Observability Contract Job Trends in Wales

Observability
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 48 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.41% 0.46% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £613 £198 -
25th Percentile £631 £200 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £204 -
Median % change year-on-year +231.29% - -
75th Percentile £731 £207 -
90th Percentile £758 £209 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £593
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.95% +3.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 394 363 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 81.57% 82.88% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 215 308
10th Percentile £183 £161 £174
25th Percentile £266 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -10.53%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £575
90th Percentile £613 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 46 26
10th Percentile £13.33 £19.13 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.85 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £19.10 £25.09 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.89% -3.50% +37.17%
75th Percentile £24.06 £39.32 £50.00
90th Percentile £29.82 £48.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Wales

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Wales over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Wales

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
South Wales +1 1 £750 +257.14% 25
Dyfed - 1 £600 -
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Podman
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk