Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Log Analytics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Log Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 160 189
Rank change year-on-year -57 +29 +37
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.100% 0.12% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.13% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £470 -
25th Percentile £513 £477 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +12.78% -23.40%
75th Percentile £538 £532 £475
90th Percentile - £535 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £605
% change year-on-year - -13.22% +2.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,380 2,979 4,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 87.51% 88.32% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 1,740 2,812
10th Percentile £230 £263 £275
25th Percentile £365 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 143 296
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.00 £11.76
25th Percentile £20.82 £17.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% +22.22% -7.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.34 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.50 £72.49 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in the North of England

Log Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Log Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Log Analytics

Log Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
North West - 3 - - 2
Yorkshire -53 2 £525 +3.45% 1
Log Analytics
England

Log Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) SOAR
2 3 (60.00%) Threat Detection
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) LLM
3 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
3 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) LogRhythm
3 2 (40.00%) Alibaba
3 2 (40.00%) Google
3 2 (40.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (20.00%) Splunk