Observability Contracts in Manchester

Observability
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 75 81 116
Rank change year-on-year +6 +35 +20
Contract jobs citing Observability 4 15 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.43% 0.99% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 0
10th Percentile £530 £425 -
25th Percentile £613 £488 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
75th Percentile £769 £538 -
90th Percentile £780 - -
North West median daily rate £563 £524 -
% change year-on-year +7.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Apigee
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) Puppeteer
1 2 (50.00%) React
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) cloud-init
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Keycloak
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) API Development
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Front End Development
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) COBIT
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Consul
3 1 (25.00%) Istio
3 1 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (25.00%) linkerd
3 1 (25.00%) Packer
3 1 (25.00%) Rancher
3 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk