Observability Job Trends in Swansea

Observability
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 2.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £47,650 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £74,125 - -
West Wales median annual salary £71,250 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 211 35 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 68.73% 77.78% 79.08%
Number of salaries quoted 137 27 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +22.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £78,800 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £46,131
% change year-on-year +32.51% -18.20% +13.19%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Swansea

Observability
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in Swansea over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in Swansea

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Adabas
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Mocha
3 1 (12.50%) RSpec
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (62.50%) Node.js
2 5 (62.50%) React
2 5 (62.50%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (50.00%) Kafka
4 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
5 2 (25.00%) AWS SAM
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) CSS3
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) HTML5
5 2 (25.00%) JPA
5 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (12.50%) Jest
6 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (50.00%) Mainframe
3 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (75.00%) Scrum
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (50.00%) Kanban
5 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 3 (37.50%) OWASP
6 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Natural
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) WCAG
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) OneLogin
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk