Foglight Contract Job Trends

Quest Foglight
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Foglight 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 583 542 -
Rank change year-on-year -41 - -
Contract jobs citing Foglight 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.006% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.017% 0.040% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £544 -
25th Percentile £525 £564 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £619 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £575 £664 -
90th Percentile - £678 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £619 -
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Foglight 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,920 5,025 6,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.08% 14.70% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 3,214 4,314
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 172
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.16 £17.07
25th Percentile £20.16 £22.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate £40.73 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.68% -42.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.75 £72.05
90th Percentile £81.40 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.25 £25.34 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.52% -45.13% +53.50%

Foglight
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Foglight relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Foglight job vacancy trend in the UK

Foglight
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Foglight.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Foglight

Foglight
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Foglight.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Foglight

Foglight
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Foglight within the UK 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
South East -24 1 £550 -11.11%
England -30 1 £550 -11.11% 1
UK excluding London -37 1 £550 -11.11%

Foglight
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle