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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 361 488
Rank change year-on-year +13 +127 +47
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 57 60 88
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.41% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.80% 1.04% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 32 37 57
10th Percentile £49,375 £44,150 £52,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £47,500 £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 £84,964
90th Percentile £120,000 £83,750 £108,211
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +6.87% -

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 7,134 5,792 14,004
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.95% 39.64% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,893 4,178 11,916
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,175 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,987
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 22 May 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 (8.77%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 17 (29.82%) GitHub
5 15 (26.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (24.56%) Azure AKS
7 12 (21.05%) IaaS
7 12 (21.05%) PaaS
8 9 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (14.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (14.04%) SaaS
10 7 (12.28%) AWS
11 6 (10.53%) Azure API Management
11 6 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
11 6 (10.53%) Azure Functions
11 6 (10.53%) Serverless
12 5 (8.77%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (8.77%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (26.32%) Firewall
2 11 (19.30%) DNS
3 7 (12.28%) DHCP
3 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.28%) VPN
4 5 (8.77%) LAN
4 5 (8.77%) SD-WAN
5 4 (7.02%) WAN
6 3 (5.26%) BGP
6 3 (5.26%) HTTP
6 3 (5.26%) OSPF
6 3 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (3.51%) Wireless
8 1 (1.75%) Network Security
8 1 (1.75%) Skype
8 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.75%) VoIP
8 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 9 (15.79%) Delta Lake
3 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Power BI
6 2 (3.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) MSI
3 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) NUnit
4 1 (1.75%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.75%) Vite
General
1 22 (38.60%) Finance
2 12 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Billing
4 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Advertising
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.75%) Aviation
6 1 (1.75%) Back Office
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
1 15 (26.32%) Cloud Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
3 9 (15.79%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Lead
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) DBA
7 3 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Software Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Support
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) .NET
2 9 (15.79%) PySpark
3 8 (14.04%) ARM Templates
4 7 (12.28%) .NET Core
4 7 (12.28%) JSON
5 6 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (10.53%) OAuth
5 6 (10.53%) OAuth2
5 6 (10.53%) RESTful
6 4 (7.02%) YAML
7 3 (5.26%) .NET Framework
7 3 (5.26%) 802.1X
8 2 (3.51%) ADO
8 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.51%) CSS
8 2 (3.51%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.51%) HTML
8 2 (3.51%) React
9 1 (1.75%) iOS SDK
9 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.26%) Replication
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.51%) iPad
3 2 (3.51%) iPhone
3 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.51%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Clustering
4 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
1 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) VMS
3 2 (3.51%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (75.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 41 (71.93%) DevOps
3 40 (70.18%) CI/CD
4 33 (57.89%) Analytics
5 29 (50.88%) Log Analytics
6 16 (28.07%) Disaster Recovery
6 16 (28.07%) High Availability
7 15 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (24.56%) ETL
8 14 (24.56%) RBAC
9 13 (22.81%) API Management
9 13 (22.81%) Observability
10 12 (21.05%) Cost Management
10 12 (21.05%) Test Automation
11 11 (19.30%) Data Governance
11 11 (19.30%) Data Modelling
11 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (17.54%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) SQL
2 15 (26.32%) Bicep
2 15 (26.32%) Python
3 13 (22.81%) PowerShell
4 12 (21.05%) C#
5 9 (15.79%) Scala
6 4 (7.02%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) Azure Certification
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) Degree
5 2 (3.51%) CCNA
5 2 (3.51%) CCNP
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.05%) GDPR
2 9 (15.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.02%) SLA
4 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.75%) GRC
5 1 (1.75%) QA
5 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.28%) Docker
3 6 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (75.44%) Terraform
2 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.02%) Grafana
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.51%) Argo
5 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) Databricks
3 6 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 5 (8.77%) Ab Initio
5 4 (7.02%) Oracle
6 3 (5.26%) Cisco
7 2 (3.51%) Apple
7 2 (3.51%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.51%) Foundry
7 2 (3.51%) VMware
8 1 (1.75%) DevExpress