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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 356 451
Rank change year-on-year +30 +95 +126
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 62 46 97
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.37% 0.34% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.98% 0.72% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 32 37 67
10th Percentile £57,500 £43,474 £52,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £83,732
90th Percentile £120,000 £83,750 £98,974
UK median annual salary £73,750 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.36% +12.00% -3.85%

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 6,323 6,410 13,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.50% 47.51% 45.29%
Number of salaries quoted 4,270 4,718 11,840
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 18 March 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 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (100.00%) Azure
2 51 (82.26%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (41.94%) GitHub
4 22 (35.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (32.26%) Entra ID
6 17 (27.42%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (25.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (24.19%) Azure AKS
9 12 (19.35%) Azure Event Grid
9 12 (19.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (19.35%) IaaS
9 12 (19.35%) PaaS
10 11 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (14.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (9.68%) Azure API Management
13 5 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (8.06%) Azure App Service
13 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
13 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.35%) Firewall
2 7 (11.29%) DNS
2 7 (11.29%) VPN
3 5 (8.06%) DHCP
3 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.45%) SD-WAN
4 4 (6.45%) WAN
4 4 (6.45%) Wireless
5 2 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
2 9 (14.52%) Delta Lake
3 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.84%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.45%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.61%) JIRA
4 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.61%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (59.68%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Billing
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Advertising
3 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Back Office
3 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Senior
3 13 (20.97%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Integration Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Data Engineer
5 9 (14.52%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Senior Support Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) JSON
1 13 (20.97%) OAuth
1 13 (20.97%) OAuth2
2 12 (19.35%) RESTful
3 9 (14.52%) PySpark
4 7 (11.29%) .NET
5 6 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (3.23%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.61%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.61%) CSS
8 1 (1.61%) HTML
8 1 (1.61%) OpenID
8 1 (1.61%) React
8 1 (1.61%) React Native
8 1 (1.61%) REST
8 1 (1.61%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (1.61%) SOAP
8 1 (1.61%) XML
8 1 (1.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.45%) iPad
2 4 (6.45%) iPhone
2 4 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.61%) Clustering
4 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Linux
3 4 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.45%) VMS
3 4 (6.45%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (83.87%) DevOps
2 49 (79.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (70.97%) CI/CD
4 39 (62.90%) Analytics
5 38 (61.29%) Log Analytics
6 26 (41.94%) RBAC
7 23 (37.10%) Cost Management
8 22 (35.48%) ETL
9 21 (33.87%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (32.26%) Incident Response
11 19 (30.65%) Deployment Automation
11 19 (30.65%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (29.03%) API Management
13 17 (27.42%) Coaching
14 16 (25.81%) Asset Management
14 16 (25.81%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (24.19%) Observability
16 14 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
18 12 (19.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) Bicep
2 18 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 17 (27.42%) Python
4 15 (24.19%) SQL
5 9 (14.52%) C#
5 9 (14.52%) Scala
6 8 (12.90%) Bash
7 2 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (17.74%) Azure Certification
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) GDPR
2 9 (14.52%) Data Quality
3 6 (9.68%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) GRC
4 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) QA
4 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (9.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (8.06%) Docker
3 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 48 (77.42%) Terraform
2 11 (17.74%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (8.06%) Ansible
4 5 (8.06%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.61%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 20 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (19.35%) Ab Initio
3 10 (16.13%) Databricks
4 5 (8.06%) VMware
5 2 (3.23%) Foundry
6 1 (1.61%) Apple
6 1 (1.61%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.61%) NetApp
6 1 (1.61%) Okta
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.61%) Zscaler