Observability Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Observability
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 - -
75th Percentile £110,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £105,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 455 483 375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 79.55% 90.11% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 353 198 324
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,028
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.78% -7.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,444 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Observability
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Newcastle upon Tyne

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Slack
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Head of IT
1 4 (66.67%) Head of IT Security
1 4 (66.67%) Head of Security
2 3 (50.00%) Head of Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Incident Response
2 4 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 4 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Service Management
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Management
2 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 4 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft