OpenTelemetry Job Trends in England

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 615 765
Rank change year-on-year -78 +150 +3
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 41 29 6
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.044% 0.067% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 0.38% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 35 18 5
10th Percentile £55,735 £43,750 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £44,688 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,750 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.53% -30.65% -40.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile - £110,375 -
UK median annual salary £73,750 £53,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year +37.21% -30.65% -40.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,600 7,707 13,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.31% 17.69% 18.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7,227 5,159 10,320
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in England

OpenTelemetry
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenTelemetry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenTelemetry in England

OpenTelemetry
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the England region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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 -28 21 £75,000 -7.69% 80
North of England -47 11 £95,000 +100.00% 8
North West -8 10 £95,000 +100.00% 4
South East - 7 £60,000 - 4
East Midlands -28 1 £64,000 +21.90%
Midlands -35 1 £64,000 +21.90%
South West -63 1 - - 6
Yorkshire - 1 £50,000 - 3
OpenTelemetry
UK

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.44%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 19 (46.34%) Datadog
3 17 (41.46%) AWS Lambda
3 17 (41.46%) Serverless
4 16 (39.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 16 (39.02%) Amazon ECS
5 15 (36.59%) Azure
6 10 (24.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (21.95%) Amazon S3
8 7 (17.07%) Amazon EventBridge
8 7 (17.07%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (14.63%) GitHub
9 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (12.20%) CloudFront
11 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
12 3 (7.32%) GCP
12 3 (7.32%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) BGP
2 2 (4.88%) IPFIX
2 2 (4.88%) OSPF
2 2 (4.88%) SNMP
2 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.88%) VLAN
3 1 (2.44%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (2.44%) DHCP
3 1 (2.44%) DNS
3 1 (2.44%) LAN
3 1 (2.44%) MPLS
3 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.44%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.44%) VoIP
3 1 (2.44%) VPLS
3 1 (2.44%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (31.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.88%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.44%) Redis
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.88%) MLflow
4 1 (2.44%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (14.63%) Finance
2 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Law
3 3 (7.32%) Legal
4 2 (4.88%) Front Office
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Developer
2 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Integration Developer
2 8 (19.51%) Lead
3 7 (17.07%) Integration Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Lead Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
7 2 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Monitoring Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Network Monitoring Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Network Specialist
7 2 (4.88%) Node.js Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Embedded Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) IT Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (29.27%) Node.js
2 11 (26.83%) Kafka
3 6 (14.63%) Loki
3 6 (14.63%) YAML
4 5 (12.20%) REST
5 3 (7.32%) Express.js
5 3 (7.32%) JWT
5 3 (7.32%) NestJS
5 3 (7.32%) OAuth
5 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.88%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.88%) DPDK
6 2 (4.88%) eBPF
6 2 (4.88%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (4.88%) gRPC
6 2 (4.88%) React
7 1 (2.44%) OpenID
7 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.44%) RESTful
7 1 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (26.83%) Cloud Native
3 5 (12.20%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (7.32%) Data Structures
4 3 (7.32%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.88%) PKI
5 2 (4.88%) SIMD
6 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) IoT
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (90.24%) Observability
2 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
2 24 (58.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (46.34%) Containerisation
4 15 (36.59%) Microservices
5 14 (34.15%) DevOps
5 14 (34.15%) Mentoring
6 11 (26.83%) Event-Driven
7 10 (24.39%) AI
7 10 (24.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
9 7 (17.07%) CRM
9 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
9 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (14.63%) Machine Learning
10 6 (14.63%) Migration
10 6 (14.63%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) Bash
3 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
4 7 (17.07%) PowerShell
5 6 (14.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.76%) SQL
7 3 (7.32%) Go
8 2 (4.88%) Ruby
8 2 (4.88%) Rust
9 1 (2.44%) C#
9 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.44%) CCNA
2 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 22 (53.66%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Firmware
2 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.44%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Kubernetes
1 24 (58.54%) Terraform
2 21 (51.22%) Grafana
3 19 (46.34%) Prometheus
4 5 (12.20%) Argo
5 3 (7.32%) Scalr
6 2 (4.88%) Ansible
6 2 (4.88%) Istio
6 2 (4.88%) Nagios
6 2 (4.88%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.44%) Cilium
7 1 (2.44%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.44%) WSUS
7 1 (2.44%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) HubSpot
2 6 (14.63%) Dynatrace
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) BigPanda
4 2 (4.88%) Databricks
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.44%) New Relic
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.44%) VMware