Observability Contracts in Manchester

Observability
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 115 135
Rank change year-on-year +29 +20 -43
Contract jobs citing Observability 15 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.98% 0.11% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 6
10th Percentile £425 - £481
25th Percentile £488 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.20%
75th Percentile £538 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £524 - £588
% change year-on-year - - +31.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,743 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.08% 91.88% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 1,278 1,823
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.46% +8.44%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £658 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 61 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £14.65 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £37.30 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.15% +144.59% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 27 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
Salford - 1 £425 -
Observability
North West

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) Pulumi
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) TestCafe
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) GoCD
3 1 (6.67%) Pa11y
General
1 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (6.67%) Banking
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Java Developer
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Product Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) Hibernate
1 8 (53.33%) JPA
1 8 (53.33%) REST
1 8 (53.33%) Spring
1 8 (53.33%) Spring Boot
1 8 (53.33%) Spring Security
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
1 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Front End Development
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (13.33%) Product Management
4 2 (13.33%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (13.33%) RBAC
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (6.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (53.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft