OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in the South West

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.045% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £597 -
% change year-on-year -12.10% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 344 442 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.63% 18.46% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 254 394
10th Percentile £324 £377 £325
25th Percentile £413 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £649
90th Percentile £695 £705 £717
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 27 48
10th Percentile £61.25 £63.50 £48.32
25th Percentile - £65.63 £48.72
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £52.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +34.11% -19.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the South West

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Bristol - 1 £700 - 4
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform