Observability Contracts in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 199 228
Rank change year-on-year +40 +29 -42
Contract jobs citing Observability 30 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.34% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.38% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 6
10th Percentile £443 - £481
25th Percentile £468 £500 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% -6.38% +31.73%
75th Percentile £538 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +20.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,081 5,270 6,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.83% 90.69% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,497 3,663 4,658
10th Percentile £300 £304 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £684 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 205 261
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +49.73% -
75th Percentile £44.74 £45.05 £32.77
90th Percentile £55.40 £65.00 £50.78
England median hourly rate £35.96 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.12% +53.06% +2.08%

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 2024.

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 2024. 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
North West +44 20 £524 - 10
Yorkshire +20 10 £529 -3.86% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.33%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) IPv4
1 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.67%) TestCafe
3 1 (3.33%) GitLab
3 1 (3.33%) GoCD
3 1 (3.33%) Pa11y
General
1 7 (23.33%) Banking
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Architect
2 8 (26.67%) Java Developer
2 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Product Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Site Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) Hibernate
1 8 (26.67%) JPA
1 8 (26.67%) REST
1 8 (26.67%) Spring
1 8 (26.67%) Spring Boot
1 8 (26.67%) Spring Security
2 4 (13.33%) Django
2 4 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 4 (13.33%) Flask
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Unix
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Agile
4 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (26.67%) Design Patterns
5 8 (26.67%) Front End Development
5 8 (26.67%) Microservices
6 7 (23.33%) Cloud Security
6 7 (23.33%) Technology Strategy
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (13.33%) API Development
8 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
10 2 (6.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
10 2 (6.67%) Product Roadmap
10 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 2 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) C#
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.67%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Kibana
4 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) VMware