Hybrid/Remote Log Correlation Contract Job Trends

Log Correlation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Log Correlation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 338 415
Rank change year-on-year +28 +77 +192
Contract jobs citing Log Correlation 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.016% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.018% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -32.26%
75th Percentile - - £575
90th Percentile - - £590
UK median daily rate £604 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +18.33% +2.00% -35.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Log Correlation 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 9,025 11,205 18,618
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.09% 87.40% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,024 7,354 13,126
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 333 454
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.65 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.94 £30.12 £25.96
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.25 £75.00 £79.76
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +49.66%

Log Correlation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Log Correlation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Log Correlation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Log Correlation

Log Correlation
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable