OpenTelemetry Contracts in the UK excluding London

OpenTelemetry
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenTelemetry over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £570 £666 -
% change year-on-year -14.45% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK excluding London

OpenTelemetry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK excluding London

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenTelemetry in the UK excluding London

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire - 8 £780 - 2
North of England - 8 £780 - 8
South East - 4 £300 - 9
OpenTelemetry
UK

OpenTelemetry
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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Collibra
2 4 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Observability
2 7 (58.33%) Monte Carlo Method
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (16.67%) Business Case
7 2 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 2 (16.67%) Use Case
8 1 (8.33%) Application Security
8 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
8 1 (8.33%) Migration
8 1 (8.33%) Open Source
8 1 (8.33%) Strategic Planning
8 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Go
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Grafana
2 9 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (75.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Control-M
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Splunk
2 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) BMC