Observability Contracts in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 133 156 200
Rank change year-on-year +23 +44 +25
Contract jobs citing Observability 33 29 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.00% 0.61% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.71% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 17 11
10th Percentile £394 £440 -
25th Percentile £594 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £750 £538 -
90th Percentile £780 - -
England median daily rate £574 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.32% -12.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -25.83% -23.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +20 21 £725 +28.89% 26
North West +7 10 £563 +7.40% 47
North East - 2 £750 - 8
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (21.21%) nginx
1 7 (21.21%) Traefik
2 3 (9.09%) JBoss
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
2 9 (27.27%) AWS Fargate
2 9 (27.27%) Entra ID
2 9 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (21.21%) Collibra
4 6 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
7 2 (6.06%) Apigee
8 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.03%) Azure
8 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) DNS
1 9 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) NAS
2 1 (3.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (51.52%) Jenkins
2 14 (42.42%) GitLab
3 7 (21.21%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (9.09%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 3 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (9.09%) TeamCity
5 2 (6.06%) CircleCI
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
General
1 11 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Military
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Architect
2 12 (36.36%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
7 3 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Python Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Applications Support
9 1 (3.03%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.03%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) Kafka
2 9 (27.27%) cloud-init
2 9 (27.27%) Keycloak
3 8 (24.24%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.06%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.06%) Node.js
5 2 (6.06%) Playwright
5 2 (6.06%) Puppeteer
5 2 (6.06%) React
5 2 (6.06%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) PKI
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (54.55%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (30.30%) Unix
3 10 (30.30%) Windows
4 9 (27.27%) CentOS
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (63.64%) DevOps
3 18 (54.55%) Microservices
4 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (39.39%) Cloud Security
5 13 (39.39%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (30.30%) Identity Management
7 9 (27.27%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 9 (27.27%) Secrets Management
7 9 (27.27%) Static Application Security Testing
8 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
9 7 (21.21%) Mobile Device Management
9 7 (21.21%) Monte Carlo Method
9 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
10 6 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (15.15%) Data Analysis
11 5 (15.15%) Data Governance
12 4 (12.12%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) Bash
3 9 (27.27%) Go
4 7 (21.21%) Java
5 3 (9.09%) Perl
6 2 (6.06%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) AWS Certification
2 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) COBIT
2 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.03%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (57.58%) Grafana
3 18 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 15 (45.45%) Terraform
5 9 (27.27%) Consul
5 9 (27.27%) Istio
5 9 (27.27%) Jamf Pro
5 9 (27.27%) linkerd
5 9 (27.27%) Packer
5 9 (27.27%) Rancher
5 9 (27.27%) ZABBIX
6 7 (21.21%) HAProxy
7 5 (15.15%) Ansible
7 5 (15.15%) Progress Chef
8 3 (9.09%) Kibana
9 2 (6.06%) Control-M
10 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (60.61%) Splunk
2 9 (27.27%) Okta
3 8 (24.24%) AppDynamics
4 7 (21.21%) Apple
4 7 (21.21%) ESET
5 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
6 3 (9.09%) Cloudera
7 2 (6.06%) BMC
7 2 (6.06%) Google
7 2 (6.06%) IBM
7 2 (6.06%) PagerDuty
7 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (6.06%) VMware
8 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 1 (3.03%) EMC
8 1 (3.03%) NetApp
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle
8 1 (3.03%) Remedy
8 1 (3.03%) Veritas