Observability Contracts in the West Midlands

Observability
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 108 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 30 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.052% 1.27% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.062% 1.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 23 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £538 -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +19.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,624 2,088 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.93% 88.62% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,431 2,357
10th Percentile £276 £263 £272
25th Percentile £364 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +15.32%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £699 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 47 69
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.38 £24.94 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £50.00 £22.05
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the West Midlands

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the West Midlands

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +12 1 - -
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform