Observability Jobs in the Thames Valley

Observability
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Observability skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Observability over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 239 245
Rank change year-on-year +72 +6 +7
Permanent jobs citing Observability 9 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.030% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.035% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £76,250 - -
25th Percentile £85,000 £48,750 £96,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £52,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% -46.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £56,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £113,750 - -
South East median annual salary £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.94% +13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,902 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,688 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the Thames Valley

Observability
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Observability in the Thames Valley

Observability
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the Thames Valley

Observability
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire - 8 £85,000 - 10
Oxfordshire - 1 £110,000 - 1
Observability
South East

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) GitHub
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure AKS
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Loki
2 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Product Management
4 3 (33.33%) Runbook
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 2 (22.22%) GitOps
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (22.22%) RBAC
5 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) Ansible
4 3 (33.33%) Puppet
5 2 (22.22%) Argo
5 2 (22.22%) Kubespray
6 1 (11.11%) Grafana
6 1 (11.11%) Prometheus