Observability Job Trends in the North East

Observability
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 86 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 -28 +32
Permanent jobs citing Observability 10 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.97% 0.30% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.34% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 4
10th Percentile £65,000 £64,471 £47,810
25th Percentile £66,771 £64,471 £55,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -53.57%
75th Percentile £110,000 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - £74,144 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.23% -3.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 827 870 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.60% 88.41% 90.69%
Number of salaries quoted 540 388 464
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,925 £29,150
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% -1.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £74,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Observability job vacancy trend in the North East

Observability
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North East over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the North East

Observability
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Tyne and Wear +14 6 £105,000 - 32
Durham +7 4 £73,801 +6.48%
Observability
England

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) dbt
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECR
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) PaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Pulumi
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Sentry
5 2 (20.00%) Slack
6 1 (10.00%) Datadog
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (30.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Locust
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Head of IT
1 4 (40.00%) Head of IT Security
1 4 (40.00%) Head of Security
2 3 (30.00%) Head of Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Django
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
1 6 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 5 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (40.00%) Business Continuity
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (40.00%) Information Security
3 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
3 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Google