Observability Job Trends in Darlington

Observability
Durham > Darlington

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Observability 4 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 14.81% 3.23% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.05% 3.51% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £66,907 £64,471 -
25th Percentile £68,132 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +26.01% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 57 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 70.37% 91.94% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9 27 68
10th Percentile - £42,250 £27,873
25th Percentile £25,087 £55,348 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £43,394
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +59.72% -8.64%
75th Percentile £78,790 £78,300 £55,313
90th Percentile £80,448 £80,000 £65,565
Durham median annual salary £40,000 £57,850 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.86% +21.79% +17.28%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Darlington

Observability
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (50.00%) Sentry
4 1 (25.00%) Datadog
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Locust
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google