Log Analytics Contracts

Log Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Log Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Log Analytics 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 478 523 615
Rank change year-on-year +45 +92 +29
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 42 59 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 43 69
10th Percentile £409 £510 £382
25th Percentile £433 £531 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -5.83%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £638
90th Percentile £692 £633 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -25.62% +21.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £91.25
Median hourly rate - - £97.50
75th Percentile - - £103.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Log Analytics 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 Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Log Analytics in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Log Analytics in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Log Analytics in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Log Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Log Analytics in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Log Analytics 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 +46 38 £483 -20.25% 57
London +46 25 £483 -13.84% 22
Work from Home +24 17 £523 -13.55% 43
UK excluding London +46 12 £450 -25.62% 39
South East +38 9 £450 -25.62% 13
Scotland +14 2 £525 - 2
South West +40 1 - - 2

Log Analytics
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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) DataSynapse
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 38 (90.48%) Azure
1 38 (90.48%) Azure Monitor
2 20 (47.62%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (35.71%) Azure AKS
4 11 (26.19%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (19.05%) AWS
6 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Storage
8 3 (7.14%) GitHub
8 3 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (7.14%) PaaS
8 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.76%) Azure App Service
9 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.76%) IaaS
9 2 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) DNS
4 1 (2.38%) DHCP
4 1 (2.38%) HTTP
4 1 (2.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.38%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.38%) NAS
4 1 (2.38%) Network Security
4 1 (2.38%) SAN
4 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.14%) Parquet
5 2 (4.76%) Big Data
5 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.76%) MariaDB
5 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Power Query
5 2 (4.76%) Redis
6 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.38%) Power BI
6 1 (2.38%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) Postman
4 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.38%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Front Office
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Lead
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Grid Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) TIBCO Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Administrator
6 2 (4.76%) Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Security Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 11 (26.19%) JSON
3 9 (21.43%) .NET
4 6 (14.29%) REST
4 6 (14.29%) YAML
5 5 (11.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (9.52%) SOAP
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.76%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (4.76%) OAuth
7 2 (4.76%) React
7 2 (4.76%) RESTful
7 2 (4.76%) SAML
7 2 (4.76%) Web Services
8 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.38%) Pandas
8 1 (2.38%) PySpark
8 1 (2.38%) pytest
8 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Grid Computing
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) PKI
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.38%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.38%) Equities
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 7 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (11.90%) Linux
4 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Analytics
2 22 (52.38%) DevOps
3 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 11 (26.19%) Containerisation
6 10 (23.81%) Agile
7 9 (21.43%) ITSM
8 7 (16.67%) Observability
8 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (14.29%) API Integration
9 6 (14.29%) API Management
9 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.29%) Service Management
9 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.90%) GitOps
10 5 (11.90%) ITIL
10 5 (11.90%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Python
2 17 (40.48%) PowerShell
3 14 (33.33%) Bicep
3 14 (33.33%) SQL
4 11 (26.19%) C#
5 9 (21.43%) Bash
5 9 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (19.05%) Java
7 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
8 5 (11.90%) C++
9 2 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (2.38%) Groovy
10 1 (2.38%) VB
10 1 (2.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) CISSP
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCSK
4 1 (2.38%) CEH
4 1 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) GIAC
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.52%) Platform Symphony
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.38%) OpenAM
5 1 (2.38%) OpenDJ
5 1 (2.38%) OpenIDM
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (40.48%) Terraform
3 12 (28.57%) Grafana
4 8 (19.05%) Prometheus
5 7 (16.67%) Ansible
6 5 (11.90%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (11.90%) Kibana
7 4 (9.52%) Puppet
7 4 (9.52%) Salt
8 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
10 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (2.38%) CASB
10 1 (2.38%) SCCM
10 1 (2.38%) SCOM
10 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.90%) Databricks
3 5 (11.90%) TIBCO
4 4 (9.52%) IBM
5 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.76%) Snow
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco
6 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.38%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) EMC
6 1 (2.38%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.38%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.38%) Google
6 1 (2.38%) Informatica
6 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (2.38%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.38%) VMware