Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in Reading

Log Analytics
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Log Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 84 72
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +19
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 3 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.41% 0.49% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.53% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 17
10th Percentile £408 £540 £580
25th Percentile £411 £580 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -30.79% -0.82% +16.19%
75th Percentile £423 £608 £615
90th Percentile £424 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £459 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -24.17% -0.82% +16.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 940 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.14% 91.35% 92.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 534 621
10th Percentile £350 £325 £213
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £28.45 £41.24
25th Percentile £20.38 £42.50 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.76 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% -2.42% -2.63%
75th Percentile £93.75 £69.69 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.00 £77.39 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in Reading

Log Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Log Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Log Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Log Analytics

Log Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure API Management
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Functions
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
1 2 (66.67%) GraphQL
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth2
1 2 (66.67%) OpenID
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) B2C
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft