Observability Contracts with Work from Home Options

Observability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 352 504
Rank change year-on-year +93 +152 -59
Contract jobs citing Observability 87 120 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.52% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 76 86
10th Percentile £404 £450 £469
25th Percentile £487 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -19.26% +21.08%
75th Percentile £825 £675 £738
90th Percentile - £775 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +20.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Observability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Observability trend for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability.

Observability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Observability over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Observability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability.

Observability hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (4.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.15%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (43.68%) AWS
2 13 (14.94%) Serverless
3 12 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (11.49%) Azure
5 8 (9.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (8.05%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) GCP
8 5 (5.75%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.60%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (4.60%) Datadog
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.60%) SaaS
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) DNS
1 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (2.30%) SNMP
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
2 2 (2.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.15%) FTP
3 1 (1.15%) NAS
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.60%) Big Data
3 4 (4.60%) Redis
4 3 (3.45%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 2 (2.30%) Power BI
5 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.15%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (9.20%) GitLab
3 5 (5.75%) Git
3 5 (5.75%) JIRA
4 4 (4.60%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.45%) JUnit
6 2 (2.30%) Hamcrest
6 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.15%) GoCD
7 1 (1.15%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.15%) Spinnaker
7 1 (1.15%) TestCafe
General
1 12 (13.79%) Finance
1 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.34%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Retail
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Marketing
6 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.15%) Dutch Language
6 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Legal
6 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Developer
2 15 (17.24%) Architect
3 14 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (16.09%) Java Developer
3 14 (16.09%) SIEM Engineer
4 13 (14.94%) Senior
5 9 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (5.75%) DevOps Architect
8 5 (5.75%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Lead
9 4 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) AWS Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.69%) REST
1 18 (20.69%) Spring
2 17 (19.54%) Spring Boot
3 14 (16.09%) Hibernate
3 14 (16.09%) JPA
3 14 (16.09%) Spring Security
4 7 (8.05%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.60%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.60%) Kafka
6 3 (3.45%) AWS SAM
6 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.45%) React
7 2 (2.30%) Django
7 2 (2.30%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.30%) Flask
7 2 (2.30%) Node.js
7 2 (2.30%) Protocol Buffers
8 1 (1.15%) .NET
8 1 (1.15%) OAuth
8 1 (1.15%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.15%) PKI
5 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (24.14%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Unix
3 5 (5.75%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.60%) CentOS
4 4 (4.60%) Windows
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (49.43%) CI/CD
2 31 (35.63%) DevOps
3 29 (33.33%) Agile
4 22 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (18.39%) Microservices
5 16 (18.39%) SIEM
6 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.64%) Front End Development
7 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (9.20%) Containerisation
9 8 (9.20%) Roadmaps
9 8 (9.20%) Scrum
9 8 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (8.05%) Configuration Management
11 6 (6.90%) Design Patterns
12 5 (5.75%) Analytics
12 5 (5.75%) Computer Science
12 5 (5.75%) High Availability
12 5 (5.75%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.03%) Python
2 21 (24.14%) Java
3 9 (10.34%) Go
4 8 (9.20%) Bash
5 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.60%) Groovy
6 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.45%) Scala
7 3 (3.45%) SQL
8 2 (2.30%) Perl
9 1 (1.15%) C#
9 1 (1.15%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (43.68%) Security Cleared
2 20 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (18.39%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.75%) Degree
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (26.44%) Ansible
1 23 (26.44%) Grafana
2 22 (25.29%) Terraform
3 16 (18.39%) Kubernetes
4 14 (16.09%) Prometheus
5 11 (12.64%) Kibana
6 5 (5.75%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.60%) logstash
8 3 (3.45%) Consul
8 3 (3.45%) Packer
8 3 (3.45%) Puppet
9 2 (2.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.15%) Argo
10 1 (1.15%) CASB
10 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
10 1 (1.15%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.45%) Splunk
3 2 (2.30%) BigPanda
3 2 (2.30%) Cisco
3 2 (2.30%) Okta
3 2 (2.30%) Veritas
4 1 (1.15%) Adobe
4 1 (1.15%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.15%) Databricks
4 1 (1.15%) Google
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle
4 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.15%) SAP
4 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.15%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.15%) VMware