Observability Contracts in the Midlands

Observability
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 139 156
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +51
Contract jobs citing Observability 11 3 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.41% 0.11% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.13% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 40
10th Percentile £643 - £456
25th Percentile £669 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £565 £540
Median % change year-on-year +28.32% +4.63% -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - £638
England median daily rate £625 £595 £640
% change year-on-year +5.04% -7.03% +8.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,226 2,344 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 83.59% 84.32% 87.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,614 2,955
10th Percentile £255 £252 £250
25th Percentile £375 £387 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -1.21% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -4.02% -0.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 106 116
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.34 £11.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.55 £14.47
Median hourly rate £24.18 £27.25 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +61.41% +12.55%
75th Percentile £35.00 £51.50 £20.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £68.13 £35.19
England median hourly rate £36.90 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.08% +27.14% +67.54%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
East Midlands +8 8 - -
West Midlands +4 3 £725 - 4
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 8 (72.73%) IBM Watson
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) BGP
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
1 8 (72.73%) Intrusion Detection
1 8 (72.73%) IPsec
1 8 (72.73%) IPv4
1 8 (72.73%) IPv6
1 8 (72.73%) LAN
1 8 (72.73%) Multicast
1 8 (72.73%) SSL
1 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
1 8 (72.73%) VPN
1 8 (72.73%) VRRP
1 8 (72.73%) WAN
1 8 (72.73%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall Engineer
1 8 (72.73%) Network Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Network Operations Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
1 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Mentoring
2 8 (72.73%) Configuration Management
2 8 (72.73%) Customer Experience
2 8 (72.73%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (72.73%) Knowledge Management
2 8 (72.73%) Load Balancing
2 8 (72.73%) Runbook
2 8 (72.73%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Coaching
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
3 2 (18.18%) FinOps
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Supplier Management
4 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Progress Chef
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Blue Coat
1 8 (72.73%) CheckPoint
1 8 (72.73%) F5
1 8 (72.73%) Fortinet
1 8 (72.73%) IBM
1 8 (72.73%) NetScout
1 8 (72.73%) SevOne
1 8 (72.73%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle