Observability Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Observability
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
South East median daily rate £438 £575 £800
% change year-on-year -23.91% -28.13% -4.48%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 139 76 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 83.73% 84.44% 86.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 46 117
10th Percentile £200 £248 £143
25th Percentile £306 £406 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% -4.37%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £628 £638 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 23
10th Percentile £15.62 £44.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £47.50 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £24.68 £62.50 £29.16
90th Percentile £25.15 £65.50 £46.00
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -47.61% -5.26% +5.56%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Oxford - 1 £750 -
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft