Observability Contracts in Chester

Observability
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 1.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £393 £523 -
% change year-on-year -24.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71 41 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 97.26% 73.21% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 51
10th Percentile £325 £266 £288
25th Percentile £405 £445 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +41.67% +4.05%
75th Percentile £731 £738 £575
90th Percentile £798 - £650
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £476 £500
% change year-on-year -6.35% -4.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 13
10th Percentile £17.80 £35.00 £24.24
25th Percentile £25.15 £38.13 £30.54
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £30.76
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +38.19% +41.21%
75th Percentile £86.00 £45.63 £35.00
90th Percentile - £47.50 £39.01
Cheshire median hourly rate £35.20 £35.00 £30.54
% change year-on-year +0.57% +14.60% +40.22%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Chester

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk