Observability Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Observability
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 41 73
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 +36
Contract jobs citing Observability 14 21 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.89% 3.59% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 4.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 0
10th Percentile £447 £463 -
25th Percentile - £496 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £713 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% - -
75th Percentile £528 £747 -
90th Percentile £538 £753 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £713 -
% change year-on-year -29.82% - -

All Process & 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 643 511 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.01% 87.35% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 318 531
10th Percentile £298 £309 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -6.49% -0.95%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 3
10th Percentile - £15.54 £13.91
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £15.99
Median hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +56.97% -31.05%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £41.98
90th Percentile £33.88 £98.79 £53.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -34.46% +84.24% -21.60%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Leeds

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 13 (92.86%) AWS
1 13 (92.86%) GitHub
1 13 (92.86%) GitHub Actions
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 7 (50.00%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Apigee
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (42.86%) CircleCI
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) MSI
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Spinnaker
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (35.71%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (28.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Lead
7 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Senior
7 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) OpenAPI
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) NHS
2 5 (35.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) DevOps
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 8 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Digital Identity
7 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Terraform
2 10 (71.43%) Grafana
3 7 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (7.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Cribl.io
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow