Observability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 515 548 450
Rank change year-on-year +33 -98 +204
Permanent jobs citing Observability 422 490 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.47% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.49% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 171 240 266
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,033 £55,000
25th Percentile £64,750 £62,323 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £112,625 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,706 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.61% -10.42% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK 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
UK excluding London +156 307 £75,000 +19.61% 46
England -34 241 £80,000 - 111
Scotland +58 168 £65,000 +40.24% 5
London -43 103 £82,500 - 73
Work from Home -11 87 £80,000 +3.23% 56
North of England +67 61 £57,500 +12.20% 14
North West +40 47 £80,000 +19.79% 12
South West +34 45 £80,000 +44.38% 7
Midlands +13 12 £50,000 -47.92% 4
South East +6 10 £87,500 +9.38% 16
East Midlands -9 9 £65,000 -21.69%
North East +4 8 £43,750 -68.75%
East of England +11 7 - - 2
Yorkshire +73 6 £70,576 +60.28% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands +26 3 £50,000 -64.29% 4

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (5.69%) Apache
1 24 (5.69%) nginx
2 23 (5.45%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.03%) Jupyter
4 9 (2.13%) Confluence
5 7 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 243 (57.58%) AWS
2 141 (33.41%) Datadog
3 83 (19.67%) Amazon S3
4 80 (18.96%) Azure
5 62 (14.69%) Amazon EKS
6 58 (13.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (13.51%) Route 53
8 56 (13.27%) Amazon ECR
8 56 (13.27%) IBM Cloud
8 56 (13.27%) OCI
9 41 (9.72%) GCP
10 39 (9.24%) OpenShift
11 29 (6.87%) Serverless
12 23 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (4.27%) GitHub
14 17 (4.03%) MinIO
15 16 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.08%) Firewall
2 12 (2.84%) AMQP
3 8 (1.90%) Network Security
4 7 (1.66%) DNS
4 7 (1.66%) WAN
5 6 (1.42%) SNMP
5 6 (1.42%) VPN
6 4 (0.95%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (0.95%) MPLS
6 4 (0.95%) NaaS
6 4 (0.95%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.71%) DHCP
7 3 (0.71%) LAN
7 3 (0.71%) Multicast
7 3 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (15.17%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (11.85%) Relational Database
3 28 (6.64%) Big Data
4 25 (5.92%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.69%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.03%) Hadoop
6 17 (4.03%) Presto
7 16 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.61%) Redis
9 10 (2.37%) DB2
9 10 (2.37%) MySQL
9 10 (2.37%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.13%) InfluxDB
11 8 (1.90%) CockroachDB
12 7 (1.66%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.18%) Looker
14 5 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (16.82%) Jenkins
2 25 (5.92%) GitLab
3 17 (4.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (3.55%) Git
4 15 (3.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (2.61%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.61%) JIRA
6 8 (1.90%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.66%) Mocha
8 6 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.71%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.71%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.71%) JUnit
9 3 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.47%) Gatling
10 2 (0.47%) Gradle
10 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.47%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 226 (53.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 191 (45.26%) Finance
3 166 (39.34%) Law
4 132 (31.28%) Marketing
5 95 (22.51%) Social Skills
6 58 (13.74%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.74%) Tech for Good
8 18 (4.27%) Banking
9 16 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (3.08%) Retail
11 8 (1.90%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (30.57%) Senior
2 124 (29.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 108 (25.59%) Software Engineer
4 73 (17.30%) Lead
4 73 (17.30%) Senior DevOps
5 72 (17.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 55 (13.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 53 (12.56%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 42 (9.95%) Lead Software Engineer
9 24 (5.69%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.45%) Architect
10 23 (5.45%) Software Engineering Director
11 22 (5.21%) Developer
11 22 (5.21%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 19 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (4.50%) Senior Manager
12 19 (4.50%) Technical Architect
13 18 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
13 18 (4.27%) Software Engineering Manager
14 17 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (19.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 46 (10.90%) .NET
3 30 (7.11%) RabbitMQ
3 30 (7.11%) Spring
4 26 (6.16%) Spring Boot
5 25 (5.92%) React
6 23 (5.45%) YAML
7 22 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
8 20 (4.74%) Kafka
8 20 (4.74%) Node.js
9 19 (4.50%) REST
10 17 (4.03%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (4.03%) Apache NiFi
11 11 (2.61%) JSP
12 10 (2.37%) OpenAPI
12 10 (2.37%) Spring XD
13 9 (2.13%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.13%) RESTful
14 8 (1.90%) JSON
14 8 (1.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 127 (30.09%) Cloud Native
2 75 (17.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 72 (17.06%) Public Cloud
4 56 (13.27%) Blockchain
4 56 (13.27%) e-Learning
5 47 (11.14%) Algorithms
6 32 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (6.64%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.55%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.90%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.42%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.18%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.95%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 65 (15.40%) Linux
2 19 (4.50%) Windows
3 6 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.24%) CentOS
5 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (57.11%) Agile
2 206 (48.82%) CI/CD
3 194 (45.97%) Software Engineering
4 187 (44.31%) Artificial Intelligence
5 169 (40.05%) DevOps
6 121 (28.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 118 (27.96%) Community of Practice
7 118 (27.96%) SDLC
8 110 (26.07%) Containerisation
9 103 (24.41%) Machine Learning
10 102 (24.17%) Operational Stability
11 89 (21.09%) Continuous Delivery
12 86 (20.38%) Coaching
13 83 (19.67%) Mentoring
14 77 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 75 (17.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 71 (16.82%) Architectural Design
16 71 (16.82%) Information Architecture
16 71 (16.82%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 67 (15.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 128 (30.33%) Java
2 112 (26.54%) Python
3 46 (10.90%) SQL
4 44 (10.43%) Bash
5 25 (5.92%) Shell Script
6 24 (5.69%) C#
6 24 (5.69%) JavaScript
7 22 (5.21%) PowerShell
8 21 (4.98%) Go
9 17 (4.03%) TypeScript
10 9 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.13%) Scala
11 6 (1.42%) C++
11 6 (1.42%) Groovy
11 6 (1.42%) Ruby
12 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.24%) Bicep
13 1 (0.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (8.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (4.03%) DV Cleared
3 12 (2.84%) Degree
4 8 (1.90%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.79%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.84%) SLA
3 10 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.71%) ISO 9000
6 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.47%) QA
8 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 102 (24.17%) Docker
2 19 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 210 (49.76%) Terraform
2 181 (42.89%) Grafana
3 179 (42.42%) Kubernetes
4 168 (39.81%) Prometheus
5 40 (9.48%) Ansible
6 17 (4.03%) HAProxy
7 8 (1.90%) Istio
7 8 (1.90%) Kiali
8 7 (1.66%) Kibana
8 7 (1.66%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.18%) Packer
9 5 (1.18%) Puppet
10 4 (0.95%) Consul
11 3 (0.71%) Nagios
12 2 (0.47%) Netcool
12 2 (0.47%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.24%) logstash
13 1 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 184 (43.60%) Dynatrace
2 134 (31.75%) Splunk
3 59 (13.98%) IBM
4 57 (13.51%) Red Hat
5 25 (5.92%) Google
6 19 (4.50%) VMware
7 15 (3.55%) Microsoft
8 14 (3.32%) Oracle
9 11 (2.61%) AppDynamics
10 10 (2.37%) New Relic
10 10 (2.37%) Sybase
11 8 (1.90%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.66%) LogicMonitor
13 4 (0.95%) Databricks
13 4 (0.95%) Dataiku
13 4 (0.95%) Facebook
14 2 (0.47%) Ab Initio
14 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.47%) ScienceLogic
14 2 (0.47%) SolarWinds