Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in the North West

Log Analytics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 164 131 123
Rank change year-on-year -33 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.090% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.10% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £458 - £448
25th Percentile £519 - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £625
75th Percentile £630 - £638
90th Percentile £667 - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £605
% change year-on-year +5.00% -17.36% +5.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,236 1,966 2,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.66% 88.60% 83.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 1,272 1,231
10th Percentile £292 £295 £311
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.31% -9.35% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £680 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 333 131 153
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.16 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -28.87% +1.03%
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 £54.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Log Analytics in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +5 4 £622 - 1
Manchester - 2 - - 1
Lancashire - 1 £519 - 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (14.29%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Chatbot
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (42.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Monitoring Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (14.29%) JSON
4 1 (14.29%) Node.js
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 5 (71.43%) Incident Response
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Business Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (57.14%) Key Management
4 4 (57.14%) RBAC
4 4 (57.14%) SIEM
5 3 (42.86%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
5 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
5 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
5 3 (42.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bicep
2 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Azure Certification
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (14.29%) Workday