Hybrid/Remote Azure Monitor Job Trends

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Azure Monitor skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 365 466
Rank change year-on-year +9 +101 +26
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 66 63 110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.32% 0.40% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 1.06% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 36 44 70
10th Percentile £56,125 £47,500 £46,125
25th Percentile £61,875 £56,500 £56,319
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +11.67% -
75th Percentile £77,813 £73,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £103,750 £83,750 £95,618
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +10.71% +5.66% +1.92%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,761 5,947 14,326
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.09% 38.02% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,508 4,349 11,902
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure Monitor and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure Monitor job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Azure Monitor
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Monitor.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Monitor

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Azure Monitor salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Azure Monitor
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 13 (19.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.03%) IIS
2 2 (3.03%) nginx
2 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (69.70%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (36.36%) IaaS
3 24 (36.36%) PaaS
4 21 (31.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 19 (28.79%) GitHub
6 18 (27.27%) Azure Functions
6 18 (27.27%) Serverless
7 17 (25.76%) Azure AKS
8 15 (22.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 15 (22.73%) Entra ID
9 9 (13.64%) AWS
10 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (12.12%) SaaS
11 7 (10.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (10.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (9.09%) Azure API Management
13 5 (7.58%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (7.58%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 18 (27.27%) VPN
2 14 (21.21%) Firewall
3 10 (15.15%) DNS
4 6 (9.09%) DHCP
4 6 (9.09%) LAN
4 6 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.55%) BGP
5 3 (4.55%) HTTP
5 3 (4.55%) OSPF
5 3 (4.55%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.55%) WAN
5 3 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.52%) Network Security
6 1 (1.52%) Skype
6 1 (1.52%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.52%) VoIP
6 1 (1.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.06%) Delta Lake
4 4 (6.06%) Redis
5 3 (4.55%) Power BI
6 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (36.36%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) NUnit
2 3 (4.55%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.03%) MSI
3 2 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (3.03%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.52%) JIRA
4 1 (1.52%) Vite
General
1 24 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (21.21%) Law
4 8 (12.12%) Finance
5 7 (10.61%) Billing
6 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.55%) Aviation
7 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.03%) Advertising
8 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Senior
2 17 (25.76%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Analyst
4 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Lead
7 6 (9.09%) Developer
7 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) DBA
9 3 (4.55%) Lead Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Administrator
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.03%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) .NET
2 13 (19.70%) ARM Templates
3 10 (15.15%) .NET Core
4 6 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
4 6 (9.09%) YAML
5 4 (6.06%) ASP.NET
5 4 (6.06%) PySpark
6 3 (4.55%) 802.1X
6 3 (4.55%) Blazor
6 3 (4.55%) REST
6 3 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.03%) ADO
7 2 (3.03%) Entity Framework
7 2 (3.03%) GeoJSON
7 2 (3.03%) gRPC
7 2 (3.03%) JSON
7 2 (3.03%) Loki
7 2 (3.03%) React Native
7 2 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Public Cloud
2 12 (18.18%) Podcast
2 12 (18.18%) Security Posture
3 6 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.55%) Replication
6 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.52%) Clustering
7 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.76%) Windows
2 14 (21.21%) VMS
3 8 (12.12%) Linux
4 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (75.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 48 (72.73%) DevOps
3 45 (68.18%) CI/CD
4 38 (57.58%) Analytics
5 32 (48.48%) Log Analytics
6 25 (37.88%) Observability
7 23 (34.85%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (33.33%) Agile
9 20 (30.30%) API Management
9 20 (30.30%) Cloud Security
10 19 (28.79%) AI
11 18 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (25.76%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (24.24%) Computer Science
13 16 (24.24%) DevSecOps
14 15 (22.73%) Mentoring
15 14 (21.21%) Microservices
15 14 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (21.21%) Scrum
16 13 (19.70%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (51.52%) SQL
2 32 (48.48%) PowerShell
3 26 (39.39%) Bicep
4 19 (28.79%) Bash
5 16 (24.24%) C#
6 15 (22.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 14 (21.21%) Python
8 4 (6.06%) Scala
9 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 19 (28.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.06%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) CCNA
5 3 (4.55%) CCNP
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) GDPR
2 7 (10.61%) QA
3 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.03%) NCSC
4 2 (3.03%) SLA
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.52%) GRC
5 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
2 12 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.18%) vSphere
3 11 (16.67%) Docker
4 7 (10.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (74.24%) Terraform
2 13 (19.70%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.61%) Grafana
4 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.55%) Argo
5 3 (4.55%) FortiGate
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.52%) Istio
7 1 (1.52%) linkerd
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 46 (69.70%) Microsoft
2 12 (18.18%) ScienceLogic
2 12 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (10.61%) SolarWinds
4 5 (7.58%) Databricks
5 3 (4.55%) Cisco
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) Apple
6 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.52%) Foundry