OpenTelemetry Job Trends in the UK excluding London

OpenTelemetry (OTel)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 569 545
Rank change year-on-year +50 -24 +242
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 4 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.10% 0.14% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £51,250 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,313 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,188 -
90th Percentile - £71,875 -
UK median annual salary £90,000 £67,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +29.81% -13.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,848 7,214 7,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.15% 19.34% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,952 4,073 5,744
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

OpenTelemetry job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

OpenTelemetry
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

OpenTelemetry
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 OpenTelemetry within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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 +18 2 £60,000 +13.21% 22
Yorkshire +3 2 £60,000 +13.21% 14
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 - - 13
South West - 1 - - 5
OpenTelemetry
UK

OpenTelemetry
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
2 2 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Argo
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google