Log Aggregation Contract Job Trends

Log Aggregation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Log Aggregation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 520 588
Rank change year-on-year -68 +68 +158
Contract jobs citing Log Aggregation 3 7 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.023% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.009% 0.025% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile - - £94
25th Percentile £401 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £404 - £748
90th Percentile - - £773
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process & 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 33,986 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.08% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,549 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.88% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,070 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.20% -9.97% +11.43%

Log Aggregation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Log Aggregation job vacancy trend in the UK

Log Aggregation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Log Aggregation

Log Aggregation
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 Log Aggregation within the UK over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. 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
London -23 3 £403 - 1
England -76 3 £403 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £403 -

Log Aggregation
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Loki
2 2 (66.67%) eBPF
3 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (33.33%) Django
3 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
3 1 (33.33%) OpenID
3 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) CentOS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (66.67%) Cilium
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) VMware