Observability Contracts in Yorkshire

Observability
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 100 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing Observability 16 23 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.94% 1.04% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £485 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% - -
75th Percentile £586 £550 -
90th Percentile £595 - -
England median daily rate £575 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -16.36% +1.85% +25.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,439 2,006 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 84.95% 90.81% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 1,312 1,753
10th Percentile £275 £275 £251
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 63 82
10th Percentile £11.30 £9.80 £10.71
25th Percentile £12.15 £10.22 £12.51
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -41.75% -8.75%
75th Percentile £20.24 £21.50 £22.48
90th Percentile £53.75 £49.32 £27.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

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 2 June 2024.

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 2 June 2024. 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 +35 8 £525 +1.94% 5
South Yorkshire -24 8 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) IPv4
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) iOS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) iOS SDK
1 1 (6.25%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
2 14 (87.50%) DevOps
3 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (62.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (56.25%) Design Patterns
5 8 (50.00%) Cloud Security
5 8 (50.00%) Microservices
5 8 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
5 8 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (37.50%) Change Management
7 5 (31.25%) Agile
8 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 2 (12.50%) Chaos Engineering
9 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
9 2 (12.50%) Release Automation
10 1 (6.25%) iOS Development
10 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
10 1 (6.25%) SOLID
10 1 (6.25%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) Scala
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Dynatrace