OpenTelemetry Contracts in London

OpenTelemetry
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenTelemetry over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 389 487
Rank change year-on-year +65 +98 +107
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 40 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.036% 0.016%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% 0.13% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 2
10th Percentile £360 £523 -
25th Percentile £438 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £638 £750
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -15.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £660 £705 -
90th Percentile £800 £717 -
England median daily rate £556 £638 £750
% change year-on-year -12.86% -15.00% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,539 4,567 6,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.09% 27.03% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 3,322 4,894
10th Percentile £375 £375 £406
25th Percentile £428 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 40
10th Percentile £31.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £43.94
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -39.39% +32.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.76 £75.00
90th Percentile £68.50 £71.00 £83.36
England median hourly rate £57.50 £58.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -0.86% -7.20% +13.64%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in London

OpenTelemetry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for OpenTelemetry in London

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry in London over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenTelemetry in London

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the London region over the 6 months to 22 July 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 +11 10 £800 +39.13%
South London - 1 £635 -
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
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 4 (10.00%) Jupyter
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) Azure AKS
3 13 (32.50%) GitHub
3 13 (32.50%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 8 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 8 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (20.00%) Datadog
5 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 8 (20.00%) Serverless
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon EventBridge
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (17.50%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) FTP
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) SMTP
2 3 (7.50%) SSL
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.50%) Power BI
5 2 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
1 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (10.00%) MLflow
2 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.50%) GitLab
3 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.50%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.50%) Poetry
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Software Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Python Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Site Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Developer
6 5 (12.50%) Python Developer
7 4 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (10.00%) Software Design Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Backend Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Architect
9 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
10 1 (2.50%) Python Data Engineer
10 1 (2.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) NumPy
1 12 (30.00%) Pandas
2 10 (25.00%) Kafka
3 9 (22.50%) OAuth
4 8 (20.00%) .NET
4 8 (20.00%) JSON
4 8 (20.00%) OAuth2
4 8 (20.00%) OpenID
5 7 (17.50%) AngularJS
5 7 (17.50%) GraphQL
5 7 (17.50%) REST
5 7 (17.50%) WebSockets
6 6 (15.00%) pytest
7 5 (12.50%) FastAPI
7 5 (12.50%) Hugging Face
7 5 (12.50%) LangChain
7 5 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
7 5 (12.50%) TensorFlow
8 4 (10.00%) AWS CDK
8 4 (10.00%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) Observability
2 23 (57.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (52.50%) DevOps
4 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 18 (45.00%) Microservices
6 16 (40.00%) Software Engineering
7 12 (30.00%) Agile
8 11 (27.50%) Event-Driven
8 11 (27.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 11 (27.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (25.00%) Data Science
9 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
10 9 (22.50%) Performance Optimisation
10 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
11 8 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (20.00%) Quantitative Finance
12 7 (17.50%) Clean Code
12 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (17.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) C#
3 8 (20.00%) Bicep
3 8 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.50%) Go
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
8 1 (2.50%) Groovy
8 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 24 (60.00%) Terraform
3 17 (42.50%) Grafana
3 17 (42.50%) Prometheus
4 6 (15.00%) Ansible
5 2 (5.00%) Argo
5 2 (5.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 4 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) Dataiku
3 3 (7.50%) DataRobot
4 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.50%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) SAP