Azure Monitor Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 370 464 501
Rank change year-on-year +94 +37 +31
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 181 172 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.37% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.01% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 131 207
10th Percentile £404 £413 £405
25th Percentile £494 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £554
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +4.69% +10.80%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £679
90th Percentile £675 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £77.63
25th Percentile - £66.75 £77.81
Median hourly rate - £68.50 £81.25
Median % change year-on-year - -15.69% +82.58%
75th Percentile - £70.25 £85.31
90th Percentile - - £85.88
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year - -1.49% +7.63%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,003 17,073 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.30% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 12,521 19,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 282 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 12 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
London +84 82 £515 -10.40% 19
South East +50 61 £605 -11.36% 12
West Midlands +23 17 £373 -12.35% 3
Midlands +22 17 £373 -12.35% 6
South West +11 10 £550 - 3
North of England -7 3 £625 +13.64% 10
North West -1 2 £513 -16.33% 8
Yorkshire +6 1 £650 +23.81% 2
East of England +4 1 £875 +169.23% 1
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 31 (17.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.29%) CMS
3 8 (4.42%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.21%) Apache
6 2 (1.10%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.10%) IIS
6 2 (1.10%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.55%) Confluence
7 1 (0.55%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 181 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (38.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 68 (37.57%) Azure DevOps
4 65 (35.91%) Entra ID
5 49 (27.07%) Azure Service Bus
6 42 (23.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (23.20%) Serverless
7 40 (22.10%) Azure Functions
8 34 (18.78%) Microsoft 365
9 29 (16.02%) Azure Storage
10 24 (13.26%) Azure Key Vault
11 18 (9.94%) Azure Pipelines
11 18 (9.94%) PaaS
12 13 (7.18%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (7.18%) Power Platform
13 9 (4.97%) Azure AKS
13 9 (4.97%) Azure API Management
14 7 (3.87%) AWS
14 7 (3.87%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (3.87%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 36 (19.89%) DNS
2 28 (15.47%) Firewall
3 21 (11.60%) DHCP
4 8 (4.42%) NetScaler
5 6 (3.31%) HTTP
6 4 (2.21%) VPN
7 3 (1.66%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.66%) Internet
7 3 (1.66%) IPsec
7 3 (1.66%) SSH
7 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.55%) FTP
8 1 (0.55%) Network Security
8 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (26.52%) SQL Server
2 35 (19.34%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (7.18%) Data Lake
4 13 (7.18%) Power BI
5 9 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.76%) Parquet
6 5 (2.76%) SSDT
7 4 (2.21%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (2.21%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.21%) MySQL
7 4 (2.21%) Redis
7 4 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.66%) Big Data
8 3 (1.66%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.66%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.10%) Power Query
9 2 (1.10%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 68 (37.57%) Git
2 16 (8.84%) Selenium
3 10 (5.52%) Visual Studio
4 5 (2.76%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.21%) Deequ
5 4 (2.21%) JMeter
6 3 (1.66%) Gatling
6 3 (1.66%) GitLab
6 3 (1.66%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.66%) Postman
6 3 (1.66%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.10%) Maven
7 2 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.55%) Gradle
8 1 (0.55%) Hudson
8 1 (0.55%) JIRA
8 1 (0.55%) Moq
8 1 (0.55%) NUnit
8 1 (0.55%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (24.86%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (11.05%) Back Office
4 16 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.29%) Finance
6 4 (2.21%) Banking
6 4 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.66%) Marketing
7 3 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Electronics
8 2 (1.10%) Local Government
8 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.10%) Police
8 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 67 (37.02%) Developer
2 33 (18.23%) Senior
3 29 (16.02%) Azure Developer
4 28 (15.47%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (13.26%) Full Stack Developer
6 22 (12.15%) Senior Developer
7 21 (11.60%) Active Directory Support
8 18 (9.94%) Lead
9 15 (8.29%) Architect
9 15 (8.29%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (7.73%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (7.73%) Data Engineer
10 14 (7.73%) Support Specialist
11 13 (7.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (6.08%) C# Developer
12 11 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (6.08%) Python Developer
13 10 (5.52%) .NET Developer
13 10 (5.52%) Full Stack Python Developer
13 10 (5.52%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.28%) .NET
2 44 (24.31%) React
3 40 (22.10%) ARM Templates
4 38 (20.99%) .NET Core
5 17 (9.39%) CSS
6 16 (8.84%) HTML
7 14 (7.73%) jQuery
7 14 (7.73%) JSON
8 13 (7.18%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.63%) YAML
10 11 (6.08%) PySpark
11 10 (5.52%) ASP.NET MVC
12 9 (4.97%) REST
13 6 (3.31%) OAuth
14 5 (2.76%) .NET Framework
14 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
14 5 (2.76%) Apache Avro
14 5 (2.76%) JSON Schema
14 5 (2.76%) Playwright
14 5 (2.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.57%) Product Ownership
2 25 (13.81%) PKI
3 21 (11.60%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.21%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.21%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.21%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.10%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.55%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 47 (25.97%) Windows
2 33 (18.23%) Windows Server
3 28 (15.47%) Linux
4 24 (13.26%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (12.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.52%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.21%) VMS
7 4 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.10%) Unix
9 1 (0.55%) CentOS
9 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (71.82%) DevOps
2 96 (53.04%) Agile
3 72 (39.78%) CI/CD
4 59 (32.60%) Analytics
5 50 (27.62%) Log Analytics
6 46 (25.41%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (24.86%) API Management
8 40 (22.10%) TDD
9 36 (19.89%) OO
10 35 (19.34%) OOD
11 30 (16.57%) ITIL
11 30 (16.57%) SDLC
11 30 (16.57%) Test Automation
12 29 (16.02%) Clean Code
13 26 (14.36%) Identity Management
13 26 (14.36%) RBAC
14 25 (13.81%) Full Stack Development
15 24 (13.26%) Microservices
15 24 (13.26%) Release Management
16 23 (12.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (43.09%) C#
2 62 (34.25%) Bicep
3 61 (33.70%) PowerShell
4 45 (24.86%) SQL
5 42 (23.20%) Python
6 22 (12.15%) JavaScript
7 21 (11.60%) VB
7 21 (11.60%) VBScript
8 16 (8.84%) TypeScript
9 13 (7.18%) Java
10 9 (4.97%) T-SQL
11 7 (3.87%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.76%) Scala
13 4 (2.21%) C
14 3 (1.66%) Bash
15 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.55%) Perl
16 1 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.23%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.02%) Degree
4 23 (12.71%) DV Cleared
5 21 (11.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (3.31%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.66%) CCIE
8 3 (1.66%) CCNP
8 3 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.55%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.05%) WCAG
2 18 (9.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.21%) NCSC
4 4 (2.21%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) QA
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (53.04%) Active Directory
2 36 (19.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 30 (16.57%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (4.42%) XenApp
4 8 (4.42%) XenDesktop
5 7 (3.87%) Docker
5 7 (3.87%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.66%) NFS
7 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.55%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 33 (18.23%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.36%) Terraform
3 25 (13.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (13.26%) SCCM
5 23 (12.71%) WSUS
6 21 (11.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (11.60%) SCOM
7 5 (2.76%) SysTrack
8 4 (2.21%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (1.66%) Ansible
9 3 (1.66%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.66%) Grafana
9 3 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.10%) SCDPM
10 2 (1.10%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.55%) CASB
11 1 (0.55%) HP SIM
11 1 (0.55%) Nagios
11 1 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 88 (48.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.29%) Citrix
3 12 (6.63%) Databricks
4 10 (5.52%) New Relic
5 9 (4.97%) NetApp
6 8 (4.42%) Splunk
7 5 (2.76%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.76%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.21%) Adobe
8 4 (2.21%) Cisco
8 4 (2.21%) Oracle
8 4 (2.21%) Qualtrics
8 4 (2.21%) SAP
9 3 (1.66%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.10%) CA
10 2 (1.10%) VMware
11 1 (0.55%) Commvault
11 1 (0.55%) Veritas