Observability Contracts in Central London

Observability
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 162 179
Rank change year-on-year +35 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Observability 10 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.42% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 11
10th Percentile £496 £529 £513
25th Percentile £511 £534 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -9.80% +18.60%
75th Percentile £675 £601 £766
90th Percentile £994 £608 £775
London median daily rate £600 £813 £675
% change year-on-year -26.15% +20.37% +22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Central London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Central London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in Central London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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
City of London +44 10 £538 -6.52% 7
Southwark - 1 £501 -
Observability
London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Route 53
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Data Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Management Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Software Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Strategy Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) JPA
2 1 (10.00%) Laravel
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) DAMA
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
4 2 (20.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Master Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (10.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (10.00%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Go
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
3 1 (10.00%) Kibana
3 1 (10.00%) logstash
3 1 (10.00%) Opsgenie
3 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Amdocs
2 1 (10.00%) New Relic
2 1 (10.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk