Observability Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Observability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 206 255 358
Rank change year-on-year +49 +103 +162
Contract jobs citing Observability 98 90 120
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 67 76
10th Percentile £413 £405 £450
25th Percentile £464 £494 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -18.52%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £675
90th Percentile £740 - £775
UK median daily rate £560 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £61.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.25 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -4.58% -23.08% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Observability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Observability trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Observability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Observability over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 11 (11.22%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.10%) nginx
2 5 (5.10%) Traefik
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.02%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 43 (43.88%) AWS
2 24 (24.49%) Azure
3 19 (19.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (16.33%) Datadog
5 16 (16.33%) GitHub
6 13 (13.27%) GCP
6 13 (13.27%) SaaS
6 13 (13.27%) Serverless
7 11 (11.22%) AWS Fargate
7 11 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (10.20%) Azure AKS
8 10 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (10.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (10.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (9.18%) Amazon S3
9 9 (9.18%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (16.33%) DNS
2 12 (12.24%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.10%) Network Security
4 4 (4.08%) HTTP
5 3 (3.06%) Firewall
5 3 (3.06%) SSL
6 2 (2.04%) DHCP
6 2 (2.04%) DOCSIS
6 2 (2.04%) VPN
6 2 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.04%) Wireless
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.02%) FTP
7 1 (1.02%) LAN
7 1 (1.02%) MQTT
7 1 (1.02%) NAS
7 1 (1.02%) SAN
7 1 (1.02%) SMTP
7 1 (1.02%) VLAN
7 1 (1.02%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) Hadoop
2 10 (10.20%) Big Data
2 10 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (9.18%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.08%) Looker
5 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.06%) Redis
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.04%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.04%) MySQL
8 1 (1.02%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.02%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (23.47%) GitLab
3 10 (10.20%) Git
4 2 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.04%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.04%) JIRA
5 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.02%) git-flow
5 1 (1.02%) JUnit
5 1 (1.02%) MLflow
5 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.02%) Spinnaker
5 1 (1.02%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.02%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.02%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.02%) Vite
5 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 25 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Finance
3 13 (13.27%) Banking
4 11 (11.22%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Marketing
7 4 (4.08%) Electronics
7 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.02%) Advertising
10 1 (1.02%) Games
10 1 (1.02%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
1 18 (18.37%) Senior
2 11 (11.22%) Developer
3 10 (10.20%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (9.18%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Lead
5 8 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Site Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Architect
6 7 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Splunk Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) AWS Architect
7 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) AWS Solution Architect
7 5 (5.10%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) OpenTelemetry
2 14 (14.29%) Kafka
3 9 (9.18%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (8.16%) Keycloak
5 7 (7.14%) cloud-init
6 6 (6.12%) YAML
7 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.10%) REST
8 4 (4.08%) .NET
8 4 (4.08%) AWS CDK
8 4 (4.08%) Node.js
9 3 (3.06%) boto
9 3 (3.06%) OAuth
9 3 (3.06%) PySpark
9 3 (3.06%) React
10 2 (2.04%) Flask
10 2 (2.04%) HTML
10 2 (2.04%) JSON
10 2 (2.04%) NumPy
10 2 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Onboarding
2 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (8.16%) PKI
3 8 (8.16%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.12%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.04%) IoT
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.04%) Replication
6 2 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Linux
2 19 (19.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (10.20%) Unix
4 7 (7.14%) CentOS
5 3 (3.06%) Windows
6 2 (2.04%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) CI/CD
2 42 (42.86%) DevOps
3 41 (41.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (30.61%) Agile
5 23 (23.47%) Containerisation
6 20 (20.41%) Microservices
7 17 (17.35%) Migration
8 15 (15.31%) Analytics
8 15 (15.31%) Platform Engineering
8 15 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (15.31%) Test Automation
9 14 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (11.22%) Incident Response
10 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.20%) Cloud Security
11 10 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (10.20%) Software Engineering
12 9 (9.18%) Batch Processing
12 9 (9.18%) Incident Management
12 9 (9.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.86%) Python
2 21 (21.43%) Bash
3 16 (16.33%) Go
4 10 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.20%) SQL
5 7 (7.14%) Java
6 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.10%) C#
7 5 (5.10%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.08%) Bicep
9 3 (3.06%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.04%) C
10 2 (2.04%) C++
10 2 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.02%) Groovy
11 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.37%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.08%) OCP
5 4 (4.08%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.04%) Degree
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.02%) CCNP
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) NCSC
2 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (20.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (54.08%) Kubernetes
2 51 (52.04%) Terraform
3 33 (33.67%) Grafana
4 27 (27.55%) Ansible
5 21 (21.43%) Prometheus
6 11 (11.22%) Argo
7 9 (9.18%) Consul
7 9 (9.18%) Packer
8 8 (8.16%) Istio
8 8 (8.16%) linkerd
8 8 (8.16%) Rancher
9 7 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (7.14%) ZABBIX
10 5 (5.10%) HAProxy
11 2 (2.04%) Puppet
12 1 (1.02%) Kibana
12 1 (1.02%) logstash
12 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (1.02%) NetBackup
12 1 (1.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (31.63%) Splunk
2 12 (12.24%) Dynatrace
3 7 (7.14%) Okta
4 5 (5.10%) Apple
4 5 (5.10%) ESET
5 4 (4.08%) Google
5 4 (4.08%) LogRhythm
5 4 (4.08%) New Relic
5 4 (4.08%) SAP
6 3 (3.06%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.04%) Cisco
7 2 (2.04%) Confluent
7 2 (2.04%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.04%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.02%) BMC
8 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.02%) Veritas