Azure Monitor Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 490 508
Rank change year-on-year +64 +18 +131
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 80 82 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 0.71% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 42 53 51
10th Percentile £41,325 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £53,688 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -1.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,200 £74,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,561 11,551 12,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.14% 32.20% 36.74%
Number of salaries quoted 6,805 6,266 10,486
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Monitor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Scotland +8 25 £45,000 +5.88% 1
North of England +37 21 £55,000 +4.76% 20
North West +44 17 £57,500 +27.78% 13
South East -1 17 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Midlands +31 7 £62,250 -34.47% 9
West Midlands +28 6 £64,500 -32.11% 2
South West - 5 £42,500 - 7
Yorkshire -14 4 £47,500 -17.39% 6
East of England +24 3 £55,000 +59.99% 9
Wales +3 2 £51,750 +5.39% 3
East Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 6
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (13.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) Confluence
4 1 (1.25%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (53.75%) Azure DevOps
2 43 (53.75%) Entra ID
3 38 (47.50%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (26.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 19 (23.75%) GitHub
5 19 (23.75%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (20.00%) SaaS
7 15 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 14 (17.50%) Azure Event Grid
8 14 (17.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (17.50%) GCP
8 14 (17.50%) IaaS
9 13 (16.25%) Azure AKS
10 12 (15.00%) PaaS
11 11 (13.75%) Power Platform
12 9 (11.25%) OneDrive
13 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 6 (7.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (22.50%) DNS
2 13 (16.25%) DHCP
3 12 (15.00%) Firewall
4 7 (8.75%) VPN
5 1 (1.25%) IPv4
5 1 (1.25%) IPv6
5 1 (1.25%) LAN
5 1 (1.25%) MPLS
5 1 (1.25%) Network Security
5 1 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.25%) Redis
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (47.50%) Finance
2 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Billing
6 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior
6 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
6 4 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Developer
7 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) IT Support
7 3 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Junior
7 3 (3.75%) Junior IT Support
7 3 (3.75%) Junior Support Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) OAuth
1 15 (18.75%) OAuth2
2 14 (17.50%) JSON
2 14 (17.50%) RESTful
3 5 (6.25%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.75%) .NET
5 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.50%) CSS
5 2 (2.50%) HTML
5 2 (2.50%) React
6 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.25%) Jest
6 1 (1.25%) jQuery
6 1 (1.25%) OpenID
6 1 (1.25%) Playwright
6 1 (1.25%) React Native
6 1 (1.25%) Vitest
6 1 (1.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Clustering
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.75%) Windows
1 15 (18.75%) Windows Server
2 10 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (66.25%) DevOps
2 40 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (41.25%) Analytics
3 33 (41.25%) Log Analytics
4 31 (38.75%) CI/CD
5 29 (36.25%) Observability
6 27 (33.75%) Identity Management
6 27 (33.75%) Incident Response
7 25 (31.25%) Deployment Automation
8 24 (30.00%) Asset Management
8 24 (30.00%) Coaching
8 24 (30.00%) RBAC
9 23 (28.75%) Agile
9 23 (28.75%) AI
10 19 (23.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (23.75%) User Experience
11 18 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (22.50%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (21.25%) API Management
12 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.75%) PowerShell
2 19 (23.75%) Bicep
3 15 (18.75%) Bash
3 15 (18.75%) Python
4 7 (8.75%) SQL
5 3 (3.75%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.25%) Go
7 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.25%) MCSA
3 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.50%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 32 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (17.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (8.75%) Docker
5 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 49 (61.25%) Terraform
2 24 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
4 8 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.75%) SCCM
7 2 (2.50%) Grafana
7 2 (2.50%) WSUS
8 1 (1.25%) Ansible
8 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 1 (1.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 36 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.50%) Ab Initio
3 10 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 8 (10.00%) New Relic
4 8 (10.00%) Splunk
5 5 (6.25%) VMware
6 4 (5.00%) Foundry
7 3 (3.75%) Google
7 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.75%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.75%) Sophos
8 2 (2.50%) Clearswift
8 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.50%) Oracle
9 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.25%) Databricks
9 1 (1.25%) Tenable
9 1 (1.25%) Veeam