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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 370 382
Rank change year-on-year +80 +12 +244
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 82 77 91
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.44% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 0.95% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 50 54 74
10th Percentile £44,650 £44,969 £51,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,750 £75,700 £74,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Cloud 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 5,643 8,085 9,454
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.79% 45.94% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,125 5,315 8,100
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,750 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +1.56% -1.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -3.85%

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 16 December 2025.

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%) IIS
1 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) Confluence
3 3 (3.66%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) Azure
2 60 (73.17%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (35.37%) GitHub
4 24 (29.27%) Entra ID
5 23 (28.05%) Azure Service Bus
5 23 (28.05%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (20.73%) Azure AKS
6 17 (20.73%) Azure Event Grid
6 17 (20.73%) Azure Logic Apps
7 16 (19.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (15.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (15.85%) IaaS
10 12 (14.63%) PaaS
10 12 (14.63%) Power Automate
11 11 (13.41%) AWS
12 9 (10.98%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (9.76%) Azure Functions
13 8 (9.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.07%) DNS
1 14 (17.07%) VPN
2 10 (12.20%) Firewall
3 6 (7.32%) DHCP
4 5 (6.10%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.10%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.10%) WAN
5 4 (4.88%) Network Security
5 4 (4.88%) Wireless
6 1 (1.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.66%) Delta Lake
3 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.20%) Git
3 9 (10.98%) JIRA
4 4 (4.88%) Postman
5 3 (3.66%) JMeter
5 3 (3.66%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.66%) Selenium
5 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.66%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.22%) GitLab
6 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (42.68%) Finance
2 15 (18.29%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (1.22%) Back Office
5 1 (1.22%) Billing
5 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (28.05%) Senior
2 19 (23.17%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (21.95%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (12.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Analyst
9 5 (6.10%) Support Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) .NET Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
10 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.51%) JSON
1 16 (19.51%) RESTful
2 15 (18.29%) OAuth
3 14 (17.07%) OAuth2
4 8 (9.76%) .NET
5 7 (8.54%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.88%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.88%) CSS
6 4 (4.88%) HTML
6 4 (4.88%) React
6 4 (4.88%) REST
7 3 (3.66%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.66%) Loki
7 3 (3.66%) Node.js
7 3 (3.66%) PySpark
7 3 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.66%) Swagger
7 3 (3.66%) Vue
7 3 (3.66%) XML
7 3 (3.66%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.98%) Onboarding
3 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.76%) Mobile App
4 6 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.88%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.88%) iPad
5 4 (4.88%) iPhone
5 4 (4.88%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (2.44%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.22%) Clustering
7 1 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.61%) Windows
2 14 (17.07%) Linux
3 7 (8.54%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.88%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (75.61%) DevOps
2 57 (69.51%) Infrastructure as Code
3 44 (53.66%) CI/CD
4 38 (46.34%) Analytics
4 38 (46.34%) Log Analytics
5 28 (34.15%) RBAC
6 26 (31.71%) Cost Management
6 26 (31.71%) Incident Response
7 24 (29.27%) Coaching
7 24 (29.27%) Deployment Automation
8 23 (28.05%) Asset Management
8 23 (28.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (25.61%) Agile
9 21 (25.61%) ITIL
9 21 (25.61%) Observability
9 21 (25.61%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (23.17%) ETL
11 17 (20.73%) API Management
11 17 (20.73%) Event-Driven
12 16 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 46 (56.10%) PowerShell
2 40 (48.78%) Bicep
3 28 (34.15%) Python
4 25 (30.49%) Bash
5 13 (15.85%) SQL
6 11 (13.41%) C#
7 4 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.66%) Scala
9 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (25.61%) Azure Certification
2 16 (19.51%) SC Cleared
2 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (10.98%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.85%) GDPR
2 5 (6.10%) QA
3 4 (4.88%) SLA
4 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.66%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (28.05%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (18.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
4 11 (13.41%) Hyper-V
5 10 (12.20%) Docker
5 10 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.22%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 57 (69.51%) Terraform
2 16 (19.51%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (15.85%) Grafana
5 11 (13.41%) Ansible
5 11 (13.41%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.54%) SCOM
7 1 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 33 (40.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) Ab Initio
3 11 (13.41%) VMware
4 5 (6.10%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.10%) Foundry
5 4 (4.88%) Databricks
6 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.22%) NetApp
7 1 (1.22%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.22%) Okta
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle
7 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.22%) Veeam
7 1 (1.22%) Zscaler