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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 373 379
Rank change year-on-year +79 +6 +260
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 80 89 97
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.47% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.03% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50 62 80
10th Percentile £44,650 £41,621 £51,125
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.49%
75th Percentile £73,438 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,900 £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 5,563 8,657 9,681
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.33% 45.41% 47.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,114 5,671 8,292
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £64,762
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.37% -0.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -2.95%

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 4 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 6 (7.50%) IIS
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (5.00%) nginx
3 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (71.25%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (32.50%) GitHub
4 23 (28.75%) Entra ID
5 22 (27.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 21 (26.25%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (22.50%) Azure AKS
8 15 (18.75%) Azure Event Grid
8 15 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (16.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (16.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (15.00%) IaaS
12 11 (13.75%) AWS
12 11 (13.75%) PaaS
12 11 (13.75%) Power Automate
13 9 (11.25%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (10.00%) Azure Functions
14 8 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.50%) DNS
1 14 (17.50%) VPN
2 10 (12.50%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) DHCP
4 5 (6.25%) Network Security
4 5 (6.25%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.25%) WAN
5 4 (5.00%) Wireless
6 1 (1.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.75%) Git
3 8 (10.00%) JIRA
4 4 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (5.00%) Postman
5 3 (3.75%) JMeter
5 3 (3.75%) Selenium
5 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.25%) GitLab
6 1 (1.25%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.25%) Maven
6 1 (1.25%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.25%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (40.00%) Finance
2 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Back Office
5 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Senior
2 18 (22.50%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Integration Engineer
7 6 (7.50%) Analyst
7 6 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 4 (5.00%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.50%) JSON
1 14 (17.50%) RESTful
2 13 (16.25%) OAuth
3 12 (15.00%) OAuth2
4 10 (12.50%) .NET
5 8 (10.00%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.00%) Loki
6 4 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (5.00%) React
6 4 (5.00%) REST
7 3 (3.75%) CSS
7 3 (3.75%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.75%) HTML
7 3 (3.75%) Node.js
7 3 (3.75%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.75%) Swagger
7 3 (3.75%) Vue
7 3 (3.75%) XML
7 3 (3.75%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.25%) Onboarding
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 6 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.00%) AI Agents
6 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.00%) iPad
6 4 (5.00%) iPhone
6 4 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Clustering
8 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.25%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.50%) Windows
2 15 (18.75%) Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.00%) DevOps
2 53 (66.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (43.75%) Analytics
4 35 (43.75%) Log Analytics
5 27 (33.75%) RBAC
6 26 (32.50%) Cost Management
7 24 (30.00%) Incident Response
8 23 (28.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (27.50%) Coaching
9 22 (27.50%) Deployment Automation
10 21 (26.25%) Asset Management
10 21 (26.25%) ITIL
11 20 (25.00%) Agile
12 19 (23.75%) Observability
12 19 (23.75%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (20.00%) AI
13 16 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (20.00%) ETL
13 16 (20.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 39 (48.75%) Bicep
3 29 (36.25%) Python
4 26 (32.50%) Bash
5 13 (16.25%) C#
5 13 (16.25%) SQL
6 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.50%) Scala
8 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (26.25%) Azure Certification
2 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
3 16 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (11.25%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) GDPR
2 5 (6.25%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.75%) WCAG
4 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
2 15 (18.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (16.25%) Docker
4 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
5 11 (13.75%) Hyper-V
6 10 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.25%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 53 (66.25%) Terraform
2 19 (23.75%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.50%) Grafana
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 11 (13.75%) Ansible
6 7 (8.75%) SCOM
7 1 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 33 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Ab Initio
2 11 (13.75%) VMware
3 5 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.25%) Foundry
4 3 (3.75%) Databricks
5 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.25%) NetApp
6 1 (1.25%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Okta
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Veeam
6 1 (1.25%) Zscaler