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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 175 242
Rank change year-on-year +30 +67 -53
Contract jobs citing Observability 40 27 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 0.50% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.55% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 14 7
10th Percentile £485 - £483
25th Percentile £513 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -10.43% -5.74%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £700
90th Percentile £596 - -
England median daily rate £568 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -17.45% +1.85% +25.00%
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 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

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 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +34 22 £525 - 12
Yorkshire +8 18 £563 +9.22% 2
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 4 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Azure
3 5 (12.50%) SaaS
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) IPv4
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.00%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) Jaeger
3 2 (5.00%) TestCafe
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) GoCD
4 1 (2.50%) Pa11y
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Architect
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Consultant
2 8 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 7 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Integration Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) SaaS Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Automation Developer
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (20.00%) JPA
1 8 (20.00%) REST
1 8 (20.00%) Spring
1 8 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 8 (20.00%) Spring Security
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.50%) iOS SDK
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 5 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Unix
1 5 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 19 (47.50%) DevOps
3 18 (45.00%) Test Automation
4 15 (37.50%) Change Management
5 14 (35.00%) Agile
6 12 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (27.50%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (27.50%) Design Patterns
7 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (27.50%) Microservices
7 11 (27.50%) Technology Strategy
8 9 (22.50%) Cloud Security
8 9 (22.50%) Computer Science
9 8 (20.00%) Front End Development
9 8 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
10 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.50%) SIEM
11 4 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
11 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Java
2 4 (10.00%) Scala
3 3 (7.50%) SQL
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) Swift
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Terraform
3 6 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (5.00%) Kiali
5 2 (5.00%) Kibana
5 2 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 5 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) VMware