Log4j Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Log4j skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Log4j over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 458 500
Rank change year-on-year +71 +42 -72
Contract jobs citing Log4j 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.012% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% 0.087% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £303 £581 -
25th Percentile £308 £589 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -48.60% +10.00% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £622 £594
90th Percentile - £624 £638
UK median daily rate £311 £609 £550
% change year-on-year -48.91% +10.68% +4.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Log4j is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,236 3,458 4,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.76% 14.30% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,457 2,439 3,222
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 188 113
10th Percentile £40.00 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.31 £42.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.89%

Log4j
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Log4j as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Log4j in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Log4j in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Log4j in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Log4j in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Log4j in the UK excluding London

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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 Log4j within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 of England - 4 £311 -
North West - 4 £311 -
Log4j
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Liquibase
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Kafka
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java