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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 400 359
Rank change year-on-year +141 -41 -36
Permanent jobs citing Observability 132 101 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.02% 0.43% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.47% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 77 73 142
10th Percentile £64,509 £63,150 £60,251
25th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -3.03% -
75th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £114,250 £129,000
England median annual salary £76,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% - +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 12,437 21,541 32,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.16% 91.06% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,272 15,921 23,160
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,241
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,073 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -6.57% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
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 17 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 17 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 +56 47 £77,500 -20.51% 27
East London -10 1 £107,500 -10.42% 3
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 8 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.30%) Apache
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.76%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.76%) Camunda
5 1 (0.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 71 (53.79%) AWS
2 65 (49.24%) Azure
3 36 (27.27%) GCP
4 33 (25.00%) Datadog
5 30 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (21.21%) GitHub
7 23 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (15.91%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (9.85%) Serverless
11 12 (9.09%) Pulumi
12 10 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (6.82%) Amazon S3
14 8 (6.06%) npm
15 7 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (5.30%) SaaS
16 6 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
17 5 (3.79%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) Firewall
2 6 (4.55%) DNS
3 4 (3.03%) Network Security
3 4 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.03%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.52%) HTTP
4 2 (1.52%) NAS
4 2 (1.52%) SAN
4 2 (1.52%) SNMP
4 2 (1.52%) VPN
4 2 (1.52%) WAN
5 1 (0.76%) BGP
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.76%) Internet
5 1 (0.76%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (6.82%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.06%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.27%) Flink
6 3 (2.27%) Metadata
6 3 (2.27%) MySQL
6 3 (2.27%) Redis
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.76%) Power BI
8 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (14.39%) GitLab
2 18 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 11 (8.33%) CircleCI
4 8 (6.06%) JIRA
5 4 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.27%) Git
7 2 (1.52%) Postman
8 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.76%) git-flow
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.76%) Vagrant
General
1 50 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.70%) Finance
3 13 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.33%) Banking
5 7 (5.30%) Law
6 5 (3.79%) Games
6 5 (3.79%) Marketing
7 4 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.52%) French Language
8 2 (1.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (28.03%) Senior
2 20 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (14.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Lead
5 14 (10.61%) Site Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Developer
8 10 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Release Manager
11 7 (5.30%) Consultant
11 7 (5.30%) Data Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) AWS Developer
12 6 (4.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 5 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.36%) Kafka
2 13 (9.85%) React
3 11 (8.33%) RESTful
4 10 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (7.58%) gRPC
5 7 (5.30%) .NET
5 7 (5.30%) Loki
5 7 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
5 7 (5.30%) web3js
6 5 (3.79%) Django
6 5 (3.79%) GraphQL
6 5 (3.79%) HTML
6 5 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (3.03%) CSS
7 4 (3.03%) PyTorch
7 4 (3.03%) scikit-learn
7 4 (3.03%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.27%) CSS3
8 3 (2.27%) HTML5
8 3 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.58%) Public Cloud
5 8 (6.06%) Algorithms
5 8 (6.06%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.06%) Fixed Income
6 7 (5.30%) Blockchain
6 7 (5.30%) Web3
7 6 (4.55%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.79%) Replication
9 4 (3.03%) Clustering
9 4 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.27%) FMCG
11 2 (1.52%) Derivative
11 2 (1.52%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.36%) Linux
2 9 (6.82%) Windows
3 7 (5.30%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.06%) CI/CD
2 70 (53.03%) DevOps
3 49 (37.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 45 (34.09%) Agile
6 37 (28.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 33 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (24.24%) Microservices
9 27 (20.45%) Mentoring
10 26 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (17.42%) Software Engineering
12 22 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (14.39%) Release Management
15 18 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
15 18 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
15 18 (13.64%) Test Automation
16 16 (12.12%) Analytics
17 15 (11.36%) DevSecOps
17 15 (11.36%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (52.27%) Python
2 28 (21.21%) Bash
3 26 (19.70%) Java
4 25 (18.94%) Go
5 19 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 15 (11.36%) SQL
7 11 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.58%) PowerShell
9 7 (5.30%) C#
10 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.79%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.79%) Ruby
11 3 (2.27%) PHP
12 2 (1.52%) C++
12 2 (1.52%) Gremlin
12 2 (1.52%) Rust
12 2 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.76%) Groovy
13 1 (0.76%) Scala
13 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (12.12%) Degree
2 12 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.52%) CCNP
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.76%) CCNA
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
2 4 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.52%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
System Software
1 45 (34.09%) Docker
2 6 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.76%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 60 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 57 (43.18%) Terraform
3 46 (34.85%) Prometheus
4 32 (24.24%) Grafana
5 16 (12.12%) Ansible
6 10 (7.58%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.55%) Istio
8 5 (3.79%) Consul
9 4 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (3.03%) Puppet
10 3 (2.27%) Argo
10 3 (2.27%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (1.52%) HAProxy
11 2 (1.52%) linkerd
11 2 (1.52%) Packer
12 1 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.76%) Kibana
12 1 (0.76%) logstash
12 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (7.58%) Google
2 9 (6.82%) Hitachi
3 7 (5.30%) Splunk
3 7 (5.30%) VMware
4 6 (4.55%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.79%) Databricks
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle
6 4 (3.03%) F5
7 3 (2.27%) Cisco
7 3 (2.27%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.27%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.27%) New Relic
7 3 (2.27%) Okta
8 2 (1.52%) SimCorp
9 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.76%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.76%) IBM
9 1 (0.76%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.76%) SAP