Observability Contracts in England

Observability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 451 598
Rank change year-on-year +102 +147 -27
Contract jobs citing Observability 193 206 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.41% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.45% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 133 137
10th Percentile £450 £450 £492
25th Percentile £505 £513 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +20.65%
75th Percentile £825 £850 £725
90th Percentile - £950 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £72.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £74.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £84.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.60 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in England

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Daily rate trend for Observability in England

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in England

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in England

Observability
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +119 129 £575 -28.13% 74
North of England +40 28 £524 -4.77% 13
South West +23 23 £800 +77.78% 7
North West +40 20 £524 - 11
Yorkshire +14 8 - - 2
South East +20 7 £800 +16.36% 16
West Midlands +1 1 - - 4
Midlands -5 1 - - 4
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 21 (10.88%) OpenStack
2 16 (8.29%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.12%) AWS
2 27 (13.99%) Azure
3 22 (11.40%) Serverless
4 18 (9.33%) Slack
5 16 (8.29%) Amazon S3
6 15 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (6.22%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.22%) GitHub
8 11 (5.70%) GCP
8 11 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.18%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (4.15%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.15%) SaaS
11 7 (3.63%) Amazon SQS
12 6 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon MSK
13 5 (2.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (2.59%) Datadog
14 4 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.15%) Network Security
2 7 (3.63%) Firewall
3 6 (3.11%) DNS
4 5 (2.59%) AMQP
5 4 (2.07%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.04%) FTP
6 2 (1.04%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.04%) SNMP
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.52%) IPv4
7 1 (0.52%) NAS
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (32.12%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (7.25%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.11%) InfluxDB
6 5 (2.59%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.59%) MySQL
6 5 (2.59%) Redis
7 4 (2.07%) Big Data
8 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.55%) Power BI
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.04%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.52%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.52%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 53 (27.46%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.33%) Git
3 15 (7.77%) JIRA
4 8 (4.15%) JUnit
5 7 (3.63%) GitLab
6 4 (2.07%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.55%) Hamcrest
7 3 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.04%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.52%) GoCD
9 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.52%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 19 (9.84%) Finance
2 14 (7.25%) Banking
3 13 (6.74%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.66%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.59%) Retail
7 3 (1.55%) Marketing
8 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.52%) Legal
9 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (20.21%) SIEM Engineer
2 37 (19.17%) Developer
3 32 (16.58%) Architect
4 29 (15.03%) Senior
5 25 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (11.40%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.81%) Lead
7 17 (8.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (6.74%) Site Engineer
9 10 (5.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.15%) Technical Leader
11 7 (3.63%) Consultant
11 7 (3.63%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.63%) VMware Architect
12 6 (3.11%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (2.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.59%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.06%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (13.99%) REST
2 27 (13.99%) Spring
3 26 (13.47%) Spring Boot
4 22 (11.40%) Hibernate
4 22 (11.40%) JPA
4 22 (11.40%) Spring Security
5 11 (5.70%) Kafka
6 10 (5.18%) React
7 7 (3.63%) Node.js
8 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.07%) AWS CDK
9 4 (2.07%) Django
9 4 (2.07%) FastAPI
9 4 (2.07%) Flask
9 4 (2.07%) RESTful
10 3 (1.55%) .NET
10 3 (1.55%) AWS SAM
10 3 (1.55%) Loki
10 3 (1.55%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.92%) Onboarding
2 15 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.66%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.63%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.52%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.52%) CMDB
8 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (22.80%) Linux
2 21 (10.88%) CentOS
2 21 (10.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (6.22%) Unix
4 10 (5.18%) Windows
5 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (46.11%) CI/CD
2 74 (38.34%) DevOps
3 68 (35.23%) Agile
4 54 (27.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (21.24%) Microservices
5 41 (21.24%) SIEM
6 31 (16.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (10.36%) Test Automation
8 18 (9.33%) Front End Development
8 18 (9.33%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (8.81%) High Availability
10 16 (8.29%) Software Engineering
11 14 (7.25%) Mentoring
11 14 (7.25%) Scrum
12 13 (6.74%) Design Patterns
12 13 (6.74%) Event-Driven
12 13 (6.74%) Roadmaps
13 11 (5.70%) Configuration Management
13 11 (5.70%) TDD
13 11 (5.70%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.16%) Python
2 49 (25.39%) Java
3 26 (13.47%) Shell Script
4 19 (9.84%) Go
5 12 (6.22%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.70%) SQL
7 9 (4.66%) Bash
7 9 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.11%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.07%) C
10 3 (1.55%) C#
10 3 (1.55%) Scala
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 91 (47.15%) Security Cleared
2 49 (25.39%) DV Cleared
3 41 (21.24%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.07%) Degree
5 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.63%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 29 (15.03%) Docker
2 14 (7.25%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (24.87%) Terraform
2 45 (23.32%) Ansible
3 43 (22.28%) Grafana
4 36 (18.65%) Prometheus
5 35 (18.13%) Kubernetes
6 27 (13.99%) Kibana
7 23 (11.92%) logstash
8 14 (7.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.59%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.59%) Istio
9 5 (2.59%) Opsgenie
10 4 (2.07%) Puppet
11 3 (1.55%) Consul
11 3 (1.55%) Packer
12 2 (1.04%) Argo
12 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.52%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.52%) systemd
Vendors
1 19 (9.84%) Red Hat
2 16 (8.29%) Amdocs
2 16 (8.29%) Splunk
3 11 (5.70%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.66%) VMware
5 7 (3.63%) Dynatrace
6 6 (3.11%) Adobe
6 6 (3.11%) New Relic
6 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.11%) SAP
7 5 (2.59%) PagerDuty
8 4 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.55%) Google
9 3 (1.55%) Oracle
10 2 (1.04%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.04%) BigPanda
10 2 (1.04%) Databricks
10 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.52%) Checkmarx
11 1 (0.52%) Dataiku