Observability Contracts in Cambridge

Observability
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 5.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £813 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £583 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 161 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 89.83% 90.96% 87.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 69 134
10th Percentile £296 £225 £193
25th Percentile £400 £350 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £537
90th Percentile £695 £640 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 19
10th Percentile £17.34 £22.51 £16.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.94 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +196.28% -68.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £61.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.71 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.93% +11.93% -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Cambridge

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Cambridge over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Cambridge

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Datadog
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Slack
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) AIOps
3 5 (50.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) ITSM
5 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (30.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Proactive Management
5 3 (30.00%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) RBAC
5 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) APMG
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Grafana
1 7 (70.00%) Prometheus
2 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (50.00%) Splunk