Log Aggregation Contracts

Log Aggregation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Log Aggregation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Log Aggregation 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 514 570 694
Rank change year-on-year +56 +124 +133
Contract jobs citing Log Aggregation 6 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.028% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.032% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 14
10th Percentile £393 £269 -
25th Percentile £494 £389 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile £694 £609 £668
90th Percentile £698 £638 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Log Aggregation 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Log Aggregation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Log Aggregation in the UK

Log Aggregation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Log Aggregation in the UK

Log Aggregation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Log Aggregation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Log Aggregation in the UK

Log Aggregation
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Log Aggregation 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 6 £675 +20.00% 8
London +32 4 £675 +31.71% 5
UK excluding London +64 2 - - 5
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Work from Home +35 1 £700 +16.67% 3

Log Aggregation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) BigCommerce
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
3 2 (33.33%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) SSL
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
2 1 (16.67%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) CentOS
2 2 (33.33%) Debian
2 2 (33.33%) Ubuntu
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) B2B
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (16.67%) GCFA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIA
2 1 (16.67%) GCIH
2 1 (16.67%) GIAC
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
2 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Nessus
2 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Sophos
1 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) LogRhythm
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Sitecore
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk