Azure Monitor Contracts with Work from Home Options

Azure Monitor (Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights, Azure Diagnostics)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Azure Monitor skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 358 398
Rank change year-on-year +91 +40 -22
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 74 99 234
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.41% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.05% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 76 180
10th Percentile £450 £385 £404
25th Percentile £525 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £595 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £608 £684 £650
90th Percentile £650 £747 £715
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.00
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.49% +7.63%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £82.50
90th Percentile - £69.40 £84.75
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -1.49% +7.63%

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 contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

Azure Monitor
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure Monitor trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Azure Monitor daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure Monitor.

Azure Monitor hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (29.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.81%) CMS
3 3 (4.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.70%) NServiceBus
5 1 (1.35%) Apache
5 1 (1.35%) Confluence
5 1 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (47.30%) Entra ID
3 27 (36.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 24 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (32.43%) Azure Storage
5 23 (31.08%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (27.03%) Azure Service Bus
7 17 (22.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (16.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (10.81%) Azure Pipelines
9 8 (10.81%) Serverless
10 7 (9.46%) Azure Functions
10 7 (9.46%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (6.76%) AWS
11 5 (6.76%) GitHub
12 4 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (5.41%) Azure API Management
12 4 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (2.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.08%) Firewall
2 22 (29.73%) DNS
3 21 (28.38%) DHCP
4 1 (1.35%) FTP
4 1 (1.35%) HTTP
4 1 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (1.35%) VPN
4 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.97%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (6.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.70%) Parquet
6 1 (1.35%) Big Data
6 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.35%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Power BI
6 1 (1.35%) Power Query
6 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.35%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 24 (32.43%) Git
2 5 (6.76%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.41%) Selenium
4 1 (1.35%) Deequ
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) Gradle
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) JMeter
4 1 (1.35%) Maven
4 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.35%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.35%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.46%) Back Office
3 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Marketing
7 1 (1.35%) Electronics
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (37.84%) Developer
2 21 (28.38%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (18.92%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (18.92%) Azure Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (18.92%) Support Specialist
4 12 (16.22%) Senior
5 10 (13.51%) Azure Developer
6 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 7 (9.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 7 (9.46%) Full Stack Developer
7 7 (9.46%) Support Engineer
8 6 (8.11%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.11%) C# Developer
8 6 (8.11%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.76%) Lead
10 4 (5.41%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.49%) ARM Templates
2 16 (21.62%) .NET
3 15 (20.27%) React
4 12 (16.22%) .NET Core
5 8 (10.81%) ASP.NET
5 8 (10.81%) CSS
5 8 (10.81%) jQuery
6 6 (8.11%) HTML
7 5 (6.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (6.76%) PySpark
8 3 (4.05%) JSON
9 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.70%) Apache Avro
9 2 (2.70%) JSON Schema
9 2 (2.70%) Node.js
9 2 (2.70%) YAML
10 1 (1.35%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.35%) ADO
10 1 (1.35%) Entity Framework
10 1 (1.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.38%) PKI
1 21 (28.38%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.41%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.35%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.35%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (36.49%) Windows
2 25 (33.78%) Windows Server
3 22 (29.73%) Linux
3 22 (29.73%) Windows Server 2016
3 22 (29.73%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.35%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (74.32%) DevOps
2 39 (52.70%) Agile
3 37 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 36 (48.65%) Analytics
4 36 (48.65%) Log Analytics
5 28 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (32.43%) Identity Management
7 23 (31.08%) Service Management
8 22 (29.73%) ITIL
8 22 (29.73%) RBAC
8 22 (29.73%) Release Management
9 21 (28.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (28.38%) Privileged Identity Management
10 14 (18.92%) API Management
10 14 (18.92%) TDD
11 12 (16.22%) Clean Code
11 12 (16.22%) OO
11 12 (16.22%) OOD
12 9 (12.16%) Front End Development
13 8 (10.81%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (51.35%) C#
2 37 (50.00%) Bicep
3 29 (39.19%) PowerShell
4 21 (28.38%) VB
4 21 (28.38%) VBScript
5 16 (21.62%) SQL
6 14 (18.92%) Python
7 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
8 8 (10.81%) TypeScript
9 5 (6.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (4.05%) Java
11 2 (2.70%) Scala
11 2 (2.70%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.49%) SC Cleared
3 24 (32.43%) Degree
4 21 (28.38%) DV Cleared
4 21 (28.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.35%) MCTS
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
1 8 (10.81%) WCAG
2 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.41%) NCSC
2 4 (5.41%) NIST
3 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 44 (59.46%) Active Directory
2 23 (31.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 23 (31.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.35%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (32.43%) SCOM
3 23 (31.08%) SCCM
4 22 (29.73%) WSUS
5 21 (28.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (9.46%) Terraform
7 4 (5.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (1.35%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.35%) HP SIM
8 1 (1.35%) SCDPM
8 1 (1.35%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.35%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.35%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 42 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.11%) Databricks
3 4 (5.41%) Splunk
4 2 (2.70%) Citrix
5 1 (1.35%) BMC
5 1 (1.35%) Commvault
5 1 (1.35%) HP
5 1 (1.35%) NetApp
5 1 (1.35%) Okta
5 1 (1.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.35%) Remedy
5 1 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.35%) Symantec
5 1 (1.35%) Veritas