OpenTelemetry Job Trends in the Thames Valley

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.017% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 556 447 1,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.33% 12.93% 15.93%
Number of salaries quoted 446 287 934
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,625 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing OpenTelemetry relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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 - 1 £80,000 - 1
OpenTelemetry
South East

OpenTelemetry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) OpenShift
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus