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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 500 570 428
Rank change year-on-year +70 -142 +213
Permanent jobs citing Observability 436 466 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.46% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.48% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 177 222 280
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,033 £55,000
25th Percentile £64,500 £64,063 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,625 £112,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £53,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +39.53% -23.21% -12.50%

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 84,937 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,853 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
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 8 May 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 8 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
UK excluding London +158 324 £75,000 +39.53% 49
England -41 252 £80,000 - 109
Scotland +69 171 £65,000 +40.24% 4
London -46 100 £80,000 -3.03% 64
Work from Home -18 88 £75,000 -3.23% 65
North of England +69 67 £57,500 +30.59% 16
North West +40 52 £78,750 +28.57% 11
South West +16 50 £80,000 +81.68% 5
Midlands +14 13 £50,000 -41.18% 3
South East -9 10 £87,500 +2.94% 19
East of England +12 9 - -
East Midlands -6 9 £65,000 -21.69% 1
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +66 7 £70,576 +60.28% 5
West Midlands +15 4 £50,000 -41.18% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 £55,000 - 2

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 (5.50%) Apache
1 24 (5.50%) nginx
2 23 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.90%) Jupyter
4 8 (1.83%) Confluence
5 7 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.69%) CMS
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 253 (58.03%) AWS
2 145 (33.26%) Datadog
3 85 (19.50%) Amazon S3
4 82 (18.81%) Azure
5 64 (14.68%) Amazon EKS
6 60 (13.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 59 (13.53%) Route 53
8 58 (13.30%) Amazon ECR
8 58 (13.30%) IBM Cloud
8 58 (13.30%) OCI
9 42 (9.63%) GCP
10 41 (9.40%) OpenShift
11 34 (7.80%) Serverless
12 23 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (4.59%) GitHub
14 17 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.90%) MinIO
15 16 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.98%) Firewall
2 12 (2.75%) AMQP
3 8 (1.83%) Network Security
4 6 (1.38%) VPN
4 6 (1.38%) WAN
5 5 (1.15%) DNS
5 5 (1.15%) SNMP
6 3 (0.69%) DHCP
6 3 (0.69%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (0.69%) LAN
6 3 (0.69%) MPLS
6 3 (0.69%) Multicast
6 3 (0.69%) NaaS
6 3 (0.69%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.46%) MQTT
7 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (15.14%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (11.93%) Relational Database
3 28 (6.42%) Big Data
4 27 (6.19%) MongoDB
4 27 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 17 (3.90%) Hadoop
5 17 (3.90%) Presto
6 15 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (2.75%) DB2
7 12 (2.75%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.52%) Redis
9 10 (2.29%) InfluxDB
9 10 (2.29%) MySQL
10 9 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.83%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.83%) CockroachDB
11 8 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.61%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (17.20%) Jenkins
2 28 (6.42%) GitLab
3 17 (3.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 14 (3.21%) Git
4 14 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (2.52%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.52%) JIRA
6 8 (1.83%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.61%) Mocha
8 6 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.15%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.46%) Gradle
11 2 (0.46%) JUnit
11 2 (0.46%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.23%) Mockito
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
General
1 231 (52.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 194 (44.50%) Finance
3 169 (38.76%) Law
4 134 (30.73%) Marketing
5 99 (22.71%) Social Skills
6 60 (13.76%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.82%) Tech for Good
8 18 (4.13%) Banking
9 16 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
10 13 (2.98%) Retail
11 8 (1.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.69%) Legal
13 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (29.36%) Senior
2 125 (28.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 112 (25.69%) Software Engineer
4 77 (17.66%) Lead
5 71 (16.28%) Senior DevOps
5 71 (16.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 55 (12.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 53 (12.16%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 43 (9.86%) Lead Software Engineer
9 26 (5.96%) Data Engineer
10 25 (5.73%) Architect
11 24 (5.50%) Software Engineering Director
12 22 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (5.05%) Developer
12 22 (5.05%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 21 (4.82%) Technical Architect
14 18 (4.13%) Engineering Manager
14 18 (4.13%) Senior Manager
14 18 (4.13%) Software Engineering Manager
15 17 (3.90%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (19.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 46 (10.55%) .NET
3 34 (7.80%) Spring
4 30 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
5 28 (6.42%) Spring Boot
6 25 (5.73%) React
7 23 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
7 23 (5.28%) YAML
8 22 (5.05%) Kafka
9 21 (4.82%) Node.js
10 19 (4.36%) REST
11 17 (3.90%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (3.90%) Apache NiFi
12 12 (2.75%) Spring XD
13 11 (2.52%) JSP
14 10 (2.29%) OpenAPI
14 10 (2.29%) RESTful
15 9 (2.06%) AngularJS
16 8 (1.83%) JSON
16 8 (1.83%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 131 (30.05%) Cloud Native
2 77 (17.66%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (16.97%) Public Cloud
4 58 (13.30%) Blockchain
4 58 (13.30%) e-Learning
5 46 (10.55%) Algorithms
6 33 (7.57%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (6.42%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.44%) Data Structures
9 8 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.38%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.92%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 63 (14.45%) Linux
2 19 (4.36%) Windows
3 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Android
6 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.23%) CentOS
6 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (57.34%) Agile
2 212 (48.62%) CI/CD
3 199 (45.64%) Software Engineering
4 192 (44.04%) Artificial Intelligence
5 177 (40.60%) DevOps
6 127 (29.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 120 (27.52%) Community of Practice
8 118 (27.06%) SDLC
9 112 (25.69%) Containerisation
10 106 (24.31%) Machine Learning
11 103 (23.62%) Operational Stability
12 89 (20.41%) Continuous Delivery
13 87 (19.95%) Coaching
14 86 (19.72%) Mentoring
15 80 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 76 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (16.51%) Architectural Design
17 72 (16.51%) Information Architecture
17 72 (16.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 69 (15.83%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 134 (30.73%) Java
2 117 (26.83%) Python
3 47 (10.78%) SQL
4 44 (10.09%) Bash
5 25 (5.73%) JavaScript
5 25 (5.73%) Shell Script
6 24 (5.50%) C#
7 21 (4.82%) Go
7 21 (4.82%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.13%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 8 (1.83%) Scala
11 7 (1.61%) C++
12 6 (1.38%) Ruby
13 5 (1.15%) Groovy
14 3 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.23%) PHP
15 1 (0.23%) R
15 1 (0.23%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 36 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 17 (3.90%) DV Cleared
3 13 (2.98%) Degree
4 8 (1.83%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.46%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.13%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.75%) SLA
3 10 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) ISO 9000
6 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.46%) QA
8 1 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 107 (24.54%) Docker
2 17 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 219 (50.23%) Terraform
2 185 (42.43%) Grafana
3 182 (41.74%) Kubernetes
4 174 (39.91%) Prometheus
5 39 (8.94%) Ansible
6 17 (3.90%) HAProxy
7 8 (1.83%) Kiali
8 7 (1.61%) Istio
8 7 (1.61%) Kibana
8 7 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.15%) Packer
9 5 (1.15%) Puppet
10 4 (0.92%) Consul
10 4 (0.92%) Nagios
11 2 (0.46%) Netcool
11 2 (0.46%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.46%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.23%) logstash
12 1 (0.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 189 (43.35%) Dynatrace
2 137 (31.42%) Splunk
3 61 (13.99%) IBM
4 59 (13.53%) Red Hat
5 25 (5.73%) Google
6 17 (3.90%) VMware
7 16 (3.67%) Oracle
8 14 (3.21%) Microsoft
9 12 (2.75%) Sybase
10 11 (2.52%) AppDynamics
10 11 (2.52%) New Relic
11 9 (2.06%) PagerDuty
12 7 (1.61%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (1.15%) Databricks
14 4 (0.92%) Dataiku
14 4 (0.92%) Facebook
15 2 (0.46%) BigPanda
15 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
15 2 (0.46%) ScienceLogic
15 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds