Observability Job Trends in the South East

Observability
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 238 318
Rank change year-on-year +19 +80 -39
Permanent jobs citing Observability 121 44 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.64% 0.49% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.56% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 84 20 8
10th Percentile £52,000 £54,250 £61,400
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,125 £66,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% -14.71%
75th Percentile £82,813 £81,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £99,250 £85,000 £102,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +1.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,698 7,897 10,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 72.26% 88.21% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,727 4,245 5,277
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,766 £32,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Observability job vacancy trend in the South East

Observability
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the South East over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in the South East

Observability
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
Thames Valley +3 44 £70,000 -6.67% 122
Hampshire -17 39 £60,000 +4.35% 42
Surrey -15 23 £60,000 +4.35% 36
Berkshire +14 21 £80,000 +18.52% 50
Oxfordshire -23 13 £54,000 -47.95% 45
Buckinghamshire -3 10 £70,000 -6.67% 27
West Sussex - 5 £76,250 - 14
Kent -20 3 £50,000 - 6
East Sussex - 3 £85,000 - 5
Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
Observability
England

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.31%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Apache
2 1 (0.83%) nginx
2 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Maximo
2 1 (0.83%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 64 (52.89%) AWS
2 62 (51.24%) Azure
3 27 (22.31%) GCP
4 24 (19.83%) GitHub
5 21 (17.36%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (15.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (14.05%) Datadog
8 16 (13.22%) SaaS
9 13 (10.74%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (9.92%) Azure AKS
10 12 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (8.26%) OpenShift
13 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.79%) Serverless
14 5 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
15 4 (3.31%) Azure Stack
16 3 (2.48%) IaaS
16 3 (2.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.88%) Firewall
2 14 (11.57%) VPN
3 9 (7.44%) DNS
4 3 (2.48%) BGP
4 3 (2.48%) MQTT
4 3 (2.48%) Network Security
4 3 (2.48%) WAN
5 2 (1.65%) IPv4
5 2 (1.65%) IPv6
5 2 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.65%) WireGuard
6 1 (0.83%) Broadband
6 1 (0.83%) HTTP
6 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.70%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.13%) Redis
3 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.65%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.65%) DocumentDB
4 2 (1.65%) GIS
4 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (13.22%) GitLab
2 14 (11.57%) Git
3 7 (5.79%) JIRA
4 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.31%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.48%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.65%) MSI
7 2 (1.65%) Snyk
7 2 (1.65%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.83%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.83%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (28.93%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Finance
3 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.96%) Retail
5 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Games
5 4 (3.31%) Legal
6 3 (2.48%) Aviation
6 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (28.10%) Senior
2 16 (13.22%) Site Engineer
2 16 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (11.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.92%) Lead
5 10 (8.26%) Administrator
5 10 (8.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
5 10 (8.26%) Systems Administrator
6 9 (7.44%) DevOps Administrator
7 7 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (5.79%) Platform Manager
8 6 (4.96%) Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 6 (4.96%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (55.37%) Terraform
2 11 (9.09%) Loki
3 8 (6.61%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (5.79%) REST
4 7 (5.79%) YAML
5 6 (4.96%) .NET
6 5 (4.13%) Kafka
7 4 (3.31%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.31%) OpenTofu
7 4 (3.31%) React
8 3 (2.48%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.48%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.48%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.48%) gRPC
8 3 (2.48%) Keycloak
8 3 (2.48%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (2.48%) RESTful
9 2 (1.65%) ADO
9 2 (1.65%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.31%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.44%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.96%) IoT
4 6 (4.96%) Robotics
5 4 (3.31%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.48%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.65%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.83%) Social Media
8 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.58%) Linux
2 12 (9.92%) Windows
3 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.96%) Ubuntu
3 6 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.31%) CentOS
4 4 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (2.48%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (1.65%) Debian
6 2 (1.65%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.60%) CI/CD
2 71 (58.68%) DevOps
3 61 (50.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (35.54%) Platform Engineering
5 40 (33.06%) AI
6 39 (32.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 34 (28.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (19.83%) Agile
9 21 (17.36%) Containerisation
9 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (16.53%) GitOps
10 20 (16.53%) Incident Response
11 18 (14.88%) Cloud Security
11 18 (14.88%) Software Engineering
12 17 (14.05%) DevSecOps
13 16 (13.22%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (12.40%) Analytics
14 15 (12.40%) Mentoring
14 15 (12.40%) Microservices
15 14 (11.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.11%) Python
2 27 (22.31%) Bash
3 15 (12.40%) Go
4 12 (9.92%) PowerShell
5 10 (8.26%) C#
5 10 (8.26%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.44%) SQL
7 7 (5.79%) PHP
8 5 (4.13%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.13%) Rust
9 4 (3.31%) Bicep
10 2 (1.65%) Java
10 2 (1.65%) Ruby
11 1 (0.83%) C++
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.61%) Degree
4 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.83%) MBA
8 1 (0.83%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.65%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) SOC 1
System Software
1 23 (19.01%) Docker
2 8 (6.61%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.65%) iptables
4 2 (1.65%) Lustre
4 2 (1.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (1.65%) Xen
5 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 65 (53.72%) Kubernetes
2 47 (38.84%) Grafana
3 42 (34.71%) Prometheus
4 29 (23.97%) Ansible
5 18 (14.88%) Argo
6 12 (9.92%) Kustomize
7 11 (9.09%) Istio
8 7 (5.79%) Podman
9 6 (4.96%) Proxmox
10 5 (4.13%) Puppet
11 4 (3.31%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (3.31%) Nagios
12 2 (1.65%) FlexNet
12 2 (1.65%) Kibana
12 2 (1.65%) Packer
12 2 (1.65%) Rancher
12 2 (1.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.26%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.79%) Dynatrace
4 6 (4.96%) New Relic
4 6 (4.96%) Splunk
4 6 (4.96%) VMware
5 5 (4.13%) Google
6 4 (3.31%) Tenable
7 3 (2.48%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.65%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.65%) Blue Prism
8 2 (1.65%) Foundry
8 2 (1.65%) NetApp
8 2 (1.65%) SAP
8 2 (1.65%) Workday
9 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle
9 1 (0.83%) Veracode