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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 527 616
Rank change year-on-year +85 +89 +161
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 60 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.047% 0.009%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.22% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 7 2
10th Percentile £390 £545 -
25th Percentile £459 £594 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £650 £750
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £660 £712 -
90th Percentile £800 £745 -
UK median daily rate £570 £650 £750
% change year-on-year -12.31% -13.33% +11.11%

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 6,096 7,406 10,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.18% 21.56% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,213 5,153 7,572
10th Percentile £350 £360 £378
25th Percentile £413 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £806 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 233 138
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.00 £35.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +8.60%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.87 £74.44 £78.23
UK median hourly rate £54.88 £51.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +6.04% -13.75% +9.09%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +47 41 £551 -13.57% 20
North of England -7 7 £780 +20.00% 2
Yorkshire -14 6 £780 +20.00% 1
South East - 3 £468 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £635 - 1
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 9 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.33%) AWS
2 19 (31.67%) Azure
3 16 (26.67%) Azure AKS
4 14 (23.33%) GitHub
5 13 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (15.00%) Entra ID
8 8 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 8 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 8 (13.33%) Datadog
8 8 (13.33%) Serverless
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon Cognito
9 7 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (11.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 7 (11.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) 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
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (15.00%) Hadoop
3 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.67%) Big Data
4 7 (11.67%) Data Lake
4 7 (11.67%) DynamoDB
5 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.00%) Power BI
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 4 (6.67%) Git
3 4 (6.67%) MLflow
4 3 (5.00%) GitLab
5 1 (1.67%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.67%) Poetry
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Finance
3 12 (20.00%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Software Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Python Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Architect
3 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Site Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Software Design Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Splunk Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Backend Developer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Kafka
2 12 (20.00%) NumPy
2 12 (20.00%) Pandas
3 10 (16.67%) OAuth
4 9 (15.00%) OAuth2
5 8 (13.33%) .NET
5 8 (13.33%) JSON
5 8 (13.33%) OpenID
6 7 (11.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (11.67%) GraphQL
6 7 (11.67%) REST
6 7 (11.67%) WebSockets
7 6 (10.00%) FastAPI
7 6 (10.00%) LangChain
7 6 (10.00%) pytest
8 5 (8.33%) Hugging Face
8 5 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (8.33%) TensorFlow
9 4 (6.67%) pydantic
9 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) Observability
2 33 (55.00%) Microservices
3 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 27 (45.00%) DevOps
5 24 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (31.67%) Agile
7 17 (28.33%) Software Engineering
7 17 (28.33%) Test Automation
8 16 (26.67%) Containerisation
8 16 (26.67%) Migration
9 13 (21.67%) Analytics
9 13 (21.67%) Event-Driven
9 13 (21.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 12 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (16.67%) Data Science
11 10 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (15.00%) Mentoring
12 9 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 8 (13.33%) Quantitative Finance
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) C#
3 8 (13.33%) Bicep
3 8 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.33%) PromQL
5 4 (6.67%) Go
5 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.67%) Groovy
7 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.67%) MCP
2 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (76.67%) Kubernetes
2 34 (56.67%) Terraform
3 31 (51.67%) Grafana
4 23 (38.33%) Prometheus
5 16 (26.67%) Ansible
6 9 (15.00%) Argo
7 2 (3.33%) Podman
8 1 (1.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Splunk
2 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.00%) Dataiku
4 3 (5.00%) DataRobot
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) BMC
6 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.67%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle
6 1 (1.67%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) SAP