Observability Jobs

Observability
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 579 392
Rank change year-on-year +147 -187 +222
Permanent jobs citing Observability 481 330 1,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.41% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.43% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 197 194 312
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,874 £50,000
25th Percentile £64,500 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +12.07% -9.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £88,417
90th Percentile £111,250 £130,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £71,250 £61,248
% change year-on-year +12.28% +16.33% +11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Observability in the UK

Observability
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London +175 348 £80,000 +12.28% 20
England +54 315 £80,000 -3.03% 30
Scotland +84 158 £67,319 +52.88% 3
London +20 118 £83,230 -2.08% 19
Work from Home +1 101 £80,000 +3.23% 28
North of England +73 99 £80,000 +81.68% 5
North West +60 88 £80,000 +10.34% 1
South West +25 49 £80,000 -13.77% 3
Midlands -5 19 £42,000 -61.82% 1
East Midlands -15 14 £37,500 -58.33%
South East -13 12 £87,500 +9.38% 4
East of England +4 11 - -
Yorkshire +49 6 £85,000 +93.04% 4
West Midlands 0 5 £50,000 -54.55% 1
North East - 5 £42,500 -

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (4.57%) Apache
1 22 (4.57%) Apache Spark
1 22 (4.57%) nginx
2 16 (3.33%) Jupyter
3 4 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 295 (61.33%) AWS
2 144 (29.94%) Datadog
3 117 (24.32%) Amazon S3
4 97 (20.17%) Amazon EKS
5 92 (19.13%) Route 53
6 91 (18.92%) Amazon ECR
6 91 (18.92%) OCI
7 89 (18.50%) IBM Cloud
8 87 (18.09%) Azure
9 59 (12.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (9.77%) GCP
11 38 (7.90%) OpenShift
12 35 (7.28%) Serverless
13 26 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
14 24 (4.99%) GitHub
15 19 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (3.33%) MinIO
17 15 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.29%) AMQP
2 10 (2.08%) Firewall
3 7 (1.46%) Network Security
4 6 (1.25%) DNS
5 4 (0.83%) MQTT
5 4 (0.83%) VPN
6 3 (0.62%) BGP
6 3 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.62%) VLAN
7 2 (0.42%) Multicast
8 1 (0.21%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.21%) LAN
8 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.21%) WAN
8 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (21.41%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (9.36%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.61%) Big Data
4 25 (5.20%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.57%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.74%) Hadoop
7 16 (3.33%) Presto
8 13 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (2.49%) DB2
9 12 (2.49%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.08%) InfluxDB
10 10 (2.08%) MySQL
11 9 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (1.66%) NoSQL
12 8 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (1.46%) Metadata
14 6 (1.25%) Power BI
15 5 (1.04%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 78 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 28 (5.82%) GitLab
3 16 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 13 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (2.49%) Git
6 11 (2.29%) JIRA
7 9 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.66%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.66%) Spinnaker
9 6 (1.25%) Mocha
10 5 (1.04%) Jaeger
10 5 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.21%) Appium
13 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.21%) GDB
13 1 (0.21%) Postman
13 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 249 (51.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 187 (38.88%) Finance
3 166 (34.51%) Law
4 122 (25.36%) Marketing
5 112 (23.28%) Social Skills
6 94 (19.54%) Public Sector
7 25 (5.20%) Tech for Good
8 20 (4.16%) Banking
9 17 (3.53%) Retail
10 9 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.62%) Back Office
12 3 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.62%) Legal
13 2 (0.42%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.21%) Front Office
14 1 (0.21%) Games
14 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 158 (32.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 153 (31.81%) Senior
3 104 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 101 (21.00%) Senior DevOps
4 101 (21.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 84 (17.46%) Lead
6 61 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (10.81%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 41 (8.52%) Lead Software Engineer
9 26 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 24 (4.99%) Software Engineering Director
11 22 (4.57%) Architect
