Observability Job Trends in Southampton

Observability
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 1 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.17% 0.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.68% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £72,500 £95,000 -
% change year-on-year -23.68% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 442 292 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 75.56% 89.30% 85.05%
Number of salaries quoted 315 234 551
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,313 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Southampton

Observability
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Observability

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