Observability Contract Job Trends in West Wales

Observability
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Observability skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Wales 5.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £466 - -
90th Percentile £479 - -
Wales median daily rate £538 £210 -
% change year-on-year +155.95% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35 21 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Wales 87.50% 67.74% 70.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 10
10th Percentile £400 £125 £180
25th Percentile £413 £313 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £331
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +50.94% -30.26%
75th Percentile £486 £535 £416
90th Percentile £500 £555 £500
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.33 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.85 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.47% - -
75th Percentile £17.94 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £19.50 - -
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £23.84 £32.50
% change year-on-year -19.90% -26.65% +66.75%

Observability
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Swansea - 2 £438 - 1
Observability
Wales

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Wallet
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks