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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 379 386
Rank change year-on-year +78 +7 +229
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 77 72 89
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 0.91% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 44 49 71
10th Percentile £42,550 £44,215 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £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 £68,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £75,200 £74,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 5,556 7,872 9,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.68% 45.99% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,976 5,098 8,129
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,869 £36,270
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,625 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.57% -7.31%

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 31 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 (6.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) Confluence
3 3 (3.90%) IIS
4 1 (1.30%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (74.03%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (41.56%) GitHub
4 25 (32.47%) Entra ID
5 24 (31.17%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
7 19 (24.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (23.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (22.08%) Azure Event Grid
10 16 (20.78%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (19.48%) Azure AKS
12 13 (16.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (16.88%) IaaS
12 13 (16.88%) PaaS
13 12 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (14.29%) AWS
14 11 (14.29%) Power Automate
15 9 (11.69%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
17 6 (7.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) DNS
2 13 (16.88%) VPN
3 11 (14.29%) Firewall
4 6 (7.79%) DHCP
5 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.19%) Network Security
6 4 (5.19%) SD-WAN
6 4 (5.19%) WAN
6 4 (5.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.49%) Data Lake
2 5 (6.49%) Delta Lake
2 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.69%) Git
3 5 (6.49%) JIRA
4 4 (5.19%) Postman
4 4 (5.19%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.90%) JMeter
5 3 (3.90%) Selenium
5 3 (3.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.30%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (50.65%) Finance
2 13 (16.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Retail
5 3 (3.90%) Billing
5 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.30%) Back Office
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Senior
2 20 (25.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Integration Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Analyst
8 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Support Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst
9 4 (5.19%) Senior Support Analyst
10 3 (3.90%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.08%) JSON
1 17 (22.08%) RESTful
2 16 (20.78%) OAuth
3 15 (19.48%) OAuth2
4 7 (9.09%) .NET
5 5 (6.49%) .NET Core
5 5 (6.49%) PySpark
6 4 (5.19%) CSS
6 4 (5.19%) HTML
6 4 (5.19%) React
6 4 (5.19%) REST
7 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.90%) Node.js
7 3 (3.90%) Nuxt
7 3 (3.90%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.90%) Swagger
7 3 (3.90%) Vue
7 3 (3.90%) XML
7 3 (3.90%) XSLT
8 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.69%) Onboarding
3 8 (10.39%) Mobile App
4 7 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.19%) iPad
6 4 (5.19%) iPhone
6 4 (5.19%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (3.90%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.60%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.30%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Windows
2 11 (14.29%) Linux
3 6 (7.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.19%) Apple iOS
4 4 (5.19%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) DevOps
1 59 (76.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 43 (55.84%) CI/CD
3 41 (53.25%) Analytics
3 41 (53.25%) Log Analytics
4 30 (38.96%) RBAC
5 28 (36.36%) Cost Management
6 25 (32.47%) Coaching
6 25 (32.47%) Deployment Automation
7 24 (31.17%) Asset Management
7 24 (31.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (29.87%) Incident Response
9 22 (28.57%) ETL
9 22 (28.57%) Observability
9 22 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (27.27%) ITIL
11 19 (24.68%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (23.38%) Event-Driven
13 17 (22.08%) API Management
13 17 (22.08%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) PowerShell
2 35 (45.45%) Bicep
3 24 (31.17%) Python
4 19 (24.68%) Bash
5 13 (16.88%) SQL
6 10 (12.99%) C#
7 5 (6.49%) Scala
8 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) Azure Certification
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (11.69%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.18%) GDPR
2 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.19%) QA
3 4 (5.19%) SLA
4 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 10 (12.99%) Hyper-V
4 10 (12.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.19%) Docker
6 1 (1.30%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 57 (74.03%) Terraform
2 14 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (14.29%) Grafana
4 10 (12.99%) Ansible
5 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (38.96%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.18%) Ab Initio
3 11 (14.29%) VMware
4 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 5 (6.49%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.19%) Foundry
6 2 (2.60%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.30%) NetApp
7 1 (1.30%) Okta
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Veeam
7 1 (1.30%) Zscaler