Observability Contracts in Berkshire

Observability
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.75% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £318 - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £460 - -
90th Percentile £649 - -
South East median daily rate £435 £538 £800
% change year-on-year -19.07% -32.81% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £20.75 - -
75th Percentile £21.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £20.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,104 1,497 1,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 92.23% 85.84% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 794 1,003
10th Percentile £350 £316 £313
25th Percentile £418 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.58% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 81 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £16.66 £41.25 £27.13
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +6.54% +92.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.75 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.64 £87.46 £75.80
South East median hourly rate £21.39 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.70% +14.70% +100.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Berkshire

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Berkshire

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Berkshire over the 6 months to 13 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Berkshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Reading - 3 £363 - 4
Wokingham - 3 £595 -
Bracknell - 1 - - 2
Windsor - 1 - - 2
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure AKS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) Azure App Service
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) IaaS
5 2 (22.22%) PaaS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
6 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (11.11%) Architect
1 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
1 1 (11.11%) Consultant
1 1 (11.11%) Developer
1 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
1 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
2 1 (11.11%) Express.js
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Jinja
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) LangChain
2 1 (11.11%) NETCONF
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) RESTCONF
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Social Media
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Budgeting
6 2 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
6 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (11.11%) Direct Marketing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Bicep
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) HL7
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Qualys
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce