OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in Central London

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 134 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.085% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.89% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
London median daily rate £538 £519 -
% change year-on-year +3.56% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 449 582 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.60% 24.73% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 355 449
10th Percentile £361 £413 £411
25th Percentile £436 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £755 £833 £825
London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £44.38 £27.67 -
25th Percentile £47.19 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in Central London

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenTelemetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 +6 4 £600 +20.00% 3
OpenTelemetry
London

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Apigee
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Route 53
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (25.00%) Vite
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Loki
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Sass
1 1 (25.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Media Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) High-Frequency Trading
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PromQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Argo
4 1 (25.00%) Karpenter
4 1 (25.00%) Podman
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle