Observability Contracts in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 312 330 480
Rank change year-on-year +18 +150 -65
Contract jobs citing Observability 73 114 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.50% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.55% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 22
10th Percentile £430 £425 £496
25th Percentile £511 £454 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -14.17% +22.45%
75th Percentile £623 £550 £700
90th Percentile £825 £694 £734
UK median daily rate £550 £595 £675
% change year-on-year -7.56% -11.85% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £72.00 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £74.25 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £84.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.60 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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 of England +37 27 £525 +1.94% 14
Scotland +30 23 £522 +4.40% 1
South West +8 19 £550 +22.22% 7
North West +32 14 £525 - 7
Yorkshire +8 13 £525 +1.94% 7
South East +26 4 £675 -15.63% 32
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (6.85%) SAS
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.10%) AWS
2 20 (27.40%) OpenShift
3 14 (19.18%) Azure
4 11 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (15.07%) Serverless
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (13.70%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.74%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.37%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.37%) Azure App Service
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.37%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.37%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.33%) SAN
2 7 (9.59%) Network Security
3 5 (6.85%) AMQP
3 5 (6.85%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (6.85%) iSCSI
3 5 (6.85%) NAS
4 2 (2.74%) DNS
4 2 (2.74%) Firewall
4 2 (2.74%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (12.33%) InfluxDB
3 7 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.22%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.48%) DB2
7 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (31.51%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.59%) Artifactory
3 5 (6.85%) GitLab
4 4 (5.48%) Git
5 2 (2.74%) TestCafe
6 1 (1.37%) GoCD
6 1 (1.37%) JIRA
6 1 (1.37%) Pa11y
General
1 14 (19.18%) Banking
2 13 (17.81%) Finance
2 13 (17.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 15 (20.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (16.44%) Site Engineer
4 11 (15.07%) Developer
5 9 (12.33%) SIEM Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Architect
6 8 (10.96%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Python Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior
8 5 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) REST
2 8 (10.96%) Hibernate
2 8 (10.96%) JPA
2 8 (10.96%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (10.96%) Spring
2 8 (10.96%) Spring Boot
2 8 (10.96%) Spring Security
3 5 (6.85%) AWS CDK
3 5 (6.85%) Flash
3 5 (6.85%) POSIX
4 2 (2.74%) .NET
4 2 (2.74%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.74%) React
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.37%) Blazor
5 1 (1.37%) CSS
5 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.37%) HTML5
5 1 (1.37%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (6.85%) NVMe
3 4 (5.48%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (35.62%) Linux
2 9 (12.33%) Windows
3 8 (10.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.59%) Unix
5 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
6 5 (6.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (5.48%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (52.05%) CI/CD
2 30 (41.10%) DevOps
2 30 (41.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 17 (23.29%) Agile
3 17 (23.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (19.18%) Test Automation
5 10 (13.70%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.33%) Design Patterns
6 9 (12.33%) Microservices
6 9 (12.33%) SIEM
7 8 (10.96%) Data Protection
7 8 (10.96%) Front End Development
8 7 (9.59%) Cloud Security
8 7 (9.59%) Event-Driven
8 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (9.59%) Problem Management
8 7 (9.59%) Task Automation
8 7 (9.59%) Technology Strategy
9 6 (8.22%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (43.84%) Python
2 24 (32.88%) Java
3 13 (17.81%) SQL
4 9 (12.33%) Perl
5 7 (9.59%) Bash
5 7 (9.59%) Go
6 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.48%) C
7 4 (5.48%) Groovy
8 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.11%) Scala
9 2 (2.74%) Bicep
9 2 (2.74%) C#
9 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (42.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.03%) DV Cleared
3 14 (19.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) NFS
3 4 (5.48%) GPFS
4 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (41.10%) Kubernetes
2 28 (38.36%) Terraform
3 25 (34.25%) Grafana
4 23 (31.51%) Ansible
5 22 (30.14%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.59%) Kibana
6 7 (9.59%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.85%) Docker Swarm
8 4 (5.48%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 3 (4.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Veritas
2 4 (5.48%) Brocade
2 4 (5.48%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.48%) EMC
2 4 (5.48%) Google
2 4 (5.48%) IBM
2 4 (5.48%) NetApp
2 4 (5.48%) Sybase
3 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.74%) Splunk
4 2 (2.74%) VMware