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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 380 425
Rank change year-on-year +83 +45 +170
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 82 55 104
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 0.73% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 44 36 79
10th Percentile £42,550 £43,103 £51,850
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +5.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £74,375 £98,150
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.66% +6.00% -6.02%

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 5,808 7,510 12,682
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.81% 46.77% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,025 4,772 11,098
10th Percentile £32,125 £35,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 2 February 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 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.44%) Confluence
3 1 (1.22%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (76.83%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (41.46%) GitHub
4 29 (35.37%) Entra ID
5 24 (29.27%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (28.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (24.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (20.73%) Azure AKS
8 17 (20.73%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (19.51%) Azure Event Grid
9 16 (19.51%) IaaS
9 16 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (19.51%) PaaS
10 12 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (13.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (12.20%) AWS
13 9 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (9.76%) Power Automate
15 7 (8.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (18.29%) Firewall
2 14 (17.07%) DNS
3 13 (15.85%) VPN
4 6 (7.32%) DHCP
5 5 (6.10%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.88%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.88%) WAN
6 4 (4.88%) Wireless
7 3 (3.66%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.63%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (10.98%) Data Lake
2 9 (10.98%) Delta Lake
3 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.44%) Power BI
5 1 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Git
1 10 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.10%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.44%) JIRA
3 2 (2.44%) Postman
3 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.22%) JMeter
4 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.22%) Selenium
4 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (56.10%) Finance
2 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.54%) Billing
4 5 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.66%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.22%) Back Office
6 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (28.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 22 (26.83%) Senior
3 15 (18.29%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Integration Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Lead
7 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.10%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.73%) JSON
2 16 (19.51%) OAuth
3 15 (18.29%) OAuth2
3 15 (18.29%) RESTful
4 9 (10.98%) PySpark
5 8 (9.76%) .NET
6 7 (8.54%) .NET Core
7 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (3.66%) REST
8 3 (3.66%) XML
8 3 (3.66%) XSLT
9 2 (2.44%) CSS
9 2 (2.44%) HTML
9 2 (2.44%) React
10 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 1 (1.22%) GraphQL
10 1 (1.22%) Nuxt
10 1 (1.22%) React Native
10 1 (1.22%) Swagger
10 1 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.98%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.32%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.88%) iPad
4 4 (4.88%) iPhone
4 4 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Windows
2 10 (12.20%) Linux
3 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.88%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.88%) VMS
4 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (80.49%) Infrastructure as Code
2 64 (78.05%) DevOps
3 51 (62.20%) CI/CD
4 50 (60.98%) Analytics
4 50 (60.98%) Log Analytics
5 33 (40.24%) RBAC
6 32 (39.02%) Cost Management
7 27 (32.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (32.93%) Deployment Automation
8 26 (31.71%) ETL
9 25 (30.49%) Coaching
9 25 (30.49%) Incident Response
10 24 (29.27%) Asset Management
11 23 (28.05%) Data Pipeline
11 23 (28.05%) Root Cause Analysis
12 20 (24.39%) API Management
12 20 (24.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (24.39%) ITIL
13 19 (23.17%) Observability
14 16 (19.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.90%) Bicep
1 36 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 28 (34.15%) Python
3 19 (23.17%) Bash
4 15 (18.29%) SQL
5 11 (13.41%) C#
6 9 (10.98%) Scala
7 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Azure Certification
2 15 (18.29%) SC Cleared
2 15 (18.29%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (10.98%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) GDPR
2 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.32%) SLA
4 2 (2.44%) QA
5 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (24.39%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (15.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (13.41%) Active Directory
4 10 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 10 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (6.10%) Docker
6 1 (1.22%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 65 (79.27%) Terraform
2 16 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (12.20%) Ansible
4 10 (12.20%) Grafana
5 6 (7.32%) SCOM
6 5 (6.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.07%) Ab Initio
3 11 (13.41%) VMware
4 9 (10.98%) Databricks
5 3 (3.66%) Foundry
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.22%) NetApp
7 1 (1.22%) Okta
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle
7 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.22%) Veeam
7 1 (1.22%) Zscaler