Observability Contracts in London

Observability
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 269 383 443
Rank change year-on-year +114 +60 +10
Contract jobs citing Observability 124 111 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.43% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.48% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 68 118
10th Percentile £469 £509 £512
25th Percentile £505 £625 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £813 £675
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +20.37% +22.73%
75th Percentile £760 £950 £775
90th Percentile £825 £1,090 £863
England median daily rate £575 £688 £675
% change year-on-year -16.36% +1.85% +25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
% change year-on-year -28.57% - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in London

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in London

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in London

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Observability in London

Observability
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +32 10 £538 -6.52% 7
South London - 4 £513 - 1
West London +24 1 £650 - 2
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (12.90%) Confluence
2 14 (11.29%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.42%) nginx
4 1 (0.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (35.48%) AWS
2 17 (13.71%) Azure
3 14 (11.29%) GCP
3 14 (11.29%) GitHub
3 14 (11.29%) Serverless
4 13 (10.48%) Slack
5 12 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.03%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (4.03%) Datadog
8 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (3.23%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.23%) SaaS
10 3 (2.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) Firewall
2 6 (4.84%) DNS
3 4 (3.23%) HTTPS
4 3 (2.42%) AMQP
4 3 (2.42%) SNMP
5 2 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.61%) FTP
5 2 (1.61%) Network Security
6 1 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.81%) LAN
6 1 (0.81%) MPLS
6 1 (0.81%) NAS
6 1 (0.81%) SAN
6 1 (0.81%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.81%) WAN
6 1 (0.81%) Wireless
6 1 (0.81%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.19%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (8.06%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.03%) Power BI
5 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.61%) MySQL
5 2 (1.61%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.81%) Bigtable
6 1 (0.81%) CockroachDB
6 1 (0.81%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.81%) CouchDB
6 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
6 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (26.61%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.90%) Git
3 15 (12.10%) JIRA
4 6 (4.84%) GitLab
5 5 (4.03%) JUnit
6 4 (3.23%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.42%) Mocha
8 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.81%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (9.68%) Finance
1 12 (9.68%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.87%) Banking
3 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.23%) Marketing
5 4 (3.23%) Retail
6 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.61%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (22.58%) Senior
2 24 (19.35%) Architect
3 21 (16.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (12.10%) Developer
4 15 (12.10%) SIEM Engineer
5 12 (9.68%) Lead
6 10 (8.06%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.26%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.45%) Consultant
8 8 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) VMware Architect
10 6 (4.84%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Management Consultant
11 5 (4.03%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.55%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (8.87%) React
2 11 (8.87%) REST
2 11 (8.87%) Spring
2 11 (8.87%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.06%) Hibernate
3 10 (8.06%) JPA
3 10 (8.06%) Kafka
3 10 (8.06%) Node.js
3 10 (8.06%) Spring Security
4 5 (4.03%) GraphQL
4 5 (4.03%) OAuth
4 5 (4.03%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.23%) .NET
5 4 (3.23%) RESTful
6 3 (2.42%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.42%) Express.js
6 3 (2.42%) Laravel
6 3 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.42%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.29%) Onboarding
3 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (8.06%) Distributed Computing
5 9 (7.26%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.81%) Blog
9 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Replication
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.58%) Linux
2 14 (11.29%) CentOS
2 14 (11.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.26%) Unix
4 4 (3.23%) Windows
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (50.81%) DevOps
2 59 (47.58%) CI/CD
3 55 (44.35%) Agile
4 37 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (23.39%) Microservices
6 21 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (14.52%) SIEM
7 18 (14.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (12.10%) High Availability
8 15 (12.10%) Test Automation
9 14 (11.29%) Roadmaps
10 13 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (10.48%) Mentoring
10 13 (10.48%) Scrum
10 13 (10.48%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.26%) Data Management
11 9 (7.26%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (7.26%) SDLC
11 9 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (7.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.06%) Python
2 29 (23.39%) Java
3 15 (12.10%) TypeScript
4 14 (11.29%) Shell Script
5 10 (8.06%) Go
6 8 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.65%) Bash
8 5 (4.03%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.23%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.42%) Scala
10 3 (2.42%) SQL
11 1 (0.81%) C#
11 1 (0.81%) C++
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (33.87%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.10%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) Degree
5 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.81%) CCIE
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) JNCIE
7 1 (0.81%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.23%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (16.13%) Docker
2 7 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (29.03%) Terraform
2 30 (24.19%) Grafana
3 29 (23.39%) Kubernetes
4 26 (20.97%) Prometheus
5 25 (20.16%) Ansible
6 15 (12.10%) Kibana
6 15 (12.10%) logstash
7 6 (4.84%) Opsgenie
8 5 (4.03%) Istio
9 3 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.61%) Argo
11 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.81%) Puppet
11 1 (0.81%) systemd
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Red Hat
2 14 (11.29%) Splunk
3 13 (10.48%) Amdocs
4 9 (7.26%) Dynatrace
5 8 (6.45%) Adobe
5 8 (6.45%) Salesforce
5 8 (6.45%) SAP
6 7 (5.65%) Microsoft
6 7 (5.65%) VMware
7 6 (4.84%) New Relic
7 6 (4.84%) PagerDuty
8 4 (3.23%) Cisco
9 3 (2.42%) BigPanda
9 3 (2.42%) Google
9 3 (2.42%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.61%) Databricks
10 2 (1.61%) Oracle
11 1 (0.81%) Dell
11 1 (0.81%) Intel
11 1 (0.81%) Juniper