Log Analytics Contracts

Log Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Log Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Log Analytics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 539 618 631
Rank change year-on-year +79 +13 -24
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 59 101 221
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 67 130
10th Percentile £510 £379 £425
25th Percentile £531 £450 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £530 £566
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% -6.28% +13.10%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £660
90th Percentile £633 £680 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Log Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Log Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Log Analytics in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Log Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Log Analytics in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Log Analytics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Log Analytics in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Log Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Log Analytics in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Log Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +106 49 £605 +14.69% 17
Work from Home +111 34 £605 +21.00% 16
UK excluding London +71 30 £605 +21.00% 12
South East +39 17 £605 +2.98% 5
London +84 16 £560 +12.00% 7
South West - 8 £600 -
West Midlands +24 4 £626 +47.35% 1
Midlands +17 4 £626 +47.35% 1
Scotland +32 1 - - 3
Wales +14 1 £650 -

Log Analytics
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 16 (27.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (11.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.08%) Apache
5 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 55 (93.22%) Azure
1 55 (93.22%) Azure Monitor
2 19 (32.20%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (30.51%) Entra ID
4 16 (27.12%) Azure Storage
5 14 (23.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (13.56%) AWS
7 8 (13.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (10.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (10.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (10.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (6.78%) GCP
9 4 (6.78%) GitHub
10 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (5.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (32.20%) Firewall
2 17 (28.81%) DNS
3 16 (27.12%) DHCP
4 2 (3.39%) Network Security
5 1 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Data Lake
2 7 (11.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.78%) Parquet
4 3 (5.08%) Big Data
4 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.08%) MariaDB
4 3 (5.08%) MySQL
4 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.08%) Redis
4 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.08%) Spark SQL
5 2 (3.39%) Power Query
6 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.69%) Power BI
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Deequ
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.69%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.69%) Gradle
4 1 (1.69%) gulp
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.69%) Travis CI
General
1 26 (44.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (6.78%) Banking
2 4 (6.78%) Finance
3 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.69%) Legal
4 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Azure Engineer
2 15 (25.42%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (25.42%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (23.73%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (23.73%) Support Specialist
4 12 (20.34%) Data Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Azure Data Engineer
6 7 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) SOC Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Lead
8 4 (6.78%) Lead Data Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Security Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Splunk Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (44.07%) ARM Templates
2 12 (20.34%) PySpark
3 5 (8.47%) JSON
4 4 (6.78%) Apache Avro
4 4 (6.78%) JSON Schema
5 3 (5.08%) Great Expectations
6 2 (3.39%) Kafka
6 2 (3.39%) Middleware
7 1 (1.69%) .NET
7 1 (1.69%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.69%) OAuth
7 1 (1.69%) SPFx
7 1 (1.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) PKI
2 16 (27.12%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (15.25%) Security Posture
4 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
5 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
6 4 (6.78%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.69%) STIX
8 1 (1.69%) TAXII
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (40.68%) Windows
2 20 (33.90%) Windows Server
3 17 (28.81%) Linux
4 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (25.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.39%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.69%) CentOS
7 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.69%) Unix
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (98.31%) Analytics
2 32 (54.24%) DevOps
3 30 (50.85%) Agile
3 30 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (45.76%) CI/CD
5 20 (33.90%) ITIL
6 18 (30.51%) Identity Management
6 18 (30.51%) RBAC
7 17 (28.81%) Release Management
7 17 (28.81%) Service Management
8 16 (27.12%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (27.12%) Privileged Identity Management
9 11 (18.64%) Incident Response
10 9 (15.25%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (15.25%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (15.25%) SIEM
11 7 (11.86%) Design Patterns
11 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (11.86%) Roadmaps
12 6 (10.17%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) PowerShell
2 18 (30.51%) Bicep
2 18 (30.51%) C#
2 18 (30.51%) SQL
3 16 (27.12%) VB
3 16 (27.12%) VBScript
4 15 (25.42%) Python
5 5 (8.47%) Scala
6 3 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (5.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.39%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) Java
8 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
8 1 (1.69%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (50.85%) Security Cleared
2 28 (47.46%) SC Cleared
3 19 (32.20%) Degree
4 18 (30.51%) DV Cleared
5 16 (27.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.78%) CISSP
6 4 (6.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.78%) NCSC
2 4 (6.78%) NIST
3 3 (5.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (32.20%) Active Directory
2 18 (30.51%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (27.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (10.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Kubernetes
2 19 (32.20%) SCOM
3 18 (30.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (27.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (27.12%) SCCM
4 16 (27.12%) WSUS
5 14 (23.73%) Terraform
6 4 (6.78%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (5.08%) Ansible
7 3 (5.08%) Grafana
7 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.69%) CASB
8 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.69%) QRadar
8 1 (1.69%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (54.24%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.03%) Databricks
3 8 (13.56%) Splunk
4 3 (5.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.39%) Google
5 2 (3.39%) New Relic
5 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) BMC
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) ESET
6 1 (1.69%) Remedy