Observability Contracts in London

Observability
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 386 450
Rank change year-on-year +125 +64 -23
Contract jobs citing Observability 135 116 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.43% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.47% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 70 110
10th Percentile £438 £511 £498
25th Percentile £503 £634 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% +20.93%
75th Percentile £825 £950 £747
90th Percentile - £1,030 £813
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +20.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,770 24,518 35,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 91.07% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,304 17,620 26,197
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 277 426
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.58 £17.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.75 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +6.43% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.95 £67.81
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in London

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Observability in London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +50 13 £525 -10.26% 5
South London +18 9 £513 -24.13% 1
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (15.56%) OpenStack
2 16 (11.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) Apache
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.74%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.81%) AWS
2 17 (12.59%) Slack
3 16 (11.85%) Serverless
4 15 (11.11%) Azure
5 12 (8.89%) GitHub
6 11 (8.15%) GCP
6 11 (8.15%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (7.41%) Amazon S3
8 9 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.19%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.70%) Amazon MSK
11 5 (3.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.96%) Datadog
12 4 (2.96%) SaaS
12 4 (2.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.19%) Firewall
2 4 (2.96%) DNS
2 4 (2.96%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.48%) FTP
3 2 (1.48%) Network Security
3 2 (1.48%) SNMP
4 1 (0.74%) AMQP
4 1 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.74%) NAS
4 1 (0.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.70%) MySQL
5 4 (2.96%) Redis
6 3 (2.22%) Big Data
6 3 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.22%) Power BI
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.48%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.74%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.74%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.74%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.74%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (30.37%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.85%) Git
2 16 (11.85%) JIRA
3 8 (5.93%) JUnit
4 4 (2.96%) GitLab
4 4 (2.96%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.22%) Hamcrest
6 2 (1.48%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.74%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.74%) Mocha
7 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.74%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (8.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.15%) Finance
3 9 (6.67%) Banking
4 7 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Retail
6 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (0.74%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (19.26%) Senior
2 24 (17.78%) Architect
3 23 (17.04%) Developer
3 23 (17.04%) SIEM Engineer
4 18 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (11.85%) Lead
6 15 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.93%) Consultant
7 8 (5.93%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.93%) Technical Leader
8 7 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (5.19%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.19%) VMware Architect
9 6 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.70%) Data Consultant
10 5 (3.70%) Management Consultant
10 5 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (14.07%) REST
2 19 (14.07%) Spring
2 19 (14.07%) Spring Boot
3 15 (11.11%) Hibernate
3 15 (11.11%) JPA
3 15 (11.11%) Spring Security
4 10 (7.41%) Kafka
5 9 (6.67%) React
6 8 (5.93%) Node.js
7 4 (2.96%) RESTful
8 3 (2.22%) AWS CDK
8 3 (2.22%) AWS SAM
8 3 (2.22%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.22%) Laravel
8 3 (2.22%) Loki
8 3 (2.22%) OAuth
8 3 (2.22%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.22%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.56%) Onboarding
2 14 (10.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.41%) Distributed Computing
3 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.96%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.48%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.74%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.74%) CMDB
7 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.19%) Linux
2 21 (15.56%) CentOS
2 21 (15.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.19%) Unix
4 4 (2.96%) Windows
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (45.93%) CI/CD
2 60 (44.44%) Agile
3 55 (40.74%) DevOps
4 39 (28.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (22.96%) Microservices
6 26 (19.26%) SIEM
7 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (12.59%) High Availability
9 14 (10.37%) Scrum
10 12 (8.89%) Mentoring
10 12 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (8.15%) Front End Development
11 11 (8.15%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.15%) Test Automation
12 10 (7.41%) Software Engineering
13 9 (6.67%) Data Management
13 9 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (6.67%) TDD
14 8 (5.93%) Static Code Analysis
14 8 (5.93%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.81%) Python
2 35 (25.93%) Java
3 21 (15.56%) Shell Script
4 13 (9.63%) Go
5 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.44%) Bash
6 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.22%) Scala
9 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.48%) SQL
10 1 (0.74%) C#
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.04%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.96%) Degree
5 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.19%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (12.59%) Docker
2 14 (10.37%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (25.19%) Grafana
2 31 (22.96%) Ansible
2 31 (22.96%) Terraform
3 30 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 25 (18.52%) Kubernetes
5 22 (16.30%) Kibana
5 22 (16.30%) logstash
6 6 (4.44%) Opsgenie
7 4 (2.96%) Istio
7 4 (2.96%) Puppet
8 3 (2.22%) Consul
8 3 (2.22%) Packer
8 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.48%) Argo
10 1 (0.74%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.74%) systemd
Vendors
1 20 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 16 (11.85%) Amdocs
3 13 (9.63%) Splunk
4 9 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.19%) Adobe
5 7 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.19%) SAP
5 7 (5.19%) VMware
6 6 (4.44%) New Relic
6 6 (4.44%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.48%) BigPanda
7 2 (1.48%) Cisco
7 2 (1.48%) Google
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle
7 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.48%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.74%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.74%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.74%) Veritas