Observability Jobs in England

Observability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 558 419
Rank change year-on-year -27 -139 +197
Permanent jobs citing Observability 254 402 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.46% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.48% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 163 190 258
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,787 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,813 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,875 £102,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £121,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,598 84,339 129,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.11% 95.60% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 53,968 50,108 73,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 2024. 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 -51 101 £80,000 -3.03% 81
North of England +80 67 £54,000 +22.64% 14
North West +41 54 £78,750 +28.57% 7
South West +15 50 £80,000 +81.68% 7
Midlands +2 13 £50,000 -44.44% 7
South East -26 10 £87,500 +2.94% 31
East of England +4 9 - - 2
East Midlands 0 9 £65,000 -7.14% 3
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +67 5 £70,576 +60.28% 7
West Midlands +15 4 £50,000 -54.55% 4
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 24 (9.45%) nginx
2 20 (7.87%) Apache
2 20 (7.87%) Apache Spark
3 17 (6.69%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.36%) Confluence
5 5 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.79%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 154 (60.63%) AWS
2 84 (33.07%) Amazon S3
3 63 (24.80%) Amazon EKS
4 59 (23.23%) Azure
5 58 (22.83%) Amazon ECR
5 58 (22.83%) IBM Cloud
5 58 (22.83%) OCI
5 58 (22.83%) Route 53
6 40 (15.75%) OpenShift
7 39 (15.35%) GCP
8 34 (13.39%) Datadog
9 27 (10.63%) Serverless
10 18 (7.09%) GitHub
11 17 (6.69%) MinIO
12 14 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.15%) Pulumi
14 8 (3.15%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.72%) AMQP
2 10 (3.94%) Firewall
3 6 (2.36%) Network Security
3 6 (2.36%) VPN
4 5 (1.97%) DNS
4 5 (1.97%) WAN
5 4 (1.57%) SNMP
6 3 (1.18%) DHCP
6 3 (1.18%) LAN
6 3 (1.18%) Multicast
6 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (0.79%) MPLS
7 2 (0.79%) MQTT
7 2 (0.79%) NaaS
7 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.79%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (25.98%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (10.63%) Relational Database
3 26 (10.24%) Big Data
4 25 (9.84%) MongoDB
5 22 (8.66%) SQL Server
6 18 (7.09%) Hadoop
7 17 (6.69%) Presto
8 14 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.72%) DB2
9 12 (4.72%) RDBMS
10 10 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (3.94%) MySQL
10 10 (3.94%) Redis
11 9 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (3.54%) InfluxDB
12 8 (3.15%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.76%) BigQuery
14 6 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.36%) Metadata
14 6 (2.36%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 54 (21.26%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 10 (3.94%) Cypress.io
3 10 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (3.54%) Git
4 9 (3.54%) GitLab
5 7 (2.76%) Mocha
6 6 (2.36%) JIRA
7 5 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.97%) Jaeger
8 4 (1.57%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.79%) Gradle
11 1 (0.39%) GDB
11 1 (0.39%) JUnit
11 1 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.39%) Valgrind
General
1 64 (25.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 60 (23.62%) Public Sector
3 26 (10.24%) Finance
4 25 (9.84%) Social Skills
5 21 (8.27%) Tech for Good
6 12 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.72%) Banking
7 9 (3.54%) Retail
8 5 (1.97%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.97%) Law
8 5 (1.97%) Marketing
9 3 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 119 (46.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 101 (39.76%) Senior
3 71 (27.95%) Senior DevOps
3 71 (27.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 25 (9.84%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.66%) Architect
6 19 (7.48%) Lead
7 18 (7.09%) Developer
8 17 (6.69%) Big Data Engineer
8 17 (6.69%) Technical Architect
9 16 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) Analyst
12 11 (4.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Site Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) DBA
14 9 (3.54%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.42%) RabbitMQ
2 28 (11.02%) .NET
3 23 (9.06%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (8.27%) YAML
5 20 (7.87%) Spring
6 18 (7.09%) Kafka
6 18 (7.09%) Node.js
7 17 (6.69%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (6.69%) Apache NiFi
7 17 (6.69%) React
8 12 (4.72%) Spring XD
9 11 (4.33%) Spring Boot
10 9 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.54%) OpenAPI
11 7 (2.76%) Express.js
11 7 (2.76%) Jest
11 7 (2.76%) JWT
11 7 (2.76%) MERN Stack
11 7 (2.76%) NestJS
11 7 (2.76%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 78 (30.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (22.83%) Blockchain
2 58 (22.83%) e-Learning
3 14 (5.51%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (2.76%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.97%) Distributed Architecture
6 5 (1.97%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.57%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Robotics
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (22.83%) Linux
2 19 (7.48%) Windows
3 6 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) CentOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (62.60%) DevOps
2 111 (43.70%) Agile
3 104 (40.94%) Containerisation
4 86 (33.86%) CI/CD
5 75 (29.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 74 (29.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 70 (27.56%) Mentoring
8 65 (25.59%) Coaching
9 62 (24.41%) Test Automation
10 58 (22.83%) Secrets Management
11 35 (13.78%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (11.02%) Data Engineering
14 25 (9.84%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (9.45%) Fintech
16 23 (9.06%) DevSecOps
16 23 (9.06%) Event-Driven
16 23 (9.06%) Microservices
17 22 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (8.66%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (30.31%) Python
2 51 (20.08%) Java
3 35 (13.78%) Bash
4 30 (11.81%) SQL
5 25 (9.84%) Shell Script
6 19 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.69%) Go
8 16 (6.30%) PowerShell
9 15 (5.91%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.94%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.15%) C#
11 8 (3.15%) Scala
12 6 (2.36%) Ruby
13 5 (1.97%) C++
14 4 (1.57%) Groovy
15 2 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.39%) PHP
16 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.69%) DV Cleared
3 9 (3.54%) Degree
4 7 (2.76%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.30%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.72%) SLA
3 9 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.79%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) QA
7 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 80 (31.50%) Docker
2 16 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (59.06%) Kubernetes
2 145 (57.09%) Terraform
3 114 (44.88%) Prometheus
4 63 (24.80%) Grafana
5 34 (13.39%) Ansible
6 17 (6.69%) HAProxy
7 7 (2.76%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.36%) Kibana
8 6 (2.36%) Puppet
9 5 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.97%) Istio
9 5 (1.97%) Kiali
9 5 (1.97%) Packer
10 4 (1.57%) Consul
10 4 (1.57%) Nagios
11 2 (0.79%) Netcool
11 2 (0.79%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.79%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.39%) logstash
12 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 72 (28.35%) Dynatrace
2 61 (24.02%) IBM
3 59 (23.23%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.69%) Oracle
5 16 (6.30%) VMware
6 15 (5.91%) Splunk
7 12 (4.72%) Sybase
8 11 (4.33%) Microsoft
8 11 (4.33%) New Relic
9 9 (3.54%) PagerDuty
10 8 (3.15%) AppDynamics
10 8 (3.15%) Google
11 7 (2.76%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.57%) Dataiku
12 4 (1.57%) Facebook
13 3 (1.18%) Databricks
14 2 (0.79%) BigPanda
14 2 (0.79%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.79%) ScienceLogic
14 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds