Observability Job Trends in Leicester

Observability
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 53
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 19 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 3.53% - 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% - 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £83,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 420 124 357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 78.07% 90.51% 84.40%
Number of salaries quoted 294 100 277
10th Percentile £30,250 £25,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £64,148
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -1.10%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Leicester

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) AWS CloudFormation
1 7 (36.84%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) XCUITest
General
1 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 6 (31.58%) QA Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Senior QA Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) QA Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) React
2 7 (36.84%) AWS CDK
2 7 (36.84%) Next.js
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (31.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Android
1 6 (31.58%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
1 18 (94.74%) Test Automation
2 13 (68.42%) Personalization
3 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 12 (63.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (63.16%) Mentoring
4 11 (57.89%) Coaching
4 11 (57.89%) Test Strategy
5 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (36.84%) Clean Code
6 7 (36.84%) Collaborative Working
6 7 (36.84%) Decision-Making
6 7 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (36.84%) Performance Optimisation
6 7 (36.84%) Re-Platforming
6 7 (36.84%) Technical Discovery
7 6 (31.58%) Functional Testing
7 6 (31.58%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (31.58%) Scenario Testing
8 5 (26.32%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) QA
2 6 (31.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform