Observability Jobs in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 618 581
Rank change year-on-year +160 -37 +53
Permanent jobs citing Observability 322 133 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.23% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 94 52 102
10th Percentile £42,875 - £52,675
25th Percentile £54,563 £42,874 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -23.21% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £113,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Scotland +69 171 £65,000 +40.24% 4
North of England +71 66 £55,750 +26.61% 16
North West +47 51 £77,500 +26.53% 11
South West +11 50 £80,000 +81.68% 6
Midlands +12 13 £50,000 -41.18% 3
East of England +16 9 - - 1
South East -5 9 £87,500 +2.94% 20
East Midlands -8 9 £65,000 -21.69% 1
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +67 7 £70,576 +60.28% 5
West Midlands +20 4 £50,000 -41.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £55,000 - 2
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (5.28%) Apache
1 17 (5.28%) Apache Spark
1 17 (5.28%) Jupyter
1 17 (5.28%) nginx
2 2 (0.62%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 180 (55.90%) AWS
2 128 (39.75%) Datadog
3 72 (22.36%) Amazon S3
4 56 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (15.84%) Amazon EKS
6 48 (14.91%) Azure
6 48 (14.91%) Route 53
7 47 (14.60%) Amazon ECR
7 47 (14.60%) IBM Cloud
7 47 (14.60%) OCI
8 30 (9.32%) OpenShift
9 20 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (6.21%) GCP
10 18 (5.59%) Serverless
11 17 (5.28%) MinIO
12 13 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.04%) GitHub
13 12 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.86%) Network Security
2 5 (1.55%) AMQP
3 4 (1.24%) DNS
3 4 (1.24%) VPN
4 3 (0.93%) DHCP
4 3 (0.93%) Firewall
4 3 (0.93%) LAN
4 3 (0.93%) WAN
4 3 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.62%) MQTT
5 2 (0.62%) SNMP
5 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (16.46%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (10.87%) Relational Database
3 25 (7.76%) Big Data
4 17 (5.28%) Hadoop
4 17 (5.28%) Presto
5 12 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.11%) InfluxDB
7 9 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.24%) Metadata
10 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.24%) Power BI
11 3 (0.93%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.93%) Redis
11 3 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.62%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 23 (7.14%) GitLab
3 17 (5.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 12 (3.73%) Git
5 5 (1.55%) JIRA
6 3 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.62%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.62%) Gradle
7 2 (0.62%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.31%) Appium
8 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) JUnit
8 1 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 211 (65.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 177 (54.97%) Finance
3 164 (50.93%) Law
4 133 (41.30%) Marketing
5 88 (27.33%) Social Skills
6 48 (14.91%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.04%) Banking
8 12 (3.73%) Tech for Good
9 8 (2.48%) Retail
10 6 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.31%) Legal
Job Titles
1 108 (33.54%) Software Engineer
2 98 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (23.29%) Senior
4 70 (21.74%) Lead
5 55 (17.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (16.46%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 51 (15.84%) Senior DevOps
7 51 (15.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 42 (13.04%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (7.45%) Software Engineering Director
10 22 (6.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 21 (6.52%) Data Engineer
12 18 (5.59%) Engineering Manager
12 18 (5.59%) Senior Manager
12 18 (5.59%) Software Engineering Manager
13 17 (5.28%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (5.28%) Big Data Engineer
14 13 (4.04%) Architect
14 13 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
15 12 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (23.60%) OpenTelemetry
2 23 (7.14%) .NET
2 23 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 23 (7.14%) Spring
2 23 (7.14%) YAML
3 20 (6.21%) Spring Boot
4 19 (5.90%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (5.28%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (5.28%) Apache NiFi
6 12 (3.73%) REST
7 11 (3.42%) JSP
8 9 (2.80%) React
9 7 (2.17%) Node.js
10 6 (1.86%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.55%) AWS CDK
12 4 (1.24%) JSON
13 3 (0.93%) Kafka
13 3 (0.93%) PySpark
13 3 (0.93%) RESTful
14 2 (0.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 121 (37.58%) Cloud Native
2 73 (22.67%) Public Cloud
3 66 (20.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 47 (14.60%) Blockchain
4 47 (14.60%) e-Learning
5 45 (13.98%) Algorithms
6 20 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (6.21%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.66%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.24%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.24%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.31%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.42%) Linux
2 16 (4.97%) Windows
3 6 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.62%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (63.98%) Agile
2 173 (53.73%) Software Engineering
3 169 (52.48%) CI/CD
4 162 (50.31%) Artificial Intelligence
5 131 (40.68%) DevOps
6 120 (37.27%) Community of Practice
6 120 (37.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 110 (34.16%) SDLC
8 103 (31.99%) Operational Stability
9 97 (30.12%) Machine Learning
10 87 (27.02%) Continuous Delivery
11 83 (25.78%) Containerisation
12 74 (22.98%) Stakeholder Management
13 72 (22.36%) Architectural Design
13 72 (22.36%) Information Architecture
13 72 (22.36%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 68 (21.12%) Coaching
14 68 (21.12%) Mentoring
15 58 (18.01%) Infrastructure as Code
15 58 (18.01%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 99 (30.75%) Java
2 79 (24.53%) Python
3 33 (10.25%) Bash
4 27 (8.39%) SQL
5 24 (7.45%) Shell Script
6 17 (5.28%) C#
7 16 (4.97%) PowerShell
8 13 (4.04%) Go
9 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.24%) Ruby
12 2 (0.62%) Groovy
13 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (9.63%) Security Cleared
2 17 (5.28%) DV Cleared
3 11 (3.42%) Degree
4 6 (1.86%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.73%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.80%) SLA
3 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 69 (21.43%) Docker
2 11 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 177 (54.97%) Terraform
2 167 (51.86%) Grafana
3 147 (45.65%) Prometheus
4 125 (38.82%) Kubernetes
5 27 (8.39%) Ansible
6 17 (5.28%) HAProxy
7 5 (1.55%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (1.55%) Istio
7 5 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.24%) Kibana
9 3 (0.93%) Puppet
10 2 (0.62%) Nagios
10 2 (0.62%) Netcool
10 2 (0.62%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.31%) Consul
11 1 (0.31%) Packer
Vendors
1 172 (53.42%) Dynatrace
2 124 (38.51%) Splunk
3 49 (15.22%) IBM
4 47 (14.60%) Red Hat
5 19 (5.90%) Google
6 11 (3.42%) VMware
7 9 (2.80%) New Relic
7 9 (2.80%) PagerDuty
8 7 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
9 5 (1.55%) Oracle
10 4 (1.24%) Microsoft
11 3 (0.93%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.62%) BigPanda
12 2 (0.62%) ScienceLogic
12 2 (0.62%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.62%) Sybase
13 1 (0.31%) Databricks