Observability Jobs in the Midlands

Observability
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 312 316
Rank change year-on-year +76 +4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Observability 7 13 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.11% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £56,890 - £68,000
25th Percentile £63,150 - £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £96,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -47.92% +60.00%
75th Percentile £70,186 - £145,000
90th Percentile £77,973 £62,000 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,342 9,627 9,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.30% 82.47% 96.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,662 7,118 4,613
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,002 £34,750 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,950 £75,000 £78,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the Midlands

Observability
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +53 7 £67,500 +35.00% 15
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) Datadog
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Sentry
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) MPLS
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (28.57%) WLAN
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
General
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Site Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) API Development
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) CCIE
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CITP
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google