OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in Bristol

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.092% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £700 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bristol

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 160 113 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 14.77% 21.36% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 56 126
10th Percentile £281 £333 £300
25th Percentile £375 £355 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £562 £550
90th Percentile £650 £653 £688
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 33
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
25th Percentile £61.81 £61.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £65.70 £68.75 £73.55
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in Bristol

OpenTelemetry
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform