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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 511 570
Rank change year-on-year +50 +59 -171
Permanent jobs citing Observability 259 440 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.51% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 141 179 209
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £64,750 £64,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £110,000 £118,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £80,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -6.88% +36.17% -9.62%

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 51,902 86,889 92,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.67% 84.13% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25,611 60,763 54,796
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.15% -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 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the UK

Observability
Top 14 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 May 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 +124 228 £77,500 -3.13% 3,023
London +153 151 £82,500 +1.08% 417
UK excluding London -11 97 £74,500 -6.88% 3,001
Work from Home +101 71 £72,500 -9.38% 1,936
North of England +17 34 £70,000 +29.63% 679
South East +106 29 £85,000 -2.86% 876
Scotland -1 26 £68,500 +1.76% 113
North West -27 20 £75,000 -6.25% 338
Yorkshire +66 11 £65,000 -21.21% 267
Midlands +78 5 £67,563 +35.13% 542
West Midlands +59 5 £67,563 +35.13% 283
North East +42 3 £69,384 +58.59% 74
South West +57 2 £95,000 +18.75% 350
Wales - 1 £67,626 - 80

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 9 (3.47%) Apache
1 9 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.32%) nginx
3 5 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.77%) CICS
5 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.39%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.39%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) CMS
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 151 (58.30%) AWS
2 136 (52.51%) Azure
3 85 (32.82%) GCP
4 48 (18.53%) Datadog
5 45 (17.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (16.60%) GitHub
7 34 (13.13%) Azure Monitor
8 32 (12.36%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (10.42%) Cloud Computing
11 26 (10.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (9.65%) Serverless
13 21 (8.11%) Pulumi
14 19 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (6.18%) Amazon S3
16 14 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
17 13 (5.02%) SaaS
18 10 (3.86%) Amazon ECR
18 10 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
18 10 (3.86%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.95%) Firewall
2 14 (5.41%) DNS
3 12 (4.63%) Network Security
3 12 (4.63%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.93%) VPN
5 4 (1.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (1.54%) Wireshark
6 3 (1.16%) DHCP
6 3 (1.16%) HTTP
7 2 (0.77%) BGP
7 2 (0.77%) NAS
7 2 (0.77%) SAN
7 2 (0.77%) SNMP
7 2 (0.77%) WAN
8 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.39%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) SSL
8 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.65%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (6.18%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.79%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.02%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.86%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.86%) MySQL
7 10 (3.86%) Redis
8 5 (1.93%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.93%) Metadata
9 3 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.16%) Flink
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.39%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.39%) DB2
11 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (11.97%) GitLab
1 31 (11.97%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.02%) Git
3 12 (4.63%) CircleCI
3 12 (4.63%) JIRA
4 6 (2.32%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.16%) NUnit
5 3 (1.16%) Postman
6 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.39%) git-flow
7 1 (0.39%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.39%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.39%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.39%) Vite
7 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 91 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 66 (25.48%) Finance
3 38 (14.67%) Law
4 30 (11.58%) Banking
5 28 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.63%) Legal
8 11 (4.25%) Retail
9 8 (3.09%) Marketing
9 8 (3.09%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.32%) Games
11 5 (1.93%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.77%) French Language
12 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.39%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 71 (27.41%) Senior
2 43 (16.60%) Lead
2 43 (16.60%) Software Engineer
3 41 (15.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 38 (14.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (12.36%) Site Engineer
6 18 (6.95%) Developer
6 18 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (6.18%) Lead Software Engineer
9 15 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.63%) Architect
11 11 (4.25%) Senior Manager
11 11 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Release Manager
13 8 (3.09%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (3.09%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.09%) Data Engineer
13 8 (3.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.36%) Kafka
2 26 (10.04%) React
2 26 (10.04%) RESTful
3 16 (6.18%) .NET
3 16 (6.18%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (6.18%) GraphQL
4 15 (5.79%) PyTorch
4 15 (5.79%) TensorFlow
5 14 (5.41%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (4.63%) Loki
7 11 (4.25%) Django
7 11 (4.25%) gRPC
7 11 (4.25%) Hugging Face
7 11 (4.25%) LangChain
8 9 (3.47%) HTML
9 8 (3.09%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.09%) CSS
9 8 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (3.09%) REST
9 8 (3.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 74 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 33 (12.74%) Product Ownership
3 25 (9.65%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.18%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.63%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.25%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (3.47%) Fixed Income
7 9 (3.47%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.09%) Blockchain
8 8 (3.09%) Web3
9 7 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.32%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.32%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.93%) Clustering
11 5 (1.93%) FMCG
12 4 (1.54%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.16%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.16%) Replication
13 3 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.51%) Linux
2 17 (6.56%) Unix
3 13 (5.02%) Windows
4 5 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 129 (49.81%) DevOps
3 97 (37.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (33.98%) Agile
5 76 (29.34%) Containerisation
6 66 (25.48%) Software Engineering
7 65 (25.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 56 (21.62%) Microservices
9 55 (21.24%) Platform Engineering
10 53 (20.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (19.31%) Mentoring
12 43 (16.60%) High Availability
13 41 (15.83%) Incident Management
14 38 (14.67%) Test Automation
15 36 (13.90%) Roadmaps
16 35 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
17 34 (13.13%) Analytics
17 34 (13.13%) Performance Tuning
18 32 (12.36%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 125 (48.26%) Python
2 67 (25.87%) Java
3 43 (16.60%) Go
4 41 (15.83%) Bash
5 32 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 28 (10.81%) SQL
7 23 (8.88%) PowerShell
8 22 (8.49%) C#
9 21 (8.11%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.32%) PHP
11 5 (1.93%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.93%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.93%) Ruby
12 4 (1.54%) Rust
13 3 (1.16%) C
13 3 (1.16%) C++
13 3 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.77%) Gremlin
14 2 (0.77%) Perl
14 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (12.36%) Degree
2 21 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.02%) Master's Degree
6 11 (4.25%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.32%) CCNP
9 4 (1.54%) CCNA
10 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.49%) QA
2 10 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.09%) GDPR
4 6 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.32%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 73 (28.19%) Docker
2 7 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.54%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Squid
4 2 (0.77%) vSphere
5 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.39%) RACF
Systems Management
1 122 (47.10%) Terraform
2 113 (43.63%) Kubernetes
3 90 (34.75%) Prometheus
4 87 (33.59%) Grafana
5 31 (11.97%) Ansible
6 12 (4.63%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.47%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (3.09%) Puppet
9 6 (2.32%) Istio
10 5 (1.93%) Argo
10 5 (1.93%) Consul
10 5 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.54%) Kibana
12 2 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
12 2 (0.77%) Kubespray
12 2 (0.77%) linkerd
12 2 (0.77%) Packer
12 2 (0.77%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 25 (9.65%) Google
2 22 (8.49%) Splunk
3 13 (5.02%) Databricks
4 12 (4.63%) OpenAI
5 11 (4.25%) Dynatrace
5 11 (4.25%) Hitachi
6 9 (3.47%) Microsoft
7 8 (3.09%) Oracle
8 7 (2.70%) F5
9 6 (2.32%) New Relic
9 6 (2.32%) VMware
10 5 (1.93%) IBM
10 5 (1.93%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.54%) Cisco
11 4 (1.54%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.16%) ForgeRock
12 3 (1.16%) Okta
12 3 (1.16%) Ping Identity
12 3 (1.16%) Red Hat