Observability Contracts with Work from Home Options

Observability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 268 341 497
Rank change year-on-year +73 +156 -35
Contract jobs citing Observability 77 113 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.46% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.51% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 72 88
10th Percentile £463 £450 £475
25th Percentile £512 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £545 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% -19.26% +19.47%
75th Percentile £776 £688 £738
90th Percentile £825 £775 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £595 £675
% change year-on-year -7.56% -11.85% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £90.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Observability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Observability trend for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability.

Observability daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Observability over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Observability daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Observability.

Observability hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Strapi
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 35 (45.45%) AWS
2 14 (18.18%) Serverless
3 13 (16.88%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (14.29%) Azure
5 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.49%) Datadog
8 5 (6.49%) GCP
8 5 (6.49%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.19%) GitHub
9 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
3 3 (3.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.90%) SNMP
4 2 (2.60%) WAN
4 2 (2.60%) Wireless
5 1 (1.30%) FTP
5 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.30%) NAS
5 1 (1.30%) Network Security
5 1 (1.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.19%) Big Data
3 4 (5.19%) Power BI
4 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.90%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.60%) Redis
5 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.30%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (31.17%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.99%) GitLab
3 7 (9.09%) Git
4 5 (6.49%) Artifactory
4 5 (6.49%) JIRA
5 4 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.30%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.30%) GoCD
6 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.30%) JUnit
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.30%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.30%) TestCafe
General
1 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Banking
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Retail
5 3 (3.90%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (19.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (18.18%) Architect
3 12 (15.58%) Developer
3 12 (15.58%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) SIEM Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) DevOps Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Lead
9 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) REST
1 10 (12.99%) Spring
2 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
3 8 (10.39%) Hibernate
3 8 (10.39%) JPA
3 8 (10.39%) Spring Security
4 6 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
5 4 (5.19%) React
6 3 (3.90%) AWS SAM
6 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.60%) Kafka
7 2 (2.60%) Node.js
7 2 (2.60%) VML
8 1 (1.30%) .NET
8 1 (1.30%) Loki
8 1 (1.30%) OAuth
8 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.30%) OpenID
8 1 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) PKI
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.47%) Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (9.09%) Unix
3 5 (6.49%) Ubuntu
4 3 (3.90%) CentOS
5 2 (2.60%) Windows
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 37 (48.05%) DevOps
3 26 (33.77%) Agile
4 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (15.58%) Microservices
6 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
7 11 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 11 (14.29%) SIEM
8 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
9 9 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (10.39%) Roadmaps
10 8 (10.39%) Scrum
11 7 (9.09%) Computer Science
11 7 (9.09%) Front End Development
12 6 (7.79%) Configuration Management
12 6 (7.79%) Design Patterns
13 5 (6.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (6.49%) Kanban
13 5 (6.49%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) Python
2 14 (18.18%) Java
3 9 (11.69%) Go
4 8 (10.39%) Bash
5 5 (6.49%) Shell Script
5 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.19%) Groovy
6 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.19%) Scala
6 4 (5.19%) SQL
7 2 (2.60%) Perl
8 1 (1.30%) C#
8 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 29 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (9.09%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (29.87%) Grafana
1 23 (29.87%) Terraform
2 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 20 (25.97%) Ansible
4 15 (19.48%) Prometheus
5 10 (12.99%) Kibana
6 3 (3.90%) logstash
7 2 (2.60%) Argo
7 2 (2.60%) Consul
7 2 (2.60%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.60%) Packer
7 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.60%) Puppet
8 1 (1.30%) CASB
8 1 (1.30%) Cilium
8 1 (1.30%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (6.49%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.90%) BigPanda
2 3 (3.90%) Cisco
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.90%) Splunk
3 2 (2.60%) Adobe
3 2 (2.60%) Databricks
3 2 (2.60%) Okta
3 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.60%) SAP
3 2 (2.60%) Sitecore
3 2 (2.60%) Veritas
4 1 (1.30%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.30%) Google
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle
4 1 (1.30%) VMware