Observability Contracts in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 195 232
Rank change year-on-year +37 +37 -50
Contract jobs citing Observability 27 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.41% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.45% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 7
10th Percentile £448 - £483
25th Percentile £485 £500 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -10.43% -5.74%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £700
90th Percentile £557 - -
England median daily rate £550 £650 £654
% change year-on-year -15.38% -0.57% +21.06%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,960 5,069 6,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.47% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 3,492 4,629
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £570
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.38
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £62.89
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +32 14 £525 - 7
Yorkshire +8 13 £525 +1.94% 7
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) AWS
2 3 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure API Management
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.70%) Pulumi
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) IPv4
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) TestCafe
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) GoCD
3 1 (3.70%) Pa11y
General
1 7 (25.93%) Banking
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 8 (29.63%) Java Developer
2 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.70%) iOS Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Hibernate
1 8 (29.63%) JPA
1 8 (29.63%) REST
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Boot
1 8 (29.63%) Spring Security
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.70%) iOS SDK
2 1 (3.70%) React
2 1 (3.70%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) Agile
4 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (37.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 9 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 9 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 8 (29.63%) Front End Development
6 8 (29.63%) Microservices
7 7 (25.93%) Cloud Security
7 7 (25.93%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (22.22%) Change Management
9 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
10 2 (7.41%) Release Automation
11 1 (3.70%) Active Listening
11 1 (3.70%) Analytical Thinking
11 1 (3.70%) Network Virtualisation
11 1 (3.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) Scala
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Python
4 1 (3.70%) C#
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Swift
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
1 11 (40.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.41%) Grafana
4 2 (7.41%) Kibana
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) VMware