Observability Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Observability
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.82% 0.70% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £534 £429 -
% change year-on-year +24.48% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 280 124 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 76.29% 87.32% 80.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 68 61
10th Percentile £190 £350 £240
25th Percentile £262 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £545 £524 £575
90th Percentile £648 £579 £594
East Midlands median daily rate £465 £418 £425
% change year-on-year +11.38% -1.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 13 17
10th Percentile £13.13 - £12.15
25th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.12 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +5.96% -31.51%
75th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £16.63
90th Percentile £19.07 - £21.40
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
% change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -34.79%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Observability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Observability job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Nottingham -16 3 £425 -15.00% 5
Observability
East Midlands

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Gradle
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) TestNG
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) OpenAPI
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) CentOS
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Dependency Management
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat