9 3 (2.61%) Sophos
10 2 (1.74%) Clearswift
10 2 (1.74%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.87%) BMC
11 1 (0.87%) F5
11 1 (0.87%) NetApp
11 1 (0.87%) Veeam