OpenTelemetry Job Trends in the South East

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.016% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +27.27% -24.14% -44.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,102 1,511 2,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.77% 21.70% 18.78%
Number of salaries quoted 896 980 2,278
10th Percentile £36,875 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.76%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the South East

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
Hampshire - 2 £60,000 - 3
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Loki
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Scalr
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform