Observability Job Trends in West Wales

Observability
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring Observability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Observability 8 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 2.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £47,650 - -
25th Percentile £66,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 - -
75th Percentile £73,750 - -
90th Percentile £74,125 - -
Wales median annual salary £72,500 £67,626 -
% change year-on-year +7.21% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 257 43 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 67.81% 81.13% 73.60%
Number of salaries quoted 182 27 164
10th Percentile £30,575 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -18.20% +13.19%
75th Percentile £65,000 £53,762 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £68,315
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Observability job vacancy trend in West Wales

Observability
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in West Wales over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Observability in West Wales

Observability
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Swansea - 8 £71,250 - 2
Observability
Wales

Observability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Adabas
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Mocha
3 1 (12.50%) RSpec
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 7 (87.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Spring
1 7 (87.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (62.50%) Node.js
2 5 (62.50%) React
2 5 (62.50%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (50.00%) Kafka
4 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 3 (37.50%) Serverless Framework
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CDK
5 2 (25.00%) AWS SAM
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
5 2 (25.00%) CSS3
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) HTML5
5 2 (25.00%) JPA
5 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (12.50%) Jest
6 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (50.00%) Mainframe
3 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 6 (75.00%) Scrum
4 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 5 (62.50%) Microservices
5 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (50.00%) Kanban
5 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
6 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
6 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 3 (37.50%) OWASP
6 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 3 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Natural
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) WCAG
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) OneLogin
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk