Observability Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Observability
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 1.04% 2.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 2.20% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £800 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.55% - -
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £550 -
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 91 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 82.81% 91.00% 79.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 61 61
10th Percentile £305 £213 £238
25th Percentile £383 £308 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £602 £569 £550
90th Percentile £778 £600 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £538
% change year-on-year -6.67% +4.55% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £33.43 £22.50 £14.54
% change year-on-year +48.57% +54.75% -78.93%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Swindon

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft