Zipkin Contracts

Zipkin
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Zipkin skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Zipkin over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 582 682
Rank change year-on-year +44 +100 +194
Contract jobs citing Zipkin 1 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.018% 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.020% 0.15% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Zipkin 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 4,930 5,405 8,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 12.43% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 3,851 6,094
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 103 185
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.05 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.25 £21.29 £25.71
Median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.33 £50.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.25 £83.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +118.75%

Zipkin
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Zipkin in the UK

Zipkin
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Zipkin in the UK

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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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Flink
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Chaos Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk