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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 68 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 +31 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 9 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.61% 0.72% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 0.83% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £740 - -
25th Percentile - £485 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% +1.94% -
75th Percentile - £586 £523
90th Percentile - £595 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £725 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +38.10% +1.94% -

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 514 846 1,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.95% 86.95% 91.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 498 969
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £619
90th Percentile £600 £660 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.12 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +56.44% +27.00% -40.94%

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 20 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 +6 9 £780 +48.57% 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 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) nginx
2 1 (11.11%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Collibra
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Banking
2 5 (55.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) cloud-init
3 1 (11.11%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Monte Carlo Method
2 5 (55.56%) Data Governance
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Business Case
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
4 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Go
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Grafana
2 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
3 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) Terraform
5 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (11.11%) Ansible
5 1 (11.11%) Consul
5 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
5 1 (11.11%) Istio
5 1 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (11.11%) linkerd
5 1 (11.11%) Packer
5 1 (11.11%) Rancher
5 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Apple
3 1 (11.11%) ESET
3 1 (11.11%) Okta