OpenTelemetry Contracts

OpenTelemetry
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OpenTelemetry skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenTelemetry 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 595 717 825
Rank change year-on-year +122 +108 -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 3 2 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.003% 0.027%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.034% 0.014% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 19
10th Percentile £584 - £601
25th Percentile £598 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £666 - £750
75th Percentile £718 - £831
90th Percentile £722 - £850
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenTelemetry is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry 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 +129 3 £666 - 9
London +102 3 £666 - 7
Work from Home - 1 £683 - 5

OpenTelemetry
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Datadog
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (33.33%) Bigtable
2 1 (33.33%) CockroachDB
2 1 (33.33%) Couchbase
2 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Spinnaker
1 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) http4s
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Kotlin
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic