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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 354 504
Rank change year-on-year +88 +150 -44
Contract jobs citing Observability 76 110 115
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.45% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.51% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 63 89
10th Percentile £497 £458 £495
25th Percentile £513 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +14.89%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £738
90th Percentile £825 £775 £810
UK median daily rate £561 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -10.20% -7.41% +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 12,743 21,731 40,495
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.55% 89.66% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,582 15,423 29,469
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 503 524
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

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 3 June 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 (9.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.32%) Strapi
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (48.68%) AWS
2 12 (15.79%) Serverless
3 11 (14.47%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (14.47%) Azure
4 10 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub
7 6 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.58%) Datadog
8 5 (6.58%) GCP
8 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) DNS
2 4 (5.26%) Firewall
3 3 (3.95%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (3.95%) SNMP
3 3 (3.95%) WAN
3 3 (3.95%) Wireless
4 1 (1.32%) FTP
4 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) MPLS
4 1 (1.32%) NAS
4 1 (1.32%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) SAN
4 1 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.26%) Power BI
4 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.95%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.63%) Big Data
5 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.32%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.32%) Redis
6 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 11 (14.47%) GitLab
3 7 (9.21%) Git
4 6 (7.89%) Artifactory
5 5 (6.58%) JIRA
5 5 (6.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.32%) GoCD
6 1 (1.32%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.32%) JUnit
6 1 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.32%) Spinnaker
6 1 (1.32%) TestCafe
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Banking
4 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Marketing
5 3 (3.95%) Retail
6 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.32%) Dutch Language
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (19.74%) Senior
3 14 (18.42%) Architect
4 10 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Developer
5 9 (11.84%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (11.84%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (9.21%) Java Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Python Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Lead
10 4 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) SIEM Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.95%) DevOps Architect
11 3 (3.95%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) REST
1 9 (11.84%) Spring
1 9 (11.84%) Spring Boot
2 8 (10.53%) Hibernate
2 8 (10.53%) JPA
2 8 (10.53%) Spring Security
3 4 (5.26%) AWS CDK
3 4 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (5.26%) React
4 3 (3.95%) AWS SAM
4 3 (3.95%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.63%) Node.js
5 2 (2.63%) VML
6 1 (1.32%) eBPF
6 1 (1.32%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.32%) Kafka
6 1 (1.32%) Loki
6 1 (1.32%) OAuth
6 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.32%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.26%) Linux
2 7 (9.21%) Unix
3 5 (6.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.58%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.63%) Windows
5 1 (1.32%) CentOS
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (56.58%) CI/CD
1 43 (56.58%) DevOps
2 27 (35.53%) Agile
3 23 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (18.42%) Containerisation
4 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.42%) Test Automation
5 12 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (14.47%) Microservices
6 11 (14.47%) Roadmaps
7 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
9 8 (10.53%) Scrum
10 7 (9.21%) Computer Science
10 7 (9.21%) Front End Development
11 6 (7.89%) Design Patterns
11 6 (7.89%) SIEM
11 6 (7.89%) Technology Strategy
12 5 (6.58%) Cloud Security
12 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.21%) Python
2 14 (18.42%) Java
3 10 (13.16%) Bash
4 7 (9.21%) Go
4 7 (9.21%) TypeScript
5 5 (6.58%) Scala
6 4 (5.26%) Groovy
6 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.95%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.95%) SQL
8 2 (2.63%) Perl
9 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 20 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.21%) Degree
4 6 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) CCIE
6 1 (1.32%) CCNP
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.32%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.32%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 13 (17.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (36.84%) Terraform
2 22 (28.95%) Kubernetes
3 20 (26.32%) Grafana
4 19 (25.00%) Ansible
5 13 (17.11%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.21%) Kibana
7 2 (2.63%) Argo
7 2 (2.63%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.32%) CASB
8 1 (1.32%) Cilium
8 1 (1.32%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.26%) Cisco
2 4 (5.26%) Splunk
3 3 (3.95%) BigPanda
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.63%) Adobe
4 2 (2.63%) Databricks
4 2 (2.63%) Okta
4 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.63%) SAP
4 2 (2.63%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.63%) Veritas
5 1 (1.32%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.32%) Computacenter
5 1 (1.32%) Google
5 1 (1.32%) Juniper
5 1 (1.32%) VMware