Observability Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Observability
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.73% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile £551 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £690 -
% change year-on-year -20.29% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 650 311 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.37% 92.01% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 157 260
10th Percentile £205 £348 £224
25th Percentile £407 £450 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £411
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +33.74% -17.75%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £578
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 76 311
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.48 £38.12
25th Percentile £18.50 £34.91 £40.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -20.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.70 £83.13 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £27.74 £37.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -26.52% -5.63% +81.82%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Hertfordshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Hatfield - 4 £550 -
Watford - 1 £550 - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Observability
East of England

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (16.67%) Miro
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) eBPF
1 4 (66.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) AIOps
1 4 (66.67%) Anomaly Detection
1 4 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) ITSM
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (66.67%) SIEM
1 4 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (66.67%) Use Case
1 4 (66.67%) User Experience
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cribl.io
1 4 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk