Observability Job Trends in Leeds

Observability
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 84 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 +79
Permanent jobs citing Observability 22 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.63% 0.30% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 18 0 2
10th Percentile £58,375 - -
25th Percentile £64,688 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.59%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £72,433
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £85,253 £57,304
% change year-on-year -6.16% +48.77% -14.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,070 899 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.14% 89.01% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 705 509 946
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,970
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -5.31% -0.94%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Leeds

Observability
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Leeds

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) GCP
4 8 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (36.36%) Serverless
5 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) Datadog
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) DynamoDB
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (13.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Snyk
General
1 3 (13.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (40.91%) Lead
1 9 (40.91%) Lead DevOps
1 9 (40.91%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Node.js
2 5 (22.73%) React
2 5 (22.73%) RESTful
3 3 (13.64%) PySpark
4 2 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (4.55%) .NET
5 1 (4.55%) Spring
5 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 18 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (72.73%) DevOps
4 13 (59.09%) Agile
4 13 (59.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 11 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 10 (45.45%) Incident Response
7 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (40.91%) Line Management
8 7 (31.82%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (22.73%) API Design
9 5 (22.73%) Microservices
10 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
11 3 (13.64%) Analytics
11 3 (13.64%) Coaching
11 3 (13.64%) Data Engineering
11 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
11 3 (13.64%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) GRC
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (77.27%) Terraform
2 12 (54.55%) Grafana
2 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
3 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
4 9 (40.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Databricks
2 1 (4.55%) Checkmarx
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Qualys
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce