Observability Jobs in the City of London

Observability
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 156 216
Rank change year-on-year +55 +60 +40
Permanent jobs citing Observability 42 26 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.06% 0.78% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 0.85% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 21
10th Percentile £65,000 £63,000 -
25th Percentile £68,125 £64,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £86,875 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £104,250 £140,000 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £97,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -20.51% +18.18% +3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,959 3,076 4,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.03% 92.04% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 2,429 3,708
10th Percentile £41,925 £41,250 £43,574
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the City of London.

Salary trend for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the City of London

Observability
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the City of London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
London Bridge +1 5 - -
Observability
Central London

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (9.52%) Apache
1 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.38%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 13 (30.95%) Azure DevOps
2 13 (30.95%) Datadog
2 13 (30.95%) GitHub
2 13 (30.95%) GitHub Actions
3 11 (26.19%) AWS
4 8 (19.05%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (19.05%) npm
5 7 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (16.67%) Pulumi
6 6 (14.29%) GCP
7 4 (9.52%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.38%) IaaS
8 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Flink
1 1 (2.38%) Metadata
1 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) JIRA
1 3 (7.14%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Senior
3 8 (19.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) Release Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 3 (7.14%) Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Network Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Network Operations Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Operations Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) React
2 5 (11.90%) .NET
2 5 (11.90%) Loki
3 3 (7.14%) PyTorch
3 3 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 3 (7.14%) TensorFlow
4 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) JPA
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) Spring
5 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 7 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 7 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Equities
4 1 (2.38%) FMCG
4 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (50.00%) DevOps
3 20 (47.62%) Platform Engineering
4 17 (40.48%) Containerisation
4 17 (40.48%) Release Management
5 16 (38.10%) Agile
6 15 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (28.57%) DevSecOps
8 12 (28.57%) Intelligent Automation
8 12 (28.57%) Migration
8 12 (28.57%) Software Delivery
9 10 (23.81%) Build Automation
9 10 (23.81%) Release Automation
10 8 (19.05%) Design Patterns
11 7 (16.67%) Incident Response
11 7 (16.67%) Integration Testing
11 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (16.67%) Regression Testing
11 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) Python
2 15 (35.71%) Java
3 14 (33.33%) Bash
4 9 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 7 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (14.29%) Go
7 4 (9.52%) SQL
8 2 (4.76%) C#
9 1 (2.38%) Groovy
9 1 (2.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.19%) Prometheus
3 9 (21.43%) Terraform
4 5 (11.90%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Ansible
5 2 (4.76%) Consul
5 2 (4.76%) Packer
6 1 (2.38%) Istio
6 1 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (2.38%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Hitachi
2 3 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Splunk