Observability Contracts in Croydon

Observability
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 26 26 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.10% 5.52% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 5.76% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £675
25th Percentile - £425 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £469 £676
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -30.61% +17.48%
75th Percentile - £523 £676
90th Percentile - £560 £676
South London median daily rate £575 £513 £676
% change year-on-year +12.20% -24.13% +17.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Croydon

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Croydon

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Confluent
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace