Observability Contracts in Leeds

Observability
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 60 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 13 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.80% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 0.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £705 - -
25th Percentile £713 £539 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £780 £586 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £750 £563 -
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Leeds

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Observability in Leeds

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) nginx
1 5 (38.46%) Traefik
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Collibra
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
2 6 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (15.38%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Kafka
2 7 (53.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (46.15%) cloud-init
3 6 (46.15%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) CentOS
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Unix
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Monte Carlo Method
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Security
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Identity Management
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Secrets Management
2 6 (46.15%) Static Application Security Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Data Governance
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Business Case
4 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Bash
1 6 (46.15%) Go
1 6 (46.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
2 12 (92.31%) Prometheus
3 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
4 6 (46.15%) Consul
4 6 (46.15%) Istio
4 6 (46.15%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (46.15%) linkerd
4 6 (46.15%) Packer
4 6 (46.15%) Rancher
4 6 (46.15%) Terraform
4 6 (46.15%) ZABBIX
5 5 (38.46%) HAProxy
6 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Splunk
2 6 (46.15%) Okta
3 5 (38.46%) Apple
3 5 (38.46%) ESET
4 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics
4 2 (15.38%) IBM