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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 268 256
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +12
Permanent jobs citing Observability 46 9 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.50% 0.13% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.14% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 43 7 8
10th Percentile £65,000 - £55,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £42,874 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £44,033 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.68% -41.29% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £135,693 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £86,225
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 7,732 6,516 7,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 84.15% 94.43% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 5,553 3,657 4,985
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,200 £38,353
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +7.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +30 32 £80,000 +81.68% 4
Gloucestershire - 13 £70,000 - 3
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 18 (39.13%) Apache
1 18 (39.13%) Apache Spark
1 18 (39.13%) Jupyter
1 18 (39.13%) nginx
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (54.35%) Amazon S3
2 24 (52.17%) OpenShift
3 20 (43.48%) AWS
4 18 (39.13%) MinIO
5 12 (26.09%) GCP
6 11 (23.91%) Datadog
7 9 (19.57%) Azure
8 6 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (10.87%) Serverless
10 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (4.35%) OCI
11 2 (4.35%) Route 53
12 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.17%) GitHub
12 1 (2.17%) Pulumi
12 1 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) AMQP
1 5 (10.87%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (39.13%) Big Data
1 18 (39.13%) Hadoop
1 18 (39.13%) Presto
2 8 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
4 5 (10.87%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.17%) DB2
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (54.35%) Jenkins
2 18 (39.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (23.91%) Tech for Good
2 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (82.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (39.13%) Big Data Engineer
2 18 (39.13%) Data Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) Senior DevOps
3 11 (23.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Lead
5 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (2.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 19 (41.30%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (39.13%) ActiveMQ
3 18 (39.13%) Apache NiFi
3 18 (39.13%) YAML
4 1 (2.17%) .NET
4 1 (2.17%) Spring
4 1 (2.17%) Spring XD
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.35%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 31 (67.39%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) DevOps
2 31 (67.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (54.35%) CI/CD
4 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
5 18 (39.13%) Data Engineering
5 18 (39.13%) Requirements Engineering
5 18 (39.13%) Service Delivery
5 18 (39.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 18 (39.13%) Thought Leadership
6 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
8 5 (10.87%) Event-Driven
8 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
9 4 (8.70%) Agile
10 2 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 2 (4.35%) Coaching
10 2 (4.35%) Mentoring
10 2 (4.35%) Secrets Management
10 2 (4.35%) Test Automation
11 1 (2.17%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) Python
2 23 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 18 (39.13%) Bash
4 6 (13.04%) Java
5 5 (10.87%) Go
5 5 (10.87%) SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (67.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (39.13%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (78.26%) Docker
2 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 37 (80.43%) Prometheus
2 37 (80.43%) Terraform
3 34 (73.91%) Grafana
4 23 (50.00%) Ansible
5 18 (39.13%) HAProxy
6 5 (10.87%) Docker Swarm
6 5 (10.87%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.17%) Consul
7 1 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) VMware
2 3 (6.52%) Dynatrace
3 2 (4.35%) IBM
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Sybase