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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 363 389
Rank change year-on-year +66 +26 +201
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 79 69 84
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.41% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 0.90% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 45 47 66
10th Percentile £42,900 £43,474 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,719 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,250 £74,250
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -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 5,529 7,681 9,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 46.15% 46.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,960 4,920 8,401
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,938 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%

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 7 January 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 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) Confluence
3 2 (2.53%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (75.95%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (41.77%) GitHub
4 27 (34.18%) Entra ID
5 24 (30.38%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (25.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (25.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 18 (22.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (21.52%) Azure Event Grid
9 16 (20.25%) Azure AKS
9 16 (20.25%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (18.99%) IaaS
10 15 (18.99%) PaaS
11 13 (16.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (13.92%) AWS
13 11 (13.92%) Power Automate
14 9 (11.39%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (8.86%) Power Platform
16 6 (7.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) DNS
2 13 (16.46%) Firewall
2 13 (16.46%) VPN
3 6 (7.59%) DHCP
4 5 (6.33%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.06%) Network Security
5 4 (5.06%) SD-WAN
5 4 (5.06%) WAN
5 4 (5.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
2 6 (7.59%) Delta Lake
3 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) Git
3 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.33%) Visual Studio
4 4 (5.06%) Postman
5 3 (3.80%) JMeter
5 3 (3.80%) Selenium
5 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.27%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (51.90%) Finance
2 12 (15.19%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.33%) Billing
4 4 (5.06%) Retail
5 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.27%) Back Office
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Senior
2 22 (27.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Integration Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Lead
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.52%) JSON
1 17 (21.52%) RESTful
2 16 (20.25%) OAuth
3 15 (18.99%) OAuth2
4 7 (8.86%) .NET
5 6 (7.59%) .NET Core
5 6 (7.59%) PySpark
6 4 (5.06%) CSS
6 4 (5.06%) HTML
6 4 (5.06%) React
6 4 (5.06%) REST
7 3 (3.80%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (3.80%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.80%) Node.js
7 3 (3.80%) Nuxt
7 3 (3.80%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.80%) Swagger
7 3 (3.80%) Vue
7 3 (3.80%) XML
7 3 (3.80%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.39%) Onboarding
3 8 (10.13%) Mobile App
4 7 (8.86%) Cloud Native
5 6 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.06%) iPad
6 4 (5.06%) iPhone
6 4 (5.06%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.80%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.27%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows
2 10 (12.66%) Linux
3 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.06%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (78.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 61 (77.22%) DevOps
3 46 (58.23%) CI/CD
4 43 (54.43%) Analytics
4 43 (54.43%) Log Analytics
5 31 (39.24%) RBAC
6 30 (37.97%) Cost Management
7 25 (31.65%) Coaching
7 25 (31.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (31.65%) Deployment Automation
8 24 (30.38%) Asset Management
9 23 (29.11%) ETL
9 23 (29.11%) Incident Response
10 22 (27.85%) Observability
10 22 (27.85%) Root Cause Analysis
11 20 (25.32%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (25.32%) ITIL
12 18 (22.78%) API Management
12 18 (22.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (22.78%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 35 (44.30%) Bicep
1 35 (44.30%) PowerShell
2 25 (31.65%) Python
3 19 (24.05%) Bash
4 13 (16.46%) SQL
5 10 (12.66%) C#
6 6 (7.59%) Scala
7 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Azure Certification
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) Security Cleared
3 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (11.39%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.72%) GDPR
2 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.06%) QA
3 4 (5.06%) SLA
4 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (25.32%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (17.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (13.92%) Active Directory
4 10 (12.66%) Hyper-V
4 10 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.06%) Docker
6 1 (1.27%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 61 (77.22%) Terraform
2 14 (17.72%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (12.66%) Ansible
3 10 (12.66%) Grafana
4 7 (8.86%) SCOM
5 6 (7.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (39.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (17.72%) Ab Initio
3 11 (13.92%) VMware
4 6 (7.59%) Databricks
5 5 (6.33%) Dynatrace
6 4 (5.06%) Foundry
7 2 (2.53%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.27%) NetApp
8 1 (1.27%) Okta
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle
8 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.27%) Veeam
8 1 (1.27%) Zscaler