Observability Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Observability
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 3.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £663 £710 £540
% change year-on-year -6.69% +31.48% -6.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West End of London

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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 62 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 90.00% 93.94% 86.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 41 44
10th Percentile £430 £313 £236
25th Percentile £463 £426 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £523 £520
Median % change year-on-year +19.62% +0.48% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £551 £650
90th Percentile £800 £638 £731
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £29.24 -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £51.44 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.97% +34.62% -
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.75 -
90th Percentile - £42.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Observability job vacancy trend in West End of London

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Observability

Observability
Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Westminster - 1 £475 - 1
Observability
Central London

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
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%) Terraform