Observability Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Observability
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 414 334
Rank change year-on-year +215 -80 +165
Permanent jobs citing Observability 725 134 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.88% 0.39% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.45% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 495 69 87
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £40,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £64,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £133,260 £91,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +6.67%

All Process & 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 57,891 29,871 43,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.31% 86.49% 78.09%
Number of salaries quoted 41,062 16,204 24,205
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Observability job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Observability
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

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 9 September 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
North of England +124 254 £73,750 -1.67% 273
North West +108 161 £71,196 -5.07% 167
South East +59 125 £63,000 -16.00% 146
South West +31 106 £81,250 +8.33% 117
Midlands +22 85 £71,991 +10.76% 70
East of England +18 59 £100,000 +8.11% 70
Scotland +19 55 £72,500 +3.57% 162
Yorkshire -10 50 £82,500 +3.13% 85
Wales -23 49 £70,996 +1.42% 21
West Midlands +6 48 £72,500 -61.84% 34
North East - 43 £66,000 - 21
East Midlands -2 37 £67,500 +22.73% 36
Northern Ireland - 1 £71,991 - 39
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (2.48%) Confluence
2 12 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.52%) Apache
3 11 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.10%) CMS
5 6 (0.83%) Sitecore CMS
6 4 (0.55%) IIS
6 4 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.28%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Documentum
8 1 (0.14%) OpenEdge
8 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 366 (50.48%) AWS
2 320 (44.14%) Azure
3 152 (20.97%) GCP
4 117 (16.14%) GitHub
5 111 (15.31%) Serverless
6 99 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (10.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
9 60 (8.28%) Datadog
9 60 (8.28%) SaaS
10 45 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
11 43 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
12 40 (5.52%) Amazon S3
13 34 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (4.00%) PaaS
15 28 (3.86%) Azure AKS
15 28 (3.86%) dbt
16 26 (3.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.55%) VPN
2 29 (4.00%) Firewall
3 24 (3.31%) DNS
4 21 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 19 (2.62%) Broadband
6 10 (1.38%) BGP
7 9 (1.24%) VLAN
8 7 (0.97%) Network Security
8 7 (0.97%) OSPF
9 6 (0.83%) DHCP
9 6 (0.83%) SNMP
9 6 (0.83%) WAN
10 5 (0.69%) SSL
11 4 (0.55%) IPFIX
12 3 (0.41%) MQTT
13 2 (0.28%) HTTP
13 2 (0.28%) IPv4
13 2 (0.28%) IPv6
13 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
13 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.93%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.72%) MySQL
5 26 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (3.59%) DynamoDB
6 24 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 22 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.21%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.93%) Redis
11 13 (1.79%) Metadata
11 13 (1.79%) Power BI
12 9 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.24%) Spark SQL
13 8 (1.10%) Big Data
14 7 (0.97%) Looker
14 7 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 87 (12.00%) Git
2 61 (8.41%) GitLab
3 41 (5.66%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.28%) JIRA
5 15 (2.07%) JUnit
6 10 (1.38%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.38%) Claude Code
7 9 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (1.24%) Spock
8 8 (1.10%) Selenium
8 8 (1.10%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (0.69%) Postman
10 5 (0.69%) Snyk
11 4 (0.55%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.55%) Maven
11 4 (0.55%) NUnit
12 3 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 163 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 114 (15.72%) Finance
3 78 (10.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 58 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.97%) Retail
7 34 (4.69%) Law
8 30 (4.14%) Banking
9 17 (2.34%) Games
9 17 (2.34%) Marketing
10 16 (2.21%) Aviation
11 11 (1.52%) Legal
12 10 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.69%) Advertising
15 5 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.55%) Military
16 4 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 148 (20.41%) Senior
2 134 (18.48%) Lead
3 93 (12.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (8.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 59 (8.14%) Developer
6 57 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
6 57 (7.86%) Software Engineer
7 53 (7.31%) Site Engineer
8 48 (6.62%) Data Engineer
9 42 (5.79%) Architect
10 41 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
12 36 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 35 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
14 27 (3.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (3.45%) Technical Leader
16 21 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
16 21 (2.90%) Senior Developer
17 18 (2.48%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (44.41%) Terraform
2 90 (12.41%) React
3 68 (9.38%) Node.js
4 64 (8.83%) Spring
5 63 (8.69%) .NET
6 59 (8.14%) Kafka
7 54 (7.45%) Spring Boot
8 51 (7.03%) REST
9 43 (5.93%) AngularJS
10 37 (5.10%) RESTful
11 29 (4.00%) AWS CDK
12 28 (3.86%) ARM Templates
13 25 (3.45%) YAML
14 23 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
14 23 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (2.90%) LangChain
15 21 (2.90%) Next.js
16 18 (2.48%) FastAPI
17 17 (2.34%) PySpark
18 15 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 209 (28.83%) Cloud Native
2 112 (15.45%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.07%) Onboarding
4 42 (5.79%) Product Ownership
5 27 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 24 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.90%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.76%) Private Cloud
10 19 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.21%) Mobile App
11 16 (2.21%) Podcast
12 15 (2.07%) Security Posture
13 14 (1.93%) Replication
14 13 (1.79%) Mainframe
14 13 (1.79%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.52%) Management Information System
16 9 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 92 (12.69%) Linux
2 40 (5.52%) Windows
3 22 (3.03%) Unix
4 17 (2.34%) VMS
5 15 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.38%) Android
8 9 (1.24%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.83%) AIX
10 4 (0.55%) CentOS
10 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.41%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.28%) Debian
12 2 (0.28%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (70.48%) CI/CD
2 389 (53.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 379 (52.28%) DevOps
4 252 (34.76%) AI
5 246 (33.93%) Agile
6 222 (30.62%) Software Engineering
7 220 (30.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 208 (28.69%) Mentoring
9 166 (22.90%) Technical Leadership
10 159 (21.93%) Containerisation
11 158 (21.79%) Platform Engineering
12 149 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
13 145 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 128 (17.66%) Test Automation
15 126 (17.38%) Microservices
16 105 (14.48%) Analytics
17 103 (14.21%) Event-Driven
18 94 (12.97%) Roadmaps
19 87 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
19 87 (12.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 277 (38.21%) Python
2 128 (17.66%) SQL
3 112 (15.45%) Java
4 109 (15.03%) Bash
5 95 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 83 (11.45%) PowerShell
7 63 (8.69%) JavaScript
8 50 (6.90%) C#
9 45 (6.21%) Bicep
10 35 (4.83%) Go
11 15 (2.07%) Ruby
12 12 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.52%) PHP
13 11 (1.52%) Scala
14 10 (1.38%) C++
15 6 (0.83%) Julia
15 6 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.83%) R
15 6 (0.83%) Rust
16 5 (0.69%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 127 (17.52%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 45 (6.21%) Degree
4 40 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 39 (5.38%) Azure Certification
6 36 (4.97%) DV Cleared
7 22 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.52%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
15 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.41%) CISSP
15 3 (0.41%) OCP
15 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.24%) Data Quality
1 38 (5.24%) QA
2 27 (3.72%) Accessibility
3 13 (1.79%) WCAG
4 12 (1.66%) GDPR
5 11 (1.52%) SLA
6 10 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.38%) NCSC
7 4 (0.55%) NIST
7 4 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) GRC
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) GxP
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
System Software
1 163 (22.48%) Docker
2 27 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.79%) vSphere
5 12 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.28%) iptables
8 2 (0.28%) Lustre
8 2 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Xen
9 1 (0.14%) Ceph
9 1 (0.14%) Firmware
9 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 249 (34.34%) Kubernetes
2 119 (16.41%) Grafana
3 104 (14.34%) Prometheus
4 62 (8.55%) Ansible
5 35 (4.83%) Argo
6 19 (2.62%) Istio
7 16 (2.21%) Puppet
8 12 (1.66%) Nagios
9 10 (1.38%) Kustomize
10 8 (1.10%) ZABBIX
11 7 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (0.97%) linkerd
11 7 (0.97%) Podman
11 7 (0.97%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.55%) Kibana
13 4 (0.55%) Packer
14 3 (0.41%) Mesos
14 3 (0.41%) Scalr
14 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.21%) Google
3 39 (5.38%) Splunk
4 35 (4.83%) Databricks
5 25 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 25 (3.45%) VMware
6 18 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.93%) Oracle
8 13 (1.79%) AppDynamics
9 12 (1.66%) ScienceLogic
10 10 (1.38%) New Relic
11 9 (1.24%) Foundry
11 9 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.97%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.97%) NVIDIA
12 7 (0.97%) OneLogin
12 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.83%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.69%) Pega
14 5 (0.69%) SolarWinds