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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 110 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.27% 0.064% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.53% 0.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £392 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% - -
75th Percentile £398 £688 -
90th Percentile £400 - -
South East median daily rate £390 £488 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

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 458 289 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.45% 18.48% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 202 233
10th Percentile £369 £381 £325
25th Percentile £420 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £591 £638 £625
90th Percentile £648 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £537 £500
% change year-on-year -6.89% +7.40% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £56.01 £23.35 £56.50
25th Percentile £73.25 £27.11 £56.65
Median hourly rate £81.00 £31.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% -48.86% -21.53%
75th Percentile - £77.19 £62.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £86.38 £90.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -4.62%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenTelemetry relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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 9 March 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 4 £393 - 2
Berkshire -23 3 - - 1
OpenTelemetry
South East

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (42.86%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jaeger
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) Loki
1 3 (42.86%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
3 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) GitOps
3 3 (42.86%) Problem Management
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Product Management
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Bash
1 4 (57.14%) Go
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) PCI DSS
2 3 (42.86%) GRC
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Istio
2 3 (42.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Foundry
1 3 (42.86%) Palantir