Observability Job Trends in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 211 270
Rank change year-on-year +18 +59 +126
Permanent jobs citing Observability 80 70 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.74% 0.77% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.85% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 62 26 17
10th Percentile £57,625 £51,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £64,471 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,401 £74,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +15.00% -2.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,778 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%

All Process & 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 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
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 of England

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

Observability job vacancy trend in the North of England

Observability
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
North West +7 44 £73,801 -1.60% 72
Yorkshire +4 26 £80,000 -6.16% 71
North East +18 10 £73,801 +6.48% 21
Observability
England

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.75%) nginx
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 55 (68.75%) AWS
2 52 (65.00%) Azure
3 22 (27.50%) GCP
4 17 (21.25%) Serverless
5 12 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (13.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (13.75%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (13.75%) SaaS
7 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (11.25%) GitHub
8 9 (11.25%) Power Platform
9 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 8 (10.00%) OneDrive
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
10 7 (8.75%) dbt
10 7 (8.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 2 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (1.25%) DNS
3 1 (1.25%) HTTP
3 1 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.75%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.75%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (8.75%) Redis
3 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.75%) Spark SQL
4 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.50%) PostHog
6 1 (1.25%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.25%) Metadata
6 1 (1.25%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (23.75%) GitLab
2 9 (11.25%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.50%) Git
4 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.50%) JMeter
4 2 (2.50%) Locust
4 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.25%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (1.25%) git-flow
5 1 (1.25%) JIRA
5 1 (1.25%) Snyk
5 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.50%) Retail
5 5 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.50%) Banking
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Lead
3 14 (17.50%) Platform Engineer
3 14 (17.50%) Senior
4 9 (11.25%) Lead DevOps
4 9 (11.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Head of IT
6 4 (5.00%) Head of IT Security
6 4 (5.00%) Head of Security
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Head of Engineering
7 3 (3.75%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Site Engineer
8 2 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.75%) Node.js
2 10 (12.50%) React
3 7 (8.75%) Django
4 6 (7.50%) .NET
4 6 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (7.50%) RESTful
5 4 (5.00%) PySpark
6 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.50%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.50%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.50%) Gherkin
7 2 (2.50%) Loki
7 2 (2.50%) MassTransit
7 2 (2.50%) Next.js
7 2 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.25%) JSON
8 1 (1.25%) REST
8 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.25%) CMDB
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Unix
3 3 (3.75%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (76.25%) DevOps
2 57 (71.25%) CI/CD
3 44 (55.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (46.25%) Agile
5 31 (38.75%) Incident Response
6 26 (32.50%) Platform Engineering
7 25 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (22.50%) Software Engineering
10 17 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (20.00%) Containerisation
11 16 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
12 14 (17.50%) Identity Access Management
12 14 (17.50%) Mentoring
13 13 (16.25%) AI
13 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 13 (16.25%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 10 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) TypeScript
3 8 (10.00%) SQL
4 7 (8.75%) Java
5 5 (6.25%) Bash
5 5 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (5.00%) Go
7 3 (3.75%) Bicep
8 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.25%) Degree
5 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CISM
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.50%) NIST
5 2 (2.50%) WCAG
6 1 (1.25%) GDPR
6 1 (1.25%) GRC
6 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (41.25%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.25%) Squid
4 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (65.00%) Terraform
2 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 27 (33.75%) Grafana
4 22 (27.50%) Prometheus
5 13 (16.25%) Ansible
6 9 (11.25%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (3.75%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (2.50%) Argo
10 1 (1.25%) Fluentd
10 1 (1.25%) Kibana
10 1 (1.25%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Splunk
3 9 (11.25%) New Relic
4 5 (6.25%) Google
5 4 (5.00%) Databricks
6 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.25%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.25%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.25%) F5
7 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.25%) Qualys
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.25%) VMware