Observability Job Trends in Hampshire

Observability
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 156 -
Rank change year-on-year +41 - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 9 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.36% 0.26% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.32% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £64,000 - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile £90,250 - -
South East median annual salary £71,250 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +14.58% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,006 2,195 1,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.18% 81.66% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 1,304 1,127
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £66,445
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.43% -3.64%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Observability
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Hampshire over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Hampshire

Observability
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Basingstoke - 3 £77,500 - 10
Eastleigh 0 1 £60,000 -
Farnborough - 1 £77,500 - 3
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (22.22%) Robot Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) TestRail
4 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
2 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) React Native
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (22.22%) Server Building
5 2 (22.22%) Sprint Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
2 2 (22.22%) Bicep
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Grafana
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (22.22%) Nessus
3 2 (22.22%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) New Relic
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks