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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 48 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 +56
Permanent jobs citing Observability 3 4 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.91% 0.82% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.03% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +30.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +14.29%

All Process and 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 292 388 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 89.02% 79.18% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 138 193 266
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,500 £29,872
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £93,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 18 October 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 +13 2 £73,801 +6.48% 6
County Armagh - 1 - - 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 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (33.33%) Sentry
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Search
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI