Observability Contracts in London

Observability
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 373 470
Rank change year-on-year +99 +97 -27
Contract jobs citing Observability 121 115 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.69% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 70 113
10th Percentile £463 £511 £507
25th Percentile £505 £625 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £675
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +18.52% +22.73%
75th Percentile £825 £950 £756
90th Percentile - £1,030 £823
England median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,657 23,997 35,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.72% 90.95% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,215 17,295 26,043
10th Percentile £341 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 273 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.50 £17.56
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £24.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.00 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £81.80 £68.88
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in London

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in London.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the London region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Central London +40 11 £550 -4.35% 3
South London - 8 £469 -
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 17 (14.05%) OpenStack
2 15 (12.40%) Confluence
3 2 (1.65%) nginx
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.19%) AWS
2 15 (12.40%) Azure
2 15 (12.40%) Serverless
3 13 (10.74%) Slack
4 12 (9.92%) GCP
5 11 (9.09%) GitHub
6 10 (8.26%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (7.44%) Amazon S3
7 9 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (3.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 4 (3.31%) Datadog
11 4 (3.31%) SaaS
12 3 (2.48%) Route 53
12 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) Firewall
2 4 (3.31%) DNS
2 4 (3.31%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.65%) AMQP
3 2 (1.65%) FTP
3 2 (1.65%) Network Security
3 2 (1.65%) SNMP
4 1 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.83%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.83%) NAS
4 1 (0.83%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.58%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (7.44%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.65%) Big Data
7 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.65%) MySQL
7 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.83%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.83%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.83%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.83%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (30.58%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.22%) Git
3 15 (12.40%) JIRA
4 5 (4.13%) JUnit
5 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.48%) GitLab
7 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.65%) Mocha
8 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.83%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.83%) Spinnaker
General
1 11 (9.09%) Finance
1 11 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.79%) Banking
2 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.31%) Retail
5 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.48%) Marketing
6 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 25 (20.66%) Senior
2 22 (18.18%) Architect
3 19 (15.70%) Developer
3 19 (15.70%) SIEM Engineer
4 17 (14.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) Java Developer
5 12 (9.92%) Lead
6 8 (6.61%) Consultant
7 7 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.79%) VMware Architect
8 6 (4.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Site Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Data Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Management Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.49%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (12.40%) REST
2 15 (12.40%) Spring
2 15 (12.40%) Spring Boot
3 14 (11.57%) Hibernate
3 14 (11.57%) JPA
3 14 (11.57%) Spring Security
4 10 (8.26%) React
5 9 (7.44%) Node.js
6 8 (6.61%) Kafka
7 4 (3.31%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.31%) OAuth
7 4 (3.31%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.31%) RESTful
8 3 (2.48%) .NET
8 3 (2.48%) AWS SAM
8 3 (2.48%) Laravel
8 3 (2.48%) Loki
9 2 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.65%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Cloud Native
1 14 (11.57%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.26%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.83%) Blog
7 1 (0.83%) CMDB
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (23.97%) Linux
2 17 (14.05%) CentOS
2 17 (14.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (5.79%) Unix
4 4 (3.31%) Windows
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (46.28%) Agile
1 56 (46.28%) CI/CD
2 53 (43.80%) DevOps
3 33 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (22.31%) Microservices
5 22 (18.18%) SIEM
6 18 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.22%) High Availability
8 13 (10.74%) Scrum
9 12 (9.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 11 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 11 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 10 (8.26%) Front End Development
11 10 (8.26%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.44%) Data Management
12 9 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (7.44%) TDD
13 8 (6.61%) Systems Engineering
14 7 (5.79%) DAMA
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.88%) Python
2 32 (26.45%) Java
3 17 (14.05%) Shell Script
4 12 (9.92%) Go
4 12 (9.92%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.13%) Bash
6 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.48%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.48%) Scala
8 2 (1.65%) SQL
9 1 (0.83%) C#
9 1 (0.83%) C++
9 1 (0.83%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (40.50%) Security Cleared
2 29 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.70%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.31%) QA
3 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (14.05%) Docker
2 10 (8.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (25.62%) Grafana
2 29 (23.97%) Terraform
3 27 (22.31%) Prometheus
4 26 (21.49%) Ansible
5 25 (20.66%) Kubernetes
6 18 (14.88%) Kibana
6 18 (14.88%) logstash
7 6 (4.96%) Opsgenie
8 4 (3.31%) Istio
9 3 (2.48%) Puppet
9 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.65%) Argo
10 2 (1.65%) Consul
10 2 (1.65%) Packer
10 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.83%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.83%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (13.22%) Red Hat
2 13 (10.74%) Amdocs
3 12 (9.92%) Splunk
4 9 (7.44%) Dynatrace
5 7 (5.79%) Adobe
5 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
5 7 (5.79%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.79%) SAP
5 7 (5.79%) VMware
6 6 (4.96%) New Relic
6 6 (4.96%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.65%) BigPanda
7 2 (1.65%) Cisco
7 2 (1.65%) Google
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle
7 2 (1.65%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.83%) Databricks
8 1 (0.83%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft