Observability Contract Job Trends in Derby

Observability
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.15% - 5.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% - 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 64 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 72.99% 79.01% 72.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 53
10th Percentile £219 £171 £250
25th Percentile £425 £345 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £578 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +15.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £743 £624
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 £578 £495
% change year-on-year -13.42% +16.67% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 4
10th Percentile - £25.04 -
25th Percentile £12.76 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% +47.94% -4.06%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £17.50
90th Percentile £30.25 - £18.40
Derbyshire median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £37.88
% change year-on-year -23.14% -33.61% +31.77%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Observability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby.

Observability job vacancy trend in Derby

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft