Observability Job Trends in Manchester

Observability
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 137 108
Rank change year-on-year +47 -29 +41
Permanent jobs citing Observability 127 12 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.66% 0.50% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 0.57% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 61 11 10
10th Percentile £47,500 £68,813 £41,088
25th Percentile £55,000 £72,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £77,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +45.54% -26.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £65,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £74,480
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £68,404
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.64% -5.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,818 2,118 3,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.16% 89.10% 84.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,360 1,193 1,595
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,650
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Manchester

Observability
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Manchester

Observability
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Cheadle - 6 £63,750 - 1
Stockport - 3 £75,000 - 3
Wigan - 1 - - 2
Altrincham - 1 - - 1
Observability
North West

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (3.94%) Confluence
2 3 (2.36%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 77 (60.63%) AWS
2 35 (27.56%) Azure
3 31 (24.41%) GitHub
4 30 (23.62%) Serverless
5 26 (20.47%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (13.39%) Datadog
6 17 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (12.60%) GCP
8 13 (10.24%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (10.24%) Route 53
8 13 (10.24%) SaaS
9 12 (9.45%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (7.09%) Snowflake
12 8 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (5.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (4.72%) AWS Fargate
15 5 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (3.94%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.57%) BGP
2 2 (1.57%) IPFIX
2 2 (1.57%) OSPF
2 2 (1.57%) SNMP
2 2 (1.57%) VLAN
3 1 (0.79%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.02%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.45%) NoSQL
3 10 (7.87%) DynamoDB
3 10 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.30%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.72%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.94%) Chroma
6 5 (3.94%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.36%) MySQL
8 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.79%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.79%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.79%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.79%) Redis
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (19.69%) GitLab
2 16 (12.60%) Git
3 13 (10.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.09%) JUnit
4 9 (7.09%) Spock
5 6 (4.72%) JIRA
6 5 (3.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.94%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.15%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.15%) Maven
8 3 (2.36%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.57%) Vite
10 1 (0.79%) Gradle
10 1 (0.79%) Mocha
10 1 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.79%) Xcode
General
1 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.90%) Finance
3 14 (11.02%) Retail
4 13 (10.24%) Aviation
5 12 (9.45%) Publishing
6 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.57%) iGaming
7 2 (1.57%) Law
7 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.79%) Billing
8 1 (0.79%) Local Government
8 1 (0.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (37.80%) Senior
2 24 (18.90%) Software Engineer
3 14 (11.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (11.02%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (10.24%) Developer
4 13 (10.24%) Head of Architecture
5 12 (9.45%) Senior Software Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Lead
7 10 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Snowflake Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.72%) Lead Software Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.94%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.07%) Terraform
2 34 (26.77%) React
3 32 (25.20%) Spring
4 19 (14.96%) Kafka
4 19 (14.96%) Spring Boot
5 18 (14.17%) Node.js
6 14 (11.02%) AngularJS
7 13 (10.24%) FastAPI
7 13 (10.24%) Vue
8 12 (9.45%) .NET
9 7 (5.51%) LangChain
10 6 (4.72%) Flask
10 6 (4.72%) REST
11 5 (3.94%) CrewAI
11 5 (3.94%) LangGraph
11 5 (3.94%) Next.js
12 4 (3.15%) pgvector
12 4 (3.15%) Pulumi
13 3 (2.36%) AWS CDK
13 3 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 51 (40.16%) Cloud Native
2 29 (22.83%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.45%) Media Streaming
3 12 (9.45%) Podcast
4 9 (7.09%) Onboarding
4 9 (7.09%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.36%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Replication
7 2 (1.57%) Culture of Ownership
7 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Animation
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) PMI
8 1 (0.79%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.66%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) VMS
3 3 (2.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (75.59%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.91%) DevOps
3 66 (51.97%) Software Engineering
4 61 (48.03%) AI
5 52 (40.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (39.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (38.58%) Agile
8 44 (34.65%) Mentoring
8 44 (34.65%) Microservices
9 36 (28.35%) Event-Driven
10 34 (26.77%) Containerisation
11 29 (22.83%) Cost Optimisation
12 28 (22.05%) Technical Leadership
13 27 (21.26%) Architectural Patterns
14 26 (20.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (19.69%) Code Quality
15 25 (19.69%) Collaborative Culture
15 25 (19.69%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (19.69%) Test Automation
16 24 (18.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (49.61%) Python
2 50 (39.37%) TypeScript
3 38 (29.92%) Java
4 30 (23.62%) SQL
5 26 (20.47%) Bash
6 19 (14.96%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.30%) C#
8 8 (6.30%) Go
9 4 (3.15%) Groovy
10 2 (1.57%) Bicep
10 2 (1.57%) PHP
11 1 (0.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.66%) SC Cleared
1 11 (8.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.87%) Degree
3 6 (4.72%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.15%) SLA
2 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 33 (25.98%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (34.65%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.75%) Grafana
3 18 (14.17%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.72%) Argo
5 4 (3.15%) Istio
5 4 (3.15%) linkerd
6 3 (2.36%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.36%) Puppet
6 3 (2.36%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.57%) Ansible
7 2 (1.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (12.60%) Splunk
2 10 (7.87%) AppDynamics
3 9 (7.09%) Google
4 6 (4.72%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.94%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.15%) Mistral
7 3 (2.36%) New Relic
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco
8 2 (1.57%) Commvault
8 2 (1.57%) ConnectWise
8 2 (1.57%) Datto
8 2 (1.57%) Dell
8 2 (1.57%) HP
8 2 (1.57%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (1.57%) NetApp
8 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.57%) Veeam
8 2 (1.57%) VMware
9 1 (0.79%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.79%) IBM