Observability Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Observability
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.27% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £514 - £406
25th Percentile £516 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.45%
75th Percentile £566 - -
90th Percentile £571 - £513
South West median daily rate £550 £1,050 £550
% change year-on-year -47.62% +90.91% -33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 678 733 906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.62% 82.92% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 386 606
10th Percentile £250 £277 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £650
90th Percentile £741 £716 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 134 115
10th Percentile £12.82 £48.60 £22.55
25th Percentile £18.87 £64.06 £50.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £78.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Bristol

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (50.00%) SBOM
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware