OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.18% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £635 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 322 386 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.62% 17.27% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 263 296
10th Percentile £319 £363 £313
25th Percentile £380 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -1.91%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £625
90th Percentile £625 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 7
10th Percentile - £50.87 £36.74
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 £61.60 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.08% +23.20% -18.70%
75th Percentile £23.03 - £53.03
90th Percentile £28.60 £64.25 £65.31
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -4.00%

OpenTelemetry
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Berkshire - 3 - - 2
OpenTelemetry
South East

OpenTelemetry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) Palantir