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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 3.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 - -
75th Percentile £454 - -
90th Percentile £482 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £163 £495
% change year-on-year +238.46% -67.17% -

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 209 128 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 90.09% 78.05% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 66 133
10th Percentile £211 £201 £330
25th Percentile £413 £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 16 4
10th Percentile £35.03 £45.38 £51.63
25th Percentile £59.00 £53.53 £52.19
Median hourly rate £84.50 £58.45 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.57% +6.27% -1.48%
75th Percentile £91.50 £67.50 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.70 £67.75 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.00% +25.00% -4.76%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend 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 13 November 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 - 8 £441 - 1
Observability
East of England

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
1 5 (62.50%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
General
1 8 (100.00%) Aviation
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Data Steward
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OpenID
1 5 (62.50%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Anomaly Detection
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
3 3 (37.50%) Data Sharing
3 3 (37.50%) Master Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Metadata Management
3 3 (37.50%) Monte Carlo Method
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) CRM
4 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (25.00%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft