Observability Contract Job Trends in Hereford

Observability
Herefordshire > Hereford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hereford requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hereford 11.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £482 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 - -
75th Percentile £557 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
Herefordshire median daily rate £485 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hereford

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 Hereford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17 19 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hereford 94.44% 73.08% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 7
10th Percentile £434 - £337
25th Percentile £482 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £650
90th Percentile £575 £708 £730
Herefordshire median daily rate £650 £612 £550
% change year-on-year +6.21% +11.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £20.81 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Herefordshire median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -35.00% -

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hereford 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 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Server Management
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk