Observability Job Trends in Birmingham

Observability
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 122 107
Rank change year-on-year +29 -15 +37
Permanent jobs citing Observability 13 10 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.75% 0.55% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.60% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 4
10th Percentile £48,257 £60,020 -
25th Percentile £68,190 £63,150 £59,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,550 £64,600 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.05% -9.01% -5.33%
75th Percentile £195,000 £70,000 £85,313
90th Percentile - £74,144 £92,625
West Midlands median annual salary £74,401 £64,600 £71,000
% change year-on-year +15.17% -9.01% +7.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Observability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,367 1,680 1,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.25% 93.23% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 964 785 1,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,375 £90,750 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Observability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Observability job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Observability
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Birmingham

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) CMS
2 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) SaaS
3 4 (30.77%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 3 (23.08%) dbt
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Pulumi
5 2 (15.38%) Serverless
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (7.69%) Datadog
6 1 (7.69%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) Locust
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Legal
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 4 (30.77%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AWS CDK
1 2 (15.38%) Django
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) DevOps
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) AI
5 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
5 4 (30.77%) Monetization
5 4 (30.77%) Personalization
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Product Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) User Experience
5 4 (30.77%) Workflow
6 3 (23.08%) Agile
6 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 2 (15.38%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Grafana
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) New Relic
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk