Observability Contracts in West Yorkshire

Observability
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 74 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 13 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.37% 0.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile £705 - -
25th Percentile £713 £539 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -
75th Percentile £780 £586 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +28.89% +2.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in West Yorkshire

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Observability in West Yorkshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Leeds +13 13 £750 +33.33% 27
Observability
Yorkshire

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) nginx
1 5 (38.46%) Traefik
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Collibra
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (46.15%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (46.15%) Entra ID
2 6 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) GitLab
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Military
3 2 (15.38%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Architect
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) Kafka
2 7 (53.85%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (46.15%) cloud-init
3 6 (46.15%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) CentOS
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Unix
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Monte Carlo Method
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Security
2 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Identity Management
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Secrets Management
2 6 (46.15%) Static Application Security Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Data Governance
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
3 5 (38.46%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (15.38%) Agile
4 2 (15.38%) Business Case
4 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Bash
1 6 (46.15%) Go
1 6 (46.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) NCSC
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Grafana
2 12 (92.31%) Prometheus
3 11 (84.62%) Kubernetes
4 6 (46.15%) Consul
4 6 (46.15%) Istio
4 6 (46.15%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (46.15%) linkerd
4 6 (46.15%) Packer
4 6 (46.15%) Rancher
4 6 (46.15%) Terraform
4 6 (46.15%) ZABBIX
5 5 (38.46%) HAProxy
6 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Splunk
2 6 (46.15%) Okta
3 5 (38.46%) Apple
3 5 (38.46%) ESET
4 2 (15.38%) AppDynamics
4 2 (15.38%) IBM