OpenTelemetry Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

OpenTelemetry
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenTelemetry 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 282 344 -
Rank change year-on-year +62 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenTelemetry 22 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.007% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.86% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 0
10th Percentile £332 - -
25th Percentile £454 £666 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £683 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.48% - -
75th Percentile £623 £699 -
90th Percentile £638 - -
UK median daily rate £570 £666 -
% change year-on-year -14.45% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

OpenTelemetry
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

OpenTelemetry trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OpenTelemetry.

OpenTelemetry daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OpenTelemetry
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing OpenTelemetry over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

OpenTelemetry daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

OpenTelemetry
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 9 (40.91%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 8 (36.36%) Azure AKS
4 6 (27.27%) GitHub
4 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (22.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
6 4 (18.18%) AWS
7 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 2 (9.09%) FTP
2 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 2 (9.09%) SMTP
2 2 (9.09%) SSL
2 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Big Data
1 9 (40.91%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (40.91%) Hadoop
2 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) Power BI
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata
6 1 (4.55%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
6 1 (4.55%) Redis
6 1 (4.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Banking
4 5 (22.73%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Python Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Python Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) C# Software Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Site Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
1 6 (27.27%) NumPy
1 6 (27.27%) OAuth
1 6 (27.27%) Pandas
2 5 (22.73%) OAuth2
2 5 (22.73%) OpenID
3 4 (18.18%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) .NET
4 3 (13.64%) JSON
5 2 (9.09%) Hugging Face
5 2 (9.09%) LangChain
5 2 (9.09%) PyTorch
5 2 (9.09%) TensorFlow
5 2 (9.09%) YAML
6 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.55%) Google JAX
6 1 (4.55%) JAX
6 1 (4.55%) JWT
6 1 (4.55%) pydantic
6 1 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) AI Agents
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 9 (40.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
1 15 (68.18%) Observability
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Test Automation
3 12 (54.55%) Microservices
4 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 9 (40.91%) Analytics
5 9 (40.91%) Migration
6 7 (31.82%) Batch Processing
6 7 (31.82%) Data Science
6 7 (31.82%) DevOps
6 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven
7 5 (22.73%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Quantitative Finance
7 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
8 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) Bicep
3 3 (13.64%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Ceph
2 1 (4.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 20 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (72.73%) Terraform
3 12 (54.55%) Grafana
4 10 (45.45%) Ansible
5 9 (40.91%) Argo
6 4 (18.18%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.55%) Nagios
7 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.55%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow