Observability Contracts

Observability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 371 463 623
Rank change year-on-year +92 +160 -16
Contract jobs citing Observability 235 265 229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.44% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.49% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 157 164
10th Percentile £425 £450 £479
25th Percentile £505 £513 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +20.37%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £738
90th Percentile - £950 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.42% -10.33% +30.29%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £75.50 -
% change year-on-year -20.53% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK 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
England +113 193 £550 -12.00% 110
London +113 129 £575 -28.13% 73
Work from Home +99 88 £550 +0.92% 55
UK excluding London +32 83 £525 -2.42% 44
North of England +41 28 £524 -4.77% 13
Scotland +30 24 £522 +4.40% 4
South West +30 23 £800 +77.78% 7
North West +33 20 £524 - 11
Yorkshire +11 8 - - 2
South East +26 7 £800 +16.36% 16
West Midlands -1 1 - - 4
Midlands -10 1 - - 4

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (8.94%) OpenStack
2 18 (7.66%) Confluence
3 5 (2.13%) SAS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 78 (33.19%) AWS
2 33 (14.04%) Azure
3 27 (11.49%) Serverless
4 21 (8.94%) OpenShift
5 20 (8.51%) Amazon S3
6 19 (8.09%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (7.66%) Slack
8 15 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (5.11%) GCP
10 12 (5.11%) GitHub
11 11 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (3.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.83%) SaaS
13 7 (2.98%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.55%) Datadog
15 5 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
15 5 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.26%) SAN
2 9 (3.83%) Firewall
3 8 (3.40%) Network Security
4 7 (2.98%) DNS
5 6 (2.55%) NAS
6 5 (2.13%) AMQP
6 5 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (2.13%) iSCSI
7 4 (1.70%) HTTPS
8 3 (1.28%) SNMP
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.85%) FTP
9 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.85%) WAN
9 2 (0.85%) Wireless
10 1 (0.43%) DSL
10 1 (0.43%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (28.51%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (5.96%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.53%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.83%) InfluxDB
6 5 (2.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.13%) MySQL
6 5 (2.13%) Redis
7 4 (1.70%) Big Data
7 4 (1.70%) DB2
7 4 (1.70%) Power BI
8 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.85%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.43%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.43%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.43%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 64 (27.23%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.94%) Git
3 16 (6.81%) JIRA
4 13 (5.53%) GitLab
5 8 (3.40%) JUnit
6 7 (2.98%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.70%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.28%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.28%) Hamcrest
8 3 (1.28%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.85%) TestCafe
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.43%) GoCD
10 1 (0.43%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.43%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 30 (12.77%) Finance
2 27 (11.49%) Social Skills
3 25 (10.64%) Banking
4 14 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.55%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.13%) Retail
8 3 (1.28%) Marketing
9 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (17.87%) Developer
2 39 (16.60%) SIEM Engineer
3 37 (15.74%) Architect
4 33 (14.04%) Senior
5 31 (13.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (11.49%) Java Developer
7 23 (9.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) Lead
9 16 (6.81%) Site Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (3.83%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.40%) Consultant
13 8 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.40%) Technical Leader
14 7 (2.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.74%) REST
2 32 (13.62%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (13.62%) Spring
3 31 (13.19%) Spring Boot
4 27 (11.49%) Hibernate
4 27 (11.49%) JPA
4 27 (11.49%) Spring Security
5 11 (4.68%) Kafka
6 10 (4.26%) React
7 8 (3.40%) AWS CDK
7 8 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.98%) Node.js
9 5 (2.13%) Flash
9 5 (2.13%) POSIX
10 4 (1.70%) Django
10 4 (1.70%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.70%) Flask
10 4 (1.70%) RESTful
11 3 (1.28%) AWS SAM
11 3 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.21%) Onboarding
2 16 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.13%) NVMe
7 4 (1.70%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 60 (25.53%) Linux
2 29 (12.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (8.94%) CentOS
4 19 (8.09%) Unix
5 17 (7.23%) Windows
6 7 (2.98%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.70%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (45.96%) CI/CD
2 89 (37.87%) DevOps
3 78 (33.19%) Agile
4 63 (26.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (19.15%) Microservices
6 44 (18.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 42 (17.87%) SIEM
8 27 (11.49%) Test Automation
9 22 (9.36%) Front End Development
9 22 (9.36%) High Availability
9 22 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (8.51%) Software Engineering
11 17 (7.23%) Scrum
12 16 (6.81%) Design Patterns
12 16 (6.81%) Roadmaps
13 14 (5.96%) Cloud Security
13 14 (5.96%) Data Protection
13 14 (5.96%) Mentoring
13 14 (5.96%) Technology Strategy
14 13 (5.53%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (36.60%) Python
2 59 (25.11%) Java
3 26 (11.06%) Shell Script
4 20 (8.51%) Go
5 17 (7.23%) SQL
6 13 (5.53%) Bash
7 12 (5.11%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.26%) Perl
9 9 (3.83%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.55%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.70%) C
11 4 (1.70%) Groovy
12 3 (1.28%) C#
12 3 (1.28%) Scala
13 2 (0.85%) Bicep
14 1 (0.43%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 97 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 49 (20.85%) DV Cleared
3 45 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.55%) Degree
5 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.98%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (14.04%) Docker
2 14 (5.96%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.13%) NFS
4 4 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.70%) GPFS
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 61 (25.96%) Grafana
2 60 (25.53%) Terraform
3 59 (25.11%) Ansible
4 52 (22.13%) Kubernetes
5 48 (20.43%) Prometheus
6 32 (13.62%) Kibana
7 24 (10.21%) logstash
8 14 (5.96%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.13%) Istio
9 5 (2.13%) Opsgenie
10 4 (1.70%) NetBackup
10 4 (1.70%) Puppet
10 4 (1.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 3 (1.28%) Consul
11 3 (1.28%) Packer
12 2 (0.85%) Argo
12 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.43%) CASB
13 1 (0.43%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 21 (8.94%) Splunk
2 19 (8.09%) Red Hat
3 16 (6.81%) Amdocs
4 11 (4.68%) Microsoft
5 9 (3.83%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.83%) VMware
6 8 (3.40%) Google
6 8 (3.40%) Veritas
7 6 (2.55%) Adobe
7 6 (2.55%) New Relic
7 6 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.55%) SAP
8 5 (2.13%) IBM
8 5 (2.13%) PagerDuty
8 5 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.70%) Brocade
9 4 (1.70%) EMC
9 4 (1.70%) NetApp
9 4 (1.70%) Sybase
10 3 (1.28%) Oracle