Observability Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Observability
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Observability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.46% - 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% - 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £508 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £515 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 150 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 85.71% 93.17% 85.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 73 88
10th Percentile £200 £317 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -13.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £550 £590 £630
90th Percentile £625 £670 £720
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £460 £475 £533
% change year-on-year -3.16% -10.80% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 6
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £15.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +19.70%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £29.06
90th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 £32.88
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.75
% change year-on-year +4.05% -6.33% +22.06%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Newcastle upon Tyne

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google