Observability Contracts in Surrey

Observability
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 55 66
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.49% 0.16% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 0.20% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £513 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £688
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -23.64% -
75th Percentile £564 £538 £694
90th Percentile £606 - -
South East median daily rate £438 £538 £800
% change year-on-year -18.60% -32.81% +45.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 242 496 637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.96% 80.65% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 352 500
10th Percentile £200 £250 £200
25th Percentile £303 £360 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £638
90th Percentile £581 £700 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £506
% change year-on-year -1.57% +0.35% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 63 30
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.71 £29.18
25th Percentile £24.66 £14.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £43.39 £65.25 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.88
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.96%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Surrey

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Observability in Surrey

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Surrey over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Surrey

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Weybridge - 1 £492 -
Camberley - 1 £635 - 2
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Datadog
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) FinOps
1 3 (75.00%) RBAC
1 3 (75.00%) Scorecard
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk