Observability Contracts in the South East

Observability
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 210 251
Rank change year-on-year +20 +41 -39
Contract jobs citing Observability 6 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.14% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.15% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 4
10th Percentile £519 - £520
25th Percentile £588 £681 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £744 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.56% +35.23% +1.85%
75th Percentile £825 £800 £606
90th Percentile - - £685
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +20.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,677 5,168 6,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.68% 89.46% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,739 3,591 4,723
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 223 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £62.92
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the South East

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the South East

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the South East over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the South East

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Hampshire - 5 £800 - 5
Surrey +14 1 £525 -23.64% 4
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Go
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft