Observability Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Observability
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.13% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 0.61% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £392 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
75th Percentile £558 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £402 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 547 163 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 77.59% 93.68% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 126 243
10th Percentile £313 £293 £284
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £598 £597 £599
90th Percentile £640 £650 £725
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £503 £475
% change year-on-year +4.43% +5.84% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 21
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.68 £15.85
25th Percentile £15.80 £14.69 £17.64
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.25 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% -25.69% +132.15%
75th Percentile £18.32 £28.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £43.78 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +150.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Observability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Observability job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Milton Keynes

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Monitoring Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) Loki
3 1 (12.50%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (62.50%) Incident Response
3 5 (62.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) GitOps
4 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Validation
7 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 1 (12.50%) Natural Language Processing
7 1 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
7 1 (12.50%) Scrum
7 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 5 (62.50%) Go
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) GDPR
1 5 (62.50%) PCI DSS
2 4 (50.00%) GRC
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Grafana
2 5 (62.50%) Prometheus
2 5 (62.50%) Rancher
3 4 (50.00%) Istio
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) VMware