Observability Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Observability
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Observability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate £620 £163 £500
% change year-on-year +281.54% -67.50% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 159 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 91.03% 81.96% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 86 86
10th Percentile £190 £261 £291
25th Percentile £452 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £619 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £613
East of England median daily rate £501 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.22% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 3
10th Percentile £37.50 £37.88 £53.00
25th Percentile £62.88 £51.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.87% +6.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £60.25
90th Percentile - £69.73 £61.90
East of England median hourly rate £23.63 £40.00 £19.81
% change year-on-year -40.93% +101.92% -5.67%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Bedfordshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 September 2025. 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
Luton - 1 - - 2
Observability
East of England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft