Observability Job Trends in Stockport

Observability
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 3 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 4.41% - 11.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% - 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £77,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £70,400 £75,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +50.00% -27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 62 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 95.59% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 34 21 49
10th Percentile £27,450 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £38,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.72% -23.50% +65.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,125 £57,500 £69,000
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Stockport

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Go
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google