Observability Contracts in the Midlands

Observability
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 100 132 134
Rank change year-on-year +32 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 11 1 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.57% 0.036% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.044% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 26
10th Percentile £416 - £449
25th Percentile £512 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - £538
75th Percentile £552 - £540
90th Percentile £572 - -
England median daily rate £574 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.32% -12.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +23 10 £544 - 15
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 6
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Apigee
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) Kong
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Big Data
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Apigee Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Product Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Product Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Security Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) AWS CDK
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) RAML
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) API Management
3 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (18.18%) Kanban
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Compliance Management
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Event-Driven
4 1 (9.09%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 1 (9.09%) Self-Awareness
4 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Dynatrace
2 4 (36.36%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Ariba
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow