OpenTelemetry Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.14% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £557 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 - -
75th Percentile £633 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £597 -
% change year-on-year -12.10% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 427 353 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.83% 18.49% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 197 201
10th Percentile £373 £398 £313
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +15.79% -7.77%
75th Percentile £603 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £730 £688
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 3
10th Percentile £27.21 - £17.20
25th Percentile £33.91 £26.25 £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% +57.14% -52.24%
75th Percentile - £51.88 £30.63
90th Percentile - £65.75 £38.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenTelemetry relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenTelemetry.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
Birmingham - 3 £622 -
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (33.33%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jaeger
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Collection
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware