Observability Jobs in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 472 593
Rank change year-on-year +10 +121 -8
Permanent jobs citing Observability 107 330 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.41% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.51% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 54 99 55
10th Percentile £48,888 £42,250 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,188 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £98,900 £91,250 £114,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,233 65,053 52,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 91.36% 80.61% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 17,672 43,939 28,266
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK excluding London

Observability
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
North of England +30 34 £74,500 -3.87% 160
Scotland +1 32 £68,500 +1.76% 27
South East +112 31 £85,000 -2.86% 365
North West -23 20 £75,000 -6.25% 110
Yorkshire +66 11 £65,000 -23.53% 40
Midlands +71 7 £67,500 +35.00% 35
West Midlands +73 5 £67,563 +35.13% 18
North East +49 3 £69,384 +63.26% 10
South West +65 2 £95,000 +18.75% 49
East Midlands +49 2 £53,750 +36.08% 17
Wales - 1 £67,626 - 11
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.80%) nginx
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
2 2 (1.87%) CICS
2 2 (1.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 63 (58.88%) Azure
2 60 (56.07%) AWS
3 43 (40.19%) GCP
4 18 (16.82%) Azure Monitor
5 13 (12.15%) Datadog
6 12 (11.21%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (10.28%) GitHub
8 9 (8.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (6.54%) Pulumi
9 7 (6.54%) SaaS
9 7 (6.54%) Sentry
10 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (5.61%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (5.61%) Azure AKS
10 6 (5.61%) dbt
10 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) TCP/IP
2 6 (5.61%) DNS
2 6 (5.61%) Network Security
3 5 (4.67%) Firewall
4 3 (2.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.80%) VPN
5 2 (1.87%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) BGP
6 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.21%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.48%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (6.54%) Redis
5 6 (5.61%) MySQL
5 6 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.80%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) Big Data
8 1 (0.93%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.93%) DB2
8 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (11.21%) Git
2 11 (10.28%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.35%) GitLab
4 4 (3.74%) JIRA
5 3 (2.80%) NUnit
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.93%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.93%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) SoapUI
General
1 43 (40.19%) Social Skills
2 34 (31.78%) Finance
3 27 (25.23%) Law
4 17 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (13.08%) Legal
6 11 (10.28%) Banking
7 9 (8.41%) Retail
8 8 (7.48%) Marketing
9 6 (5.61%) Retail Banking
10 5 (4.67%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.93%) Games
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) Senior
2 24 (22.43%) Software Engineer
3 20 (18.69%) Lead
4 19 (17.76%) Site Engineer
4 19 (17.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 13 (12.15%) Senior Manager
6 12 (11.21%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Architect
10 6 (5.61%) Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Principal Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Incident Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) RESTful
2 13 (12.15%) Hugging Face
2 13 (12.15%) LangChain
2 13 (12.15%) PyTorch
2 13 (12.15%) TensorFlow
3 11 (10.28%) React
4 10 (9.35%) .NET
4 10 (9.35%) Kafka
5 8 (7.48%) GraphQL
6 7 (6.54%) Django
7 6 (5.61%) REST
8 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (4.67%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (4.67%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.74%) Loki
9 4 (3.74%) Node.js
9 4 (3.74%) SOAP
10 2 (1.87%) LDAP
10 2 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 17 (15.89%) Product Ownership
3 10 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.54%) Private Cloud
5 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.80%) Clustering
6 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.87%) CMDB
7 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.87%) IoT
7 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.69%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Windows
3 7 (6.54%) Unix
4 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.60%) CI/CD
2 43 (40.19%) DevOps
3 36 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (31.78%) Software Engineering
5 32 (29.91%) Agile
6 30 (28.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (27.10%) Roadmaps
8 26 (24.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 25 (23.36%) Incident Management
10 24 (22.43%) High Availability
11 23 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (19.63%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (19.63%) Computer Science
13 20 (18.69%) Machine Learning
13 20 (18.69%) Performance Tuning
13 20 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
14 19 (17.76%) Cloud Security
14 19 (17.76%) Microservices
15 18 (16.82%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (16.82%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 41 (38.32%) Python
2 32 (29.91%) Java
3 15 (14.02%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.15%) C#
5 12 (11.21%) Bash
6 9 (8.41%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.48%) SQL
8 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
9 6 (5.61%) Go
10 3 (2.80%) C
11 2 (1.87%) Perl
11 2 (1.87%) PHP
11 2 (1.87%) Rust
12 1 (0.93%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.93%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.93%) C++
12 1 (0.93%) JCL
12 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.93%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (12.15%) Master's Degree
4 9 (8.41%) Security Cleared
5 8 (7.48%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.48%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.74%) CCNP
6 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.80%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) MCSD
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) QA
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
2 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (28.97%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.87%) Squid
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.87%) vSphere
4 1 (0.93%) RACF
Systems Management
1 50 (46.73%) Terraform
2 44 (41.12%) Grafana
3 40 (37.38%) Kubernetes
4 38 (35.51%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.21%) Ansible
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (3.74%) Netcool
7 4 (3.74%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 4 (3.74%) Puppet
7 4 (3.74%) Tivoli
8 3 (2.80%) Kibana
9 2 (1.87%) Argo
9 2 (1.87%) Kubespray
9 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 17 (15.89%) Splunk
2 15 (14.02%) Google
3 13 (12.15%) OpenAI
4 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.61%) Databricks
5 6 (5.61%) Dynatrace
5 6 (5.61%) IBM
6 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.80%) F5
8 3 (2.80%) New Relic
8 3 (2.80%) Oracle
9 2 (1.87%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.87%) Ping Identity
9 2 (1.87%) VMware
10 1 (0.93%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco
10 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.93%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.93%) Sybase