Observability Jobs in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 319 393
Rank change year-on-year +7 +74 -54
Permanent jobs citing Observability 34 68 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.38% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.46% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 30 25 20
10th Percentile £50,913 £38,750 -
25th Percentile £62,783 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £54,000 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year +33.80% +22.64% -32.26%
75th Percentile £79,375 £82,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £104,180 £90,500 £78,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,913 14,844 16,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.30% 81.98% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,415 11,360 7,881
10th Percentile £25,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
North West -35 20 £75,000 -6.25% 107
Yorkshire +69 11 £65,000 -21.21% 41
North East +43 3 £69,384 +58.59% 15
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) AWS
2 18 (52.94%) Azure
3 13 (38.24%) GCP
4 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (14.71%) Pulumi
5 5 (14.71%) SaaS
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (11.76%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (11.76%) dbt
6 4 (11.76%) Sentry
7 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (8.82%) Datadog
7 3 (8.82%) Serverless
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (2.94%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Redis
4 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
3 2 (5.88%) NUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Jasmine
4 1 (2.94%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (11.76%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Games
4 2 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Senior
1 11 (32.35%) Software Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Lead
2 8 (23.53%) Site Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
3 4 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Principal Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Administrator
5 2 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.94%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.94%) Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) React
2 5 (14.71%) .NET
3 4 (11.76%) Django
3 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (11.76%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (11.76%) RESTful
3 4 (11.76%) SOAP
4 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 2 (5.88%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) LDAP
4 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 2 (5.88%) REST
4 2 (5.88%) Web Services
5 1 (2.94%) ADO
5 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) SAML
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (23.53%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (20.59%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) CMDB
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.94%) IoT
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) Windows
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) CI/CD
2 22 (64.71%) DevOps
3 14 (41.18%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (38.24%) Software Engineering
5 12 (35.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (26.47%) Microservices
7 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 8 (23.53%) Prototyping
7 8 (23.53%) Service-Level Objective
8 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven
8 7 (20.59%) Performance Monitoring
8 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (17.65%) Secure Coding
10 5 (14.71%) API Development
10 5 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (11.76%) Open Source
11 4 (11.76%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) Java
3 7 (20.59%) TypeScript
4 5 (14.71%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 4 (11.76%) Bash
5 4 (11.76%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.94%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.94%) Rust
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.94%) SQL
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) MCSD
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.88%) Squid
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (58.82%) Terraform
2 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (23.53%) Prometheus
4 7 (20.59%) Grafana
5 6 (17.65%) Ansible
6 4 (11.76%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (8.82%) Kibana
8 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) New Relic
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity