Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in the South West

Log Analytics
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Log Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 113 152
Rank change year-on-year -28 +39 -
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 8 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.22% 0.057% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.063% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £491 - £519
25th Percentile £533 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - £600
75th Percentile £596 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
England median daily rate £525 £474 £605
% change year-on-year +10.82% -21.69% +6.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,839 1,596 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.75% 90.63% 82.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 962 1,709
10th Percentile £325 £217 £260
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £687 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 177 380
10th Percentile £16.62 £16.48 £13.86
25th Percentile £32.19 £18.51 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £28.55 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.40% -48.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in the South West

Log Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Log Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Bristol - 5 £556 - 1
Wiltshire - 2 - -
Somerset - 1 £525 -
Log Analytics
England

Log Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (87.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (12.50%) Figma
5 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) BGP
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
3 1 (12.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) GIS
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
1 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Consultant
1 5 (62.50%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Security Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) C++ Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (12.50%) ATL
2 1 (12.50%) Blazor
2 1 (12.50%) COM
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) GeoJSON
2 1 (12.50%) MFC
2 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Migration
3 5 (62.50%) Change Control
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (62.50%) Requirements Workshops
3 5 (62.50%) Runbook
3 5 (62.50%) Technical Discovery
3 5 (62.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) RBAC
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CISM
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Zscaler
3 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) Adobe
4 1 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle