Observability Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Observability
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 42
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.27% 3.04% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 3.41% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
10th Percentile - £594 £728
25th Percentile - £1,025 £750
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £1,050 £800
Median % change year-on-year -61.90% +31.25% -
75th Percentile - £1,075 £850
90th Percentile - - £873
South West median daily rate £450 £1,050 £800
% change year-on-year -57.14% +31.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
South West median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process & 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 328 293 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.41% 89.06% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 202 225
10th Percentile £312 £372 £363
25th Percentile £413 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £688
90th Percentile £700 £749 £750
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 46
10th Percentile £15.08 £22.30 £17.01
25th Percentile £25.43 £33.34 £37.31
Median hourly rate £51.21 £66.25 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.70% +35.98% -18.80%
75th Percentile £65.57 £68.75 £73.44
90th Percentile £69.36 £69.38 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.35 £65.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -11.77% +20.93% -12.60%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Observability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Observability job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Observability

Observability
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Observability.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Observability

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 5 February 2026. 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
Gloucester - 1 £400 -
Observability
South West

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace