Azure Monitor Contracts

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 488 502
Rank change year-on-year +96 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 190 208 399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.99% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 142 268
10th Percentile £420 £409 £408
25th Percentile £500 £475 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £561 £548
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +2.51% +4.29%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £650
90th Percentile £675 £741 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £601 £525
% change year-on-year +0.67% +14.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - £50.33
25th Percentile - £66.00 £52.69
Median hourly rate - £67.25 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.16% -2.81%
75th Percentile - £78.63 £70.88
90th Percentile - £93.70 £77.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 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
England +116 176 £560 -0.88% 57
London +103 87 £525 -4.55% 18
UK excluding London +66 82 £605 +0.67% 39
Work from Home +92 78 £600 +8.11% 48
South East +58 53 £605 -13.57% 14
West Midlands +25 18 £373 -12.35% 1
Midlands +22 18 £373 -12.35% 4
South West +14 8 £575 - 4
North of England +5 2 £513 -2.38% 15
North West 0 2 £513 -10.87% 12
East of England +11 1 £875 +169.23% 1

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.84%) CMS
3 9 (4.74%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.21%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.11%) Apache
6 2 (1.05%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.53%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 190 (100.00%) Azure
2 81 (42.63%) Azure DevOps
3 76 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 55 (28.95%) Azure Service Bus
5 51 (26.84%) Entra ID
6 48 (25.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 43 (22.63%) Serverless
8 41 (21.58%) Azure Functions
9 28 (14.74%) Azure Key Vault
9 28 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (14.21%) PaaS
11 19 (10.00%) Azure Storage
12 18 (9.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 17 (8.95%) Azure Pipelines
14 15 (7.89%) Azure AKS
15 11 (5.79%) GitHub
15 11 (5.79%) Power Platform
16 8 (4.21%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 7 (3.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.37%) DNS
2 26 (13.68%) Firewall
3 17 (8.95%) DHCP
4 8 (4.21%) HTTP
4 8 (4.21%) NetScaler
5 5 (2.63%) VPN
6 4 (2.11%) Internet
6 4 (2.11%) SSH
6 4 (2.11%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.58%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.58%) IPsec
7 3 (1.58%) Network Security
8 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 38 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (8.42%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.79%) Power BI
6 5 (2.63%) Parquet
7 4 (2.11%) Big Data
7 4 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.11%) Redis
7 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.58%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.58%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.05%) MySQL
9 2 (1.05%) Power Query
10 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.53%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 78 (41.05%) Git
2 14 (7.37%) Selenium
3 12 (6.32%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.63%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.11%) Deequ
5 4 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.11%) Maven
6 3 (1.58%) Gatling
6 3 (1.58%) GitLab
6 3 (1.58%) JMeter
6 3 (1.58%) Postman
6 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.58%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.05%) Gradle
7 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.53%) Hudson
8 1 (0.53%) Moq
8 1 (0.53%) NUnit
8 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (19.47%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.53%) Finance
4 19 (10.00%) Back Office
5 18 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.11%) Banking
7 4 (2.11%) Marketing
8 3 (1.58%) Electronics
8 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.58%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.05%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 72 (37.89%) Developer
2 32 (16.84%) Azure Developer
2 32 (16.84%) Senior
3 28 (14.74%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (12.63%) Full Stack Developer
5 23 (12.11%) Lead
6 20 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.95%) Active Directory Support
7 17 (8.95%) C# Developer
8 16 (8.42%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.89%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.37%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.37%) Architect
10 14 (7.37%) Support Specialist
11 13 (6.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 10 (5.26%) Python Developer
12 10 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 9 (4.74%) Azure Data Engineer
13 9 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (4.74%) Full Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.00%) .NET
2 44 (23.16%) React
3 42 (22.11%) .NET Core
4 40 (21.05%) ARM Templates
5 18 (9.47%) JSON
6 17 (8.95%) CSS
7 16 (8.42%) HTML
8 14 (7.37%) ASP.NET
8 14 (7.37%) jQuery
8 14 (7.37%) PySpark
9 12 (6.32%) REST
9 12 (6.32%) YAML
10 10 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (4.74%) OAuth
12 8 (4.21%) XML
13 7 (3.68%) AngularJS
14 6 (3.16%) Node.js
14 6 (3.16%) OpenID
14 6 (3.16%) SOAP
15 5 (2.63%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 21 (11.05%) PKI
3 17 (8.95%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.95%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.58%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.58%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.53%) STIX
7 1 (0.53%) TAXII
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (23.16%) Windows
2 30 (15.79%) Linux
2 30 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 18 (9.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (8.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (5.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.05%) Unix
6 2 (1.05%) VMS
6 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.53%) CentOS
7 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (71.58%) DevOps
2 91 (47.89%) Agile
3 70 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 61 (32.11%) Analytics
5 54 (28.42%) Log Analytics
6 48 (25.26%) API Management
7 44 (23.16%) TDD
8 42 (22.11%) OO
9 40 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (20.00%) OOD
11 33 (17.37%) Clean Code
11 33 (17.37%) Test Automation
12 28 (14.74%) SDLC
13 25 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
14 24 (12.63%) ITIL
15 23 (12.11%) Change Management
15 23 (12.11%) Microservices
15 23 (12.11%) RBAC
16 21 (11.05%) Scrum
17 20 (10.53%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (44.21%) C#
2 61 (32.11%) PowerShell
3 59 (31.05%) Bicep
4 54 (28.42%) SQL
5 47 (24.74%) Python
6 22 (11.58%) JavaScript
7 17 (8.95%) VB
7 17 (8.95%) VBScript
8 16 (8.42%) TypeScript
9 12 (6.32%) Java
9 12 (6.32%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.16%) Scala
11 4 (2.11%) C
12 3 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.05%) Bash
14 1 (0.53%) Perl
14 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 25 (13.16%) Degree
4 19 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.58%) CCIE
8 3 (1.58%) CCNP
8 3 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.53%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.00%) WCAG
2 17 (8.95%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.11%) NCSC
4 4 (2.11%) NIST
5 3 (1.58%) QA
6 2 (1.05%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 90 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 31 (16.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (12.11%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.26%) Docker
5 8 (4.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.21%) XenApp
5 8 (4.21%) XenDesktop
6 6 (3.16%) Hyper-V
7 4 (2.11%) NFS
8 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (11.05%) Terraform
3 20 (10.53%) SCOM
4 18 (9.47%) SCCM
5 17 (8.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (8.95%) WSUS
6 5 (2.63%) SysTrack
7 4 (2.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 3 (1.58%) Ansible
8 3 (1.58%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.58%) Grafana
8 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.53%) CASB
10 1 (0.53%) Nagios
10 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.53%) QRadar
10 1 (0.53%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 95 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.89%) Databricks
3 14 (7.37%) Citrix
4 10 (5.26%) New Relic
5 8 (4.21%) NetApp
5 8 (4.21%) Splunk
6 5 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.11%) Adobe
7 4 (2.11%) Cisco
7 4 (2.11%) Qualtrics
8 3 (1.58%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.58%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.58%) SAP
8 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.58%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.05%) CA
9 2 (1.05%) Oracle
9 2 (1.05%) VMware
10 1 (0.53%) BMC
10 1 (0.53%) Remedy