Observability Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Observability
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 90 92
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 20 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.94% 0.084% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 0.10% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 1 5
10th Percentile £357 - -
25th Percentile £405 £413 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £425 £800
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -46.88% -
75th Percentile £473 £438 £825
90th Percentile £519 - -
South East median daily rate £462 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -19.74% -28.13% -4.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 891 956 1,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.42% 80.00% 87.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 632 665
10th Percentile £323 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £456 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +6.84% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £636
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% -2.51% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 65 98
10th Percentile £16.17 £23.85 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.01
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £27.50 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £77.25 £71.11
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +47.89%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Hampshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Farnborough - 10 £473 - 3
Portsmouth - 6 £435 - 1
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 13 (65.00%) GitHub
2 12 (60.00%) OpenShift
3 11 (55.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) Datadog
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (30.00%) Redis
3 4 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (20.00%) HBase
3 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (35.00%) JUnit
3 7 (35.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (20.00%) GitLab
4 4 (20.00%) Gradle
5 3 (15.00%) JMeter
6 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
1 8 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) Kafka
2 10 (50.00%) Spring
3 7 (35.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (30.00%) Keycloak
4 6 (30.00%) YAML
5 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.00%) Swagger
7 2 (10.00%) RESTful
8 1 (5.00%) REST
8 1 (5.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) Immutable Infrastructure
6 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (30.00%) Scrum
7 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 4 (20.00%) High Availability
8 4 (20.00%) Microservices
8 4 (20.00%) SOA
9 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 2 (10.00%) API Development
10 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
10 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 2 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) Bash
3 3 (15.00%) Go
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) OCP
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Ansible
3 11 (55.00%) Grafana
4 9 (45.00%) Terraform
5 7 (35.00%) Prometheus
6 6 (30.00%) Packer
7 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
7 3 (15.00%) Proxmox
7 3 (15.00%) Rundeck
7 3 (15.00%) Salt
8 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (30.00%) Splunk
1 6 (30.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle