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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 517 600
Rank change year-on-year +52 +83 +39
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 44 54 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 57
10th Percentile £411 £508 £369
25th Percentile £440 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £530
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +14.15% -4.33%
75th Percentile £534 £608 £638
90th Percentile £662 £611 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -17.36% +21.00% -5.66%
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 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 19 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 9 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 19 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 39 £498 -17.77% 49
London +51 23 £465 -16.96% 31
Work from Home +34 17 £523 -13.55% 30
UK excluding London +41 16 £500 -17.36% 30
South East +28 9 £450 -25.62% 13
Midlands - 3 £513 - 7
Scotland - 3 £513 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £513 - 6
South West +35 1 - - 1

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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) DataSynapse
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 40 (90.91%) Azure
1 40 (90.91%) Azure Monitor
2 23 (52.27%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (31.82%) Azure AKS
4 11 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (18.18%) AWS
6 7 (15.91%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (11.36%) Azure API Management
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Functions
7 5 (11.36%) Entra ID
7 5 (11.36%) Serverless
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
9 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (6.82%) Azure Storage
9 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (6.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
3 2 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (2.27%) DHCP
4 1 (2.27%) HTTP
4 1 (2.27%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.27%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.27%) NAS
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
4 1 (2.27%) SAN
4 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.36%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.82%) MariaDB
5 3 (6.82%) MySQL
5 3 (6.82%) Parquet
5 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.82%) Power Query
5 3 (6.82%) Redis
5 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.55%) Big Data
6 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (2.27%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.27%) Power BI
7 1 (2.27%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.09%) Git
3 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 2 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.27%) Selenium
5 1 (2.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (20.45%) Finance
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Front Office
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Lead
3 6 (13.64%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Grid Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) TIBCO Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Administrator
7 2 (4.55%) Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Security Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Integration Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) ARM Templates
2 12 (27.27%) .NET
2 12 (27.27%) JSON
3 7 (15.91%) YAML
4 6 (13.64%) REST
5 5 (11.36%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (11.36%) RESTful
5 5 (11.36%) Web Services
6 4 (9.09%) SOAP
7 3 (6.82%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
8 2 (4.55%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.55%) OAuth
8 2 (4.55%) React
8 2 (4.55%) SAML
9 1 (2.27%) ADO
9 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
9 1 (2.27%) LDAP
9 1 (2.27%) PySpark
9 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Grid Computing
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.82%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.82%) Low-Code
3 3 (6.82%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.27%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.27%) Equities
4 1 (2.27%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.27%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Windows
2 7 (15.91%) Windows Server
2 7 (15.91%) Windows Server 2019
3 5 (11.36%) Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) Analytics
2 24 (54.55%) DevOps
3 18 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (22.73%) Agile
6 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.45%) API Management
7 9 (20.45%) ITSM
8 7 (15.91%) Data Integration
8 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
8 7 (15.91%) Observability
8 7 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) API Integration
9 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (13.64%) Service Management
9 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.36%) DevSecOps
10 5 (11.36%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) Python
2 18 (40.91%) PowerShell
3 15 (34.09%) SQL
4 14 (31.82%) C#
5 13 (29.55%) Bicep
6 10 (22.73%) Bash
7 9 (20.45%) Java
8 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
8 7 (15.91%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (11.36%) C++
10 3 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (2.27%) Groovy
11 1 (2.27%) VB
11 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) CISSP
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CCSK
4 1 (2.27%) CEH
4 1 (2.27%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) GIAC
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) NIST
2 2 (4.55%) GDPR
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.36%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (9.09%) Platform Symphony
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAM
4 1 (2.27%) OpenDJ
4 1 (2.27%) OpenIDM
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 16 (36.36%) Terraform
3 13 (29.55%) Grafana
4 9 (20.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (18.18%) Ansible
6 5 (11.36%) ITRS Geneos
6 5 (11.36%) Kibana
7 4 (9.09%) Puppet
7 4 (9.09%) Salt
8 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (6.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (2.27%) CASB
9 1 (2.27%) SCCM
9 1 (2.27%) SCOM
9 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.36%) Databricks
3 5 (11.36%) TIBCO
4 4 (9.09%) IBM
5 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.55%) Snow
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco
6 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.27%) Dell
6 1 (2.27%) EMC
6 1 (2.27%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) SAP
6 1 (2.27%) SonicWALL
6 1 (2.27%) VMware