Observability Jobs in London

Observability
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 396 374
Rank change year-on-year +145 -22 -72
Permanent jobs citing Observability 153 105 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.20% 0.44% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.48% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 79 76 130
10th Percentile £64,902 £63,750 £57,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £81,615 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +0.45% +1.56%
75th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,500 £111,250 £135,693
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,300 21,691 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.24% 90.27% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,989 15,892 22,392
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in London

Observability
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in London.

Salary trend for Observability in London

Observability
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in London

Observability
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
Central London +51 53 £77,500 -22.50% 27
East London -17 1 £107,500 -10.42% 5
West London - 1 £80,000 - 5
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.58%) Apache
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.65%) Alfresco
4 1 (0.65%) Camunda
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 87 (56.86%) AWS
2 73 (47.71%) Azure
3 39 (25.49%) GCP
4 34 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (22.22%) Datadog
5 32 (20.92%) GitHub
6 26 (16.99%) GitHub Actions
7 24 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (13.07%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (9.15%) Pulumi
11 14 (9.15%) Serverless
12 11 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (6.54%) Amazon S3
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (5.23%) npm
15 6 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (3.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.54%) Firewall
2 8 (5.23%) DNS
3 6 (3.92%) Network Security
4 4 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.61%) Wireshark
5 3 (1.96%) HTTP
6 2 (1.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (1.31%) NAS
6 2 (1.31%) SAN
6 2 (1.31%) SNMP
6 2 (1.31%) VPN
6 2 (1.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.65%) BGP
7 1 (0.65%) DHCP
7 1 (0.65%) Internet
7 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.50%) Amazon RDS
1 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.54%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.92%) Metadata
3 6 (3.92%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.96%) Flink
5 3 (1.96%) MySQL
5 3 (1.96%) Redis
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.65%) Power BI
7 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (14.38%) GitLab
1 22 (14.38%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.84%) CircleCI
3 8 (5.23%) JIRA
4 6 (3.92%) SonarQube
5 4 (2.61%) Git
6 2 (1.31%) Postman
7 1 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.65%) git-flow
7 1 (0.65%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.65%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.65%) Vite
7 1 (0.65%) webpack
General
1 50 (32.68%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.84%) Finance
3 18 (11.76%) Banking
3 18 (11.76%) Law
4 14 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.27%) Games
7 4 (2.61%) Marketing
8 2 (1.31%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.31%) French Language
8 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.31%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Automotive
9 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (25.49%) Senior
2 25 (16.34%) Lead
3 24 (15.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 23 (15.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (12.42%) Software Engineer
6 15 (9.80%) Site Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Developer
8 12 (7.84%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Release Manager
11 8 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.23%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) AWS Developer
12 7 (4.58%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.92%) Architect
13 6 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
14 5 (3.27%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.73%) Kafka
2 16 (10.46%) React
3 11 (7.19%) gRPC
3 11 (7.19%) RESTful
4 9 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (5.88%) Loki
4 9 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (5.23%) web3js
6 7 (4.58%) .NET
6 7 (4.58%) GraphQL
6 7 (4.58%) HTML
7 6 (3.92%) CSS
8 5 (3.27%) Django
9 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.61%) HTML5
9 4 (2.61%) pytest
9 4 (2.61%) PyTorch
9 4 (2.61%) scikit-learn
9 4 (2.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.72%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 13 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (7.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (7.19%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 9 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.88%) Fixed Income
6 8 (5.23%) Blockchain
6 8 (5.23%) Web3
7 6 (3.92%) FMCG
7 6 (3.92%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.61%) Client/Server
9 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.96%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.96%) Replication
11 2 (1.31%) Clustering
11 2 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (1.31%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.15%) Linux
2 8 (5.23%) Unix
3 6 (3.92%) Windows
4 3 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (60.78%) CI/CD
2 78 (50.98%) DevOps
3 56 (36.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (35.95%) Containerisation
5 52 (33.99%) Agile
6 41 (26.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 38 (24.84%) Microservices
8 36 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
9 33 (21.57%) Software Engineering
10 32 (20.92%) Mentoring
10 32 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (16.99%) Test Automation
12 25 (16.34%) Continuous Integration
13 23 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (13.73%) Analytics
14 21 (13.73%) Release Management
15 19 (12.42%) Continuous Delivery
15 19 (12.42%) Performance Optimisation
15 19 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (11.76%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 81 (52.94%) Python
2 36 (23.53%) Go
3 33 (21.57%) Java
4 28 (18.30%) Bash
5 20 (13.07%) SQL
6 19 (12.42%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.19%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.58%) C#
10 5 (3.27%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.27%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.27%) Ruby
11 3 (1.96%) PHP
11 3 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.31%) C++
12 2 (1.31%) Gremlin
12 2 (1.31%) Rust
13 1 (0.65%) Groovy
13 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (9.80%) Degree
2 11 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.58%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.96%) CCNP
8 2 (1.31%) CCNA
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.76%) QA
2 7 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.27%) GDPR
4 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.61%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.31%) SLA
7 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (30.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 70 (45.75%) Kubernetes
1 70 (45.75%) Terraform
2 51 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 43 (28.10%) Grafana
4 18 (11.76%) Ansible
5 10 (6.54%) Progress Chef
6 6 (3.92%) Istio
7 5 (3.27%) Consul
8 4 (2.61%) Puppet
9 3 (1.96%) Argo
9 3 (1.96%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.31%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.31%) linkerd
10 2 (1.31%) Packer
11 1 (0.65%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.65%) Kibana
11 1 (0.65%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (7.19%) Hitachi
2 10 (6.54%) Google
3 8 (5.23%) Splunk
4 6 (3.92%) Databricks
4 6 (3.92%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.27%) F5
5 5 (3.27%) Oracle
6 4 (2.61%) VMware
7 3 (1.96%) Cisco
7 3 (1.96%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.96%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.96%) New Relic
7 3 (1.96%) Okta
8 2 (1.31%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.65%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.65%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.65%) IBM
9 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.65%) SAP
9 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds