Observability Contracts in Yorkshire

Observability
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 71 91 110
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Observability 21 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.06% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.62% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 11
10th Percentile £605 - -
25th Percentile £700 £539 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £780 £586 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £574 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.32% -12.00% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Yorkshire

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Yorkshire

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Yorkshire

Observability
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
West Yorkshire +25 13 £750 +33.33% 16
South Yorkshire +13 11 £780 - 4
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (23.81%) nginx
1 5 (23.81%) Traefik
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Collibra
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 6 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
1 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) NAS
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) GitLab
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Military
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
2 5 (23.81%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) React Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Kafka
2 8 (38.10%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (28.57%) cloud-init
3 6 (28.57%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Unix
2 7 (33.33%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) CentOS
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
3 10 (47.62%) Cloud Security
3 10 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (47.62%) Microservices
4 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (33.33%) Identity Management
4 7 (33.33%) Monte Carlo Method
5 6 (28.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Secrets Management
5 6 (28.57%) Static Application Security Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
6 5 (23.81%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (19.05%) Chaos Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Incident Management
7 4 (19.05%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
2 6 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Grafana
2 12 (57.14%) Prometheus
3 11 (52.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (28.57%) Consul
4 6 (28.57%) Istio
4 6 (28.57%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (28.57%) linkerd
4 6 (28.57%) Packer
4 6 (28.57%) Rancher
4 6 (28.57%) Terraform
4 6 (28.57%) ZABBIX
5 5 (23.81%) HAProxy
6 2 (9.52%) Control-M
7 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (4.76%) Ansible
7 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Splunk
2 6 (28.57%) Okta
3 5 (23.81%) AppDynamics
3 5 (23.81%) Apple
3 5 (23.81%) ESET
4 2 (9.52%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) BMC
5 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.76%) EMC
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Veritas
5 1 (4.76%) VMware