collectd Contract Job Trends

collectd
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring collectd skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 548 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing collectd 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.014% -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.018% 0.096% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

collectd falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,640 5,204 6,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.43% 14.23% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,732 3,377 4,859
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.63% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 56 167
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £23.80 £27.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.08 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -14.49% -29.45% +98.92%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.63 £76.25
90th Percentile £78.13 £76.25 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.79 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year -32.20% -24.03% +105.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing collectd relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

collectd job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing collectd.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing collectd

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Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing collectd within the UK over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Work from Home -1 1 - -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Monitoring Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PromQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus