Azure Monitor Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 264 269
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +105
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 17 42 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.47% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.42% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 25
10th Percentile £64,000 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +12.29% +7.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,500 £76,875 £74,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,171 2,957 2,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.56% 32.94% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 1,599 2,371
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Monitor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the South East over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in the South East

Azure Monitor
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Hampshire +33 9 £70,000 +3.70% 2
West Sussex - 5 £70,000 - 1
Thames Valley -12 2 £73,750 +18.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +8 1 £65,000 - 1
Surrey -4 1 £70,000 -5.08% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £82,500 - 1
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (88.24%) Entra ID
3 9 (52.94%) GCP
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (41.18%) Azure AKS
5 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) IaaS
5 6 (35.29%) PaaS
6 2 (11.76%) SaaS
7 1 (5.88%) AWS
7 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub
7 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) DHCP
1 9 (52.94%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) Redis
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Billing
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Linux Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Monitoring Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Specialist
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
1 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Build Automation
2 9 (52.94%) Business Continuity
2 9 (52.94%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (52.94%) Identity Management
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (29.41%) Cost Management
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) Log Analytics
6 2 (11.76%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Actionable Insight
7 1 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (5.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (5.88%) Microservices
7 1 (5.88%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Dynatrace
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft