Observability Jobs in England

Observability
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 583 568
Rank change year-on-year +144 -15 -122
Permanent jobs citing Observability 218 248 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.34% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 133 159 196
10th Percentile £48,550 £52,250 £46,125
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £130,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 43,121 73,145 88,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.64% 85.85% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,789 53,950 52,293
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,250 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in England

Observability
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Salary trend for Observability in England

Observability
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in England

Observability
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +143 138 £80,000 -3.03% 329
North of England +62 41 £75,000 +34.53% 81
North West +7 25 £75,000 -4.76% 47
South East +119 20 £85,000 -2.86% 88
Yorkshire +82 12 £69,126 -2.05% 26
Midlands +76 7 £67,500 +35.00% 23
South West +67 7 £95,000 +18.75% 19
West Midlands +53 7 £67,500 +35.00% 15
North East +46 4 £69,384 +58.59% 8
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.21%) Apache
2 6 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.46%) Camunda
4 1 (0.46%) CMS
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (11.01%) Ripple
1 24 (11.01%) Ripple XRP
2 2 (0.92%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 109 (50.00%) AWS
2 105 (48.17%) Azure
3 59 (27.06%) GCP
4 44 (20.18%) Datadog
5 36 (16.51%) GitHub
6 32 (14.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (13.30%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (11.01%) Cloud Computing
8 24 (11.01%) Serverless
9 22 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (9.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (9.17%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (8.26%) Amazon S3
12 16 (7.34%) Pulumi
13 15 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (6.42%) SaaS
15 13 (5.96%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
18 8 (3.67%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.26%) Firewall
2 13 (5.96%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.59%) DNS
3 10 (4.59%) Network Security
4 7 (3.21%) VPN
4 7 (3.21%) WAN
5 6 (2.75%) HTTP
5 6 (2.75%) LAN
6 3 (1.38%) Internet
6 3 (1.38%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.92%) DHCP
7 2 (0.92%) MPLS
7 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.92%) WLAN
8 1 (0.46%) BGP
8 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.46%) NAS
8 1 (0.46%) SAN
8 1 (0.46%) SNMP
8 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.47%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (7.34%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.50%) DynamoDB
4 12 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.67%) Redis
7 7 (3.21%) MySQL
8 5 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.38%) Flink
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.92%) Power BI
10 2 (0.92%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.46%) Big Data
11 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 19 (8.72%) GitLab
3 11 (5.05%) JIRA
4 9 (4.13%) CircleCI
5 6 (2.75%) Git
6 4 (1.83%) Spinnaker
7 2 (0.92%) NUnit
7 2 (0.92%) Postman
7 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.46%) git-flow
8 1 (0.46%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.46%) JUnit
8 1 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 60 (27.52%) Finance
3 33 (15.14%) Law
4 25 (11.47%) Financial Institution
5 24 (11.01%) Digital Economy
6 22 (10.09%) Banking
7 21 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (4.59%) Games
9 10 (4.59%) Retail
10 8 (3.67%) Marketing
11 7 (3.21%) Retail Banking
12 6 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.75%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.29%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.92%) Dutch Language
14 2 (0.92%) French Language
15 1 (0.46%) Cantonese Language
15 1 (0.46%) iGaming
15 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (21.10%) Senior
2 33 (15.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 29 (13.30%) Lead
3 29 (13.30%) Site Engineer
3 29 (13.30%) Software Engineer
4 28 (12.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.84%) Principal Engineer
5 19 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (7.34%) Developer
7 15 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (5.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Architect
11 9 (4.13%) Consultant
11 9 (4.13%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (3.21%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 6 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.63%) Kafka
1 21 (9.63%) React
2 19 (8.72%) RESTful
3 15 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (5.96%) .NET
4 13 (5.96%) GraphQL
5 10 (4.59%) Django
6 9 (4.13%) HTML
6 9 (4.13%) Loki
6 9 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (3.67%) gRPC
7 8 (3.67%) SOAP
8 7 (3.21%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.21%) Spring
8 7 (3.21%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.29%) Node.js
9 5 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.29%) web3js
9 5 (2.29%) XSLT
10 4 (1.83%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 57 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 45 (20.64%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (15.14%) Blockchain
4 32 (14.68%) Algorithms
5 15 (6.88%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.13%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (3.21%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.75%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.29%) Web3
11 4 (1.83%) Clustering
11 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.83%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.83%) Replication
12 3 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.14%) Linux
2 21 (9.63%) Windows
3 15 (6.88%) Unix
4 3 (1.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (48.62%) DevOps
2 99 (45.41%) CI/CD
3 69 (31.65%) Agile
4 67 (30.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 66 (30.28%) Containerisation
6 64 (29.36%) Mentoring
7 54 (24.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 48 (22.02%) Microservices
9 44 (20.18%) Software Engineering
10 39 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (16.51%) Open Source
11 36 (16.51%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (16.06%) Roadmaps
13 33 (15.14%) Decision-Making
14 26 (11.93%) Continuous Delivery
14 26 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
15 25 (11.47%) Test Automation
16 24 (11.01%) Service-Level Objective
17 22 (10.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 89 (40.83%) Python
2 47 (21.56%) Java
3 36 (16.51%) Bash
4 29 (13.30%) TypeScript
5 26 (11.93%) C++
6 24 (11.01%) Go
7 23 (10.55%) SQL
8 20 (9.17%) JavaScript
8 20 (9.17%) PowerShell
9 16 (7.34%) C#
10 5 (2.29%) C
10 5 (2.29%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.29%) Perl
10 5 (2.29%) Ruby
11 4 (1.83%) Jython
11 4 (1.83%) PHP
12 3 (1.38%) Rust
12 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.92%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 22 (10.09%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.17%) Degree
3 16 (7.34%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.38%) CCNP
9 2 (0.92%) CCIE
9 2 (0.92%) CCNA
9 2 (0.92%) CITP
10 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) MCSD
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.42%) QA
2 8 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.83%) GDPR
5 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (28.90%) Docker
2 7 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.46%) Squid
5 1 (0.46%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (44.95%) Terraform
2 92 (42.20%) Kubernetes
3 69 (31.65%) Prometheus
4 47 (21.56%) Grafana
5 27 (12.39%) Ansible
6 10 (4.59%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.67%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (3.21%) Puppet
9 6 (2.75%) Argo
10 5 (2.29%) Consul
10 5 (2.29%) Istio
11 4 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.38%) Kibana
12 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.92%) Kubespray
13 2 (0.92%) Packer
14 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.46%) logstash
14 1 (0.46%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (11.01%) Google
2 17 (7.80%) Dynatrace
3 11 (5.05%) VMware
4 10 (4.59%) Databricks
4 10 (4.59%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.13%) Splunk
6 8 (3.67%) Hitachi
7 6 (2.75%) Cisco
7 6 (2.75%) IBM
7 6 (2.75%) Oracle
8 5 (2.29%) New Relic
8 5 (2.29%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.38%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.92%) F5
10 2 (0.92%) Meraki
10 2 (0.92%) Okta
10 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.92%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.46%) OpenAI