Observability Job Trends in Reading

Observability
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 71 -
Rank change year-on-year +25 - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.51% 0.53% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.60% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £66,500 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £66,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £72,750 £76,500 -
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 469 667 965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 79.22% 88.23% 91.99%
Number of salaries quoted 304 294 625
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,625 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £50,000 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,375 £96,750 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -6.78%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Reading

Observability
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Observability

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) Next.js
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Sequelize
1 1 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform