Observability Contracts in Gloucestershire

Observability
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 62 63
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 10 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.35% 0.42% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 0.46% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £523 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £669 - -
South West median daily rate £800 £450 £533
% change year-on-year +77.78% -15.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
South West median hourly rate - £75.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 365 439 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 85.68% 92.62% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 308 368
10th Percentile £363 £296 £205
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +6.34% +7.89%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £680
South West median daily rate £525 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 14
10th Percentile £14.00 £35.00 £11.83
25th Percentile £18.85 £50.50 £13.03
Median hourly rate £35.00 £70.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +116.05% -35.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.00 £42.83
90th Percentile £71.73 £83.40 £53.50
South West median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Gloucestershire

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Gloucestershire

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Gloucestershire

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Observability in Gloucestershire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Cheltenham - 10 £550 - 1
Observability
South West

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Network Security
2 5 (50.00%) AMQP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (60.00%) InfluxDB
1 6 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (60.00%) Event-Driven
2 6 (60.00%) Service Management
3 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Log Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Coaching
5 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Go
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (40.00%) C
5 2 (20.00%) Bicep
5 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (10.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 7 (70.00%) Grafana
2 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (70.00%) Prometheus
3 6 (60.00%) Progress Chef
4 5 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) VMware