Observability Jobs in the South West

Observability
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 257 265
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing Observability 50 9 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.54% 0.13% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.14% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 46 7 10
10th Percentile £65,000 - £58,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £42,874 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £44,033 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +81.68% -34.77% -27.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £135,693 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £82,075
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,760 6,372 7,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.57% 94.43% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5,572 3,563 5,004
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,325 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the South West

Observability
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the South West.

Salary trend for Observability in the South West

Observability
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the South West over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the South West

Observability
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Bristol +29 33 £80,000 +81.68% 3
Gloucestershire - 14 £70,000 - 2
Somerset - 2 £71,250 -
Devon - 1 - -
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (34.00%) Apache
1 17 (34.00%) Apache Spark
1 17 (34.00%) Jupyter
1 17 (34.00%) nginx
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 25 (50.00%) AWS
2 24 (48.00%) OpenShift
3 17 (34.00%) MinIO
4 14 (28.00%) GCP
5 12 (24.00%) Datadog
6 9 (18.00%) Azure
7 7 (14.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (14.00%) Serverless
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (6.00%) GitHub
10 3 (6.00%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (6.00%) OCI
10 3 (6.00%) Route 53
11 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.00%) AMQP
1 5 (10.00%) Network Security
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Big Data
1 17 (34.00%) Hadoop
1 17 (34.00%) Presto
2 9 (18.00%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (14.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (10.00%) InfluxDB
5 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.00%) DB2
6 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (54.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (34.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (4.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (24.00%) Tech for Good
2 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Data Engineer
3 12 (24.00%) Senior
3 12 (24.00%) Senior DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 10 (20.00%) Lead
5 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (44.00%) RabbitMQ
2 18 (36.00%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (34.00%) ActiveMQ
3 17 (34.00%) Apache NiFi
3 17 (34.00%) YAML
4 2 (4.00%) .NET
4 2 (4.00%) Spring
4 2 (4.00%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.00%) Blockchain
3 3 (6.00%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (60.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) DevOps
2 34 (68.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (56.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (42.00%) Containerisation
5 19 (38.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 17 (34.00%) Data Engineering
6 17 (34.00%) Requirements Engineering
6 17 (34.00%) Service Delivery
6 17 (34.00%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Agile
8 6 (12.00%) Configuration Management
9 5 (10.00%) Event-Driven
9 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 3 (6.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (6.00%) Coaching
10 3 (6.00%) Mentoring
10 3 (6.00%) Secrets Management
10 3 (6.00%) Test Automation
11 2 (4.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Python
2 22 (44.00%) Shell Script
3 17 (34.00%) Bash
4 7 (14.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) Go
5 5 (10.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Groovy
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.00%) Ruby
6 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (74.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (82.00%) Terraform
2 40 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 38 (76.00%) Prometheus
4 34 (68.00%) Grafana
5 22 (44.00%) Ansible
6 17 (34.00%) HAProxy
7 5 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (10.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.00%) Consul
8 1 (2.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) VMware
2 4 (8.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.00%) IBM
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Sybase