OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile £552 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Hertfordshire

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 85 69 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.08% 20.54% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 42
10th Percentile £425 £425 £325
25th Percentile £469 £465 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £454
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +26.72% -6.92%
75th Percentile £713 £672 £553
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £498
% change year-on-year +10.00% +0.50% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 36
10th Percentile £46.45 £65.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -37.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £76.75 £82.10 £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
% change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -26.81%

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenTelemetry in Hertfordshire

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 - 1
OpenTelemetry
East of England

OpenTelemetry
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AIOps
1 4 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 4 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Observability
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 4 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) SIEM
1 4 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 4 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk