Observability Contracts in the City of London

Observability
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 170 175
Rank change year-on-year +56 +5 -31
Contract jobs citing Observability 12 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.54% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.24% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 13
10th Percentile £470 £566 £454
25th Percentile £508 £570 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +6.36% +2.33%
75th Percentile £725 £595 £675
90th Percentile £1,000 £597 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £585 £550
% change year-on-year -8.12% +6.36% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Observability 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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 3,346 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.82% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,259 2,942
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £454 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 42
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the City of London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London Bridge - 1 £501 -
Observability
Central London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (16.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (16.67%) Slack
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Data Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Management Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Business Strategy Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Head of IT
3 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Strategy Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) CentOS
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) DAMA
5 2 (16.67%) Data Lineage
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 1 (8.33%) Digital Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Go
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 2 (16.67%) logstash
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Consul
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Opsgenie
3 1 (8.33%) Packer
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Amdocs
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic
2 1 (8.33%) PagerDuty
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow