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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 589 558
Rank change year-on-year +111 -31 -150
Permanent jobs citing Observability 206 255 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.35% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 138 164 193
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,250
25th Percentile £64,509 £65,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,188 £91,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,875 £110,875 £120,000
UK median annual salary £76,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% - +6.67%

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 46,624 73,570 84,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.18% 85.07% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 23,570 53,896 50,325
10th Percentile £29,991 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 21 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 21 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 +156 137 £82,500 +3.13% 547
North of England +11 36 £69,692 +29.06% 153
North West -34 22 £75,000 -4.76% 80
South East +97 20 £85,000 -2.86% 167
Yorkshire +70 11 £53,000 -24.90% 52
West Midlands +59 6 £67,500 +35.00% 19
Midlands +54 6 £67,500 +35.00% 36
North East +34 3 £69,384 +58.59% 21
South West +75 2 £95,000 +18.75% 40
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 9 (4.37%) Apache
1 9 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) nginx
4 1 (0.49%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.49%) Camunda
4 1 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 114 (55.34%) AWS
2 109 (52.91%) Azure
3 61 (29.61%) GCP
4 44 (21.36%) Datadog
5 40 (19.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (17.96%) GitHub
7 27 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (12.62%) Cloud Computing
9 25 (12.14%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (11.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
11 22 (10.68%) Serverless
12 19 (9.22%) Pulumi
13 16 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (7.28%) Amazon S3
15 14 (6.80%) SaaS
16 11 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
17 9 (4.37%) Amazon ECR
18 8 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (3.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.77%) Firewall
2 11 (5.34%) DNS
3 9 (4.37%) TCP/IP
4 8 (3.88%) Network Security
5 4 (1.94%) VPN
5 4 (1.94%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.46%) DHCP
7 2 (0.97%) HTTP
7 2 (0.97%) NAS
7 2 (0.97%) SAN
7 2 (0.97%) SNMP
7 2 (0.97%) WAN
8 1 (0.49%) BGP
8 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.68%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (6.80%) DynamoDB
2 14 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.85%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.88%) Redis
7 7 (3.40%) MySQL
8 5 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.43%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.94%) Metadata
10 3 (1.46%) Flink
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.49%) Big Data
12 1 (0.49%) Power BI
12 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (11.17%) GitLab
1 23 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.34%) CircleCI
3 10 (4.85%) JIRA
4 7 (3.40%) Git
5 4 (1.94%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.97%) NUnit
6 2 (0.97%) Postman
7 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.49%) git-flow
7 1 (0.49%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.49%) JUnit
7 1 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.49%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 66 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.48%) Finance
3 24 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.19%) Banking
5 13 (6.31%) Law
6 11 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.85%) Retail
8 8 (3.88%) Marketing
9 7 (3.40%) Games
9 7 (3.40%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.43%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.97%) Dutch Language
11 2 (0.97%) French Language
11 2 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Automotive
12 1 (0.49%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 53 (25.73%) Senior
2 32 (15.53%) Lead
2 32 (15.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 31 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (14.56%) Software Engineer
5 26 (12.62%) Site Engineer
6 18 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
8 16 (7.77%) Developer
9 15 (7.28%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Consultant
13 8 (3.88%) Architect
13 8 (3.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.88%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.88%) Release Manager
13 8 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
14 7 (3.40%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.91%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.65%) Kafka
2 23 (11.17%) React
3 21 (10.19%) RESTful
4 17 (8.25%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (6.31%) GraphQL
6 12 (5.83%) .NET
7 11 (5.34%) Loki
8 10 (4.85%) Django
8 10 (4.85%) gRPC
9 8 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.40%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (3.40%) Spring
10 7 (3.40%) Spring Boot
10 7 (3.40%) web3js
11 6 (2.91%) HTML
11 6 (2.91%) Node.js
12 5 (2.43%) CSS
13 4 (1.94%) SOAP
13 4 (1.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (31.55%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (10.19%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (4.85%) Public Cloud
5 9 (4.37%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.37%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.88%) Fixed Income
7 7 (3.40%) Blockchain
7 7 (3.40%) Web3
8 6 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.43%) Clustering
9 5 (2.43%) Replication
10 4 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.94%) FMCG
10 4 (1.94%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.97%) Derivative
12 2 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.02%) Linux
2 16 (7.77%) Windows
3 14 (6.80%) Unix
4 5 (2.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (58.25%) CI/CD
2 117 (56.80%) DevOps
3 78 (37.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (34.47%) Containerisation
5 69 (33.50%) Agile
6 54 (26.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 51 (24.76%) Microservices
8 46 (22.33%) Software Engineering
9 44 (21.36%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (19.90%) Mentoring
12 37 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (14.08%) Analytics
13 29 (14.08%) Continuous Integration
14 28 (13.59%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (11.65%) Incident Management
16 23 (11.17%) Performance Optimisation
16 23 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (11.17%) Test Automation
17 22 (10.68%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 99 (48.06%) Python
2 49 (23.79%) Java
3 37 (17.96%) Bash
4 31 (15.05%) Go
5 29 (14.08%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.71%) PowerShell
6 20 (9.71%) SQL
7 19 (9.22%) JavaScript
8 17 (8.25%) C#
9 5 (2.43%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.43%) PHP
9 5 (2.43%) Ruby
10 3 (1.46%) Rust
10 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.97%) C
11 2 (0.97%) C++
11 2 (0.97%) Gremlin
11 2 (0.97%) Perl
11 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 20 (9.71%) Degree
3 18 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.94%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.94%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.97%) CCNP
7 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.49%) CCNA
8 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.49%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.22%) QA
2 8 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.91%) GDPR
4 5 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.43%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.97%) SLA
8 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
System Software
1 68 (33.01%) Docker
2 9 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.91%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.97%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.49%) Squid
7 1 (0.49%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 102 (49.51%) Terraform
2 99 (48.06%) Kubernetes
3 70 (33.98%) Prometheus
4 55 (26.70%) Grafana
5 28 (13.59%) Ansible
6 11 (5.34%) Progress Chef
7 8 (3.88%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (3.40%) Puppet
9 6 (2.91%) Istio
10 5 (2.43%) Argo
10 5 (2.43%) Consul
11 4 (1.94%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.46%) Kibana
13 2 (0.97%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.97%) Kubespray
13 2 (0.97%) linkerd
13 2 (0.97%) Packer
14 1 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.49%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (11.65%) Google
2 12 (5.83%) Databricks
3 10 (4.85%) Hitachi
3 10 (4.85%) Splunk
4 9 (4.37%) Dynatrace
4 9 (4.37%) VMware
5 8 (3.88%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.91%) Oracle
7 5 (2.43%) New Relic
8 4 (1.94%) Cisco
8 4 (1.94%) F5
9 3 (1.46%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.46%) Okta
10 2 (0.97%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.97%) ForgeRock
10 2 (0.97%) IBM
10 2 (0.97%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.97%) SimCorp
11 1 (0.49%) Red Hat