OpenTelemetry Jobs

OpenTelemetry
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring OpenTelemetry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited OpenTelemetry over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 799 950
Rank change year-on-year +327 +151 +257
Permanent jobs citing OpenTelemetry 238 108 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.10% 0.019%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.49% 0.50% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £44,125 - £90,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £71,250 £103,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £133,750
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -43.93% +91.07%
75th Percentile £98,750 £96,875 £144,063
90th Percentile - £125,000 £147,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 -
% change year-on-year -27.59% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

OpenTelemetry falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

OpenTelemetry
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing OpenTelemetry over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for OpenTelemetry in the UK

OpenTelemetry
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTelemetry within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +388 234 £55,000 -26.67% 48
Work from Home - 223 £50,000 - 31
London +179 80 £92,500 -32.73% 24
UK excluding London +158 74 £52,500 -27.59% 29
East of England - 26 - -
South East - 25 - - 3
North of England +45 10 £52,500 -27.59% 14
North West +8 9 £52,500 -27.59% 11
South West - 6 - - 1
Midlands - 4 - - 5
Scotland +29 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
North East - 1 - -

OpenTelemetry
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:

Cloud Services
1 225 (94.54%) AWS
2 215 (90.34%) Pulumi
3 6 (2.52%) GCP
4 2 (0.84%) Azure
4 2 (0.84%) Datadog
5 1 (0.42%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 215 (90.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (92.02%) NoSQL
2 215 (90.34%) RDBMS
2 215 (90.34%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.10%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 216 (90.76%) Jaeger
General
1 219 (92.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (3.36%) Finance
2 8 (3.36%) Social Skills
3 7 (2.94%) Law
4 4 (1.68%) Banking
Job Titles
1 218 (91.60%) Lead
2 215 (90.34%) Team Leader
3 10 (4.20%) Site Engineer
3 10 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (2.52%) Software Engineer
5 5 (2.10%) .NET Developer
5 5 (2.10%) Developer
6 4 (1.68%) Python Engineer
6 4 (1.68%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (1.26%) Consultant
8 2 (0.84%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (0.42%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (90.34%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (4.20%) Kafka
3 5 (2.10%) .NET
4 1 (0.42%) Middleware
4 1 (0.42%) Node.js
4 1 (0.42%) Spring
4 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.10%) Cloud Native
2 4 (1.68%) Client/Server
2 4 (1.68%) Mobile App
2 4 (1.68%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.42%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 216 (90.76%) Linux
2 215 (90.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (94.96%) Agile
2 221 (92.86%) DevOps
2 221 (92.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 220 (92.44%) Containerisation
4 219 (92.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 218 (91.60%) Cost Optimisation
6 217 (91.18%) Roadmaps
7 216 (90.76%) Mentoring
8 215 (90.34%) Budget Control
8 215 (90.34%) Continuous Integration
8 215 (90.34%) GitOps
8 215 (90.34%) High Availability
8 215 (90.34%) Product Management
8 215 (90.34%) Resource Management
8 215 (90.34%) Task Automation
9 14 (5.88%) Observability
10 12 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (4.62%) SDLC
12 10 (4.20%) Service-Level Objective
13 9 (3.78%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 225 (94.54%) Python
2 224 (94.12%) Java
3 222 (93.28%) Go
4 219 (92.02%) JavaScript
5 217 (91.18%) Bash
6 5 (2.10%) C#
6 5 (2.10%) SQL
7 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 219 (92.02%) AWS Certification
2 3 (1.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.42%) Degree
System Software
1 219 (92.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 232 (97.48%) Prometheus
2 227 (95.38%) Kubernetes
3 224 (94.12%) Terraform
4 216 (90.76%) Kustomize
5 215 (90.34%) Ansible
5 215 (90.34%) Argo
6 14 (5.88%) Grafana
7 1 (0.42%) Kiali
Vendors
1 215 (90.34%) Google
2 8 (3.36%) Splunk
3 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.42%) AppDynamics