Observability Contracts in the South West

Observability
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 159 171
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 23 15 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.73% 0.41% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.46% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 2
10th Percentile £513 £413 £514
25th Percentile £525 £419 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £450 £533
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -15.57% -
75th Percentile £825 £452 £542
90th Percentile - £620 £544
England median daily rate £550 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +20.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Dorset - 12 £800 -
Gloucestershire +14 10 £550 - 3
Bristol +11 1 £350 -22.22% 4
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
2 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (26.09%) OpenShift
2 6 (26.09%) Serverless
3 5 (21.74%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Network Security
2 5 (21.74%) AMQP
3 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (26.09%) InfluxDB
2 6 (26.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) SIEM Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (26.09%) Site Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.35%) .NET
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.35%) Blazor
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) CSS3
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) HTML5
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) SIEM
2 10 (43.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Service Management
5 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.70%) Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Log Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
7 1 (4.35%) Clean Code
7 1 (4.35%) Coaching
7 1 (4.35%) Code Quality
7 1 (4.35%) Containerisation
7 1 (4.35%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (4.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (4.35%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) Go
2 6 (26.09%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
4 4 (17.39%) C
5 2 (8.70%) Bicep
5 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (86.96%) DV Cleared
1 20 (86.96%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 7 (30.43%) Ansible
3 7 (30.43%) Grafana
3 7 (30.43%) Prometheus
4 6 (26.09%) Progress Chef
5 5 (21.74%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.35%) VMware