OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in the South East

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 169 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.068% 0.082% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.51% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 -
England median daily rate £525 £571 -
% change year-on-year -8.10% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 697 591 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.78% 16.09% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 380 459
10th Percentile £275 £300 £308
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £616
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 33
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.94 £45.93
25th Percentile £46.25 £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.44 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.49 £78.00
England median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenTelemetry relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenTelemetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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
Berkshire -1 3 - - 3
Thames Valley -13 3 - - 3
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) Palantir