Observability Job Trends in Merseyside

Observability
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.16% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.23% +16.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 558 556 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 86.78% 77.33% 93.98%
Number of salaries quoted 280 328 274
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,300
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,010
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,625 £66,500 £60,950
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,875 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,292 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% -4.92% +4.76%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Observability
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Observability

Observability
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 November 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
Liverpool - 1 £65,000 - 1
Observability
North West

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) git-flow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform