Azure Monitor Contracts in England

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Azure Monitor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 476 484
Rank change year-on-year +106 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 175 177 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 1.01% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 123 208
10th Percentile £408 £413 £407
25th Percentile £500 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £660
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £570 £561 £548
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.51% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £69.20 £51.63
25th Percentile - £72.88 £55.94
Median hourly rate - £83.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - +25.28% +48.88%
75th Percentile - £95.38 £75.94
90th Percentile - £100.40 £79.88
UK median hourly rate - £67.25 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +11.16% -2.81%

All Cloud Skills
England

Azure Monitor is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in England

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +103 86 £525 -4.55% 12
South East +50 53 £605 -13.57% 12
Midlands +29 18 £373 -12.35% 3
West Midlands +28 18 £373 -12.35% 1
South West +15 8 £575 - 1
North West +2 2 £513 -16.33% 11
North of England 0 2 £513 -6.82% 15
East of England +10 1 £875 +169.23%
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 25 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.43%) CMS
3 7 (4.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.29%) Apache
6 2 (1.14%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.57%) Confluence
7 1 (0.57%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 175 (100.00%) Azure
2 72 (41.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 71 (40.57%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 48 (27.43%) Azure Service Bus
6 47 (26.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 43 (24.57%) Serverless
8 41 (23.43%) Azure Functions
9 27 (15.43%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
11 23 (13.14%) PaaS
12 18 (10.29%) Azure Storage
13 17 (9.71%) Azure Pipelines
14 16 (9.14%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (6.29%) Azure AKS
15 11 (6.29%) Power Platform
16 8 (4.57%) GitHub
17 7 (4.00%) AWS
17 7 (4.00%) Azure API Management
17 7 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 33 (18.86%) DNS
2 24 (13.71%) Firewall
3 17 (9.71%) DHCP
4 8 (4.57%) NetScaler
5 7 (4.00%) HTTP
6 5 (2.86%) VPN
7 4 (2.29%) Internet
7 4 (2.29%) SSH
7 4 (2.29%) TCP/IP
8 3 (1.71%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.71%) IPsec
9 1 (0.57%) Network Security
9 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 37 (21.14%) NoSQL
3 18 (10.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 15 (8.57%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.29%) Power BI
6 5 (2.86%) Parquet
7 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.29%) Redis
7 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.71%) Big Data
8 3 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.14%) MySQL
9 2 (1.14%) Power Query
9 2 (1.14%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.57%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.57%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 72 (41.14%) Git
2 14 (8.00%) Selenium
3 12 (6.86%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.29%) Deequ
4 4 (2.29%) Maven
4 4 (2.29%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.71%) Gatling
5 3 (1.71%) GitLab
5 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.71%) JMeter
5 3 (1.71%) Postman
5 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.14%) Gradle
6 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.57%) Moq
7 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.57%) Serilog
7 1 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.86%) Back Office
3 19 (10.86%) Finance
4 17 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.29%) Marketing
7 3 (1.71%) Banking
7 3 (1.71%) Electronics
7 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.14%) Law
8 2 (1.14%) Local Government
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (38.29%) Developer
2 30 (17.14%) Azure Developer
2 30 (17.14%) Senior
3 26 (14.86%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (13.71%) Full Stack Developer
5 21 (12.00%) Lead
6 19 (10.86%) Senior Developer
7 17 (9.71%) Active Directory Support
8 15 (8.57%) Azure Specialist
8 15 (8.57%) Data Engineer
9 14 (8.00%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (8.00%) C# Developer
9 14 (8.00%) Support Specialist
10 13 (7.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (6.86%) Architect
12 10 (5.71%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.71%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 9 (5.14%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (5.14%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 8 (4.57%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (31.43%) .NET
2 43 (24.57%) React
3 40 (22.86%) .NET Core
4 39 (22.29%) ARM Templates
5 18 (10.29%) JSON
6 16 (9.14%) CSS
7 15 (8.57%) HTML
8 14 (8.00%) jQuery
9 13 (7.43%) ASP.NET
9 13 (7.43%) PySpark
10 12 (6.86%) REST
11 10 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (5.71%) YAML
12 9 (5.14%) OAuth
13 7 (4.00%) XML
14 6 (3.43%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.43%) OpenID
14 6 (3.43%) SOAP
15 5 (2.86%) Apache Avro
15 5 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 21 (12.00%) PKI
3 17 (9.71%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (9.14%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.86%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.71%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.57%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.57%) STIX
8 1 (0.57%) TAXII
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (22.29%) Windows
2 27 (15.43%) Linux
2 27 (15.43%) Windows Server
3 18 (10.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (9.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (5.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.14%) VMS
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (71.43%) DevOps
2 89 (50.86%) Agile
3 65 (37.14%) CI/CD
4 53 (30.29%) Analytics
5 47 (26.86%) API Management
6 46 (26.29%) Log Analytics
7 42 (24.00%) TDD
8 41 (23.43%) OO
9 37 (21.14%) OOD
10 36 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (18.29%) Clean Code
12 29 (16.57%) Test Automation
13 28 (16.00%) SDLC
14 25 (14.29%) Full Stack Development
15 24 (13.71%) ITIL
16 23 (13.14%) Change Management
16 23 (13.14%) RBAC
17 22 (12.57%) Microservices
18 20 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
18 20 (11.43%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (45.14%) C#
2 58 (33.14%) Bicep
3 57 (32.57%) PowerShell
4 46 (26.29%) Python
5 45 (25.71%) SQL
6 21 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 17 (9.71%) VB
7 17 (9.71%) VBScript
8 15 (8.57%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.86%) Java
10 9 (5.14%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.43%) Scala
12 4 (2.29%) C
13 2 (1.14%) Bash
14 1 (0.57%) Perl
14 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 25 (14.29%) Degree
4 19 (10.86%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.71%) CCIE
8 3 (1.71%) CCNP
8 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) MCTS
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.29%) WCAG
2 17 (9.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.29%) NCSC
4 4 (2.29%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 89 (50.86%) Active Directory
2 31 (17.71%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (13.14%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.71%) Docker
5 8 (4.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.57%) XenApp
5 8 (4.57%) XenDesktop
6 6 (3.43%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.29%) NFS
8 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (15.43%) Kubernetes
2 20 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (10.29%) SCCM
3 18 (10.29%) Terraform
4 17 (9.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (9.71%) SCOM
4 17 (9.71%) WSUS
5 5 (2.86%) SysTrack
6 4 (2.29%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.71%) Ansible
7 3 (1.71%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.71%) Grafana
7 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.57%) CASB
9 1 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 86 (49.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.00%) Citrix
2 14 (8.00%) Databricks
3 10 (5.71%) New Relic
4 8 (4.57%) NetApp
4 8 (4.57%) Splunk
5 5 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.29%) Adobe
6 4 (2.29%) Cisco
6 4 (2.29%) Qualtrics
7 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.71%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.71%) SAP
7 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.14%) CA
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle
8 2 (1.14%) VMware
9 1 (0.57%) BMC
9 1 (0.57%) Sybase