Log Analytics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Log Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 287 311 421
Rank change year-on-year +24 +110 +98
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 17 34 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 37
10th Percentile £437 £521 £376
25th Percentile £475 £590 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +21.00% -11.66%
75th Percentile £573 £608 £545
90th Percentile £698 - £650
UK median daily rate £500 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -5.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Log Analytics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Log Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Log Analytics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Log Analytics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Log Analytics over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) DataSynapse
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
1 15 (88.24%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (47.06%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 4 (23.53%) Azure AKS
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) Parquet
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power Query
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
1 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Grid Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) TIBCO Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
2 3 (17.65%) JSON
2 3 (17.65%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
3 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) ADO
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (5.88%) JWT
4 1 (5.88%) LDAP
4 1 (5.88%) OAuth
4 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.88%) SAML
4 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Grid Computing
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Equities
3 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
1 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) API Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) ITSM
6 3 (17.65%) Kanban
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Observability
7 2 (11.76%) RBAC
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) PowerShell
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) Bicep
4 5 (29.41%) Java
5 4 (23.53%) Bash
5 4 (23.53%) C#
6 3 (17.65%) C++
7 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (11.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (5.88%) Groovy
8 1 (5.88%) VB
8 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Platform Symphony
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAM
3 1 (5.88%) OpenDJ
3 1 (5.88%) OpenIDM
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) Grafana
3 3 (17.65%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (17.65%) Kibana
4 2 (11.76%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.88%) SCCM
5 1 (5.88%) SCOM
5 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) TIBCO
3 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 2 (11.76%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) Snow
4 1 (5.88%) ForgeRock