Graylog Contracts

Graylog (Graylog2)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Graylog skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Graylog over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 561 712
Rank change year-on-year +45 +151 +142
Contract jobs citing Graylog 4 21 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.048% 0.010%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.087% 0.41% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 4
10th Percentile - £523 £581
25th Percentile £463 £557 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £645 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% -0.85% -
75th Percentile £488 £681 £694
90th Percentile - £690 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate - £618 £650
% change year-on-year - -4.88% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Graylog 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 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Graylog as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Graylog in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Graylog.

Daily rate trend for Graylog in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Graylog within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +51 4 £475 -18.56% 3
UK excluding London +53 2 - - 1
London +38 2 £475 -28.84% 3
North of England +16 2 - -
North West - 2 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
1 1 (25.00%) DSLAM
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) Telnet
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Broadband Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) FreeRADIUS
2 1 (25.00%) iptables
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Puppet
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) ZABBIX
3 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Cacti
4 1 (25.00%) logstash
4 1 (25.00%) Nagios
4 1 (25.00%) Netcool
4 1 (25.00%) Packer
4 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Huawei
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk