Observability Jobs in the North West

Observability
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 240 288
Rank change year-on-year -16 +48 -38
Permanent jobs citing Observability 23 52 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 0.53% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.64% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 12
10th Percentile £47,875 £44,500 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £53,313 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +28.57% -18.33%
75th Percentile £82,563 £85,938 £74,688
90th Percentile £141,620 £92,500 £84,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,537 8,141 7,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.72% 82.81% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,112 6,183 3,906
10th Percentile £26,943 £27,500 £30,791
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North West

Observability
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Observability in the North West

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North West over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the North West

Observability
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +43 22 £75,000 -3.23% 50
Cheshire +15 1 £74,500 -6.88% 2
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.35%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (13.04%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare
5 1 (4.35%) Cloudflare Workers
5 1 (4.35%) Datadog
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Pulumi
5 1 (4.35%) Sentry
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) NUnit
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Games
3 2 (8.70%) Law
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Software Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 4 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Principal Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Principal Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Consultant
6 2 (8.70%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Java Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) React
2 4 (17.39%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (13.04%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js
4 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) Django
5 1 (4.35%) FIDO
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) JWT
5 1 (4.35%) OAuth
5 1 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (4.35%) Sass
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
1 7 (30.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 13 (56.52%) Software Engineering
3 10 (43.48%) Microservices
4 9 (39.13%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Event-Driven
6 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (26.09%) Service-Level Objective
8 5 (21.74%) Prototyping
9 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
9 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (17.39%) Impact Analysis
9 4 (17.39%) Line Management
9 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (17.39%) Rapid Prototyping
10 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) TypeScript
2 6 (26.09%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) Python
4 4 (17.39%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 12 (52.17%) Terraform
3 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
4 4 (17.39%) Grafana
5 3 (13.04%) Ansible
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) Kibana
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) ForgeRock
3 1 (4.35%) New Relic
3 1 (4.35%) Ping Identity