Observability Contract Job Trends in Herefordshire

Observability
West Midlands > Herefordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Herefordshire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Herefordshire 4.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £468 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £561 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £540 £725 -
% change year-on-year -25.52% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Herefordshire

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 Herefordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61 41 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Herefordshire 98.39% 77.36% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 32 12
10th Percentile £511 £513 £314
25th Percentile £525 £563 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +11.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £697
90th Percentile £770 £685 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £20.81 - -
25th Percentile £21.46 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -35.00% -
75th Percentile - £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -11.96% -5.00% +55.19%

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Herefordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Herefordshire region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Hereford - 2 £518 - 3
Observability
West Midlands

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Herefordshire 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 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Patch Management
1 2 (66.67%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) SIEM
1 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk