Observability Contracts in Central London

Observability
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 120 164
Rank change year-on-year +12 +44 +17
Contract jobs citing Observability 21 13 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 0.53% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.59% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 2
10th Percentile £454 £475 £566
25th Percentile £513 £506 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £585
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £595
90th Percentile £743 £938 £597
London median daily rate £563 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -2.17% -28.13% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Central London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Central London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Central London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
City of London +16 21 £600 +14.29% 17
Observability
London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (19.05%) Datadog
3 4 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Big Data
1 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 3 (14.29%) OLAP
1 3 (14.29%) OLTP
1 3 (14.29%) SAP BW
1 3 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
1 3 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Advertising
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DBA
5 1 (4.76%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) Web Services
3 2 (9.52%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) Middleware
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth
4 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.76%) OpenID
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) DevOps
2 9 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Incident Response
5 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Low Latency
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Data Strategy
7 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (14.29%) GitOps
7 3 (14.29%) ITSM
7 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 3 (14.29%) Service Management
7 3 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) Bicep
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CISM
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GRC
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Grafana
1 8 (38.10%) Kubernetes
1 8 (38.10%) Prometheus
2 7 (33.33%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (9.52%) Podman
5 1 (4.76%) Argo
5 1 (4.76%) Karpenter
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Qualys
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.76%) TOWER Software