Observability Job Trends in Taunton

Observability
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 1.05% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median annual salary £52,500 £95,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -44.74% +40.74% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 14 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 78.95% 77.78% 78.00%
Number of salaries quoted 59 8 29
10th Percentile £29,375 £15,423 £12,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £18,856 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £29,810 £36,214
Median % change year-on-year +34.18% -17.68% -17.49%
75th Percentile £46,250 £43,250 £45,000
90th Percentile £55,000 £52,625 £56,000
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 £54,301 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.13% +14.32% -5.00%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Observability job vacancy trend in Taunton

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes