Observability Contracts in England

Observability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 443 582
Rank change year-on-year +82 +139 +4
Contract jobs citing Observability 173 199 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.41% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.46% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 126 145
10th Percentile £463 £450 £500
25th Percentile £505 £508 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £658
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.14% +21.76%
75th Percentile £825 £903 £750
90th Percentile - £1,000 £820
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £675
% change year-on-year -5.98% -13.33% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £72.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £76.13 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,438 43,665 64,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.37% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,640 45,549
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,536 1,740
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.96 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in England

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in England

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in England

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in England

Observability
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London +98 118 £594 -25.78% 82
North of England +34 27 £525 +1.94% 14
South West +13 19 £550 +22.22% 7
North West +25 14 £525 - 7
Yorkshire +11 13 £525 +1.94% 7
South East +14 4 £675 -15.63% 31
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (9.25%) Confluence
1 16 (9.25%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.16%) nginx
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (36.99%) AWS
2 29 (16.76%) Azure
3 22 (12.72%) Serverless
4 16 (9.25%) Amazon S3
4 16 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (8.09%) Slack
6 13 (7.51%) GCP
7 12 (6.94%) GitHub
8 11 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (5.20%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (4.62%) OpenShift
12 7 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.47%) Datadog
14 5 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.89%) Power Platform
15 4 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (2.31%) Route 53
15 4 (2.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.20%) Firewall
1 9 (5.20%) Network Security
2 7 (4.05%) AMQP
2 7 (4.05%) DNS
3 4 (2.31%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.73%) SNMP
5 2 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.16%) FTP
5 2 (1.16%) IPv4
5 2 (1.16%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.58%) NAS
6 1 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.43%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (8.67%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.47%) InfluxDB
4 6 (3.47%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.89%) Power BI
6 3 (1.73%) Big Data
6 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.16%) MySQL
7 2 (1.16%) Redis
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.58%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 50 (28.90%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.98%) Git
3 15 (8.67%) JIRA
4 7 (4.05%) GitLab
5 5 (2.89%) JUnit
5 5 (2.89%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.16%) Mocha
7 2 (1.16%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.58%) GoCD
8 1 (0.58%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.58%) Pa11y
8 1 (0.58%) Spinnaker
General
1 20 (11.56%) Finance
2 14 (8.09%) Banking
3 13 (7.51%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.89%) Retail
7 4 (2.31%) Marketing
8 3 (1.73%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.58%) Legal
9 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (17.34%) Architect
2 29 (16.76%) Senior
3 28 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (15.03%) Developer
4 26 (15.03%) SIEM Engineer
5 19 (10.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 17 (9.83%) Java Developer
7 15 (8.67%) Site Engineer
8 13 (7.51%) Lead
9 9 (5.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 8 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Consultant
11 7 (4.05%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.05%) VMware Architect
12 6 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.89%) Management Consultant
13 5 (2.89%) Senior Developer
13 5 (2.89%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.61%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (10.98%) REST
2 19 (10.98%) Spring
3 18 (10.40%) Spring Boot
4 17 (9.83%) Hibernate
4 17 (9.83%) JPA
4 17 (9.83%) Spring Security
5 12 (6.94%) React
6 10 (5.78%) Kafka
7 9 (5.20%) Node.js
8 7 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.89%) .NET
10 4 (2.31%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.31%) Laravel
10 4 (2.31%) OAuth
10 4 (2.31%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.31%) RESTful
11 3 (1.73%) Loki
11 3 (1.73%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.73%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.09%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.78%) Distributed Computing
3 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.47%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (23.70%) Linux
2 16 (9.25%) CentOS
2 16 (9.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (5.20%) Unix
4 6 (3.47%) Windows
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.29%) CI/CD
2 81 (46.82%) DevOps
3 68 (39.31%) Agile
4 49 (28.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (20.81%) Microservices
6 34 (19.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 29 (16.76%) SIEM
8 22 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (12.14%) Test Automation
10 15 (8.67%) Design Patterns
10 15 (8.67%) High Availability
10 15 (8.67%) Software Engineering
11 14 (8.09%) Front End Development
12 13 (7.51%) Event-Driven
12 13 (7.51%) Scrum
13 12 (6.94%) Mentoring
14 11 (6.36%) Containerisation
14 11 (6.36%) Roadmaps
14 11 (6.36%) TDD
14 11 (6.36%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.37%) Python
2 47 (27.17%) Java
3 21 (12.14%) Shell Script
4 20 (11.56%) Go
5 14 (8.09%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.94%) SQL
7 10 (5.78%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.20%) Bash
9 8 (4.62%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.47%) Scala
11 4 (2.31%) C
12 3 (1.73%) C#
12 3 (1.73%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
14 1 (0.58%) C++
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) Swift
Qualifications
1 75 (43.35%) Security Cleared
2 40 (23.12%) SC Cleared
3 36 (20.81%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.31%) Degree
5 3 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.31%) QA
3 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (19.65%) Docker
2 9 (5.20%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (29.48%) Terraform
2 42 (24.28%) Grafana
2 42 (24.28%) Kubernetes
3 40 (23.12%) Prometheus
4 37 (21.39%) Ansible
5 22 (12.72%) Kibana
6 18 (10.40%) logstash
7 9 (5.20%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.47%) Opsgenie
9 5 (2.89%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.89%) Istio
10 4 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.73%) Puppet
12 2 (1.16%) Argo
12 2 (1.16%) Consul
12 2 (1.16%) Packer
13 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.58%) Rundeck
13 1 (0.58%) systemd
Vendors
1 17 (9.83%) Red Hat
2 15 (8.67%) Splunk
3 13 (7.51%) Amdocs
3 13 (7.51%) Dynatrace
4 11 (6.36%) Microsoft
5 9 (5.20%) VMware
6 8 (4.62%) Adobe
6 8 (4.62%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.62%) SAP
7 7 (4.05%) New Relic
8 6 (3.47%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.73%) BigPanda
9 3 (1.73%) Cisco
9 3 (1.73%) Databricks
9 3 (1.73%) Google
9 3 (1.73%) Oracle
9 3 (1.73%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.58%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft