Observability Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Observability
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.01% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% - -
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £583 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -25.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 367 505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.55% 82.66% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 231
10th Percentile £200 £212 £225
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -2.70%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £538
90th Percentile £685 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 163 183
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.71 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.42 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £48.60 £28.50
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Cambridgeshire

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Cambridgeshire

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Cambridgeshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cambridge - 10 £583 - 10
Observability
East of England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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