Observability Job Trends in Central London

Observability
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 152 157
Rank change year-on-year +53 +5 +90
Permanent jobs citing Observability 42 38 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 1.78% 1.17% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 1.22% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 37 27 16
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,500 £60,725
25th Percentile £76,500 - £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -30.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £107,000 - £130,000
London median annual salary £87,500 £78,750 £84,750
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.08% -0.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,089 3,116 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.48% 95.64% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,921 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Central London

Observability
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Central London

Observability
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
City of London +51 41 £86,250 -13.75% 45
Observability
London

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) Azure
2 19 (45.24%) AWS
3 18 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) GitHub
4 10 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (21.43%) SaaS
6 8 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (16.67%) Serverless
8 4 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 3 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
9 3 (7.14%) Azure Storage
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) BGP
3 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (2.38%) IGMP
3 1 (2.38%) Multicast
3 1 (2.38%) OSPF
3 1 (2.38%) VPN
3 1 (2.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.38%) Metadata
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Git
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.38%) Deequ
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Legal
4 4 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Advertising
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) Senior
2 9 (21.43%) Lead
3 8 (19.05%) Java Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Senior Java Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Lead Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Technical Leader
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) .NET
2 8 (19.05%) Spring
2 8 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 3 (7.14%) WPF
4 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) Keras
5 1 (2.38%) Loki
5 1 (2.38%) Next.js
5 1 (2.38%) Node.js
5 1 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.38%) Pandas
5 1 (2.38%) pytest
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
2 3 (7.14%) Linux
3 2 (4.76%) VMS
4 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (80.95%) CI/CD
2 26 (61.90%) DevOps
3 18 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 17 (40.48%) Test Automation
5 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (26.19%) Agile
6 11 (26.19%) Analytics
7 10 (23.81%) Incident Management
8 9 (21.43%) Containerisation
8 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven
8 9 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 8 (19.05%) B2B
9 8 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (19.05%) Insurtech
9 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.67%) High Availability
10 7 (16.67%) Problem Management
10 7 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
2 8 (19.05%) Java
2 8 (19.05%) Kotlin
3 7 (16.67%) C#
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) Bicep
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) Go
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.38%) CCNP
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (35.71%) Terraform
3 11 (26.19%) Grafana
4 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.14%) Ansible
5 3 (7.14%) Kibana
6 2 (4.76%) Argo
6 2 (4.76%) SCOM
7 1 (2.38%) Nagios
7 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) AppDynamics
2 3 (7.14%) New Relic
2 3 (7.14%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.38%) Arista
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Dell
3 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.38%) NVIDIA
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk