Log4j Contracts in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Log4j skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Log4j over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 180 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Log4j 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% 0.083% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.19% 0.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £311 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.77% - -
England median daily rate £500 £311 £605
% change year-on-year +60.77% -48.60% -0.21%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Log4j falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 523 532 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.46% 11.05% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 369 514
10th Percentile £347 £367 £335
25th Percentile £392 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £646 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 11
10th Percentile £52.14 £37.55 £37.80
25th Percentile £70.00 £43.80 £38.70
Median hourly rate £72.50 £46.84 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -10.15% -25.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £65.94 £56.19
90th Percentile £80.05 £80.09 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

Log4j
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Log4j as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Log4j in the North of England

Log4j
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Log4j in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Log4j in the North of England

Log4j
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 Log4j within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Log4j
England

Log4j
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Migration Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JNDI
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO