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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure Monitor skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 708 723 732
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 -152
Permanent jobs citing Azure Monitor 193 260 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 118 211 211
10th Percentile £49,250 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,750 £68,300 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% +9.28% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £57,434
% change year-on-year -9.23% +13.17% -0.98%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,402 43,277 76,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.84% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26,746 28,483 41,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,790 £33,779
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Monitor.

Salary trend for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure Monitor over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure Monitor in the UK

Azure Monitor
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Monitor within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +39 163 £67,500 -1.17% 36
UK excluding London -32 92 £59,000 -9.23% 23
Work from Home +36 88 £60,000 - 32
London +75 77 £72,500 -3.33% 14
South East +23 46 £59,000 -9.23% 7
North of England +44 24 £79,932 +14.19% 9
Yorkshire +87 16 £79,932 +14.19% 1
Wales +9 6 £36,476 -18.94% 1
North West -1 6 £79,932 +30.50% 6
Scotland -61 6 £45,000 -18.18%
North East -3 4 £80,000 - 2
Midlands -33 4 £61,000 -18.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £95,000 - 1
East Midlands -14 2 £61,000 +31.18% 3
West Midlands -19 2 - - 1
South West - 2 - - 1
East of England 0 1 £72,500 +93.33%

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 46 (23.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (9.84%) Exchange Server 2010
2 19 (9.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.04%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 85 (44.04%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (31.09%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (26.94%) Entra ID
5 49 (25.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 37 (19.17%) AWS
7 33 (17.10%) Azure Storage
8 29 (15.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 27 (13.99%) Azure Service Bus
9 27 (13.99%) Power Platform
9 27 (13.99%) Serverless
10 23 (11.92%) Cloud Computing
10 23 (11.92%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (10.88%) PaaS
12 20 (10.36%) IaaS
13 18 (9.33%) Azure AKS
13 18 (9.33%) PowerApps
14 17 (8.81%) SaaS
15 16 (8.29%) Power Automate
16 15 (7.77%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (17.10%) VPN
2 29 (15.03%) DNS
3 20 (10.36%) DHCP
4 18 (9.33%) Firewall
5 7 (3.63%) Internet
6 5 (2.59%) Extranet
6 5 (2.59%) SAN
6 5 (2.59%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.55%) Network Security
7 3 (1.55%) WAN
8 2 (1.04%) BGP
8 2 (1.04%) HTTP
8 2 (1.04%) IPsec
8 2 (1.04%) LAN
8 2 (1.04%) OSPF
8 2 (1.04%) SSH
8 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.04%) Wireless
9 1 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (20.21%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 17 (8.81%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.66%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.66%) MySQL
5 9 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.66%) Redis
6 7 (3.63%) MariaDB
7 6 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.11%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.55%) Power BI
10 2 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (13.99%) Jenkins
2 12 (6.22%) GitLab
3 10 (5.18%) Git
4 7 (3.63%) Octopus Deploy
4 7 (3.63%) Selenium
4 7 (3.63%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.63%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.07%) JUnit
6 3 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.55%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.55%) Moq
6 3 (1.55%) Postman
6 3 (1.55%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.55%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.55%) Subversion
6 3 (1.55%) TestNG
6 3 (1.55%) Travis CI
6 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.04%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.52%) JMeter
General
1 67 (34.72%) Social Skills
2 31 (16.06%) Finance
3 21 (10.88%) Local Government
4 17 (8.81%) Back Office
5 16 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.25%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.74%) Retail
8 10 (5.18%) Law
9 8 (4.15%) Marketing
10 7 (3.63%) Manufacturing
10 7 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.59%) Police
12 3 (1.55%) Legal
13 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.04%) Automotive
13 2 (1.04%) Electronics
13 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.52%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 38 (19.69%) Lead
2 28 (14.51%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (13.99%) Senior
4 25 (12.95%) Developer
5 20 (10.36%) Active Directory Specialist
5 20 (10.36%) Azure Specialist
6 19 (9.84%) Senior Developer
7 14 (7.25%) Active Directory Support
7 14 (7.25%) Support Specialist
8 13 (6.74%) Architect
8 13 (6.74%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 13 (6.74%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
8 13 (6.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Analyst
9 10 (5.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (4.66%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.42%) .NET
2 37 (19.17%) ARM Templates
3 22 (11.40%) .NET Core
4 11 (5.70%) React
5 9 (4.66%) .NET Framework
5 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Graph
6 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (3.63%) ASP.NET Web API
6 7 (3.63%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (3.11%) Vue
8 5 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.07%) Azure Blueprints
9 4 (2.07%) Node.js
9 4 (2.07%) Razor View Engine
10 3 (1.55%) Entity Framework
10 3 (1.55%) JSON
10 3 (1.55%) Swagger
10 3 (1.55%) YAML
11 2 (1.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.40%) PKI
2 14 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.25%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 14 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.74%) Enterprise Cloud
3 13 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.18%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.66%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.15%) BYOD
6 8 (4.15%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.63%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) W3C
9 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.04%) IoT
9 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.04%) Replication
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (25.91%) Windows
2 27 (13.99%) Windows Server
3 22 (11.40%) Linux
4 17 (8.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (7.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.18%) VMS
7 8 (4.15%) Android
8 4 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (55.96%) DevOps
2 103 (53.37%) Analytics
3 94 (48.70%) Log Analytics
4 74 (38.34%) Agile
5 60 (31.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (27.98%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (23.83%) CI/CD
8 44 (22.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (21.24%) Scrum
10 40 (20.73%) Identity Management
11 35 (18.13%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (15.54%) Software Engineering
13 28 (14.51%) API Management
13 28 (14.51%) Change Management
14 26 (13.47%) TDD
15 24 (12.44%) Multi-Factor Authentication
15 24 (12.44%) Release Management
16 23 (11.92%) ITIL
17 21 (10.88%) Disaster Recovery
17 21 (10.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (43.01%) PowerShell
2 79 (40.93%) C#
3 37 (19.17%) Bicep
4 27 (13.99%) Bash
5 22 (11.40%) Python
6 21 (10.88%) SQL
7 20 (10.36%) VB
7 20 (10.36%) VBScript
8 18 (9.33%) JavaScript
9 13 (6.74%) TypeScript
10 12 (6.22%) Java
11 10 (5.18%) Go
12 9 (4.66%) Ruby
13 8 (4.15%) Groovy
14 7 (3.63%) PHP
15 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.52%) Perl
16 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.13%) Azure Certification
2 35 (18.13%) Degree
3 32 (16.58%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 20 (10.36%) DV Cleared
5 14 (7.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) MCSA
7 2 (1.04%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.11%) QA
2 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.55%) WCAG
4 2 (1.04%) ISO 9000
4 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
5 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 77 (39.90%) Active Directory
2 42 (21.76%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (15.54%) Docker
4 14 (7.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (3.63%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.55%) VirtualBox
8 2 (1.04%) NFS
8 2 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (28.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (27.98%) Kubernetes
3 49 (25.39%) Terraform
4 20 (10.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (9.84%) SCCM
5 19 (9.84%) SCOM
6 16 (8.29%) WSUS
7 14 (7.25%) Grafana
8 12 (6.22%) Ansible
8 12 (6.22%) Prometheus
9 10 (5.18%) Progress Chef
9 10 (5.18%) Puppet
10 7 (3.63%) SysTrack
11 5 (2.59%) Kibana
11 5 (2.59%) logstash
12 3 (1.55%) Nagios
12 3 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.55%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.04%) Nessus
13 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 158 (81.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.22%) New Relic
3 11 (5.70%) VMware
4 10 (5.18%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.15%) Apple
6 7 (3.63%) BMC
6 7 (3.63%) Remedy
6 7 (3.63%) SaltStack
6 7 (3.63%) Snow
7 6 (3.11%) Google
7 6 (3.11%) Splunk
8 5 (2.59%) Citrix
8 5 (2.59%) HP
8 5 (2.59%) NetApp
8 5 (2.59%) Sophos
9 4 (2.07%) Cisco
10 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.04%) Databricks
11 2 (1.04%) Dell
11 2 (1.04%) Meraki