Azure Monitor Job Trends in the West Midlands

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 196 -
Rank change year-on-year +24 - -
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 6 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.048% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.14% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £95,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.11% - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,047 1,397 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.59% 33.66% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 881 790 1,218
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £80,000 £77,500
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 West Midlands

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

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Monitor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Staffordshire -4 3 - - 1
Birmingham +26 1 £64,500 -32.11% 1
Solihull - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Azure Monitor
England

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Datadog
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Junior
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Cloud Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Junior IT Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 3 (50.00%) Junior Support Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) jQuery
1 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
1 1 (16.67%) WCF
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle