Observability Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Observability
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.17% 0.65% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £553 - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £648 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £438 £538
% change year-on-year +14.29% -18.60% -32.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 282 137 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 82.70% 88.39% 91.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 90 161
10th Percentile £275 £170 £313
25th Percentile £355 £288 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £394 £450
Median % change year-on-year +19.11% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £538
90th Percentile £695 £627 £588
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.20% -0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 15
10th Percentile £13.13 - £14.07
25th Percentile £18.06 £15.50 £18.20
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.40% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £43.56 £20.69 £26.63
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £29.00
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £49.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.19% -5.71%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Observability job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Observability
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Observability

Observability
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Crawley - 2 £600 - 3
Burgess Hill -3 1 - -
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Sentry
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CMDB
1 2 (50.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) SIAM
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Backends for Frontends
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace