Azure Monitor Job Trends

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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 575 518
Rank change year-on-year +84 -57 +198
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 154 142 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 0.71% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 101 96 140
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £54,716 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.93% -1.67%

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 20,528 20,025 21,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.70% 36.11% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 11,196 11,894 17,421
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 15 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 31 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
England +68 115 £70,000 +7.69% 293
UK excluding London +41 78 £60,000 -4.00% 299
Work from Home +78 77 £62,500 - 43
London +73 61 £80,000 +14.29% 43
Scotland +13 25 £45,000 +9.09% 35
North of England +19 19 £55,000 +4.76% 54
North West +42 17 £57,500 +27.78% 28
South East +4 17 £70,000 +7.69% 72
Midlands +30 7 £62,250 +46.47% 51
West Midlands +34 6 £64,500 -32.11% 30
South West - 5 £42,500 - 34
East of England +24 3 £55,000 +59.99% 40
Wales +7 2 £51,750 +5.39% 9
Yorkshire -13 2 £43,750 -23.91% 22
East Midlands -8 1 £60,000 +50.00% 16

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 16 (10.39%) SharePoint
2 9 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.90%) Confluence
4 3 (1.95%) IIS
5 2 (1.30%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 154 (100.00%) Azure
2 89 (57.79%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (38.96%) Entra ID
4 53 (34.42%) GitHub
5 43 (27.92%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (26.62%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (22.73%) Azure AKS
8 27 (17.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 25 (16.23%) SaaS
9 25 (16.23%) Serverless
10 24 (15.58%) Azure Functions
11 22 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
11 22 (14.29%) Power Platform
12 21 (13.64%) IaaS
13 20 (12.99%) PaaS
14 19 (12.34%) Azure Event Grid
15 18 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (11.69%) AWS
15 18 (11.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.78%) DNS
2 27 (17.53%) Firewall
2 27 (17.53%) VPN
3 18 (11.69%) DHCP
4 12 (7.79%) WAN
5 10 (6.49%) Network Security
6 5 (3.25%) SD-WAN
6 5 (3.25%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.60%) Wireless
8 1 (0.65%) IPv4
8 1 (0.65%) IPv6
8 1 (0.65%) LAN
8 1 (0.65%) MPLS
8 1 (0.65%) NAS
8 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.65%) SAN
8 1 (0.65%) SNMP
8 1 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (8.44%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.90%) Power BI
4 5 (3.25%) Delta Lake
4 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.65%) Looker
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (11.69%) Git
2 13 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.14%) JIRA
4 4 (2.60%) Postman
4 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.95%) JMeter
5 3 (1.95%) Selenium
5 3 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.65%) GitLab
6 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 67 (43.51%) Finance
2 30 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.90%) Retail
7 4 (2.60%) Billing
8 2 (1.30%) Banking
8 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.65%) Back Office
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (20.78%) Senior
2 31 (20.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (17.53%) Azure Engineer
4 22 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (9.74%) Support Engineer
6 12 (7.79%) Analyst
6 12 (7.79%) Developer
6 12 (7.79%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.49%) Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.84%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Applications Support
10 8 (5.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
12 6 (3.90%) Lead
13 5 (3.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 5 (3.25%) Support Analyst
14 4 (2.60%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.94%) OAuth
2 19 (12.34%) RESTful
3 17 (11.04%) .NET
3 17 (11.04%) JSON
4 15 (9.74%) OAuth2
5 12 (7.79%) ARM Templates
6 10 (6.49%) YAML
7 7 (4.55%) ADO
7 7 (4.55%) CSS
7 7 (4.55%) HTML
7 7 (4.55%) React
7 7 (4.55%) SAML
8 6 (3.90%) .NET Core
8 6 (3.90%) REST
9 5 (3.25%) PySpark
10 4 (2.60%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.95%) Nuxt
11 3 (1.95%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.95%) Swagger
11 3 (1.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.34%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.79%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.19%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.60%) iPad
7 4 (2.60%) iPhone
7 4 (2.60%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.95%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.95%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.30%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.65%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 35 (22.73%) Windows
2 22 (14.29%) Linux
3 19 (12.34%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.14%) VMS
5 4 (2.60%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (68.18%) DevOps
2 86 (55.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 76 (49.35%) Analytics
3 76 (49.35%) CI/CD
4 75 (48.70%) Log Analytics
5 58 (37.66%) Observability
6 51 (33.12%) RBAC
7 46 (29.87%) Incident Response
8 43 (27.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (24.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (23.38%) Cost Management
11 32 (20.78%) Identity Management
11 32 (20.78%) Root Cause Analysis
12 30 (19.48%) Deployment Automation
13 29 (18.83%) Agile
13 29 (18.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (18.18%) Coaching
14 28 (18.18%) ITIL
15 26 (16.88%) AI
15 26 (16.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 69 (44.81%) PowerShell
2 46 (29.87%) Bicep
3 41 (26.62%) SQL
4 40 (25.97%) Python
5 29 (18.83%) Bash
6 22 (14.29%) C#
7 16 (10.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.25%) Scala
10 2 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.65%) Go
11 1 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (17.53%) Azure Certification
2 21 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 17 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 15 (9.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.30%) Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.65%) MCP
8 1 (0.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.29%) GDPR
2 7 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.55%) SLA
2 7 (4.55%) SOC 2
3 5 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.60%) QA
5 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.95%) WCAG
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (31.17%) Active Directory
2 34 (22.08%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (12.99%) Docker
4 15 (9.74%) Hyper-V
4 15 (9.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.65%) vCloud
6 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 96 (62.34%) Terraform
2 33 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 26 (16.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (14.29%) Grafana
5 20 (12.99%) Ansible
6 14 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.19%) SCOM
7 8 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.95%) SCCM
9 2 (1.30%) Kibana
9 2 (1.30%) WSUS
10 1 (0.65%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.65%) Istio
10 1 (0.65%) linkerd
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.65%) Nessus
Vendors
1 77 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.04%) VMware
3 15 (9.74%) Dynatrace
4 14 (9.09%) Ab Initio
5 12 (7.79%) Splunk
6 8 (5.19%) New Relic
6 8 (5.19%) Zscaler
7 7 (4.55%) Databricks
7 7 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.90%) Google
8 6 (3.90%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.60%) Foundry
9 4 (2.60%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.95%) Oracle
10 3 (1.95%) Sophos
11 2 (1.30%) Clearswift
11 2 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.65%) BMC
12 1 (0.65%) F5
12 1 (0.65%) Veeam