Observability Contracts in Manchester

Observability
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 85 110 133
Rank change year-on-year +25 +23 -36
Contract jobs citing Observability 12 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.83% 0.11% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.12% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 7
10th Percentile £459 - £483
25th Percentile £513 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.16%
75th Percentile £538 - £700
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £525 - £575
% change year-on-year - - -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,247 1,618 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.36% 90.49% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,188 1,827
10th Percentile £325 £318 £264
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 55 52
10th Percentile £12.46 £15.73 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.50 £17.28 £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% +17.43%
75th Percentile £61.25 £39.80 £56.25
90th Percentile £73.30 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.34%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Manchester 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
Salford - 1 £425 -
Observability
North West

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 9 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) BrowserStack
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) TestCafe
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) GoCD
3 1 (8.33%) Pa11y
General
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
1 8 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 8 (66.67%) JPA
1 8 (66.67%) REST
1 8 (66.67%) Spring
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Security
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Agile
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Front End Development
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Active Listening
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (8.33%) Chaos Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Microservices
5 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
5 1 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
5 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft