Observability Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Observability
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 34 44
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +25
Contract jobs citing Observability 25 20 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.46% 4.48% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 5.00% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 1
10th Percentile £356 £518 -
25th Percentile £418 £571 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £622 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% +3.67% -
75th Percentile £559 £624 -
90th Percentile £680 £635 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £573 £515
% change year-on-year -12.66% +11.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 692 400 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.84% 89.69% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 204 225
10th Percentile £312 £220 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £650
90th Percentile £638 £652 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 5
10th Percentile £14.66 - £18.35
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £12.83 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.08% -37.41% +22.39%
75th Percentile £20.44 £16.68 £31.25
90th Percentile £25.15 £21.05 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
% change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in South Yorkshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Sheffield -22 24 £500 -19.61% 1
Observability
Yorkshire

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (12.00%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) SNMP
1 3 (12.00%) SSH
1 3 (12.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Gradle
3 1 (4.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Python Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Cryptography Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Splunk Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 10 (40.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
1 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (36.00%) API Development
5 7 (28.00%) Service Management
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (16.00%) AI
8 4 (16.00%) Business Impact Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) Capacity Management
8 4 (16.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) Impact Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) ITIL
8 4 (16.00%) ITSM
8 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (12.00%) Backlog Management
9 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 3 (12.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Perl
2 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Go
3 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
1 3 (12.00%) GLBA
1 3 (12.00%) NIST
1 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Prometheus
2 11 (44.00%) Grafana
2 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (40.00%) Control-M
3 10 (40.00%) IBM Guardium
3 10 (40.00%) Nessus
4 3 (12.00%) Ansible
5 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Splunk
1 10 (40.00%) Tenable
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Thales
4 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.00%) VMware