Observability Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Observability
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.98% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £337 - -
25th Percentile £367 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £502 - -
North West median daily rate £491 £373 £538
% change year-on-year +31.81% -30.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 165 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 79.48% 89.19% 72.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 86 67
10th Percentile £293 £350 £203
25th Percentile £388 £438 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +4.60%
75th Percentile £677 £609 £630
90th Percentile £804 £659 £673
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.72% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 23 62
10th Percentile £21.14 £15.69 -
25th Percentile £37.25 £22.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £64.09 £28.75 £31.68
Median % change year-on-year +122.92% -9.25% -25.16%
75th Percentile £71.91 £63.20 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.79 £68.81 £46.18
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% - -1.77%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Lancashire over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Lancashire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Preston - 2 £426 -
Blackpool - 1 - -
Observability
North West

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Lucidchart
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Gatling
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (33.33%) SABSA
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk