Log Analytics Contracts with Work from Home Options

Log Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Log Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Log Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 421 519
Rank change year-on-year +110 +98 -85
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 34 56 113
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 86
10th Percentile £521 £376 £426
25th Percentile £590 £413 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £500 £566
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -11.66% +0.62%
75th Percentile £608 £545 £648
90th Percentile - £650 £725
UK median daily rate £605 £525 £558
% change year-on-year +15.24% -5.83% +11.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Log Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Log Analytics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Log Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Log Analytics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Log Analytics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Log Analytics.

Log Analytics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Log Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Log Analytics over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Log Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Log Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (44.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.94%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (97.06%) Azure
1 33 (97.06%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 16 (47.06%) Azure Storage
3 16 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (20.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (14.71%) AWS
6 5 (14.71%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (14.71%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (8.82%) GitHub
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
10 1 (2.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 17 (50.00%) DNS
1 17 (50.00%) Firewall
2 16 (47.06%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Parquet
4 1 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Power Query
4 1 (2.94%) Redis
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.94%) Deequ
2 1 (2.94%) Gradle
2 1 (2.94%) gulp
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) Maven
2 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.94%) Travis CI
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.94%) Finance
2 1 (2.94%) Legal
2 1 (2.94%) Marketing
2 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (44.12%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (41.18%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (41.18%) Support Specialist
3 6 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) SOC Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) ARM Templates
2 6 (17.65%) PySpark
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Avro
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (5.88%) JSON Schema
4 1 (2.94%) Great Expectations
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) PKI
1 16 (47.06%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (17.65%) Security Posture
3 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.94%) STIX
5 1 (2.94%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 20 (58.82%) Windows
2 18 (52.94%) Windows Server
3 15 (44.12%) Linux
3 15 (44.12%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (44.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Analytics
2 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (61.76%) DevOps
3 19 (55.88%) Agile
4 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (50.00%) Identity Management
5 17 (50.00%) Release Management
5 17 (50.00%) Service Management
6 16 (47.06%) ITIL
6 16 (47.06%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 16 (47.06%) Privileged Identity Management
6 16 (47.06%) RBAC
7 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
8 5 (14.71%) Incident Response
8 5 (14.71%) SIEM
9 4 (11.76%) Digital Strategy
9 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (11.76%) SOAR
9 4 (11.76%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) PowerShell
2 17 (50.00%) C#
3 16 (47.06%) Bicep
3 16 (47.06%) VB
3 16 (47.06%) VBScript
4 9 (26.47%) SQL
5 7 (20.59%) Python
6 3 (8.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (5.88%) Scala
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
8 1 (2.94%) Go
8 1 (2.94%) Groovy
8 1 (2.94%) Java
8 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.94%) PHP
8 1 (2.94%) Ruby
8 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 21 (61.76%) SC Cleared
3 16 (47.06%) Degree
3 16 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 16 (47.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (11.76%) NCSC
1 4 (11.76%) NIST
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 17 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (47.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) SCOM
2 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 17 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (47.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (47.06%) SCCM
4 16 (47.06%) WSUS
5 4 (11.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
6 3 (8.82%) Terraform
7 1 (2.94%) Ansible
7 1 (2.94%) Grafana
7 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.94%) QRadar
7 1 (2.94%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 22 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Databricks
3 5 (14.71%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) ESET
4 1 (2.94%) Remedy
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow