OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in the City of London

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 117 123 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.096% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
Central London median daily rate £600 £500 -
% change year-on-year +20.00% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 419 531 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.24% 25.49% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 321 416
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £447 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.52% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £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 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the City of London

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OpenTelemetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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