Apache Log4j
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Log4j skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Log4j over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 711 836
Rank change year-on-year +121 +125 -162
Contract jobs citing Log4j 4 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.008% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.078% 0.055% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £303 £521 £434
25th Percentile £308 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £605 £538
Median % change year-on-year -48.60% +12.56% +2.38%
75th Percentile - £619 £627
90th Percentile - £623 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £311 £605 £538
% change year-on-year -48.60% +12.56% +53.57%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Log4j is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,122 9,016 15,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.83% 15.10% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,340 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 246 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Log4j
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Log4j as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Log4j in the UK

Log4j
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Log4j.

Daily rate trend for Log4j in the UK

Log4j
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Log4j.

Hourly rate trend for Log4j in the UK

Log4j
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Log4j within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +116 4 £311 -48.60% 1
UK excluding London +66 4 £311 -48.60% 1
North of England - 4 £311 -
North West - 4 £311 -
Work from Home - 1 £311 -

Log4j
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 4 (100.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Liquibase
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java