OpenTelemetry Job Trends in London

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 421 441
Rank change year-on-year +74 +20 +210
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 27 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.045% 0.011%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.02% 0.17% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 17 7 1
10th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £75,000 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £92,500 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £132,500 £105,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £134,500 £107,500 -
England median annual salary £90,000 £71,250 £78,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.24% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,658 4,138 4,999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.85% 26.67% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,553 4,333
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.13% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £132,500 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in London

OpenTelemetry
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenTelemetry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for OpenTelemetry in London

OpenTelemetry
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
West London - 3 - -
Central London +38 2 £125,000 +35.14% 2
East London - 1 - - 1
South London - 1 - -
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) AWS
2 12 (44.44%) Azure
3 10 (37.04%) Pulumi
4 6 (22.22%) Datadog
5 5 (18.52%) GCP
6 4 (14.81%) PaaS
7 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub
8 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) NoSQL
1 10 (37.04%) RDBMS
1 10 (37.04%) Relational Database
2 5 (18.52%) Redis
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Big Data
4 1 (3.70%) Flink
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Jaeger
2 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) JUnit
2 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (7.41%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (40.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Legal
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Lead
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Lead Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.41%) CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (22.22%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) JWT
3 3 (11.11%) OAuth
3 3 (11.11%) OAuth2
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) pytest
5 1 (3.70%) Spring
5 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Linux
2 10 (37.04%) Unix
3 6 (22.22%) Windows
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) DevOps
2 16 (59.26%) Containerisation
3 15 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (51.85%) Agile
4 14 (51.85%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (51.85%) High Availability
5 13 (48.15%) Observability
6 12 (44.44%) Roadmaps
7 11 (40.74%) Cost Optimisation
8 10 (37.04%) Budget Control
8 10 (37.04%) GitOps
8 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
8 10 (37.04%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (37.04%) Product Management
8 10 (37.04%) Resource Management
8 10 (37.04%) Task Automation
9 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
10 5 (18.52%) AIOps
10 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Go
1 15 (55.56%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) Bash
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.41%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) PSD2
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
2 4 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (85.19%) Prometheus
2 18 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 17 (62.96%) Terraform
4 16 (59.26%) Ansible
5 11 (40.74%) Argo
6 10 (37.04%) Kustomize
7 7 (25.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Google
2 6 (22.22%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) AppDynamics
3 5 (18.52%) BigPanda
3 5 (18.52%) Dynatrace
3 5 (18.52%) ServiceNow
3 5 (18.52%) Splunk
4 4 (14.81%) Foundry
4 4 (14.81%) Palantir
5 2 (7.41%) Moogsoft
5 2 (7.41%) New Relic