Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Log Analytics
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Log Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 131 128
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +63
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 31 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.00% 0.040% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.047% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 4
10th Percentile £444 - £608
25th Percentile £511 £575 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £600 £626
Median % change year-on-year -10.25% -4.19% +11.33%
75th Percentile £540 £625 £635
90th Percentile £552 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £605
% change year-on-year -12.50% -0.83% +9.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,688 2,125 2,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.96% 84.70% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 1,322 1,557
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £373 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 80 104
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.04
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.94 £17.41
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -6.51% +41.41%
75th Percentile £25.15 £34.06 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Log Analytics

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Log Analytics in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Log Analytics in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. 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
West Midlands -3 24 £537 -10.50% 2
East Midlands - 7 £550 - 3
Log Analytics
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (45.16%) Apache
1 14 (45.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 26 (83.87%) Azure
1 26 (83.87%) Azure Monitor
2 14 (45.16%) AWS
3 9 (29.03%) Azure Functions
3 9 (29.03%) Azure Service Bus
3 9 (29.03%) Serverless
4 6 (19.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (16.13%) Power Automate
5 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
5 5 (16.13%) PowerApps
6 4 (12.90%) Azure API Management
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
General
1 20 (64.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Monitoring Engineer
2 10 (32.26%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (29.03%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Integration Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Splunk Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) DevOps Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Fabric
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
1 14 (45.16%) Unix
1 14 (45.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (96.77%) Analytics
2 20 (64.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (61.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (61.29%) Incident Response
3 19 (61.29%) Observability
3 19 (61.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 19 (61.29%) Proactive Management
3 19 (61.29%) Service Management
3 19 (61.29%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 19 (61.29%) Test Strategy
4 18 (58.06%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (58.06%) Incident Management
4 18 (58.06%) Visualisation
5 12 (38.71%) DevOps
6 11 (35.48%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
8 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.90%) API Management
10 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
2 5 (16.13%) X++
3 4 (12.90%) C#
4 3 (9.68%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.68%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (64.52%) Security Cleared
2 18 (58.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) AppDynamics
1 19 (61.29%) Dynatrace
1 19 (61.29%) Splunk
2 18 (58.06%) Cisco
3 14 (45.16%) Oracle
4 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) F5