Observability Contracts in East London

Observability
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 2.86% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - -
75th Percentile £440 - -
90th Percentile £554 - -
London median daily rate £563 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -2.17% -28.13% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 216 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.33% 93.51% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 187 129
10th Percentile £285 £360 £198
25th Percentile £415 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £688
90th Percentile £675 £770 £755
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 11
10th Percentile £14.66 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 £11.95 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £23.32 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% +3.71% +14.49%
75th Percentile £37.00 £36.48 £23.73
90th Percentile £38.80 £38.28 -
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in East London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in East London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in East London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in East London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the East London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Tower Hamlets - 3 £250 -
Observability
London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (66.67%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Encryption
3 1 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Auditing
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco