Azure Monitor Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 397 493 493
Rank change year-on-year +96 0 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure Monitor 190 206 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.02% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 151 267
10th Percentile £409 £409 £408
25th Percentile £500 £484 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £660
90th Percentile £675 £725 £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 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 excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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 12 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 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
England +94 181 £575 -0.86% 56
UK excluding London +45 92 £605 -3.20% 34
London +84 82 £515 -10.40% 20
Work from Home +91 74 £600 +0.84% 37
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
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 31 (16.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (7.89%) CMS
3 10 (5.26%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 4 (2.11%) Apache
6 2 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.05%) IIS
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 74 (38.95%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (37.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 65 (34.21%) Entra ID
5 54 (28.42%) Azure Service Bus
6 42 (22.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (22.11%) Serverless
7 40 (21.05%) Azure Functions
8 34 (17.89%) Microsoft 365
9 30 (15.79%) Azure Storage
10 26 (13.68%) Azure Key Vault
11 21 (11.05%) PaaS
12 18 (9.47%) Azure Pipelines
13 15 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (6.84%) Power Platform
15 12 (6.32%) Azure AKS
16 10 (5.26%) GitHub
17 9 (4.74%) Azure API Management
17 9 (4.74%) Azure Sentinel
18 7 (3.68%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (18.95%) DNS
2 29 (15.26%) Firewall
3 21 (11.05%) DHCP
4 8 (4.21%) NetScaler
5 7 (3.68%) HTTP
6 4 (2.11%) VPN
7 3 (1.58%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.58%) Internet
7 3 (1.58%) IPsec
7 3 (1.58%) SSH
7 3 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.05%) Network Security
9 1 (0.53%) FTP
9 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.26%) SQL Server
2 35 (18.42%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (6.84%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.84%) Power BI
5 9 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.63%) Parquet
6 5 (2.63%) SSDT
7 4 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (2.11%) MariaDB
7 4 (2.11%) MySQL
7 4 (2.11%) Redis
7 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.58%) Big Data
8 3 (1.58%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.05%) Power Query
9 2 (1.05%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (37.37%) Git
2 16 (8.42%) Selenium
3 10 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.16%) SpecFlow
5 4 (2.11%) Deequ
5 4 (2.11%) JMeter
6 3 (1.58%) Gatling
6 3 (1.58%) GitLab
6 3 (1.58%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.58%) Postman
6 3 (1.58%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.05%) Maven
7 2 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.53%) Hudson
8 1 (0.53%) JIRA
8 1 (0.53%) Moq
8 1 (0.53%) NUnit
8 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 45 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (10.53%) Back Office
4 16 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.89%) Finance
6 4 (2.11%) Banking
6 4 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.58%) Marketing
7 3 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.05%) Electronics
8 2 (1.05%) Local Government
8 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.05%) Police
8 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 70 (36.84%) Developer
2 33 (17.37%) Senior
3 30 (15.79%) Azure Developer
4 29 (15.26%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (12.63%) Full Stack Developer
6 22 (11.58%) Senior Developer
7 21 (11.05%) Active Directory Support
8 20 (10.53%) Lead
9 16 (8.42%) Architect
10 15 (7.89%) Azure Specialist
11 14 (7.37%) Active Directory Specialist
11 14 (7.37%) Data Engineer
11 14 (7.37%) Support Specialist
12 13 (6.84%) C# Developer
12 13 (6.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 11 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
13 11 (5.79%) Python Developer
14 10 (5.26%) .NET Developer
14 10 (5.26%) Full Stack Python Developer
14 10 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (28.42%) .NET
2 44 (23.16%) React
3 40 (21.05%) ARM Templates
4 39 (20.53%) .NET Core
5 17 (8.95%) CSS
6 16 (8.42%) HTML
7 14 (7.37%) ASP.NET
7 14 (7.37%) jQuery
7 14 (7.37%) JSON
8 12 (6.32%) YAML
9 11 (5.79%) PySpark
10 10 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (4.74%) REST
12 6 (3.16%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.16%) OAuth
13 5 (2.63%) .NET Framework
13 5 (2.63%) Apache Avro
13 5 (2.63%) JSON Schema
13 5 (2.63%) Node.js
13 5 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 25 (13.16%) PKI
3 21 (11.05%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (8.42%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.63%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.11%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 4 (2.11%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.53%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 50 (26.32%) Windows
2 36 (18.95%) Windows Server
3 30 (15.79%) Linux
4 24 (12.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (12.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (5.26%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.11%) VMS
7 4 (2.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.05%) Unix
9 1 (0.53%) CentOS
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (72.11%) DevOps
2 96 (50.53%) Agile
3 75 (39.47%) CI/CD
4 64 (33.68%) Analytics
5 55 (28.95%) Log Analytics
6 49 (25.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (23.68%) API Management
8 41 (21.58%) TDD
9 36 (18.95%) OO
10 35 (18.42%) OOD
11 33 (17.37%) Test Automation
12 30 (15.79%) ITIL
12 30 (15.79%) SDLC
13 29 (15.26%) Clean Code
14 26 (13.68%) Identity Management
14 26 (13.68%) RBAC
15 25 (13.16%) Full Stack Development
15 25 (13.16%) Microservices
16 24 (12.63%) Release Management
17 23 (12.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (42.63%) C#
2 64 (33.68%) PowerShell
3 62 (32.63%) Bicep
4 50 (26.32%) SQL
5 42 (22.11%) Python
6 22 (11.58%) JavaScript
7 21 (11.05%) VB
7 21 (11.05%) VBScript
8 16 (8.42%) TypeScript
9 13 (6.84%) Java
10 11 (5.79%) T-SQL
11 10 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.63%) Scala
13 4 (2.11%) C
14 3 (1.58%) Bash
15 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.53%) Perl
16 1 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.89%) SC Cleared
3 29 (15.26%) Degree
4 23 (12.11%) DV Cleared
5 21 (11.05%) 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%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.53%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.53%) WCAG
2 18 (9.47%) 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 2 (1.05%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 96 (50.53%) Active Directory
2 36 (18.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 30 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (4.21%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (4.21%) XenApp
4 8 (4.21%) XenDesktop
5 7 (3.68%) Docker
5 7 (3.68%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.58%) NFS
7 2 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.53%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 34 (17.89%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.21%) Terraform
3 25 (13.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (12.63%) SCCM
4 24 (12.63%) SCOM
5 23 (12.11%) WSUS
6 21 (11.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.63%) SysTrack
8 4 (2.11%) Trend Micro Deep Security
9 3 (1.58%) Ansible
9 3 (1.58%) FortiGate
9 3 (1.58%) Grafana
9 3 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.05%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.05%) SCDPM
10 2 (1.05%) SCVMM
11 1 (0.53%) CASB
11 1 (0.53%) HP SIM
11 1 (0.53%) SCOrch
11 1 (0.53%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 92 (48.42%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.89%) Citrix
3 12 (6.32%) Databricks
4 10 (5.26%) New Relic
5 9 (4.74%) NetApp
6 8 (4.21%) Splunk
7 5 (2.63%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.63%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.11%) Adobe
8 4 (2.11%) Cisco
8 4 (2.11%) Oracle
8 4 (2.11%) Qualtrics
8 4 (2.11%) SAP
9 3 (1.58%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.58%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.58%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.05%) CA
10 2 (1.05%) VMware
11 1 (0.53%) Commvault
11 1 (0.53%) Veritas