Observability Job Trends in the Midlands

Observability
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 198 213 257
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 -29
Permanent jobs citing Observability 80 16 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.52% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 54 13 14
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £59,937 £53,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,246 £65,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% +40.54% -57.95%
75th Percentile £86,875 £195,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £94,625 - £71,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

All Process & 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 10,658 4,770 7,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.48% 85.35% 78.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7,593 2,851 4,046
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,822
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Observability job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Observability
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

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 15 September 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 Midlands +1 48 £73,000 -61.58% 65
East Midlands -4 32 £67,500 +22.73% 54
Observability
England

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (1.25%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.25%) Confluence
1 1 (1.25%) Documentum
1 1 (1.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.25%) Azure
2 34 (42.50%) AWS
3 17 (21.25%) GCP
4 12 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (11.25%) SaaS
6 9 (11.25%) Serverless
7 8 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (8.75%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.75%) GitHub
9 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.00%) Entra ID
10 4 (5.00%) Google Ads
10 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Advertising
11 3 (3.75%) Cloudflare
12 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (2.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.25%) DNS
2 5 (6.25%) Firewall
2 5 (6.25%) VPN
3 3 (3.75%) SSL
3 3 (3.75%) VLAN
4 1 (1.25%) BGP
4 1 (1.25%) HTTP
4 1 (1.25%) IPFIX
4 1 (1.25%) OSPF
4 1 (1.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) JIRA
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) XCUITest
General
1 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Banking
3 8 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 8 (10.00%) Retail
4 7 (8.75%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Advertising
6 4 (5.00%) Law
6 4 (5.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Billing
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (20.00%) Lead
3 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 8 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Administrator
8 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Engineering Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (3.75%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Network Administrator
8 3 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (2.50%) .NET Architect
9 2 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (42.50%) Terraform
2 18 (22.50%) React
3 14 (17.50%) REST
4 13 (16.25%) .NET
5 9 (11.25%) Next.js
6 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 8 (10.00%) Kafka
6 8 (10.00%) Spring
6 8 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 6 (7.50%) AWS CDK
8 5 (6.25%) .NET Framework
8 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (6.25%) Entity Framework
9 4 (5.00%) STL
10 3 (3.75%) Node.js
11 2 (2.50%) Middleware
11 2 (2.50%) PySpark
11 2 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 16 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (13.75%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 4 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.75%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.50%) Robotics
6 2 (2.50%) SCADA
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.25%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Linux
2 7 (8.75%) Windows
3 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) Android
5 2 (2.50%) Unix
6 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (61.25%) CI/CD
1 49 (61.25%) Infrastructure as Code
2 38 (47.50%) Mentoring
3 36 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 35 (43.75%) DevOps
5 25 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (30.00%) AI
7 23 (28.75%) Agile
8 21 (26.25%) Containerisation
9 20 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (21.25%) Roadmaps
10 17 (21.25%) Software Engineering
11 16 (20.00%) Microservices
11 16 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 15 (18.75%) DevSecOps
12 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (17.50%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Python
2 12 (15.00%) TypeScript
3 11 (13.75%) C#
3 11 (13.75%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.75%) SQL
5 5 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.00%) Bicep
6 4 (5.00%) C++
6 4 (5.00%) Go
7 2 (2.50%) Bash
8 1 (1.25%) Delphi
8 1 (1.25%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.50%) CISSP
5 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) GxP
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.25%) PSD2
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
4 1 (1.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (36.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.00%) Grafana
3 6 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.00%) Ansible
4 4 (5.00%) Argo
5 3 (3.75%) Istio
6 2 (2.50%) Bosun
6 2 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.50%) Databricks
2 6 (7.50%) Google
3 4 (5.00%) Facebook
3 4 (5.00%) Instagram
3 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.00%) TikTok
4 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) VMware
6 1 (1.25%) OpenText