OpenTelemetry Contracts in England

OpenTelemetry
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenTelemetry 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 425 539 651
Rank change year-on-year +114 +112 +117
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 60 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.008% 0.004%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 0.040% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 2 0
10th Percentile £304 £584 -
25th Percentile £431 £598 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £666 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% - -
75th Percentile £655 £718 -
90th Percentile £780 £722 -
UK median daily rate £570 £666 -
% change year-on-year -14.45% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in England

OpenTelemetry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for OpenTelemetry in England

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenTelemetry in England

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the England 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
London +70 35 £455 -31.71% 32
Yorkshire - 8 £780 - 2
North of England - 8 £780 - 8
South East - 4 £300 - 9
OpenTelemetry
UK

OpenTelemetry
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 15 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.00%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) Azure
2 19 (31.67%) GitHub
3 17 (28.33%) Azure AKS
4 15 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 13 (21.67%) AWS
6 9 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (15.00%) Entra ID
7 8 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (11.67%) Collibra
8 7 (11.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (6.67%) GCP
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (5.00%) Datadog
10 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) FTP
2 3 (5.00%) HTTP
2 3 (5.00%) SMTP
2 3 (5.00%) SSL
2 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (21.67%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (21.67%) Hadoop
3 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.67%) Big Data
5 5 (8.33%) Data Lake
6 4 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.00%) Power BI
8 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.67%) Metadata
9 1 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
2 3 (5.00%) MLflow
3 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.67%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.67%) Poetry
4 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.33%) Banking
3 17 (28.33%) Finance
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 10 (16.67%) Architect
3 9 (15.00%) Python Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Python Software Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.67%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior
8 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (1.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.67%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) Kafka
2 12 (20.00%) NumPy
2 12 (20.00%) Pandas
3 10 (16.67%) OAuth
4 9 (15.00%) OAuth2
4 9 (15.00%) OpenID
5 8 (13.33%) .NET
5 8 (13.33%) JSON
5 8 (13.33%) REST
6 5 (8.33%) pytest
7 4 (6.67%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.67%) Hugging Face
7 4 (6.67%) LangChain
7 4 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (6.67%) TensorFlow
8 3 (5.00%) AWS CDK
8 3 (5.00%) pydantic
8 3 (5.00%) PyTorch
8 3 (5.00%) scikit-learn
8 3 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Educational Technology
3 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.33%) Linux
2 13 (21.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (68.33%) Observability
2 30 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 30 (50.00%) Microservices
3 20 (33.33%) Agile
3 20 (33.33%) DevOps
3 20 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (31.67%) Containerisation
4 19 (31.67%) Test Automation
5 16 (26.67%) Migration
6 13 (21.67%) Analytics
7 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (16.67%) Data Science
8 10 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (15.00%) Event-Driven
9 9 (15.00%) Quantitative Finance
10 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (11.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (11.67%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) Python
2 11 (18.33%) C#
3 8 (13.33%) Bicep
3 8 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (10.00%) Go
4 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) Bash
7 1 (1.67%) Groovy
7 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Ceph
2 1 (1.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 51 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (61.67%) Grafana
3 35 (58.33%) Terraform
4 22 (36.67%) Prometheus
5 17 (28.33%) Ansible
6 13 (21.67%) Argo
7 1 (1.67%) Control-M
7 1 (1.67%) Nagios
7 1 (1.67%) Podman
7 1 (1.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Splunk
2 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.33%) Dataiku
4 2 (3.33%) DataRobot
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) BMC
5 1 (1.67%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Red Hat