Observability Contracts in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 345 477
Rank change year-on-year +36 +132 -70
Contract jobs citing Observability 84 116 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.48% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.54% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 67 22
10th Percentile £448 £439 £496
25th Percentile £511 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -10.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £825 £550 £700
90th Percentile - £643 £734
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £71.25 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £72.38 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.53% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £77.38 -
90th Percentile - £77.75 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
North of England +38 29 £525 -4.55% 13
Scotland +31 24 £522 +3.11% 3
South West +20 23 £800 +77.78% 7
North West +41 20 £524 - 11
Yorkshire +15 9 £563 +2.27% 2
South East +18 7 £800 +16.36% 16
West Midlands -2 1 - - 4
Midlands -4 1 - - 5
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.95%) SAS
2 1 (1.19%) Apache
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.33%) AWS
2 20 (23.81%) OpenShift
3 14 (16.67%) Azure
4 11 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (13.10%) Serverless
5 10 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (11.90%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (4.76%) SaaS
9 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.38%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.19%) Azure App Service
11 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.19%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (1.19%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) SAN
2 7 (8.33%) Network Security
3 5 (5.95%) AMQP
3 5 (5.95%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (5.95%) iSCSI
3 5 (5.95%) NAS
4 2 (2.38%) DNS
5 1 (1.19%) Firewall
5 1 (1.19%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (10.71%) InfluxDB
3 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 6 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.76%) DB2
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 6 (7.14%) GitLab
4 4 (4.76%) Git
5 2 (2.38%) TestCafe
6 1 (1.19%) GoCD
6 1 (1.19%) JIRA
6 1 (1.19%) Pa11y
General
1 15 (17.86%) Banking
2 14 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 16 (19.05%) SIEM Engineer
3 15 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (16.67%) Developer
5 11 (13.10%) Site Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Architect
6 8 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Senior
8 6 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Python Developer
10 4 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.48%) REST
2 8 (9.52%) Hibernate
2 8 (9.52%) JPA
2 8 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (9.52%) Spring
2 8 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 8 (9.52%) Spring Security
3 5 (5.95%) AWS CDK
3 5 (5.95%) Flash
3 5 (5.95%) POSIX
4 4 (4.76%) Django
4 4 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.76%) Flask
5 2 (2.38%) .NET
5 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.38%) React
6 1 (1.19%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.19%) Blazor
6 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (5.95%) NVMe
3 4 (4.76%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Linux
2 13 (15.48%) Windows
3 11 (13.10%) Unix
4 8 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (5.95%) Ubuntu
7 4 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 29 (34.52%) DevOps
2 29 (34.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (19.05%) Agile
4 16 (19.05%) SIEM
5 14 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 11 (13.10%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (11.90%) Microservices
8 9 (10.71%) Containerisation
8 9 (10.71%) Software Engineering
9 8 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 8 (9.52%) Design Patterns
9 8 (9.52%) Front End Development
9 8 (9.52%) Task Automation
10 7 (8.33%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.33%) Event-Driven
10 7 (8.33%) Problem Management
10 7 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
11 6 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 36 (42.86%) Python
2 22 (26.19%) Java
3 13 (15.48%) SQL
4 9 (10.71%) Perl
5 7 (8.33%) Go
6 6 (7.14%) Bash
7 5 (5.95%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.76%) C
8 4 (4.76%) Groovy
9 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.38%) Bicep
10 2 (2.38%) C#
10 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.95%) DV Cleared
3 13 (15.48%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) NFS
3 4 (4.76%) GPFS
4 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Terraform
2 28 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 27 (32.14%) Ansible
4 25 (29.76%) Grafana
5 20 (23.81%) Prometheus
6 11 (13.10%) Progress Chef
7 7 (8.33%) Kibana
8 5 (5.95%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (4.76%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 3 (3.57%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (8.33%) Veritas
2 4 (4.76%) Brocade
2 4 (4.76%) EMC
2 4 (4.76%) Google
2 4 (4.76%) IBM
2 4 (4.76%) NetApp
2 4 (4.76%) Splunk
2 4 (4.76%) Sybase
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.38%) VMware