Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Log Analytics
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Log Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 77 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 -24 -
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.48% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £564 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 - £625
75th Percentile £645 - £638
90th Percentile £673 - -
North West median daily rate £613 - £625

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Log Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 582 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.30% 91.80% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 442 285
10th Percentile £310 £305 £323
25th Percentile £402 £358 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -10.26% -4.22%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £575
90th Percentile £648 £645 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +10.31% -9.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 21 18
10th Percentile £15.11 - £11.18
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.61 £18.87 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.13% -46.09% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £36.75 £43.75
90th Percentile - £67.25 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +78.93% -28.87% +1.03%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Log Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Log Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Log Analytics

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Log Analytics in Cheshire over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Log Analytics in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 25 August 2026. 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
Knutsford - 4 £622 - 1
Log Analytics
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Security Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Bicep
2 3 (75.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk