Observability
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 567 459
Rank change year-on-year +41 -108 +192
Permanent jobs citing Observability 405 502 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.47% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.49% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 177 247 254
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,033 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,323 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £94,375 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £107,500 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83,908 102,297 145,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 95.66% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 59,730 59,825 83,628
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +9.38%

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 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 17 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 18 April 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 +137 284 £75,000 +20.00% 48
England -28 231 £80,000 - 91
Scotland +59 160 £65,000 +40.24% 8
London -22 109 £90,000 +9.09% 52
Work from Home +2 92 £80,000 +4.92% 45
North of England +58 48 £64,038 +24.95% 9
South West +20 43 £80,000 +44.38% 7
North West +25 34 £80,000 +34.13% 9
Midlands +15 12 £57,500 -34.29% 6
South East +9 11 £87,500 +16.67% 16
East Midlands -9 9 £65,000 -21.69% 2
North East +2 8 £43,750 -68.75%
Yorkshire +58 6 £70,576 +60.28%
East of England +24 5 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 4 £55,000 - 1
West Midlands +41 3 £50,000 -42.86% 4
Wales -8 1 £70,000 +9.98%

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 24 (5.93%) Apache
1 24 (5.93%) nginx
2 23 (5.68%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.20%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.47%) Confluence
5 7 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.99%) CMS
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 231 (57.04%) AWS
2 136 (33.58%) Datadog
3 83 (20.49%) Azure
4 69 (17.04%) Amazon S3
5 57 (14.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 46 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
7 41 (10.12%) GCP
7 41 (10.12%) Route 53
8 40 (9.88%) Amazon ECR
8 40 (9.88%) IBM Cloud
8 40 (9.88%) OCI
9 36 (8.89%) OpenShift
10 30 (7.41%) Serverless
11 26 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (4.94%) GitHub
13 18 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (4.20%) MinIO
15 13 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.21%) Firewall
2 12 (2.96%) AMQP
3 8 (1.98%) DNS
3 8 (1.98%) Network Security
3 8 (1.98%) WAN
4 7 (1.73%) SNMP
5 6 (1.48%) VPN
6 5 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (1.23%) MPLS
6 5 (1.23%) NaaS
6 5 (1.23%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.99%) Multicast
8 3 (0.74%) DHCP
8 3 (0.74%) LAN
8 3 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.49%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.10%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (11.85%) Relational Database
3 28 (6.91%) Big Data
4 23 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 22 (5.43%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.20%) Hadoop
6 17 (4.20%) Presto
7 16 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.96%) Redis
9 10 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.47%) MySQL
10 9 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.98%) CockroachDB
11 8 (1.98%) InfluxDB
12 7 (1.73%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.73%) DB2
12 7 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.23%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 70 (17.28%) Jenkins
2 26 (6.42%) GitLab
3 17 (4.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (3.95%) Git
4 16 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (2.72%) Cypress.io
5 11 (2.72%) JIRA
6 8 (1.98%) Jaeger
7 7 (1.73%) Mocha
8 6 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.99%) JUnit
10 3 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.74%) Gatling
10 3 (0.74%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.49%) Gradle
11 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
General
1 202 (49.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 187 (46.17%) Finance
3 158 (39.01%) Law
4 127 (31.36%) Marketing
5 93 (22.96%) Social Skills
6 42 (10.37%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.69%) Tech for Good
8 17 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (4.20%) Banking
9 13 (3.21%) Retail
10 9 (2.22%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (28.40%) Senior
2 110 (27.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 103 (25.43%) Software Engineer
4 70 (17.28%) Lead
5 60 (14.81%) Senior DevOps
6 58 (14.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 54 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (12.84%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 41 (10.12%) Lead Software Engineer
10 23 (5.68%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.68%) Developer
11 22 (5.43%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 21 (5.19%) Architect
12 21 (5.19%) Software Engineering Director
13 19 (4.69%) Senior Manager
14 17 (4.20%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (4.20%) Engineering Manager
14 17 (4.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.20%) Software Engineering Manager
14 17 (4.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (19.51%) OpenTelemetry
2 47 (11.60%) .NET
3 30 (7.41%) RabbitMQ
4 28 (6.91%) Spring
5 27 (6.67%) Spring Boot
6 26 (6.42%) React
7 23 (5.68%) YAML
8 22 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (5.19%) Kafka
9 21 (5.19%) Node.js
10 20 (4.94%) REST
11 17 (4.20%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (4.20%) Apache NiFi
12 11 (2.72%) JSP
12 11 (2.72%) RESTful
13 10 (2.47%) OpenAPI
14 9 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 8 (1.98%) JSON
15 8 (1.98%) Middleware
15 8 (1.98%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 123 (30.37%) Cloud Native
2 69 (17.04%) Public Cloud
3 59 (14.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 47 (11.60%) Algorithms
5 40 (9.88%) Blockchain
5 40 (9.88%) e-Learning
6 33 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (6.67%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.70%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.47%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.73%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.48%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.99%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 67 (16.54%) Linux
2 18 (4.44%) Windows
3 5 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) CentOS
5 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (54.57%) Agile
2 209 (51.60%) CI/CD
3 187 (46.17%) Software Engineering
4 166 (40.99%) Artificial Intelligence
5 159 (39.26%) DevOps
6 119 (29.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 117 (28.89%) SDLC
8 115 (28.40%) Community of Practice
9 99 (24.44%) Machine Learning
9 99 (24.44%) Operational Stability
10 96 (23.70%) Containerisation
11 87 (21.48%) Continuous Delivery
12 83 (20.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 73 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 69 (17.04%) Architectural Design
14 69 (17.04%) Coaching
14 69 (17.04%) Information Architecture
14 69 (17.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 67 (16.54%) Mentoring
16 60 (14.81%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (30.62%) Java
2 118 (29.14%) Python
3 49 (12.10%) SQL
4 48 (11.85%) Bash
5 26 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.17%) C#
6 25 (6.17%) PowerShell
6 25 (6.17%) Shell Script
7 22 (5.43%) Go
8 17 (4.20%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.47%) Scala
10 9 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.73%) Groovy
12 6 (1.48%) C++
12 6 (1.48%) Ruby
13 4 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.49%) Bicep
15 1 (0.25%) PHP
15 1 (0.25%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (4.20%) DV Cleared
3 12 (2.96%) Degree
4 8 (1.98%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.21%) SLA
3 12 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.99%) ISO 9000
5 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.99%) QA
6 1 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 98 (24.20%) Docker
2 20 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 197 (48.64%) Terraform
2 176 (43.46%) Grafana
3 166 (40.99%) Kubernetes
4 147 (36.30%) Prometheus
5 42 (10.37%) Ansible
6 17 (4.20%) HAProxy
7 9 (2.22%) Istio
8 8 (1.98%) Kiali
9 7 (1.73%) Kibana
9 7 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (1.23%) Packer
10 5 (1.23%) Puppet
11 4 (0.99%) Consul
12 3 (0.74%) Nagios
13 2 (0.49%) Netcool
13 2 (0.49%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.49%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.25%) logstash
14 1 (0.25%) SCSM
Vendors
1 165 (40.74%) Dynatrace
2 131 (32.35%) Splunk
3 43 (10.62%) IBM
4 41 (10.12%) Red Hat
5 25 (6.17%) Google
6 20 (4.94%) VMware
7 17 (4.20%) Microsoft
8 12 (2.96%) New Relic
8 12 (2.96%) Oracle
9 11 (2.72%) AppDynamics
10 7 (1.73%) LogicMonitor
10 7 (1.73%) PagerDuty
10 7 (1.73%) Sybase
11 4 (0.99%) Databricks
11 4 (0.99%) Dataiku
11 4 (0.99%) Facebook
12 2 (0.49%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.49%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.49%) SolarWinds