Observability Contracts in London

Observability
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 211 259 377
Rank change year-on-year +48 +118 +75
Contract jobs citing Observability 143 133 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.14% 0.75% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.84% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 106 70
10th Percentile £405 £438 £511
25th Percentile £454 £503 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £800
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -28.13% +23.08%
75th Percentile £675 £825 £950
90th Percentile £750 - £1,030
England median daily rate £574 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.32% -12.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £44.50 - £90.00
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -25.83% -23.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +12 21 £600 +14.29% 25
East London - 3 £250 - 3
South London 0 2 £575 +12.20%
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 5 (3.50%) nginx
1 5 (3.50%) Traefik
2 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.10%) SAS
4 2 (1.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.70%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.70%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) Camunda
5 1 (0.70%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Shopify
2 2 (1.40%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 77 (53.85%) AWS
2 39 (27.27%) Azure
3 26 (18.18%) GCP
4 23 (16.08%) GitHub
5 20 (13.99%) Datadog
6 18 (12.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (11.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (11.19%) Serverless
9 15 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (9.79%) Azure AKS
11 12 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (7.69%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (6.29%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (5.59%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (5.59%) IaaS
15 8 (5.59%) PaaS
16 7 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.99%) DNS
2 12 (8.39%) TCP/IP
3 8 (5.59%) Firewall
4 6 (4.20%) Network Security
5 5 (3.50%) DHCP
5 5 (3.50%) HTTP
5 5 (3.50%) Wireless
6 4 (2.80%) VLAN
7 3 (2.10%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (2.10%) DOCSIS
7 3 (2.10%) LAN
7 3 (2.10%) NAS
7 3 (2.10%) SAN
7 3 (2.10%) WAN
7 3 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (2.10%) WLAN
8 2 (1.40%) DSL
8 2 (1.40%) Internet
8 2 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.40%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (6.29%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
3 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.50%) Looker
4 5 (3.50%) MySQL
4 5 (3.50%) OLTP
5 4 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.80%) BigQuery
5 4 (2.80%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.10%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.10%) InfluxDB
6 3 (2.10%) OLAP
6 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.10%) SAP BW
6 3 (2.10%) SAP Data Services
6 3 (2.10%) SAP HANA
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (25.87%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.88%) GitLab
3 10 (6.99%) Git
4 9 (6.29%) JIRA
5 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.80%) JUnit
6 3 (2.10%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.40%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.40%) Gradle
7 2 (1.40%) JMeter
7 2 (1.40%) Maven
7 2 (1.40%) MLflow
7 2 (1.40%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.70%) Poetry
8 1 (0.70%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.70%) Vite
General
1 41 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.08%) Finance
3 21 (14.69%) Banking
4 10 (6.99%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Marketing
7 4 (2.80%) Military
8 3 (2.10%) Electronics
8 3 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Advertising
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (20.98%) Senior
2 24 (16.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (13.29%) Architect
4 15 (10.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Developer
5 12 (8.39%) Site Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.29%) Lead
8 9 (6.29%) Python Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) GCP Architect
10 5 (3.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.59%) Kafka
1 18 (12.59%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (9.79%) REST
2 14 (9.79%) Spring
3 9 (6.29%) .NET
3 9 (6.29%) AngularJS
3 9 (6.29%) AWS CDK
3 9 (6.29%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.29%) JSON
4 8 (5.59%) React
5 7 (4.90%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.20%) FastAPI
6 6 (4.20%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.20%) HTML
6 6 (4.20%) Keycloak
6 6 (4.20%) SOAP
7 5 (3.50%) cloud-init
7 5 (3.50%) Hibernate
7 5 (3.50%) JPA
8 4 (2.80%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.29%) PKI
4 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.20%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.80%) Replication
8 3 (2.10%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.10%) EMC VMAX
8 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.40%) IoT
9 2 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.98%) Linux
2 13 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (7.69%) Unix
4 6 (4.20%) CentOS
5 4 (2.80%) Android
6 3 (2.10%) Windows
7 1 (0.70%) Debian
7 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.55%) DevOps
2 71 (49.65%) CI/CD
3 58 (40.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (25.17%) Agile
6 33 (23.08%) Microservices
7 31 (21.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 23 (16.08%) Containerisation
8 23 (16.08%) Test Automation
9 21 (14.69%) Software Engineering
10 15 (10.49%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (9.79%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (9.79%) Incident Response
12 13 (9.09%) Analytics
12 13 (9.09%) Cloud Security
12 13 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (8.39%) Event-Driven
13 12 (8.39%) Migration
14 11 (7.69%) High Availability
14 11 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.26%) Python
2 25 (17.48%) Java
3 22 (15.38%) Go
4 19 (13.29%) SQL
5 13 (9.09%) Bash
6 10 (6.99%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.59%) Bicep
7 8 (5.59%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 7 (4.90%) C#
9 3 (2.10%) C
9 3 (2.10%) C++
9 3 (2.10%) Scala
9 3 (2.10%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.40%) Groovy
10 2 (1.40%) Ruby
11 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.29%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.49%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.59%) Degree
5 4 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.40%) CCIE
7 2 (1.40%) CCNP
7 2 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.40%) CISSP
7 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.40%) OCP
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.70%) CEH
8 1 (0.70%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) NCSC
3 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.10%) SLA
5 2 (1.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) GRC
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 5 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.10%) Lustre
3 3 (2.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.40%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.40%) iptables
5 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (39.86%) Kubernetes
1 57 (39.86%) Terraform
2 42 (29.37%) Grafana
3 32 (22.38%) Prometheus
4 29 (20.28%) Ansible
5 7 (4.90%) Puppet
5 7 (4.90%) ZABBIX
6 6 (4.20%) Packer
6 6 (4.20%) Rancher
7 5 (3.50%) Consul
7 5 (3.50%) HAProxy
7 5 (3.50%) Istio
7 5 (3.50%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (3.50%) linkerd
7 5 (3.50%) Podman
8 4 (2.80%) Argo
9 3 (2.10%) Karpenter
9 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.40%) logstash
10 2 (1.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 30 (20.98%) Splunk
2 12 (8.39%) Oracle
3 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.99%) ServiceNow
4 9 (6.29%) SAP
5 7 (4.90%) Cisco
5 7 (4.90%) Google
5 7 (4.90%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.90%) VMware
6 6 (4.20%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.50%) Apple
7 5 (3.50%) CheckPoint
7 5 (3.50%) ESET
7 5 (3.50%) F5
7 5 (3.50%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.50%) Infoblox
7 5 (3.50%) Okta
8 4 (2.80%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.80%) New Relic
9 3 (2.10%) AppDynamics