Observability Jobs in England

Observability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 546 451
Rank change year-on-year -43 -95 +169
Permanent jobs citing Observability 250 420 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.45% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.47% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 161 199 241
10th Percentile £54,000 £46,800 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £130,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,151 88,568 126,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.83% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,953 52,310 73,829
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,958 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in England

Observability
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Salary trend for Observability in England

Observability
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in England

Observability
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -42 103 £87,500 +6.06% 102
North of England +62 64 £55,750 +26.61% 13
North West +40 50 £78,750 +28.57% 10
South West +23 50 £80,000 +81.68% 7
Midlands +13 13 £50,000 -47.92% 4
East Midlands -7 9 £65,000 -21.69% 2
South East -15 9 £87,500 +2.94% 18
East of England +11 8 - - 3
North East +3 8 £43,750 -68.75%
Yorkshire +70 6 £70,576 +60.28% 3
West Midlands +26 4 £50,000 -64.29% 2
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 25 (10.00%) nginx
2 21 (8.40%) Apache
3 20 (8.00%) Apache Spark
4 18 (7.20%) Jupyter
5 8 (3.20%) Confluence
6 5 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 149 (59.60%) AWS
2 83 (33.20%) Amazon S3
3 60 (24.00%) Amazon EKS
4 59 (23.60%) Azure
5 56 (22.40%) Amazon ECR
5 56 (22.40%) IBM Cloud
5 56 (22.40%) OCI
5 56 (22.40%) Route 53
6 39 (15.60%) OpenShift
7 38 (15.20%) GCP
8 36 (14.40%) Datadog
9 27 (10.80%) Serverless
10 18 (7.20%) MinIO
11 17 (6.80%) GitHub
12 15 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.20%) Pulumi
16 7 (2.80%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) AMQP
2 10 (4.00%) Firewall
3 7 (2.80%) WAN
4 6 (2.40%) Network Security
4 6 (2.40%) SNMP
4 6 (2.40%) VPN
5 5 (2.00%) DNS
6 4 (1.60%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.60%) MPLS
6 4 (1.60%) NaaS
6 4 (1.60%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.20%) DHCP
7 3 (1.20%) LAN
7 3 (1.20%) Multicast
7 3 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.80%) MQTT
8 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (25.60%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (10.40%) Big Data
3 24 (9.60%) Relational Database
4 23 (9.20%) MongoDB
5 19 (7.60%) SQL Server
6 18 (7.20%) Hadoop
6 18 (7.20%) Presto
7 13 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (4.40%) Redis
9 10 (4.00%) DB2
9 10 (4.00%) MySQL
9 10 (4.00%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.60%) InfluxDB
11 8 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.40%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.00%) CockroachDB
13 5 (2.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (20.40%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 10 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 10 (4.00%) Git
4 9 (3.60%) GitLab
4 9 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (2.80%) Mocha
6 6 (2.40%) JIRA
7 5 (2.00%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.00%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
8 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.80%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.80%) Gradle
10 1 (0.40%) GDB
10 1 (0.40%) JUnit
10 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.40%) Valgrind
General
1 62 (24.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 58 (23.20%) Public Sector
3 28 (11.20%) Finance
4 25 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 21 (8.40%) Tech for Good
6 15 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.20%) Banking
8 9 (3.60%) Retail
9 5 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.00%) Law
9 5 (2.00%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 122 (48.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 102 (40.80%) Senior
3 73 (29.20%) Senior DevOps
3 73 (29.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 24 (9.60%) Data Engineer
5 21 (8.40%) Architect
6 18 (7.20%) Big Data Engineer
6 18 (7.20%) Developer
7 17 (6.80%) Technical Architect
8 16 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.00%) Lead
10 13 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Analyst
12 11 (4.40%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) DBA
13 9 (3.60%) Senior DBA
14 8 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
15 7 (2.80%) Monitoring Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.00%) .NET
1 30 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
2 24 (9.60%) YAML
3 23 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
4 20 (8.00%) Node.js
4 20 (8.00%) React
5 18 (7.20%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (7.20%) Apache NiFi
6 17 (6.80%) Kafka
7 16 (6.40%) Spring
8 10 (4.00%) Spring XD
9 9 (3.60%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.60%) OpenAPI
9 9 (3.60%) Spring Boot
10 8 (3.20%) JSON
10 8 (3.20%) REST
11 7 (2.80%) GraphQL
11 7 (2.80%) MEAN Stack
11 7 (2.80%) OAuth
11 7 (2.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 56 (22.40%) Blockchain
2 56 (22.40%) e-Learning
3 13 (5.20%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.20%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.60%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.20%) Robotics
10 2 (0.80%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 61 (24.40%) Linux
2 19 (7.60%) Windows
3 6 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Android
5 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (62.40%) DevOps
2 109 (43.60%) Agile
3 103 (41.20%) Containerisation
4 83 (33.20%) CI/CD
5 78 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (29.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 64 (25.60%) Mentoring
8 63 (25.20%) Coaching
9 60 (24.00%) Test Automation
10 56 (22.40%) Secrets Management
11 33 (13.20%) Software Engineering
12 29 (11.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 27 (10.80%) Data Engineering
14 25 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (9.60%) Event-Driven
15 24 (9.60%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (9.20%) Fintech
16 23 (9.20%) Thought Leadership
17 22 (8.80%) DevSecOps
17 22 (8.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.20%) Python
2 44 (17.60%) Java
3 41 (16.40%) Bash
4 27 (10.80%) SQL
5 26 (10.40%) Shell Script
6 20 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.60%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.40%) Go
9 15 (6.00%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.60%) C#
10 9 (3.60%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.20%) Scala
12 6 (2.40%) Ruby
13 5 (2.00%) C++
14 4 (1.60%) Groovy
15 3 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.20%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.20%) Degree
4 7 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.80%) SLA
3 10 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.20%) ISO 9000
5 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.80%) QA
7 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 82 (32.80%) Docker
2 18 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (61.20%) Kubernetes
2 143 (57.20%) Terraform
3 112 (44.80%) Prometheus
4 65 (26.00%) Grafana
5 35 (14.00%) Ansible
6 18 (7.20%) HAProxy
7 7 (2.80%) Istio
7 7 (2.80%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.40%) Kibana
9 5 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (2.00%) Kiali
9 5 (2.00%) Packer
9 5 (2.00%) Puppet
10 4 (1.60%) Consul
11 3 (1.20%) Nagios
12 2 (0.80%) Netcool
12 2 (0.80%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.40%) logstash
13 1 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 68 (27.20%) Dynatrace
2 59 (23.60%) IBM
3 57 (22.80%) Red Hat
4 18 (7.20%) VMware
5 14 (5.60%) Oracle
6 13 (5.20%) Splunk
7 11 (4.40%) Microsoft
8 10 (4.00%) New Relic
8 10 (4.00%) Sybase
9 9 (3.60%) PagerDuty
10 8 (3.20%) AppDynamics
10 8 (3.20%) Google
11 7 (2.80%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.60%) Dataiku
12 4 (1.60%) Facebook
13 2 (0.80%) BigPanda
13 2 (0.80%) Databricks
13 2 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.80%) ScienceLogic
13 2 (0.80%) SolarWinds