Observability Job Trends in Preston

Observability
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 0.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £61,125 - -
25th Percentile £62,813 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 - -
75th Percentile £70,313 - -
90th Percentile £72,375 - -
Lancashire median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 81 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Preston 57.10% 100.00% 90.82%
Number of salaries quoted 89 47 139
10th Percentile £28,500 £47,010 £25,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £48,869 £30,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +14.13% +5.02%
75th Percentile £63,750 £59,012 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,810 £62,750
Lancashire median annual salary £48,445 £50,055 £47,000
% change year-on-year -3.22% +6.50% -1.05%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Preston

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Building Information Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Autodesk
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft