Azure Monitor Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 375 423
Rank change year-on-year +67 +48 -24
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 90 72 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.31% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 0.96% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 58 63
10th Percentile £403 £413 £390
25th Percentile £547 £477 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +19.05% +5.32%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £48.75
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £67.25 £60.50
% change year-on-year - +11.16% -2.81%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,368 7,504 10,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.74% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 5,530 7,416
10th Percentile £215 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 218 278
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.68 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £30.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.58 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

Azure Monitor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure Monitor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure Monitor in the UK excluding London

Azure Monitor
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +46 58 £605 -11.19% 17
Midlands +31 18 £373 -12.35% 4
West Midlands +21 18 £373 -12.35% 2
South West +19 10 £550 - 2
North of England +3 3 £625 +19.05% 13
North West -2 2 £513 -10.87% 11
Yorkshire +13 1 £650 +23.81% 1
East of England +7 1 £875 +169.23% 2
Azure Monitor
UK

Azure Monitor
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (32.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.11%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (52.22%) Entra ID
3 30 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (31.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 25 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (27.78%) Azure Functions
5 25 (27.78%) Serverless
6 20 (22.22%) Azure Storage
7 13 (14.44%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (12.22%) Power Platform
9 10 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (8.89%) Azure API Management
10 8 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (8.89%) PaaS
11 6 (6.67%) Azure AKS
12 5 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.56%) AWS
12 5 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (5.56%) OneDrive
13 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 29 (32.22%) DNS
2 23 (25.56%) Firewall
3 20 (22.22%) DHCP
4 8 (8.89%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.11%) FTP
5 1 (1.11%) Network Security
5 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.33%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.22%) Power BI
3 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.44%) SSDT
6 3 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.11%) Redis
7 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (32.22%) Git
2 8 (8.89%) Selenium
3 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Hudson
4 1 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.44%) Finance
3 4 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.11%) Back Office
4 1 (1.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Developer
2 21 (23.33%) Azure Developer
3 20 (22.22%) Active Directory Support
3 20 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
4 15 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (15.56%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (15.56%) Support Specialist
6 12 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (11.11%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 10 (11.11%) Python Developer
8 8 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) Architect
10 6 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Active Directory Support Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Support Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Citrix Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.11%) ARM Templates
2 20 (22.22%) React
3 5 (5.56%) YAML
4 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.44%) Node.js
5 3 (3.33%) ADO
5 3 (3.33%) Flask
5 3 (3.33%) Pandas
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
6 2 (2.22%) JSON
6 2 (2.22%) OAuth
7 1 (1.11%) CSS
7 1 (1.11%) HTML
7 1 (1.11%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.11%) OpenID
7 1 (1.11%) REST
7 1 (1.11%) RESTful
7 1 (1.11%) Sensu
7 1 (1.11%) SOAP
7 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) PKI
1 20 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (18.89%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.33%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.33%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (41.11%) Windows
2 30 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 24 (26.67%) Linux
4 22 (24.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (24.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (8.89%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (70.00%) DevOps
2 49 (54.44%) CI/CD
3 37 (41.11%) Agile
4 35 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (37.78%) Analytics
6 29 (32.22%) Log Analytics
7 27 (30.00%) ITIL
8 23 (25.56%) Identity Management
9 22 (24.44%) Release Management
9 22 (24.44%) Service Management
10 21 (23.33%) Change Management
10 21 (23.33%) RBAC
11 20 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
11 20 (22.22%) Microservices
11 20 (22.22%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 20 (22.22%) Privileged Identity Management
12 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (20.00%) SDLC
13 16 (17.78%) Product Backlog
14 14 (15.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.78%) PowerShell
2 28 (31.11%) Bicep
3 27 (30.00%) Python
4 26 (28.89%) C#
5 20 (22.22%) VB
5 20 (22.22%) VBScript
6 13 (14.44%) SQL
7 8 (8.89%) Java
8 4 (4.44%) C
9 3 (3.33%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.11%) Bash
11 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 27 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) Degree
3 22 (24.44%) DV Cleared
4 20 (22.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.11%) MCTS
7 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.44%) NCSC
1 4 (4.44%) NIST
2 2 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 33 (36.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 27 (30.00%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (8.89%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (8.89%) XenApp
4 8 (8.89%) XenDesktop
5 4 (4.44%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.11%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 23 (25.56%) SCCM
2 22 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 22 (24.44%) WSUS
3 21 (23.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (22.22%) SCOM
5 12 (13.33%) Terraform
6 5 (5.56%) SysTrack
7 4 (4.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 2 (2.22%) SCDPM
8 2 (2.22%) SCVMM
8 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.11%) Ansible
9 1 (1.11%) Backup Exec
9 1 (1.11%) Grafana
9 1 (1.11%) HP SIM
9 1 (1.11%) Nagios
9 1 (1.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 48 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.56%) Citrix
3 8 (8.89%) NetApp
4 5 (5.56%) New Relic
4 5 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.44%) Splunk
6 2 (2.22%) CA
6 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.11%) BMC
7 1 (1.11%) Commvault
7 1 (1.11%) Databricks
7 1 (1.11%) HP
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle
7 1 (1.11%) Remedy
7 1 (1.11%) Skytap
7 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.11%) Symantec
7 1 (1.11%) Veritas