Observability Jobs in the West Midlands

Observability
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 253 260
Rank change year-on-year +65 +7 +34
Permanent jobs citing Observability 5 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.12% 0.051% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.063% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £64,416 - -
25th Percentile £65,595 - £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,563 £50,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.13% -54.55% +54.39%
75th Percentile £75,592 - £115,000
90th Percentile £82,737 - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,747 6,332 5,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.17% 81.48% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,523 4,654 3,182
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,605
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the West Midlands

Observability
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Observability in the West Midlands

Observability
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Observability in the West Midlands

Observability
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Birmingham - 4 £67,500 - 37
Wolverhampton - 1 £85,000 - 31
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (20.00%) Sentry
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Loki
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Google