Observability Job Trends in Staffordshire

Observability
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Observability skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - -
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 - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £190,000 £50,000 £87,250
% change year-on-year +280.00% -42.69% +32.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 543 731 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 71.64% 80.77% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 224 445 326
10th Percentile £27,000 £24,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,580 £28,822 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,060 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.33% -7.38% -3.89%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,000 £55,188
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £66,250
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in Staffordshire

Observability
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Observability

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft