Observability Jobs in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 387 346
Rank change year-on-year +57 -41 -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 60 44 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.35% 0.25% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.26% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 20 25 39
10th Percentile £38,750 - £46,775
25th Percentile £42,188 £42,874 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,038 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.08% -25.93% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,248 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £121,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,471 17,023 16,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.85% 96.91% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,115 8,075 10,802
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,258
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.45% +5.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the North of England.

Salary trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
North West +40 46 £80,000 +34.13% 9
North East +6 8 £43,750 -68.75%
Yorkshire +67 6 £70,576 +60.28% 1
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 42 (70.00%) AWS
2 38 (63.33%) Amazon S3
3 36 (60.00%) Amazon ECR
3 36 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (60.00%) IBM Cloud
3 36 (60.00%) OCI
3 36 (60.00%) Route 53
4 16 (26.67%) Azure
5 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (10.00%) GitHub
7 5 (8.33%) Anthos
7 5 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (5.00%) IaaS
8 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.00%) PaaS
8 3 (5.00%) SaaS
9 2 (3.33%) CloudFront
9 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) DHCP
2 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) LAN
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
2 3 (5.00%) WAN
2 3 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.67%) Big Data
3 4 (6.67%) Metadata
3 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Redis
5 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Power BI
6 1 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) GitLab
3 3 (5.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.33%) Gradle
5 1 (1.67%) Appium
5 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 37 (61.67%) Public Sector
2 36 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Finance
5 5 (8.33%) Retail
6 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Marketing
6 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (71.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (63.33%) Senior
3 36 (60.00%) Senior DevOps
3 36 (60.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Analyst
5 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Data Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Master Data Analyst
8 1 (1.67%) Mobile Engineer
8 1 (1.67%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) .NET
1 6 (10.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (10.00%) Node.js
1 6 (10.00%) YAML
2 4 (6.67%) JSON
2 4 (6.67%) React
3 3 (5.00%) Spring
4 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.67%) Kafka
5 1 (1.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.67%) PySpark
5 1 (1.67%) REST
5 1 (1.67%) Swagger
5 1 (1.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (63.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (60.00%) Blockchain
2 36 (60.00%) e-Learning
3 4 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.67%) Android
3 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (83.33%) DevOps
2 45 (75.00%) Agile
3 42 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 37 (61.67%) Test Automation
5 36 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 36 (60.00%) Coaching
5 36 (60.00%) Mentoring
5 36 (60.00%) Secrets Management
6 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (10.00%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.00%) E-Commerce
9 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (8.33%) Microservices
11 4 (6.67%) Customer Service
11 4 (6.67%) Metadata Management
11 4 (6.67%) Mobile First
11 4 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.00%) Bash
2 9 (15.00%) Python
3 7 (11.67%) SQL
4 5 (8.33%) Go
4 5 (8.33%) Java
5 3 (5.00%) Ruby
6 2 (3.33%) C#
6 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (78.33%) Kubernetes
2 44 (73.33%) Terraform
3 39 (65.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.33%) Grafana
4 5 (8.33%) Istio
5 3 (5.00%) Kibana
6 2 (3.33%) Ansible
6 2 (3.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 36 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 36 (60.00%) IBM
1 36 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
2 5 (8.33%) PagerDuty
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) VMware
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) New Relic
4 2 (3.33%) Splunk