Observability Contract Job Trends in East London

Observability
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 26 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 1 14
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.91% 0.72% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.76% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 14
10th Percentile - - £517
25th Percentile £663 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £537
75th Percentile £688 - £540
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £575 £650 £595
% change year-on-year -11.54% +9.24% -11.85%

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 103 131 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 93.64% 94.93% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 110 218
10th Percentile £190 £300 £257
25th Percentile £313 £400 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £557
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -11.13% +11.40%
75th Percentile £597 £587 £650
90th Percentile £928 £650 £750
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £23.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.70 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £33.25 £21.09 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year +57.65% +35.93% -79.71%
75th Percentile £56.88 - £17.37
90th Percentile £75.89 - £18.31
London median hourly rate £30.00 £38.29 £39.83
% change year-on-year -21.64% -3.88% +2.30%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Observability job vacancy trend in East London

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Junos
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (100.00%) NVIDIA