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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 344 455
Rank change year-on-year +9 +111 +119
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 58 46 96
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 0.75% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 30 37 65
10th Percentile £56,938 £43,474 £52,000
25th Percentile £62,813 £53,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +10.83% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £78,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £120,000 £83,750 £99,711
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -

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 6,397 6,119 13,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 47.35% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,315 4,711 11,955
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -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 26 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 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (81.03%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (41.38%) GitHub
4 21 (36.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (32.76%) Entra ID
6 15 (25.86%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (24.14%) Azure AKS
7 14 (24.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (20.69%) IaaS
8 12 (20.69%) PaaS
9 11 (18.97%) Azure Event Grid
9 11 (18.97%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (15.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (10.34%) Azure API Management
13 5 (8.62%) Azure App Service
13 5 (8.62%) OneDrive
14 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (6.90%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (22.41%) Firewall
2 8 (13.79%) DNS
2 8 (13.79%) VPN
3 6 (10.34%) DHCP
3 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
4 5 (8.62%) SD-WAN
5 4 (6.90%) WAN
5 4 (6.90%) Wireless
6 2 (3.45%) Network Security
7 1 (1.72%) BGP
7 1 (1.72%) HTTP
7 1 (1.72%) LAN
7 1 (1.72%) OSPF
7 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (15.52%) Data Lake
2 9 (15.52%) Delta Lake
3 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.17%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.72%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (58.62%) Finance
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Billing
4 1 (1.72%) Advertising
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Back Office
4 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) Senior
3 10 (17.24%) Integration Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Support Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.69%) OAuth
1 12 (20.69%) OAuth2
2 11 (18.97%) JSON
2 11 (18.97%) RESTful
3 9 (15.52%) PySpark
4 7 (12.07%) .NET
5 6 (10.34%) .NET Core
6 5 (8.62%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.72%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.72%) CSS
8 1 (1.72%) HTML
8 1 (1.72%) OpenID
8 1 (1.72%) React
8 1 (1.72%) React Native
8 1 (1.72%) Semantic Kernel
8 1 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.90%) iPad
2 4 (6.90%) iPhone
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.72%) Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.52%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Apple iOS
3 4 (6.90%) VMS
3 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (82.76%) DevOps
2 47 (81.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (72.41%) CI/CD
4 36 (62.07%) Analytics
5 35 (60.34%) Log Analytics
6 24 (41.38%) RBAC
7 20 (34.48%) Cost Management
7 20 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (34.48%) ETL
8 18 (31.03%) Incident Response
8 18 (31.03%) Root Cause Analysis
9 17 (29.31%) API Management
9 17 (29.31%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (25.86%) Coaching
10 15 (25.86%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (24.14%) Asset Management
11 14 (24.14%) Observability
12 12 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (20.69%) High Availability
12 12 (20.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) Bicep
2 15 (25.86%) Python
2 15 (25.86%) SQL
3 14 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.52%) Scala
5 8 (13.79%) C#
6 6 (10.34%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.41%) GDPR
2 9 (15.52%) Data Quality
3 6 (10.34%) SLA
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (15.52%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (10.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.62%) Docker
3 5 (8.62%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.72%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 46 (79.31%) Terraform
2 10 (17.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 4 (6.90%) Grafana
5 2 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.97%) Ab Initio
3 10 (17.24%) Databricks
4 5 (8.62%) VMware
5 2 (3.45%) Foundry
5 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.72%) Apple
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) NetApp
6 1 (1.72%) Okta
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle
6 1 (1.72%) Zscaler