Observability Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Observability
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.77% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £650 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47 40 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 88.68% 81.63% 98.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 37
10th Percentile £393 £350 £269
25th Percentile £465 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £683 £528 £588
90th Percentile £743 £701 £670
Suffolk median daily rate £478 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.11% -5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £16.18 - £16.23
25th Percentile £17.21 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £18.92 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -72.97% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £20.96 - £35.31
90th Percentile £22.18 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £22.38 £61.25 £14.00
% change year-on-year -63.47% +337.50% -7.41%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) LLM
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic Search
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Foundry
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAI