PagerDuty Contract Job Trends

PagerDuty
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of PagerDuty products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PagerDuty over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within PagerDuty, Inc.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 543 614
Rank change year-on-year -12 +71 +135
Contract jobs citing PagerDuty 10 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.029% 0.028% 0.036%
As % of the Vendors category 0.061% 0.061% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £339 £521 -
25th Percentile £416 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% +22.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £513 £672 £509
90th Percentile £562 £704 £526
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 - -

All Vendors
UK

PagerDuty falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,436 16,298 21,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.59% 44.89% 45.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,261 9,589 13,613
10th Percentile £281 £297 £260
25th Percentile £404 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £721 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 840 510 667
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £19.88
Median hourly rate £25.11 £32.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -21.53% -27.11% +75.60%
75th Percentile £40.65 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.68 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £29.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -22.41% -32.16% +97.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

PagerDuty job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PagerDuty over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PagerDuty in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PagerDuty within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
UK excluding London -18 6 £450 - 5
England -35 6 £463 -24.49% 5
London -5 4 £463 -24.49% 5
Scotland - 4 £450 -
Work from Home +2 1 £425 -15.00% 7
North East -12 1 - -
North of England -42 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Gatling
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) Observability
2 5 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Change Management
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 5 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 5 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) Log Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Budget Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) PromQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Grafana
2 5 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) New Relic
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sage
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow