Observability Contract Job Trends in Bath

Observability
Somerset > Bath

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bath requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bath 0.98% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 - -
Somerset median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bath

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bath.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 57 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath 74.51% 86.36% 77.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 42 33
10th Percentile £355 £225 £190
25th Percentile £463 £325 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £454 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +6.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £616 £649 £475
90th Percentile £675 £675 £639
Somerset median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.67%
75th Percentile - - £15.00
90th Percentile - - £15.90
Somerset median hourly rate £62.25 £18.51 £25.00
% change year-on-year +236.30% -25.96% -51.82%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Bath

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Observability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bath.

Observability job vacancy trend in Bath

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bath by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) ModSecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
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%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle