Fluentd Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Fluentd
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Fluentd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 - 417
Rank change year-on-year - - +102
Contract jobs citing Fluentd 10 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.060% - 0.024%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.37% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £546 - -
25th Percentile £568 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £636 - -
90th Percentile £640 - -
UK median daily rate £613 £638 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +27.50% -23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Fluentd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,688 2,274 2,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.07% 13.67% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,817 1,471 1,983
10th Percentile £243 £250 £263
25th Percentile £381 £381 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £638 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 36 121
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.51 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.79 £35.08 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.20% -24.03% +109.91%
75th Percentile £67.00 £50.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £84.35 £74.22 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £35.08 £49.87
% change year-on-year -16.63% -29.65% +99.46%

Fluentd
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Fluentd relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Fluentd job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Fluentd
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fluentd.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fluentd

Fluentd
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fluentd.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Fluentd

Fluentd
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fluentd within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
North West - 5 £625 - 1
North of England - 5 £625 - 1
Scotland - 4 £593 -
Midlands - 1 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £600 -
Fluentd
UK

Fluentd
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) OpenShift
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
3 7 (70.00%) GCP
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 8 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (10.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) MISP
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (80.00%) Observability
3 7 (70.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
4 6 (60.00%) Risk Analysis
4 6 (60.00%) Security Architecture
4 6 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 3 (30.00%) Analytics
7 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (20.00%) Kanban
7 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) CISSP
2 7 (70.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (10.00%) CEH
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (80.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
1 2 (20.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) logstash
3 1 (10.00%) Nagios
3 1 (10.00%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cribl.io
1 7 (70.00%) Splunk
2 2 (20.00%) Commvault
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft