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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 511 705
Rank change year-on-year -42 +194 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 163 143 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.33% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 0.93% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 118 112 118
10th Percentile £47,125 £47,500 £49,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,063 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,250 £65,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% +3.80% -3.73%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £96,250 £113,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,500 £63,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +1.57% +7.63% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 26,587 15,373 34,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.41% 35.15% 35.65%
Number of salaries quoted 14,876 10,843 26,768
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England -29 153 £80,000 +18.52% 55
London -6 84 £85,000 +21.43% 24
UK excluding London -21 76 £64,500 +1.57% 43
Work from Home +8 53 £70,000 +7.69% 18
North of England -13 36 £62,500 -9.09% 10
South East -8 21 £70,000 +11.11% 19
Yorkshire -37 20 £65,000 +6.12% 4
North West +1 16 £62,500 -13.79% 5
Scotland +1 9 £60,000 -29.41% 4
Midlands -31 6 £64,500 -22.99% 3
West Midlands -26 3 £64,500 -22.99% 2
East Midlands -30 3 £67,500 - 1
East of England -16 2 £57,750 +67.99% 3
South West -48 2 £45,000 -30.77% 2

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (8.59%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.23%) IIS
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 163 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (51.53%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (33.13%) Entra ID
4 51 (31.29%) Serverless
5 50 (30.67%) Azure Functions
6 40 (24.54%) Azure Logic Apps
7 35 (21.47%) GitHub
8 34 (20.86%) Azure AKS
9 33 (20.25%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (15.95%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (15.95%) SaaS
11 25 (15.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 25 (15.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 25 (15.34%) Power Platform
12 21 (12.88%) Azure Storage
13 20 (12.27%) Azure Event Grid
13 20 (12.27%) Azure Key Vault
14 16 (9.82%) Azure Service Bus
15 15 (9.20%) IaaS
15 15 (9.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.15%) Firewall
2 32 (19.63%) VPN
3 27 (16.56%) WAN
4 17 (10.43%) SD-WAN
5 15 (9.20%) DNS
6 14 (8.59%) Network Security
7 13 (7.98%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (7.36%) DHCP
9 9 (5.52%) TCP/IP
10 6 (3.68%) LAN
11 3 (1.84%) BGP
11 3 (1.84%) HTTP
11 3 (1.84%) OSPF
11 3 (1.84%) Wireless
12 2 (1.23%) HTTPS
13 1 (0.61%) IPv4
13 1 (0.61%) IPv6
13 1 (0.61%) MPLS
13 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
13 1 (0.61%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 31 (19.02%) SQL Server
3 15 (9.20%) Power BI
4 10 (6.13%) Data Lake
4 10 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (5.52%) Delta Lake
6 8 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.91%) Spark SQL
7 3 (1.84%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.84%) Redis
8 2 (1.23%) MySQL
8 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (19.63%) Git
2 6 (3.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.45%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.23%) GitLab
4 2 (1.23%) NUnit
5 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) Gatling
5 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) JIRA
5 1 (0.61%) JMeter
5 1 (0.61%) Locust
5 1 (0.61%) Vite
5 1 (0.61%) Yeoman
General
1 56 (34.36%) Finance
2 36 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 13 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.52%) Billing
5 8 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.84%) Back Office
7 2 (1.23%) Advertising
7 2 (1.23%) Banking
7 2 (1.23%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (36.20%) Azure Engineer
2 35 (21.47%) Senior
3 30 (18.40%) Platform Engineer
4 27 (16.56%) Lead
5 26 (15.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 21 (12.88%) Support Engineer
7 19 (11.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (11.04%) Developer
9 17 (10.43%) Data Engineer
10 13 (7.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 11 (6.75%) Security Engineer
13 10 (6.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
13 10 (6.13%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 10 (6.13%) Network Engineer
13 10 (6.13%) Software Developer
14 9 (5.52%) Azure Developer
14 9 (5.52%) Lead Cisco Engineer
14 9 (5.52%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (29.45%) .NET
2 28 (17.18%) OAuth
3 21 (12.88%) .NET Core
3 21 (12.88%) REST
4 20 (12.27%) ARM Templates
5 17 (10.43%) OAuth2
5 17 (10.43%) PySpark
6 14 (8.59%) YAML
7 13 (7.98%) ADO
8 11 (6.75%) JSON
8 11 (6.75%) SAML
9 10 (6.13%) RESTful
10 9 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (4.29%) ASP.NET
11 7 (4.29%) WPF
12 6 (3.68%) .NET Framework
13 5 (3.07%) Entity Framework
13 5 (3.07%) React
14 4 (2.45%) CSS
14 4 (2.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.68%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.45%) Replication
5 3 (1.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.84%) iPad
5 3 (1.84%) iPhone
5 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.84%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.23%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.23%) Clustering
6 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Lidar
7 1 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.56%) VMS
2 20 (12.27%) Windows
3 9 (5.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.68%) Linux
5 5 (3.07%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.84%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (59.51%) DevOps
2 96 (58.90%) CI/CD
3 81 (49.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (42.94%) Analytics
5 69 (42.33%) Log Analytics
6 55 (33.74%) Observability
7 42 (25.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (25.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (24.54%) Incident Response
9 40 (24.54%) RBAC
10 38 (23.31%) Incident Management
11 34 (20.86%) Identity Management
11 34 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (19.63%) API Management
13 31 (19.02%) Root Cause Analysis
14 30 (18.40%) Platform Engineering
15 29 (17.79%) Test Automation
16 27 (16.56%) Deployment Automation
17 25 (15.34%) Runbook
18 24 (14.72%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 80 (49.08%) SQL
2 48 (29.45%) C#
3 44 (26.99%) PowerShell
4 34 (20.86%) Python
5 30 (18.40%) Bicep
6 24 (14.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (8.59%) Bash
8 11 (6.75%) TypeScript
9 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
10 9 (5.52%) Scala
11 3 (1.84%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.61%) Java
Qualifications
1 31 (19.02%) Azure Certification
2 26 (15.95%) Degree
3 16 (9.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (6.75%) CCNA
4 11 (6.75%) CCNP
4 11 (6.75%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.52%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.45%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (28.22%) GDPR
2 23 (14.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (7.36%) SOC 2
4 9 (5.52%) Data Quality
4 9 (5.52%) NIST
5 7 (4.29%) QA
6 5 (3.07%) SLA
7 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
System Software
1 44 (26.99%) Active Directory
2 19 (11.66%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (9.82%) Docker
4 5 (3.07%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.61%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 83 (50.92%) Terraform
2 22 (13.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (10.43%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.59%) Ansible
4 14 (8.59%) Grafana
5 9 (5.52%) Cisco Prime
6 8 (4.91%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.29%) Kibana
8 3 (1.84%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.23%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.61%) Argo
10 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.61%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 75 (46.01%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.88%) Databricks
3 17 (10.43%) SolarWinds
4 12 (7.36%) Cisco
4 12 (7.36%) Oracle
4 12 (7.36%) Splunk
5 11 (6.75%) Palo Alto
5 11 (6.75%) Zscaler
6 10 (6.13%) Meraki
7 8 (4.91%) New Relic
8 7 (4.29%) Ab Initio
9 4 (2.45%) VMware
10 2 (1.23%) Apple
10 2 (1.23%) DevExpress
10 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.23%) Foundry
11 1 (0.61%) Google
11 1 (0.61%) NetApp
11 1 (0.61%) RedGate
11 1 (0.61%) SendGrid