Observability Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Observability
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 25 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.80% - 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 86 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 69.20% 81.13% 70.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 48 61
10th Percentile £222 £138 £250
25th Percentile £416 £259 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £578 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +16.67% +4.21%
75th Percentile £603 £725 £588
90th Percentile £650 £808 £627
East Midlands median daily rate £485 £410 £455
% change year-on-year +18.29% -9.89% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 12
10th Percentile £12.76 £15.25 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £25.04 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £37.88
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% -33.61% +31.77%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £50.00
90th Percentile £30.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £18.32
% change year-on-year -5.30% +3.00% -36.28%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 2 £475 - 1
Observability
East Midlands

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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