Observability Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Observability
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 3.74% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £537 -
% change year-on-year -7.95% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 58 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 83.18% 93.55% 78.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 48
10th Percentile £388 £220 £253
25th Percentile £413 £359 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £526 £588 £426
90th Percentile £655 £605 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £24.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.58 - £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £37.46 - £17.00
90th Percentile £40.03 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Solihull

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) WireMock
3 1 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks