Observability Contracts

Observability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 447 605
Rank change year-on-year +78 +158 +28
Contract jobs citing Observability 214 248 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.44% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.49% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 140 175
10th Percentile £469 £452 £500
25th Percentile £513 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +25.00%
75th Percentile £723 £853 £750
90th Percentile £825 £1,000 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +3.70% -15.63% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £74.25 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £78.00 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £84.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -23.08% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Observability over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +72 175 £575 -16.36% 127
London +107 124 £600 -26.15% 75
Work from Home +80 77 £600 +9.09% 54
UK excluding London -2 67 £525 +3.70% 58
North of England +26 29 £525 +1.94% 20
Scotland +23 20 £520 +4.00% 4
Yorkshire +11 16 £525 +1.94% 6
South West +3 16 £550 +22.22% 4
North West +31 13 £525 - 14
South East -4 2 £538 -32.81% 15

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (8.41%) Confluence
2 14 (6.54%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.40%) nginx
3 3 (1.40%) SAS
4 2 (0.93%) Apache
4 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.47%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 79 (36.92%) AWS
2 33 (15.42%) Azure
3 29 (13.55%) Serverless
4 23 (10.75%) Amazon S3
5 22 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (8.41%) OpenShift
7 17 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (7.48%) GCP
9 15 (7.01%) GitHub
10 14 (6.54%) Slack
11 13 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (3.27%) Datadog
15 6 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.80%) Power Platform
16 5 (2.34%) Route 53
16 5 (2.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.14%) Firewall
2 9 (4.21%) DNS
2 9 (4.21%) Network Security
3 8 (3.74%) AMQP
4 7 (3.27%) SAN
5 5 (2.34%) HTTPS
5 5 (2.34%) NAS
6 4 (1.87%) SNMP
7 3 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.40%) iSCSI
7 3 (1.40%) WAN
7 3 (1.40%) Wireless
8 2 (0.93%) FTP
8 2 (0.93%) IPv4
8 2 (0.93%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.47%) DSL
9 1 (0.47%) LAN
9 1 (0.47%) MPLS
9 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (19.63%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (8.41%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.21%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.80%) Power BI
7 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.93%) Big Data
7 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.93%) DB2
7 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.93%) MySQL
7 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.47%) Bigtable
8 1 (0.47%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (27.57%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.75%) Git
3 17 (7.94%) JIRA
4 14 (6.54%) GitLab
5 9 (4.21%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.34%) JUnit
6 5 (2.34%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.40%) Mocha
8 2 (0.93%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.93%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.47%) GoCD
9 1 (0.47%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.47%) Pa11y
9 1 (0.47%) Spinnaker
General
1 30 (14.02%) Banking
2 28 (13.08%) Finance
3 27 (12.62%) Social Skills
4 10 (4.67%) Public Sector
5 8 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.87%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.87%) Marketing
6 4 (1.87%) Retail
7 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.47%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Legal
8 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (19.16%) Architect
2 38 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (17.29%) Senior
4 25 (11.68%) Developer
5 24 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 20 (9.35%) SIEM Engineer
7 18 (8.41%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.94%) Site Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) Lead
10 12 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (5.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Consultant
13 9 (4.21%) Linux Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 9 (4.21%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (3.74%) Python Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.62%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (10.75%) REST
3 19 (8.88%) Spring
3 19 (8.88%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.41%) Hibernate
4 18 (8.41%) JPA
4 18 (8.41%) Spring Security
5 13 (6.07%) React
6 11 (5.14%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (4.67%) Kafka
7 10 (4.67%) Node.js
8 7 (3.27%) AWS CDK
9 5 (2.34%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.34%) OAuth
9 5 (2.34%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.87%) .NET
10 4 (1.87%) Laravel
10 4 (1.87%) RESTful
11 3 (1.40%) Flash
11 3 (1.40%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.01%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.14%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (4.67%) Distributed Computing
6 9 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.40%) NVMe
10 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.93%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (26.64%) Linux
2 20 (9.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (6.54%) CentOS
3 14 (6.54%) Unix
4 10 (4.67%) Windows
5 5 (2.34%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (50.47%) CI/CD
1 108 (50.47%) DevOps
2 75 (35.05%) Agile
3 65 (30.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (25.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 44 (20.56%) Microservices
6 34 (15.89%) Test Automation
7 28 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (11.21%) SIEM
9 23 (10.75%) Design Patterns
10 20 (9.35%) Technology Strategy
11 19 (8.88%) Cloud Security
11 19 (8.88%) Containerisation
12 18 (8.41%) High Availability
12 18 (8.41%) Software Engineering
13 16 (7.48%) Roadmaps
13 16 (7.48%) Scrum
14 15 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (7.01%) Front End Development
15 14 (6.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.98%) Python
2 52 (24.30%) Java
3 21 (9.81%) Go
3 21 (9.81%) Shell Script
4 16 (7.48%) TypeScript
5 15 (7.01%) Bash
5 15 (7.01%) SQL
6 10 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.74%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.27%) Perl
8 7 (3.27%) Scala
9 4 (1.87%) C
9 4 (1.87%) Groovy
9 4 (1.87%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.93%) Bicep
11 1 (0.47%) C#
11 1 (0.47%) C++
11 1 (0.47%) Rust
11 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (34.11%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.02%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.74%) Degree
5 7 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CCIE
8 1 (0.47%) CCNP
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.47%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.87%) QA
3 3 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (18.22%) Docker
2 7 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.87%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.40%) NFS
5 2 (0.93%) GPFS
6 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 69 (32.24%) Terraform
2 62 (28.97%) Kubernetes
3 57 (26.64%) Grafana
4 50 (23.36%) Prometheus
5 49 (22.90%) Ansible
6 25 (11.68%) Kibana
7 18 (8.41%) logstash
8 7 (3.27%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.80%) Opsgenie
10 5 (2.34%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (2.34%) Istio
11 4 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.40%) Argo
12 3 (1.40%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.93%) Veritas Storage Foundation
14 1 (0.47%) CASB
14 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
14 1 (0.47%) Puppet
14 1 (0.47%) QRadar
14 1 (0.47%) systemd
Vendors
1 20 (9.35%) Splunk
2 17 (7.94%) Red Hat
3 16 (7.48%) Dynatrace
4 13 (6.07%) Amdocs
5 10 (4.67%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.21%) VMware
7 8 (3.74%) Adobe
7 8 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.74%) SAP
8 7 (3.27%) Google
8 7 (3.27%) New Relic
9 6 (2.80%) PagerDuty
10 5 (2.34%) Cisco
10 5 (2.34%) Veritas
11 4 (1.87%) BigPanda
12 3 (1.40%) Databricks
12 3 (1.40%) IBM
12 3 (1.40%) Sitecore
13 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.93%) Okta