11 22 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (4.57%) Engineering Manager
12 21 (4.37%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 19 (3.95%) Site Engineer
13 19 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.74%) Senior Manager
14 18 (3.74%) Software Engineering Manager
15 17 (3.53%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (16.63%) OpenTelemetry
2 39 (8.11%) .NET
3 35 (7.28%) Spring
4 28 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
5 27 (5.61%) Spring Boot
6 21 (4.37%) YAML
7 20 (4.16%) Kafka
8 19 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
9 16 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
10 14 (2.91%) Node.js
10 14 (2.91%) React
11 12 (2.49%) Spring XD
12 8 (1.66%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.66%) Next.js
12 8 (1.66%) RESTful
13 7 (1.46%) Loki
13 7 (1.46%) OpenAPI
13 7 (1.46%) PySpark
13 7 (1.46%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 138 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 111 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 89 (18.50%) Blockchain
3 89 (18.50%) e-Learning
4 81 (16.84%) Public Cloud
5 34 (7.07%) Algorithms
6 33 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (5.20%) Management Information System
8 16 (3.33%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.46%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.04%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
11 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.04%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.83%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.62%) Blog
13 3 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.15%) Linux
2 12 (2.49%) Windows
3 7 (1.46%) VMS
4 5 (1.04%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.42%) Unix
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) CentOS
6 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (56.96%) Agile
2 230 (47.82%) DevOps
3 220 (45.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 213 (44.28%) CI/CD
5 204 (42.41%) Software Engineering
6 173 (35.97%) Containerisation
7 148 (30.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 128 (26.61%) Mentoring
9 117 (24.32%) Coaching
10 116 (24.12%) SDLC
11 109 (22.66%) Community of Practice
11 109 (22.66%) Test Automation
12 108 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 104 (21.62%) Machine Learning
14 92 (19.13%) Operational Stability
15 91 (18.92%) Continuous Delivery
15 91 (18.92%) Secrets Management
16 75 (15.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (15.18%) Information Architecture
18 72 (14.97%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 126 (26.20%) Java
2 103 (21.41%) Python
3 39 (8.11%) Bash
4 35 (7.28%) SQL
5 24 (4.99%) PowerShell
6 22 (4.57%) Go
6 22 (4.57%) Shell Script
7 19 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 14 (2.91%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.29%) Kotlin
10 7 (1.46%) C#
11 5 (1.04%) Ruby
11 5 (1.04%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (0.83%) Scala
13 3 (0.62%) C++
14 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.21%) Groovy
15 1 (0.21%) R
15 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (6.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (3.33%) Degree
2 16 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 10 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 9 (1.87%) AWS Certification
5 7 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.42%) ISEB
8 2 (0.42%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.21%) CCNP
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.16%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.08%) SLA
4 8 (1.66%) ISO 9001
4 8 (1.66%) QA
5 6 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.21%) HL7
System Software
1 106 (22.04%) Docker
2 7 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (60.50%) Terraform
2 231 (48.02%) Kubernetes
3 214 (44.49%) Prometheus
4 170 (35.34%) Grafana
5 45 (9.36%) Ansible
6 16 (3.33%) HAProxy
7 8 (1.66%) Puppet
8 6 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.04%) Kiali
10 4 (0.83%) Kibana
10 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.42%) Nagios
11 2 (0.42%) Packer
11 2 (0.42%) Rundeck
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) Istio
12 1 (0.21%) logstash
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.21%) Salt
Vendors
1 206 (42.83%) Dynatrace
2 125 (25.99%) Splunk
3 93 (19.33%) Red Hat
4 90 (18.71%) IBM
5 28 (5.82%) Google
6 24 (4.99%) Microsoft
7 14 (2.91%) Oracle
8 12 (2.49%) Sybase
9 11 (2.29%) New Relic
10 9 (1.87%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.87%) PagerDuty
11 7 (1.46%) VMware
12 5 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
13 4 (0.83%) Databricks
14 2 (0.42%) Ab Initio
14 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
15 1 (0.21%) Amdocs
15 1 (0.21%) Cisco
15 1 (0.21%) ForgeRock
15 1 (0.21%) Fortinet