Log Analytics Contracts

Log Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 530 594 630
Rank change year-on-year +64 +36 -8
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 56 99 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 65 131
10th Percentile £509 £375 £425
25th Percentile £525 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £525 £554
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -5.23% +10.80%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £668
90th Percentile £626 £683 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +21.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £97.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 +70 47 £605 +14.69% 17
Work from Home +99 34 £605 +21.00% 13
UK excluding London +73 28 £605 +21.00% 9
London +87 17 £560 +12.00% 7
South East +24 17 £605 +5.22% 3
South West - 7 £600 - 1
Midlands +25 4 £626 +47.35% 3
West Midlands +20 4 £626 +47.35% 1
Scotland +38 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 17 (30.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 4 (7.14%) Apache
4 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (92.86%) Azure
1 52 (92.86%) Azure Monitor
2 19 (33.93%) Entra ID
2 19 (33.93%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (28.57%) Azure Storage
4 15 (26.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (10.71%) AWS
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (8.93%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (7.14%) GitHub
11 3 (5.36%) Azure Functions
11 3 (5.36%) PaaS
11 3 (5.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (33.93%) Firewall
2 17 (30.36%) DNS
3 16 (28.57%) DHCP
4 2 (3.57%) Network Security
5 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.93%) Parquet
4 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.36%) Big Data
5 3 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.36%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.57%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.57%) MySQL
6 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Power Query
6 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (1.79%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.79%) Power BI
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) Deequ
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.79%) Gradle
4 1 (1.79%) gulp
4 1 (1.79%) Maven
4 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.79%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.79%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Banking
2 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.79%) Legal
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing
4 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (28.57%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (25.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (25.00%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (25.00%) Support Specialist
4 13 (23.21%) Data Engineer
5 9 (16.07%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) SOC Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Azure Architect
7 4 (7.14%) Lead
7 4 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Active Directory Support Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (48.21%) ARM Templates
2 13 (23.21%) PySpark
3 6 (10.71%) JSON
4 5 (8.93%) Apache Avro
4 5 (8.93%) JSON Schema
5 4 (7.14%) Great Expectations
6 2 (3.57%) Kafka
6 2 (3.57%) Middleware
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth
7 1 (1.79%) .NET
7 1 (1.79%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.79%) RESTful
7 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) PKI
2 16 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (16.07%) Security Posture
4 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
5 5 (8.93%) Public Cloud
6 4 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.79%) STIX
8 1 (1.79%) TAXII
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (42.86%) Windows
2 21 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 18 (32.14%) Linux
4 17 (30.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.79%) CentOS
7 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.79%) Unix
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (98.21%) Analytics
2 29 (51.79%) DevOps
3 27 (48.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (46.43%) Agile
4 26 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 18 (32.14%) Identity Management
5 18 (32.14%) RBAC
6 17 (30.36%) ITIL
6 17 (30.36%) Release Management
6 17 (30.36%) Service Management
7 16 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
8 11 (19.64%) Incident Response
9 9 (16.07%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (16.07%) SIEM
10 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.71%) Data Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
11 6 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (48.21%) PowerShell
2 19 (33.93%) Bicep
3 18 (32.14%) C#
3 18 (32.14%) SQL
4 16 (28.57%) Python
4 16 (28.57%) VB
4 16 (28.57%) VBScript
5 6 (10.71%) Scala
6 4 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.36%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (3.57%) Bash
9 1 (1.79%) Go
9 1 (1.79%) Groovy
9 1 (1.79%) Java
9 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.79%) Perl
9 1 (1.79%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Ruby
9 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (35.71%) Degree
4 18 (32.14%) DV Cleared
5 16 (28.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (7.14%) CISSP
6 4 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.14%) NCSC
2 4 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
2 18 (32.14%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (8.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 19 (33.93%) SCOM
3 18 (32.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (28.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (28.57%) SCCM
4 16 (28.57%) WSUS
5 10 (17.86%) Terraform
6 4 (7.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 2 (3.57%) Ansible
7 2 (3.57%) Grafana
7 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.79%) CASB
8 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.79%) QRadar
8 1 (1.79%) SCOrch
8 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (55.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.00%) Databricks
3 8 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) BMC
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco
5 1 (1.79%) ESET
5 1 (1.79%) New Relic
5 1 (1.79%) Remedy