Observability Contract Job Trends in Sussex

Observability
South East > Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sussex requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sussex 8.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £554 - -
25th Percentile £559 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £659 - -
90th Percentile £661 - -
South East median daily rate £575 £448 £550
% change year-on-year +28.28% -18.50% -31.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 8 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex 88.00% 72.73% 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £236 - £428
25th Percentile £238 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £515
75th Percentile £613 - £528
90th Percentile £663 - £586
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £15.72 - -
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.50 £65.00
Median hourly rate £16.50 £13.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.92% -81.43% -
75th Percentile £40.46 £13.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £17.38 -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £21.02 £58.49
% change year-on-year +125.98% -64.06% +7.58%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Sussex

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) JWT
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth
1 2 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Innovation
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA