Observability Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Observability
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Observability 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 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 5.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £331 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - -
75th Percentile £344 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median daily rate £338 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13 19 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 72.22% 57.58% 78.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 38
10th Percentile £200 £370 £375
25th Percentile £240 £374 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £419 £488 £569
90th Percentile £511 £510 £608
Staffordshire median daily rate £313 £425 £490
% change year-on-year -26.47% -13.27% +3.16%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Observability relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Observability job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes