OpenTelemetry Contracts

OpenTelemetry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 455 579 716
Rank change year-on-year +124 +137 +116
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 65 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.007% 0.003%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 0.034% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 2 0
10th Percentile £305 £584 -
25th Percentile £444 £598 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £666 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.45% - -
75th Percentile £652 £718 -
90th Percentile £780 £722 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £780 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenTelemetry as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenTelemetry.

Daily rate trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 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
England +114 60 £570 -14.45% 43
London +70 35 £455 -31.71% 31
Work from Home +62 22 £570 -16.48% 30
UK excluding London - 12 £780 - 21
North of England - 8 £780 - 6
Yorkshire - 8 £780 - 2
South East - 4 £300 - 8

OpenTelemetry
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (27.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.15%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 20 (30.77%) GitHub
3 17 (26.15%) Azure AKS
4 16 (24.62%) AWS
4 16 (24.62%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (13.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (13.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (13.85%) Entra ID
5 9 (13.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (12.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (10.77%) Collibra
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (7.69%) GCP
9 4 (6.15%) Amazon Bedrock
9 4 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.62%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (4.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 9 (13.85%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) FTP
2 3 (4.62%) HTTP
2 3 (4.62%) SMTP
2 3 (4.62%) SSL
2 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
3 1 (1.54%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (27.69%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (24.62%) Hadoop
3 15 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (15.38%) Big Data
5 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (7.69%) Data Lake
7 4 (6.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.62%) Power BI
9 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.54%) Flink
10 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
10 1 (1.54%) Metadata
10 1 (1.54%) Metadata Repository
10 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.54%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.54%) Redis
10 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) MLflow
3 3 (4.62%) GitLab
4 2 (3.08%) Jaeger
4 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.54%) Poetry
5 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (30.77%) Banking
3 18 (27.69%) Finance
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.08%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Advertising
8 1 (1.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 10 (15.38%) Architect
2 10 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Developer
4 7 (10.77%) Python Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Site Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Python Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior
8 3 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Architect
10 1 (1.54%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.15%) Kafka
2 14 (21.54%) NumPy
2 14 (21.54%) Pandas
3 11 (16.92%) OAuth
4 9 (13.85%) OAuth2
4 9 (13.85%) OpenID
5 8 (12.31%) .NET
5 8 (12.31%) JSON
5 8 (12.31%) REST
6 6 (9.23%) LangChain
6 6 (9.23%) pytest
6 6 (9.23%) TensorFlow
7 5 (7.69%) FastAPI
7 5 (7.69%) Hugging Face
7 5 (7.69%) PyTorch
7 5 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
8 4 (6.15%) pydantic
8 4 (6.15%) scikit-learn
9 3 (4.62%) AWS CDK
9 3 (4.62%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Cloud Native
1 8 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.08%) Educational Technology
2 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.54%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.54%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (33.85%) Linux
2 15 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (69.23%) Observability
2 32 (49.23%) CI/CD
3 31 (47.69%) Microservices
4 23 (35.38%) DevOps
5 20 (30.77%) Agile
5 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (29.23%) Containerisation
6 19 (29.23%) Test Automation
7 18 (27.69%) Migration
8 13 (20.00%) Analytics
9 12 (18.46%) Software Engineering
10 11 (16.92%) Event-Driven
11 10 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (15.38%) Data Science
11 10 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (13.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (13.85%) Machine Learning
12 9 (13.85%) Quantitative Finance
13 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) Python
2 11 (16.92%) C#
3 8 (12.31%) Bicep
3 8 (12.31%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (10.77%) Go
5 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.08%) SQL
8 1 (1.54%) Bash
8 1 (1.54%) Groovy
8 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (9.23%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.08%) QA
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Ceph
2 1 (1.54%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 55 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 40 (61.54%) Grafana
3 37 (56.92%) Terraform
4 24 (36.92%) Prometheus
5 19 (29.23%) Ansible
6 15 (23.08%) Argo
7 1 (1.54%) Control-M
7 1 (1.54%) Istio
7 1 (1.54%) linkerd
7 1 (1.54%) Nagios
7 1 (1.54%) Podman
7 1 (1.54%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.54%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Splunk
2 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.62%) AppDynamics
3 3 (4.62%) Dataiku
3 3 (4.62%) DataRobot
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.08%) Google
4 2 (3.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) BMC
5 1 (1.54%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.54%) Sage