Observability Job Trends in West London

Observability
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 51 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +44
Permanent jobs citing Observability 10 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 1.85% 1.54% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.58% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - £76,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 - £78,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.88%
75th Percentile £88,750 - £80,250
90th Percentile £89,500 - -
London median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £88,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -15.25% +4.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West London

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 in West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 380 301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 83.39% 97.44% 88.27%
Number of salaries quoted 231 126 240
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,375 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,813 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £82,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Observability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

Observability job vacancy trend in West London

Observability
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Observability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Observability

Observability
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in West London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in West London

Observability
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the West London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Wembley - 5 £82,500 -
Richmond upon Thames -2 1 - -
Observability
London

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) dbt
3 1 (10.00%) H2O.ai
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Influencing Skills
2 8 (80.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Architect
1 8 (80.00%) Lead
1 8 (80.00%) Lead Architect
1 8 (80.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 8 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Keras
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (40.00%) AS400
3 4 (40.00%) iSeries
4 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 8 (80.00%) Community of Practice
1 8 (80.00%) Customer Experience
1 8 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 8 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 8 (80.00%) Event-Driven
1 8 (80.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 8 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
1 8 (80.00%) Microservices
1 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 8 (80.00%) Product Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (10.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) NVIDIA