Observability Contracts in the City of London

Observability
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 119 164
Rank change year-on-year +23 +45 +14
Contract jobs citing Observability 22 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.27% 0.50% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.56% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 2
10th Percentile £454 £499 £566
25th Percentile £525 £513 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £716 £750 £595
90th Percentile £784 £1,063 £597
Central London median daily rate £619 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.35% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,620 1,972 3,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.48% 90.46% 91.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,394 2,203
10th Percentile £350 £352 £356
25th Percentile £459 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.63% +4.35%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £560 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.10
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £16.61
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the City of London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (4.55%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) GitHub
3 5 (22.73%) Datadog
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Big Data
1 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
1 3 (13.64%) OLAP
1 3 (13.64%) OLTP
1 3 (13.64%) SAP BW
1 3 (13.64%) SAP Data Services
1 3 (13.64%) SAP HANA
2 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.55%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (13.64%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) Web Services
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 2 (9.09%) JSON
3 2 (9.09%) WebSockets
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) NumPy
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.55%) OpenID
4 1 (4.55%) Pandas
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (45.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 6 (27.27%) Microservices
5 6 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Analytics
6 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
6 5 (22.73%) Low Latency
7 4 (18.18%) Agile
7 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Data Strategy
8 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 3 (13.64%) GitOps
8 3 (13.64%) ITSM
8 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
8 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
8 3 (13.64%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) Bash
2 3 (13.64%) Bicep
2 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CISM
2 1 (4.55%) CISSP
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GRC
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) QA
1 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
1 9 (40.91%) Prometheus
2 8 (36.36%) Grafana
3 7 (31.82%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
5 2 (9.09%) Podman
6 1 (4.55%) Argo
6 1 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (4.55%) Karpenter
6 1 (4.55%) Kibana
6 1 (4.55%) logstash
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (4.55%) QRadar
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.64%) SAP
3 2 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) Ariba
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Qualys
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Solace
4 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.55%) TOWER Software