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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 482 492
Rank change year-on-year +98 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 196 205 395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.00% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 148 265
10th Percentile £410 £409 £408
25th Percentile £500 £480 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £675 £730 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £51.38
25th Percentile - £66.00 £54.00
Median hourly rate - £67.25 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.16% -2.81%
75th Percentile - £78.63 £78.63
90th Percentile - £93.70 £84.38
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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 12 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 1 June 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 +96 184 £588 +2.17% 59
UK excluding London +56 90 £605 -3.20% 43
London +97 86 £520 -7.96% 14
Work from Home +93 77 £600 +4.35% 46
South East +47 58 £605 -11.19% 17
Midlands +29 18 £373 -12.35% 5
West Midlands +20 18 £373 -12.35% 3
South West +15 10 £550 - 3
North of England -3 3 £625 +19.05% 16
North West +3 2 £513 -10.87% 13
Yorkshire +10 1 £650 +23.81% 2
East of England +4 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 30 (15.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (7.14%) CMS
3 10 (5.10%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.08%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.04%) Apache
6 2 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.02%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.51%) Confluence
7 1 (0.51%) IIS
7 1 (0.51%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 196 (100.00%) Azure
2 78 (39.80%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (36.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 63 (32.14%) Entra ID
5 54 (27.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 46 (23.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 43 (21.94%) Serverless
8 41 (20.92%) Azure Functions
9 33 (16.84%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (13.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 26 (13.27%) PaaS
11 24 (12.24%) Azure Storage
12 17 (8.67%) Azure Pipelines
13 16 (8.16%) Azure AKS
13 16 (8.16%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (6.63%) Power Platform
15 10 (5.10%) Azure API Management
15 10 (5.10%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (5.10%) GitHub
16 7 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 35 (17.86%) DNS
2 29 (14.80%) Firewall
3 20 (10.20%) DHCP
4 8 (4.08%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.57%) HTTP
6 4 (2.04%) VPN
7 3 (1.53%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.53%) Internet
7 3 (1.53%) IPsec
7 3 (1.53%) Network Security
7 3 (1.53%) SSH
7 3 (1.53%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.51%) FTP
8 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 36 (18.37%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (8.16%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.63%) Power BI
5 9 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.55%) Parquet
6 5 (2.55%) SSDT
7 4 (2.04%) Big Data
7 4 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.04%) Redis
7 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.53%) MariaDB
8 3 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.53%) MySQL
8 3 (1.53%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.02%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.02%) Power Query
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (38.78%) Git
2 16 (8.16%) Selenium
3 10 (5.10%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.55%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.04%) Deequ
6 3 (1.53%) Gatling
6 3 (1.53%) GitLab
6 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.53%) JMeter
6 3 (1.53%) Maven
6 3 (1.53%) Postman
6 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.02%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.51%) Ant
8 1 (0.51%) JIRA
8 1 (0.51%) NUnit
8 1 (0.51%) Serilog
8 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 27 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.69%) Back Office
4 17 (8.67%) Finance
5 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.55%) Banking
7 4 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.53%) Marketing
8 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Electronics
9 2 (1.02%) Local Government
9 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (36.22%) Developer
2 32 (16.33%) Azure Developer
3 31 (15.82%) Senior
4 30 (15.31%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (12.24%) Full Stack Developer
6 20 (10.20%) Active Directory Support
6 20 (10.20%) Lead
6 20 (10.20%) Senior Developer
7 17 (8.67%) C# Developer
7 17 (8.67%) Data Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) Architect
9 15 (7.65%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.14%) Support Specialist
11 13 (6.63%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (5.61%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (5.10%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 10 (5.10%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 9 (4.59%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (26.53%) .NET
2 44 (22.45%) React
3 41 (20.92%) ARM Templates
4 40 (20.41%) .NET Core
5 17 (8.67%) CSS
6 16 (8.16%) HTML
7 15 (7.65%) JSON
8 14 (7.14%) ASP.NET
8 14 (7.14%) jQuery
8 14 (7.14%) PySpark
8 14 (7.14%) YAML
9 10 (5.10%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (4.59%) REST
11 7 (3.57%) OAuth
12 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.06%) XML
13 5 (2.55%) Apache Avro
13 5 (2.55%) JSON Schema
13 5 (2.55%) Node.js
14 4 (2.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.31%) Product Ownership
2 24 (12.24%) PKI
3 20 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (8.16%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.55%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.55%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.04%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.04%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.51%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (25.00%) Windows
2 35 (17.86%) Windows Server
3 34 (17.35%) Linux
4 23 (11.73%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (11.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.10%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.53%) VMS
9 2 (1.02%) Unix
10 1 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (71.43%) DevOps
2 94 (47.96%) Agile
3 73 (37.24%) CI/CD
4 67 (34.18%) Analytics
5 59 (30.10%) Log Analytics
6 49 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (23.47%) API Management
8 42 (21.43%) TDD
9 38 (19.39%) OO
10 36 (18.37%) OOD
11 34 (17.35%) Test Automation
12 31 (15.82%) Clean Code
13 29 (14.80%) SDLC
14 28 (14.29%) ITIL
15 26 (13.27%) RBAC
16 25 (12.76%) Full Stack Development
16 25 (12.76%) Identity Management
17 23 (11.73%) Change Management
17 23 (11.73%) Microservices
18 22 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 82 (41.84%) C#
2 63 (32.14%) PowerShell
3 62 (31.63%) Bicep
4 53 (27.04%) SQL
5 47 (23.98%) Python
6 22 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.20%) VB
7 20 (10.20%) VBScript
8 16 (8.16%) TypeScript
9 14 (7.14%) Java
10 13 (6.63%) T-SQL
11 6 (3.06%) Scala
12 5 (2.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (2.04%) C
14 3 (1.53%) Bash
15 1 (0.51%) Perl
15 1 (0.51%) PHP
15 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.29%) Degree
4 22 (11.22%) DV Cleared
5 20 (10.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.53%) CCIE
8 3 (1.53%) CCNP
8 3 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.69%) WCAG
2 17 (8.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.04%) NCSC
4 4 (2.04%) NIST
5 2 (1.02%) QA
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (48.98%) Active Directory
2 35 (17.86%) Virtual Desktop
3 30 (15.31%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (4.59%) Docker
5 8 (4.08%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 8 (4.08%) XenApp
5 8 (4.08%) XenDesktop
6 7 (3.57%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.53%) NFS
8 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 31 (15.82%) Kubernetes
2 27 (13.78%) Terraform
3 24 (12.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (11.73%) SCCM
4 23 (11.73%) SCOM
5 22 (11.22%) WSUS
6 20 (10.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.55%) SysTrack
8 4 (2.04%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (1.53%) Ansible
9 3 (1.53%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.53%) Grafana
9 3 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.02%) SCDPM
10 2 (1.02%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.51%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.51%) CASB
11 1 (0.51%) Nagios
11 1 (0.51%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 98 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) Citrix
2 15 (7.65%) Databricks
3 10 (5.10%) New Relic
4 9 (4.59%) NetApp
5 8 (4.08%) Splunk
6 5 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.04%) Adobe
7 4 (2.04%) Cisco
7 4 (2.04%) Oracle
7 4 (2.04%) Qualtrics
7 4 (2.04%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.53%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.53%) SAP
8 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.02%) CA
9 2 (1.02%) VMware
10 1 (0.51%) Commvault
10 1 (0.51%) Veritas