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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 511 567
Rank change year-on-year +63 +56 -138
Permanent jobs citing Observability 246 424 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.43% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.50% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 148 171 234
10th Percentile £50,238 £50,000 £44,033
25th Percentile £63,510 £64,750 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £93,778 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,625 £110,000 £113,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £75,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -0.67% +26.00% -14.96%

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 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +162 221 £75,000 -6.25% 414
London +139 138 £80,000 -1.54% 267
UK excluding London +5 94 £74,500 -0.67% 168
Work from Home +183 89 £70,000 -12.50% 258
North of England +64 41 £75,000 +30.43% 75
North West +11 25 £75,000 -6.25% 44
South East +124 21 £80,000 -8.57% 23
Scotland -6 14 £62,500 -3.85% 16
Yorkshire +76 12 £69,126 -2.05% 23
Midlands +57 8 £66,050 +32.10% 17
West Midlands +56 8 £66,050 +32.10% 11
South West +76 7 £95,000 +18.75% 16
North East +48 4 £69,384 +58.59% 8
Northern Ireland +34 2 - - 8
Wales - 1 £67,626 - 1

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 7 (2.85%) Apache
2 6 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.03%) Confluence
4 3 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) CICS
6 1 (0.41%) CMS
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (9.76%) Ripple
1 24 (9.76%) Ripple XRP
2 2 (0.81%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 127 (51.63%) AWS
2 119 (48.37%) Azure
3 69 (28.05%) GCP
4 48 (19.51%) Datadog
5 41 (16.67%) GitHub
6 39 (15.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (11.38%) Serverless
9 27 (10.98%) Cloud Computing
9 27 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
10 23 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (8.54%) Azure Monitor
12 20 (8.13%) Amazon S3
13 18 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (6.91%) Pulumi
15 16 (6.50%) Amazon ECR
16 14 (5.69%) SaaS
17 13 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
18 12 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
19 10 (4.07%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 25 (10.16%) Firewall
2 16 (6.50%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.88%) DNS
3 12 (4.88%) Network Security
4 10 (4.07%) VPN
5 8 (3.25%) WAN
6 7 (2.85%) LAN
7 6 (2.44%) HTTP
8 4 (1.63%) Internet
9 3 (1.22%) MPLS
9 3 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.22%) Wireshark
9 3 (1.22%) WLAN
10 2 (0.81%) BGP
10 2 (0.81%) DHCP
10 2 (0.81%) IPv6
10 2 (0.81%) Multicast
10 2 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.41%) NAS
11 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.38%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.28%) DynamoDB
3 13 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.07%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.07%) Redis
5 9 (3.66%) MySQL
5 9 (3.66%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.03%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.22%) Flink
8 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.81%) Power BI
9 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.41%) Big Data
10 1 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (12.60%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.57%) GitLab
3 13 (5.28%) JIRA
4 12 (4.88%) Git
5 9 (3.66%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.63%) Spinnaker
7 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.22%) Postman
7 3 (1.22%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.81%) Apache Archiva
8 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.81%) NUnit
8 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.41%) git-flow
9 1 (0.41%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.41%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
General
1 101 (41.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.39%) Finance
3 33 (13.41%) Law
4 25 (10.16%) Financial Institution
5 24 (9.76%) Banking
5 24 (9.76%) Digital Economy
6 23 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.47%) Retail
9 10 (4.07%) Games
10 9 (3.66%) Marketing
11 8 (3.25%) Retail Banking
12 7 (2.85%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.03%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.81%) Dutch Language
15 2 (0.81%) French Language
16 1 (0.41%) Cantonese Language
16 1 (0.41%) iGaming
16 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (21.14%) Senior
2 36 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (14.23%) Lead
3 35 (14.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 33 (13.41%) Software Engineer
5 30 (12.20%) Principal Engineer
5 30 (12.20%) Site Engineer
6 20 (8.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (6.91%) Developer
8 16 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Architect
10 11 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
10 11 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (4.07%) Consultant
12 9 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.66%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.16%) Kafka
2 23 (9.35%) React
3 20 (8.13%) RESTful
4 19 (7.72%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.10%) GraphQL
6 13 (5.28%) .NET
6 13 (5.28%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.47%) Django
8 9 (3.66%) HTML
8 9 (3.66%) Loki
8 9 (3.66%) SOAP
8 9 (3.66%) Spring
9 8 (3.25%) gRPC
9 8 (3.25%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.85%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.85%) Node.js
11 6 (2.44%) ARM Templates
11 6 (2.44%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 5 (2.03%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.98%) Cloud Native
2 48 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (14.23%) Algorithms
4 33 (13.41%) Blockchain
5 20 (8.13%) Product Ownership
6 12 (4.88%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.66%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.44%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 5 (2.03%) Web3
11 4 (1.63%) Clustering
11 4 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.63%) e-Learning
11 4 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.63%) Replication
12 3 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (16.67%) Linux
2 24 (9.76%) Windows
3 18 (7.32%) Unix
4 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (50.00%) DevOps
2 117 (47.56%) CI/CD
3 82 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (32.93%) Agile
5 78 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 71 (28.86%) Mentoring
7 60 (24.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 52 (21.14%) Microservices
8 52 (21.14%) Software Engineering
9 44 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (17.48%) Roadmaps
11 39 (15.85%) Open Source
12 36 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (13.41%) Decision-Making
14 30 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (11.79%) Continuous Delivery
15 29 (11.79%) Test Automation
16 28 (11.38%) Incident Management
17 27 (10.98%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 104 (42.28%) Python
2 55 (22.36%) Java
3 45 (18.29%) Bash
4 33 (13.41%) TypeScript
5 28 (11.38%) SQL
6 27 (10.98%) Go
7 26 (10.57%) C++
8 25 (10.16%) JavaScript
8 25 (10.16%) PowerShell
9 17 (6.91%) C#
10 5 (2.03%) C
10 5 (2.03%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.03%) Perl
10 5 (2.03%) Ruby
11 4 (1.63%) Jython
11 4 (1.63%) PHP
11 4 (1.63%) Rust
12 3 (1.22%) Bicep
12 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (8.54%) Degree
3 18 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.07%) AWS Certification
5 8 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.03%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.03%) CCNP
8 3 (1.22%) CCIE
8 3 (1.22%) CCNA
8 3 (1.22%) CITP
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) MCSD
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.50%) QA
2 9 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.63%) GDPR
6 3 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.81%) SLA
8 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (30.89%) Docker
2 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.03%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.41%) Squid
5 1 (0.41%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 111 (45.12%) Terraform
2 107 (43.50%) Kubernetes
3 75 (30.49%) Prometheus
4 53 (21.54%) Grafana
5 34 (13.82%) Ansible
6 11 (4.47%) Progress Chef
7 10 (4.07%) Argo
8 9 (3.66%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (3.25%) Puppet
10 5 (2.03%) Consul
10 5 (2.03%) Istio
11 4 (1.63%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.22%) Kibana
13 2 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.81%) Kubespray
13 2 (0.81%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.81%) Packer
14 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 26 (10.57%) Google
2 20 (8.13%) Dynatrace
3 13 (5.28%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.28%) Splunk
4 11 (4.47%) Databricks
4 11 (4.47%) VMware
5 8 (3.25%) Hitachi
6 7 (2.85%) Cisco
6 7 (2.85%) Oracle
7 6 (2.44%) IBM
7 6 (2.44%) New Relic
8 5 (2.03%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.63%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.22%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.22%) Meraki
11 2 (0.81%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.81%) Okta
11 2 (0.81%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.81%) SimCorp