Observability Contract Job Trends in Hatfield

Observability
Hertfordshire > Hatfield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hatfield requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hatfield 4.24% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hatfield

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 Hatfield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 46 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hatfield 79.66% 97.87% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 34
10th Percentile £263 £140 £140
25th Percentile £408 £420 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £527 £330
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +59.55% -40.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £400
90th Percentile £675 £608 £521
Hertfordshire median daily rate £518 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -5.91% +37.50% -23.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 12
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.66 £13.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.63 £14.28
Median hourly rate £18.27 £16.74 £15.10
Median % change year-on-year +9.17% +10.83% +8.83%
75th Percentile £18.92 £17.38 £15.48
90th Percentile £20.09 £17.62 £15.73
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £61.76 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.28% +10.00% -23.08%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hatfield

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Hatfield

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Hatfield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Hatfield over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Hatfield

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hatfield 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) eBPF
1 5 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AIOps
1 5 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 5 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Use Case
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk