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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 16 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 - -
75th Percentile £780 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £573 £666 £750
% change year-on-year -14.07% -11.17% +1.69%

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 2,425 3,325 4,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.61% 16.05% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 2,176 3,071
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £571 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.62% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 217 86
10th Percentile £33.59 £22.65 £22.20
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £48.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -25.49% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.97 £65.00
% change year-on-year +30.30% -26.21% +23.81%

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 31 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 31 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
North of England - 9 £780 - 14
Yorkshire - 8 £780 - 3
South East - 4 £300 - 3
Scotland - 2 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 2
Midlands - 1 £550 - 5
North West - 1 £635 - 11
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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Collibra
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
1 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (37.50%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (12.50%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Loki
2 1 (6.25%) NETCONF
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Observability
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Microservices
3 7 (43.75%) Monte Carlo Method
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
6 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Agile
8 2 (12.50%) Business Case
8 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
8 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
8 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (12.50%) Use Case
9 1 (6.25%) Analytics
9 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
9 1 (6.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Go
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (75.00%) Grafana
2 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (56.25%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Ansible
4 3 (18.75%) Terraform
5 1 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) AppDynamics
3 2 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) BMC
4 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
4 1 (6.25%) Remedy
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow