Observability Contracts in the North West

Observability
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 157 176
Rank change year-on-year +40 +19 -45
Contract jobs citing Observability 20 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.094% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 0 6
10th Percentile £438 - £481
25th Percentile £463 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North West

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the North West

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Manchester +28 15 £525 - 6
Cheshire - 5 £487 - 5
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) TestCafe
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) GoCD
3 1 (5.00%) Pa11y
General
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Product Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (40.00%) JPA
1 8 (40.00%) REST
1 8 (40.00%) Spring
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 8 (40.00%) Spring Security
2 4 (20.00%) Django
2 4 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (20.00%) Flask
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Unix
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Front End Development
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (20.00%) API Development
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (10.00%) ITSM
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (10.00%) Product Management
7 2 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (10.00%) RBAC
7 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kibana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) VMware