Observability Contracts in Gloucestershire

Observability
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability 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 38 48 61
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Observability 3 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.09% 2.33% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.72% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
10th Percentile - £517 -
25th Percentile £594 £523 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% - -
75th Percentile £650 £575 -
90th Percentile £661 £669 -
South West median daily rate £625 £800 £450
% change year-on-year -21.88% +77.78% -15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - - £72.38
Median hourly rate - - £75.50
75th Percentile - - £77.38
90th Percentile - - £77.75
South West median hourly rate - - £75.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 368 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 85.78% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 230 307
10th Percentile £237 £363 £295
25th Percentile £413 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +6.34%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £729 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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

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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

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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
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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) HAProxy
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform