Log Analytics Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Log Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Log Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 342 368
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 +98
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 50 15 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 26
10th Percentile £418 £470 £531
25th Percentile £425 £513 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £603 £610
Median % change year-on-year -11.37% -1.23% +1.67%
75th Percentile £540 £612 £615
90th Percentile £566 £636 £631
UK median daily rate £515 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -10.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Log Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Log Analytics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Log Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Log Analytics in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Log Analytics
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 Log Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Midlands -12 29 £539 -10.25% 3
West Midlands -9 24 £537 -10.50%
South East -19 10 £459 -24.17% 6
East Midlands - 5 £550 - 3
North West -25 3 - - 1
North of England -53 3 - - 3
Scotland - 3 £450 -
South West - 3 - - 3
Wales +6 1 - -
East of England - 1 £650 - 1
Log Analytics
UK

Log Analytics
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (28.00%) Apache
1 14 (28.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (6.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 42 (84.00%) Azure
1 42 (84.00%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (34.00%) AWS
3 15 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (22.00%) Azure Functions
4 11 (22.00%) Serverless
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
5 10 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 9 (18.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 9 (18.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (14.00%) Azure API Management
7 7 (14.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 7 (14.00%) GitHub
7 7 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (12.00%) Azure AKS
9 5 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) Firewall
2 5 (10.00%) VPN
3 3 (6.00%) DNS
4 2 (4.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.00%) Git
3 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 25 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Finance
5 3 (6.00%) Military
6 2 (4.00%) Billing
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Monitoring Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Developer
5 7 (14.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Senior
7 5 (10.00%) Azure Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Security Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Integration Developer
9 3 (6.00%) Site Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (8.00%) .NET
2 4 (8.00%) REST
3 3 (6.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (6.00%) JSON
3 3 (6.00%) OAuth
3 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (6.00%) OpenID
3 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (6.00%) SAML
4 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (4.00%) YAML
5 1 (2.00%) ADO
5 1 (2.00%) Kafka
5 1 (2.00%) Node.js
5 1 (2.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.00%) Data Fabric
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (34.00%) Linux
1 17 (34.00%) Unix
1 17 (34.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (98.00%) Analytics
2 25 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 25 (50.00%) Observability
3 23 (46.00%) DevOps
4 22 (44.00%) Incident Response
5 19 (38.00%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (38.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (38.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 19 (38.00%) Proactive Management
5 19 (38.00%) Service Management
5 19 (38.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
5 19 (38.00%) Test Strategy
6 18 (36.00%) Incident Management
6 18 (36.00%) Visualisation
7 17 (34.00%) CI/CD
8 11 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (16.00%) RBAC
11 7 (14.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) SQL
2 12 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 9 (18.00%) Bash
3 9 (18.00%) Bicep
3 9 (18.00%) Python
4 7 (14.00%) C#
5 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (6.00%) PHP
5 3 (6.00%) PromQL
5 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.00%) X++
6 2 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 26 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (46.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (18.00%) Azure Certification
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.00%) CISM
5 3 (6.00%) CISSP
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) NIST
2 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (4.00%) NCSC
6 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
4 3 (6.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Splunk
2 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (38.00%) AppDynamics
3 19 (38.00%) Dynatrace
4 18 (36.00%) Cisco
5 14 (28.00%) Oracle
6 3 (6.00%) IBM
6 3 (6.00%) LogRhythm
6 3 (6.00%) PagerDuty
6 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.00%) Databricks
8 1 (2.00%) Cribl.io
8 1 (2.00%) F5