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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 415 511
Rank change year-on-year +104 +96 -78
Contract jobs citing Log Analytics 34 44 111
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.20% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 83
10th Percentile £523 £363 £426
25th Percentile £600 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £513 £566
Median % change year-on-year +18.05% -9.45% -5.67%
75th Percentile £608 £545 £655
90th Percentile - £650 £711
UK median daily rate £605 £530 £554
% change year-on-year +14.15% -4.33% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.35
25th Percentile - - £59.88
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
75th Percentile - - £75.38
90th Percentile - - £79.65
UK median hourly rate - £97.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year - +45.52% -

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 12,944 22,223 40,220
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,728 29,204
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 531
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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 19 May 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 17 (50.00%) 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 34 (100.00%) Azure
1 34 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 19 (55.88%) Entra ID
3 18 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (50.00%) Azure Storage
5 8 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (17.65%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (14.71%) AWS
7 5 (14.71%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (11.76%) GitHub
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (2.94%) Azure App Service
11 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
11 1 (2.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 18 (52.94%) DNS
1 18 (52.94%) Firewall
2 17 (50.00%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) WAN
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%) Power Query
4 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Deequ
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
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (41.18%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (41.18%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (41.18%) Support Specialist
3 9 (26.47%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Security Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (58.82%) 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 17 (50.00%) PKI
1 17 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) Security Posture
3 4 (11.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) STIX
4 1 (2.94%) TAXII
Operating Systems
1 21 (61.76%) Windows
2 20 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 17 (50.00%) Linux
3 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Analytics
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
2 23 (67.65%) DevOps
3 20 (58.82%) Agile
3 20 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (55.88%) Identity Management
5 18 (52.94%) RBAC
5 18 (52.94%) Release Management
5 18 (52.94%) Service Management
6 17 (50.00%) ITIL
6 17 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 17 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
7 6 (17.65%) Cloud Security
8 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (11.76%) Security Architecture
9 4 (11.76%) SIEM
9 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) PowerShell
2 19 (55.88%) Bicep
3 17 (50.00%) C#
3 17 (50.00%) VB
3 17 (50.00%) VBScript
4 9 (26.47%) SQL
5 6 (17.65%) Python
6 3 (8.82%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (5.88%) Scala
8 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 21 (61.76%) SC Cleared
3 17 (50.00%) Degree
3 17 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 17 (50.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Active Directory
2 18 (52.94%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) SCOM
2 18 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 18 (52.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (50.00%) SCCM
3 17 (50.00%) WSUS
4 4 (11.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (8.82%) Terraform
6 1 (2.94%) QRadar
6 1 (2.94%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 25 (73.53%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Databricks
3 4 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) ESET
4 1 (2.94%) Remedy
4 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow