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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 272 369
Rank change year-on-year +84 +97 +73
Contract jobs citing Observability 161 124 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.33% 0.71% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.80% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 93 67
10th Percentile £406 £466 £508
25th Percentile £463 £505 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £825
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £656 £760 £950
90th Percentile £753 £825 £1,120
England median daily rate £570 £563 £688
% change year-on-year +1.33% -18.18% +1.85%
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 £61.75 £60.00 £90.00
% change year-on-year +2.92% -33.33% -

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 11,178 15,459 23,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.48% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,507 11,105 16,762
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £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 £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 316 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.10 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +23 25 £644 +19.77% 38
South London +5 3 £600 +17.07% 6
East London - 3 £250 - 5
West London +13 2 £512 -21.23% 88
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 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.48%) Confluence
3 3 (1.86%) SAS
4 2 (1.24%) Apache
4 2 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.62%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) Camunda
5 1 (0.62%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.62%) nginx
5 1 (0.62%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Shopify
2 3 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.24%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.69%) AWS
2 42 (26.09%) Azure
3 26 (16.15%) GCP
3 26 (16.15%) GitHub
4 24 (14.91%) Serverless
5 23 (14.29%) Datadog
6 18 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (10.56%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (9.94%) Azure AKS
9 15 (9.32%) Amazon S3
9 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.83%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (5.59%) PaaS
14 7 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
14 7 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 7 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.70%) DNS
2 7 (4.35%) Firewall
3 6 (3.73%) HTTP
4 5 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.48%) Internet
5 4 (2.48%) LAN
5 4 (2.48%) Network Security
6 3 (1.86%) NAS
6 3 (1.86%) SAN
6 3 (1.86%) SNMP
7 2 (1.24%) DHCP
7 2 (1.24%) DSL
7 2 (1.24%) FTP
7 2 (1.24%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.24%) SMS
7 2 (1.24%) SMTP
7 2 (1.24%) SSL
7 2 (1.24%) Telnet
7 2 (1.24%) WAN
7 2 (1.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.45%) Relational Database
2 11 (6.83%) NoSQL
2 11 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.21%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.11%) MySQL
5 5 (3.11%) OLTP
6 4 (2.48%) Big Data
6 4 (2.48%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.48%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.48%) Power BI
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.86%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (1.86%) OLAP
7 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.86%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.86%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.86%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.86%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.24%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 38 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 22 (13.66%) GitLab
3 17 (10.56%) Git
4 8 (4.97%) JIRA
5 6 (3.73%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.48%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.48%) JUnit
8 3 (1.86%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (1.24%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (1.24%) Gradle
9 2 (1.24%) JMeter
9 2 (1.24%) Maven
9 2 (1.24%) MLflow
9 2 (1.24%) PROIV
9 2 (1.24%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.24%) Vite
9 2 (1.24%) webpack
10 1 (0.62%) Jaeger
General
1 46 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 39 (24.22%) Finance
3 28 (17.39%) Banking
4 12 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.97%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.35%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.11%) Marketing
8 5 (3.11%) Retail
8 5 (3.11%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.86%) Electronics
9 3 (1.86%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.24%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.24%) Military
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (19.88%) Senior
2 27 (16.77%) Architect
3 22 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (11.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 17 (10.56%) Site Engineer
6 15 (9.32%) Developer
7 12 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.83%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Lead
10 8 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.35%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) GCP Architect
12 5 (3.11%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Network Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Python Software Engineer
12 5 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.66%) OpenTelemetry
2 18 (11.18%) REST
2 18 (11.18%) Spring
3 16 (9.94%) JSON
4 15 (9.32%) Kafka
5 12 (7.45%) AngularJS
6 10 (6.21%) .NET
6 10 (6.21%) GraphQL
6 10 (6.21%) React
7 9 (5.59%) AWS CDK
7 9 (5.59%) HTML
7 9 (5.59%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.59%) XML
8 7 (4.35%) SOAP
9 6 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.73%) FastAPI
9 6 (3.73%) Node.js
9 6 (3.73%) Web Services
10 5 (3.11%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.11%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.25%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.59%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.11%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.11%) PKI
8 4 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.86%) Distributed Applications
9 3 (1.86%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.86%) Replication
9 3 (1.86%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.24%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.15%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Unix
3 6 (3.73%) Android
4 3 (1.86%) Windows
5 1 (0.62%) AIX
5 1 (0.62%) CentOS
5 1 (0.62%) Debian
5 1 (0.62%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (52.17%) DevOps
2 81 (50.31%) CI/CD
3 63 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (29.19%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (24.84%) Agile
5 40 (24.84%) Microservices
6 36 (22.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 28 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 25 (15.53%) Software Engineering
9 24 (14.91%) Test Automation
10 20 (12.42%) Event-Driven
10 20 (12.42%) Incident Response
11 19 (11.80%) Deployment Automation
12 18 (11.18%) Analytics
12 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
13 17 (10.56%) High Availability
14 16 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 14 (8.70%) Design Patterns
15 14 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 14 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.75%) Python
2 27 (16.77%) Java
3 21 (13.04%) SQL
4 15 (9.32%) Go
5 11 (6.83%) JavaScript
5 11 (6.83%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.21%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.59%) Bash
7 9 (5.59%) Bicep
8 8 (4.97%) C#
8 8 (4.97%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.86%) CodeQL
11 3 (1.86%) Scala
12 2 (1.24%) C
12 2 (1.24%) C++
12 2 (1.24%) Groovy
12 2 (1.24%) Ruby
13 1 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 25 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) Degree
4 11 (6.83%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.86%) CCIE
7 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.24%) CCNP
8 2 (1.24%) CISSP
8 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.24%) OCP
8 2 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.62%) CEH
9 1 (0.62%) CISM
9 1 (0.62%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.59%) QA
2 7 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.86%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.86%) GDPR
3 3 (1.86%) SLA
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) WCAG
5 1 (0.62%) GRC
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (21.74%) Docker
2 5 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.86%) Lustre
3 3 (1.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.24%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.24%) iptables
5 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (40.99%) Kubernetes
2 61 (37.89%) Terraform
3 40 (24.84%) Grafana
4 33 (20.50%) Prometheus
5 30 (18.63%) Ansible
6 7 (4.35%) Puppet
7 6 (3.73%) Argo
8 5 (3.11%) Kibana
8 5 (3.11%) Podman
9 3 (1.86%) Karpenter
9 3 (1.86%) logstash
9 3 (1.86%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.86%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.24%) Cacti
10 2 (1.24%) Istio
10 2 (1.24%) Nagios
10 2 (1.24%) Netcool
10 2 (1.24%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.24%) Salt
11 1 (0.62%) Graylog
Vendors
1 29 (18.01%) Splunk
2 13 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.07%) SAP
3 12 (7.45%) Oracle
4 11 (6.83%) Dynatrace
5 10 (6.21%) Google
5 10 (6.21%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.97%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.35%) VMware
8 5 (3.11%) Cisco
9 4 (2.48%) Adobe
9 4 (2.48%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.48%) F5
9 4 (2.48%) Fortinet
9 4 (2.48%) Infoblox
9 4 (2.48%) MuleSoft
9 4 (2.48%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.48%) Sitecore
10 3 (1.86%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.86%) Wallstreet Suite