Observability Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Observability
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Observability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 34 -
Rank change year-on-year +12 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Farnborough 5.15% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% 0.74% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £500 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £519 £575 -
90th Percentile £553 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £435 £488 £800
% change year-on-year -10.77% -39.06% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 136 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 97.94% 77.71% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 96 57
10th Percentile £368 £388 £300
25th Percentile £394 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% +2.38%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £671
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 21
10th Percentile £19.25 £69.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.63 £74.06 £27.50
Median hourly rate £64.50 £75.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +36.36% +46.67%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £60.00
90th Percentile £74.38 - £77.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +34.72%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Farnborough

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Farnborough over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Farnborough

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Farnborough 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Swagger
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Epics
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Go
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) Proxmox
2 3 (60.00%) Rundeck
2 3 (60.00%) Salt
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (20.00%) Grafana
4 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware