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 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 556 561
Rank change year-on-year +216 +5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Observability 524 185 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.31% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.35% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 142 132 243
10th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £56,219
25th Percentile £64,471 £60,200 £62,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year - -5.82% -3.48%
75th Percentile £93,778 £95,385 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,250 £65,000 £66,343
% change year-on-year +11.15% -2.02% -5.22%

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 59,910 53,276 102,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.01% 90.42% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 25,957 38,478 64,616
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,716 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.35% -5.97% +10.00%

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 16 January 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 16 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 16 January 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 +229 498 £75,000 - 185
London +193 332 £75,000 -15.25% 129
Work from Home +226 314 £70,000 -0.82% 127
UK excluding London +62 180 £72,250 +11.15% 57
North of England +26 70 £74,750 +15.00% 21
North West +20 56 £75,000 +15.38% 18
South West +34 34 £80,000 +6.67% 4
South East -6 24 £80,000 +45.45% 13
East of England -28 17 - - 4
Scotland +10 14 £69,308 +6.63% 2
Midlands -16 13 £64,600 -0.62% 8
West Midlands -24 13 £64,600 -9.01% 6
Yorkshire +28 11 £85,253 +48.77% 3
Northern Ireland +22 6 £69,308 +23.21% 3
North East -14 3 £69,308 +26.01%
Wales +19 2 £69,308 +6.63% 3

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 14 (2.67%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.48%) Apache
3 10 (1.91%) Jupyter
3 10 (1.91%) nginx
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.19%) IIS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Maya
Business Applications
1 24 (4.58%) Ripple
1 24 (4.58%) Ripple XRP
2 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.19%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 191 (36.45%) AWS
2 123 (23.47%) Azure
3 84 (16.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 77 (14.69%) GCP
5 56 (10.69%) Amazon ECR
6 51 (9.73%) Amazon S3
7 45 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
8 42 (8.02%) OCI
8 42 (8.02%) Route 53
9 41 (7.82%) IBM Cloud
10 39 (7.44%) Datadog
11 26 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (4.77%) SaaS
13 24 (4.58%) Serverless
14 21 (4.01%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (3.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 16 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
18 15 (2.86%) Pulumi
19 14 (2.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 204 (38.93%) Broadband
2 31 (5.92%) Firewall
3 18 (3.44%) Internet
4 16 (3.05%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.67%) LAN
5 14 (2.67%) WAN
6 12 (2.29%) DNS
6 12 (2.29%) Network Security
7 6 (1.15%) SNMP
7 6 (1.15%) VPN
8 5 (0.95%) MPLS
8 5 (0.95%) Multicast
8 5 (0.95%) VLAN
8 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.95%) WLAN
9 4 (0.76%) HTTP
9 4 (0.76%) MQTT
10 2 (0.38%) NAS
10 2 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (13.74%) MySQL
2 59 (11.26%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.82%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.86%) Redis
6 15 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 12 (2.29%) Big Data
8 10 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.53%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.53%) Presto
10 4 (0.76%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 3 (0.57%) HBase
11 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.38%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.38%) Looker
12 2 (0.38%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (7.44%) Jenkins
2 20 (3.82%) GitLab
3 10 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 7 (1.34%) Git
5 5 (0.95%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.76%) JIRA
7 3 (0.57%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.38%) Apache Archiva
8 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.38%) JUnit
8 2 (0.38%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.19%) Jaeger
General
1 220 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 214 (40.84%) Analytical Skills
3 156 (29.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (14.69%) Finance
5 45 (8.59%) Public Sector
6 26 (4.96%) Law
7 24 (4.58%) Digital Economy
7 24 (4.58%) Financial Institution
8 22 (4.20%) Banking
9 17 (3.24%) Games
10 15 (2.86%) Retail Banking
11 11 (2.10%) Retail
12 10 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.72%) Marketing
13 9 (1.72%) Public Speaking
14 6 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.38%) Tech for Good
17 1 (0.19%) Cantonese Language
17 1 (0.19%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 164 (31.30%) Lead
2 131 (25.00%) Senior
3 123 (23.47%) Team Leader
4 81 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 70 (13.36%) Analyst
5 70 (13.36%) Operations Analyst
5 70 (13.36%) Service Analyst
5 70 (13.36%) Service Operations Analyst
6 46 (8.78%) Senior DevOps
7 44 (8.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 30 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (5.53%) Principal Engineer
9 29 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 28 (5.34%) Site Engineer
11 25 (4.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.39%) Software Engineer
13 22 (4.20%) Architect
14 16 (3.05%) Lead DevOps
14 16 (3.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (27.86%) Elastic Stack
2 24 (4.58%) React
3 22 (4.20%) Kafka
4 13 (2.48%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.48%) OAuth
4 13 (2.48%) OAuth2
4 13 (2.48%) SAML
5 12 (2.29%) Django
6 11 (2.10%) GraphQL
6 11 (2.10%) Node.js
7 10 (1.91%) FastAPI
7 10 (1.91%) Flask
7 10 (1.91%) htmx
8 9 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (1.72%) YAML
9 8 (1.53%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (1.53%) Apache NiFi
9 8 (1.53%) RESTful
10 7 (1.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 123 (23.47%) Private Cloud
2 71 (13.55%) Onboarding
3 65 (12.40%) Blockchain
4 46 (8.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 44 (8.40%) Cloud Native
6 43 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
7 41 (7.82%) e-Learning
8 28 (5.34%) Algorithms
9 26 (4.96%) Public Cloud
10 23 (4.39%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.91%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.53%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (0.95%) Operational Technology
15 4 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
15 4 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 199 (37.98%) Linux
2 40 (7.63%) Windows
3 18 (3.44%) Unix
4 8 (1.53%) CentOS
4 8 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (73.28%) DevOps
2 255 (48.66%) Mentoring
3 249 (47.52%) CI/CD
4 244 (46.56%) Problem-Solving
5 237 (45.23%) Containerisation
6 210 (40.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 194 (37.02%) Agile
8 171 (32.63%) Roadmaps
9 158 (30.15%) Continuous Integration
10 149 (28.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 143 (27.29%) Configuration Management
12 135 (25.76%) Computer Science
13 134 (25.57%) Task Automation
14 131 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
15 130 (24.81%) Validation
16 128 (24.43%) Continuous Deployment
17 127 (24.24%) Product Roadmap
18 90 (17.18%) Infrastructure as Code
19 82 (15.65%) Objectives and Key Results
20 81 (15.46%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 247 (47.14%) Python
2 194 (37.02%) Bash
3 132 (25.19%) Shell Script
4 97 (18.51%) SQL
5 32 (6.11%) Java
6 30 (5.73%) PowerShell
7 24 (4.58%) C++
8 21 (4.01%) Go
9 15 (2.86%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.86%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.72%) C#
11 5 (0.95%) Bicep
11 5 (0.95%) Ruby
11 5 (0.95%) Scala
12 4 (0.76%) C
12 4 (0.76%) Jython
12 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.76%) Perl
13 3 (0.57%) Rust
14 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 142 (27.10%) Degree
2 131 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 131 (25.00%) LPIC
3 127 (24.24%) Master's Degree
4 123 (23.47%) RHCSA
5 56 (10.69%) Security Cleared
6 34 (6.49%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.63%) SC Cleared
8 11 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (1.91%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.91%) CCNA
9 10 (1.91%) CCNP
10 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (1.53%) RHCE
11 5 (0.95%) CCIE
11 5 (0.95%) CITP
12 3 (0.57%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (23.47%) NIST
1 123 (23.47%) SOC 2
2 4 (0.76%) QA
2 4 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 203 (38.74%) Docker
2 17 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.05%) VMware Server
4 6 (1.15%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 237 (45.23%) Grafana
2 219 (41.79%) Prometheus
3 175 (33.40%) Terraform
4 166 (31.68%) Ansible
5 136 (25.95%) Kubernetes
6 14 (2.67%) Puppet
7 12 (2.29%) AWS Copilot
7 12 (2.29%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.91%) Argo
9 9 (1.72%) HAProxy
10 8 (1.53%) Nagios
11 4 (0.76%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.76%) Istio
12 3 (0.57%) Consul
12 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.38%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
14 1 (0.19%) Kibana
14 1 (0.19%) logstash
14 1 (0.19%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 55 (10.50%) Red Hat
2 51 (9.73%) Dynatrace
3 42 (8.02%) IBM
4 31 (5.92%) VMware
5 30 (5.73%) Google
6 21 (4.01%) Microsoft
7 12 (2.29%) Cisco
8 9 (1.72%) Splunk
9 7 (1.34%) Databricks
9 7 (1.34%) New Relic
10 5 (0.95%) Juniper
10 5 (0.95%) Meraki
10 5 (0.95%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.76%) Hitachi
12 3 (0.57%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.57%) Ping Identity
13 2 (0.38%) AppDynamics
13 2 (0.38%) CyberArk
13 2 (0.38%) Optimizely