Observability Job Trends in Leicestershire

Observability
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 19 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 2.14% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - 0.14%
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 - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £82,500 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -21.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 684 304 710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 77.20% 91.84% 86.37%
Number of salaries quoted 448 172 495
10th Percentile £29,450 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,688 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -1.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £69,500 £73,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Observability
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Observability

Observability
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Leicester - 19 £83,000 - 2
Observability
East Midlands

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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%) Data-Driven Decision Making
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