Observability Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Observability
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 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 51 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +55
Permanent jobs citing Observability 5 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.01% 1.40% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.71% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile - - £48,250
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +20.53% +15.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -5.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 384 350 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 77.26% 81.78% 92.48%
Number of salaries quoted 170 123 207
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +21.21% -1.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £68,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Observability
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Observability

Observability
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +5 4 £73,801 +6.48% 46
County Armagh - 1 - -
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) dbt
3 3 (60.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (20.00%) Datadog
5 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (20.00%) SaaS
5 1 (20.00%) Sentry
5 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Locust
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Service-Level Objective
4 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) AI
5 1 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Logistics
5 1 (20.00%) Market Research
5 1 (20.00%) OWASP
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Product Management
5 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Telematics
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI