Observability Contracts in England

Observability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 448 590
Rank change year-on-year +74 +142 -14
Contract jobs citing Observability 185 198 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.40% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.45% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 128 140
10th Percentile £463 £450 £495
25th Percentile £505 £513 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% -3.85% +19.27%
75th Percentile £825 £866 £738
90th Percentile - £950 £801
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £76.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,870 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,878 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.90 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in England

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in England

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in England

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in England

Observability
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
London +114 126 £575 -28.13% 64
North of England +35 26 £525 -4.55% 16
South West +24 22 £800 +77.78% 5
North West +37 16 £525 - 11
Yorkshire +20 10 £529 -3.86% 5
South East +8 6 £800 +7.56% 19
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (10.27%) OpenStack
2 16 (8.65%) Confluence
3 2 (1.08%) Apache
3 2 (1.08%) nginx
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (36.22%) AWS
2 28 (15.14%) Azure
3 23 (12.43%) Serverless
4 18 (9.73%) Amazon S3
5 16 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (8.65%) Slack
6 13 (7.03%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.03%) GCP
6 13 (7.03%) GitHub
7 12 (6.49%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (4.32%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.78%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
12 5 (2.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.70%) Datadog
12 5 (2.70%) SaaS
13 4 (2.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.86%) Network Security
2 8 (4.32%) Firewall
3 7 (3.78%) AMQP
4 6 (3.24%) DNS
5 4 (2.16%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.08%) FTP
6 2 (1.08%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.08%) SNMP
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) IPv4
7 1 (0.54%) NAS
7 1 (0.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (29.73%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (9.19%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (8.11%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.24%) InfluxDB
5 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.62%) Big Data
6 3 (1.62%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.62%) Power BI
7 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.08%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.08%) MySQL
7 2 (1.08%) Redis
7 2 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.54%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.54%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 54 (29.19%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.27%) Git
3 16 (8.65%) JIRA
4 6 (3.24%) GitLab
5 5 (2.70%) JUnit
5 5 (2.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.08%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.08%) Mocha
6 2 (1.08%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.54%) GoCD
7 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.54%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.54%) Spinnaker
General
1 20 (10.81%) Finance
2 14 (7.57%) Banking
3 13 (7.03%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.86%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.16%) Retail
7 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
7 3 (1.62%) Marketing
8 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.54%) Legal
8 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (18.38%) SIEM Engineer
2 31 (16.76%) Architect
2 31 (16.76%) Developer
2 31 (16.76%) Senior
3 28 (15.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (10.27%) Java Developer
5 18 (9.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 15 (8.11%) Lead
7 14 (7.57%) Site Engineer
8 10 (5.41%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 8 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Consultant
9 8 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (3.78%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.78%) VMware Architect
11 6 (3.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Technical Leader
12 5 (2.70%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.22%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (12.97%) REST
2 24 (12.97%) Spring
3 23 (12.43%) Spring Boot
4 22 (11.89%) Hibernate
4 22 (11.89%) JPA
4 22 (11.89%) Spring Security
5 12 (6.49%) React
6 10 (5.41%) Kafka
7 9 (4.86%) Node.js
8 7 (3.78%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.70%) .NET
10 4 (2.16%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.16%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.16%) Laravel
10 4 (2.16%) OAuth
10 4 (2.16%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.16%) RESTful
11 3 (1.62%) AWS SAM
11 3 (1.62%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Cloud Native
1 16 (8.65%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.41%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.78%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.08%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.54%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.54%) Blog
8 1 (0.54%) CMDB
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.70%) Linux
2 19 (10.27%) CentOS
2 19 (10.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.86%) Unix
4 7 (3.78%) Windows
5 1 (0.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (47.03%) CI/CD
2 79 (42.70%) DevOps
3 72 (38.92%) Agile
4 51 (27.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (20.54%) Microservices
6 37 (20.00%) SIEM
7 32 (17.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 21 (11.35%) Test Automation
9 20 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (9.73%) Front End Development
11 17 (9.19%) High Availability
12 15 (8.11%) Software Engineering
13 14 (7.57%) Design Patterns
13 14 (7.57%) Scrum
14 13 (7.03%) Mentoring
15 12 (6.49%) Event-Driven
16 11 (5.95%) Analytics
16 11 (5.95%) Roadmaps
16 11 (5.95%) TDD
16 11 (5.95%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 59 (31.89%) Python
2 51 (27.57%) Java
3 24 (12.97%) Shell Script
4 20 (10.81%) Go
5 14 (7.57%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.95%) SQL
7 10 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.86%) Bash
9 8 (4.32%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.70%) Scala
11 4 (2.16%) C
12 3 (1.62%) C#
12 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.08%) Bicep
14 1 (0.54%) C++
14 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (47.57%) Security Cleared
2 44 (23.78%) DV Cleared
2 44 (23.78%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.16%) Degree
4 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.16%) QA
3 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (17.30%) Docker
2 12 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (26.49%) Terraform
2 44 (23.78%) Grafana
3 41 (22.16%) Kubernetes
3 41 (22.16%) Prometheus
4 40 (21.62%) Ansible
5 25 (13.51%) Kibana
6 21 (11.35%) logstash
7 10 (5.41%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.24%) Opsgenie
9 5 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.70%) Istio
10 4 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.62%) Puppet
12 2 (1.08%) Argo
12 2 (1.08%) Consul
12 2 (1.08%) Packer
13 1 (0.54%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.54%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.54%) systemd
Vendors
1 19 (10.27%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.11%) Amdocs
2 15 (8.11%) Splunk
3 12 (6.49%) Dynatrace
4 11 (5.95%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.86%) VMware
6 7 (3.78%) Adobe
6 7 (3.78%) New Relic
6 7 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.78%) SAP
7 6 (3.24%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.62%) Google
8 3 (1.62%) Oracle
9 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.08%) BigPanda
9 2 (1.08%) Cisco
9 2 (1.08%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.08%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.54%) Dataiku