Observability Contract Job Trends in Reading

Observability
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 86 88
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 7 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.96% 0.29% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.32% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £431 £713 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £725 £505
Median % change year-on-year -32.76% +43.56% -
75th Percentile £533 £738 £518
90th Percentile £548 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £463 £725 £528
% change year-on-year -36.21% +37.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.38 - -
Median hourly rate £20.75 - -
75th Percentile £21.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £20.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 940 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.14% 91.35% 92.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 534 621
10th Percentile £350 £325 £213
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £613 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 9 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £28.45 £41.24
25th Percentile £20.38 £42.50 £59.89
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.76 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% -2.42% -2.63%
75th Percentile £93.75 £69.69 £65.25
90th Percentile £99.00 £77.39 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -31.47% -3.98% +29.36%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Reading

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure API Management
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DataOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) OpenID
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) API Management
5 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) DataOps
5 1 (14.29%) Demand Generation
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (14.29%) MLOps
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) vSphere
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Argo
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Kustomize
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce