Observability Jobs in the South East

Observability
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 376 430
Rank change year-on-year +6 +54 -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 10 35 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.060% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 18
10th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £70,875
25th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £109,063 £109,063 -
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,375 £76,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,075 14,250 18,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.77% 94.50% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,899 8,257 12,075
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the South East

Observability
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the South East.

Salary trend for Observability in the South East

Observability
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the South East

Observability
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Surrey +15 4 £87,500 -17.65% 4
Thames Valley 0 3 £52,500 -46.15% 1
Kent - 3 £110,000 -
Buckinghamshire -15 2 £52,500 -46.15% 1
Berkshire +18 1 £70,000 -
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (20.00%) Datadog
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SNMP
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (30.00%) Big Data Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Puppet
3 2 (20.00%) Nagios
3 2 (20.00%) Netcool
3 2 (20.00%) ZABBIX
4 1 (10.00%) Grafana
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM
4 1 (10.00%) SCOM
4 1 (10.00%) SCSM
4 1 (10.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) New Relic
2 3 (30.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) BigPanda
3 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (20.00%) ScienceLogic
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) VMware