Observability Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Observability
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Observability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 94 110
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +27
Contract jobs citing Observability 17 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.32% 0.066% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.080% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £525 £156 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £163 £500
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -67.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £750 £169 £594
90th Percentile £900 - £650
England median daily rate £550 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -7.25% -1.17% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,147 1,248 1,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.26% 82.11% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 458 904
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £375 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +1.01%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £620
90th Percentile £676 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 409 355
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.34 £39.50 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -33.32% +99.39% -2.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the East of England

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the East of England

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 17 £585 - 2
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (47.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 5 (29.41%) Datadog
3 5 (29.41%) Slack
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) GitLab
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Consultant
1 7 (41.18%) Programme Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Deployment Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Onboarding
2 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.88%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) Dashboard Development
3 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (47.06%) Migration
3 8 (47.06%) Platform Engineering
3 8 (47.06%) RBAC
4 5 (29.41%) AIOps
4 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Change Management
4 5 (29.41%) Risk Management
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) ITSM
6 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
6 3 (17.65%) Programme Governance
6 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) APMG
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Grafana
1 11 (64.71%) Prometheus
2 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (47.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Dynatrace
2 5 (29.41%) Splunk