OpenTelemetry Job Trends in the South West

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 - 217
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.020% - 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% - 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £52,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £71,250 £78,500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -9.24% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 481 805 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.47% 19.41% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 361 462 993
10th Percentile £36,750 £42,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.86%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the South West

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Cornwall - 1 - - 7
OpenTelemetry
England

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google