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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 69 99
Rank change year-on-year -25 +30 +47
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Observability 20 35 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.31% 2.30% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 2.77% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 5
10th Percentile - £485 -
25th Percentile £500 £526 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +16.50% -
75th Percentile £780 £624 £550
90th Percentile - £650 £580
England median daily rate £550 £575 £619
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.07% -8.33%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,397 1,265 1,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.31% 83.11% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 764 1,156
10th Percentile £263 £319 £299
25th Percentile £375 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £584 £625
90th Percentile £625 £684 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 52 34
10th Percentile £16.50 £12.15 £12.35
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.45 £15.94
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.63% -30.65% +6.10%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £44.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -40.82% +0.73% +56.26%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Observability.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Observability

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Yorkshire

Observability
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -16 12 £700 +12.54% 3
West Yorkshire -18 10 £640 +17.70% 3
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 7 (35.00%) GitHub
2 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Collibra
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) Serverless
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (10.00%) Amazon Macie
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (10.00%) AWS KMS
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (5.00%) git-flow
5 1 (5.00%) Jaeger
General
1 8 (40.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Power BI Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Next.js
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (45.00%) Microservices
5 8 (40.00%) Cloud Security
6 7 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
7 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Chaos Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
8 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
9 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
10 2 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Go
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
1 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Grafana
2 10 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (25.00%) Terraform
5 3 (15.00%) Ansible
6 2 (10.00%) Control-M
6 2 (10.00%) Kustomize
6 2 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) VMware