Observability Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Observability
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 502 491
Rank change year-on-year +190 -11 -85
Permanent jobs citing Observability 85 90 186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.27% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.29% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 76 80 145
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £62,188 £63,000 £57,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -18.42%
75th Percentile £83,750 £102,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £104,375 £111,250 £103,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Observability
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Observability trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Observability
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Observability.

Observability salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Observability over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Observability salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.53%) Apache
1 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.06%) Azure
2 46 (54.12%) AWS
3 31 (36.47%) GCP
4 21 (24.71%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (23.53%) GitHub
6 16 (18.82%) Datadog
7 15 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (17.65%) Serverless
8 14 (16.47%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (16.47%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (16.47%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (14.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (11.76%) Sentry
11 9 (10.59%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (10.59%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 9 (10.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 9 (10.59%) AWS CodeBuild
11 9 (10.59%) dbt
11 9 (10.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) Firewall
1 13 (15.29%) TCP/IP
2 7 (8.24%) WAN
3 6 (7.06%) LAN
4 5 (5.88%) VPN
5 4 (4.71%) HTTP
5 4 (4.71%) Network Security
6 2 (2.35%) DNS
6 2 (2.35%) Internet
6 2 (2.35%) MPLS
6 2 (2.35%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.35%) WLAN
7 1 (1.18%) DHCP
7 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
7 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (12.94%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.59%) Redis
3 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.71%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.18%) Big Data
7 1 (1.18%) Flink
7 1 (1.18%) MySQL
7 1 (1.18%) Power BI
7 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (16.47%) Jenkins
2 6 (7.06%) GitLab
3 4 (4.71%) Spinnaker
4 3 (3.53%) Git
5 2 (2.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.18%) git-flow
6 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (11.76%) Finance
4 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Banking
4 9 (10.59%) Marketing
5 5 (5.88%) Games
5 5 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Law
7 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.18%) Advertising
8 1 (1.18%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.18%) iGaming
8 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Site Engineer
1 22 (25.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 19 (22.35%) Senior
3 18 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Lead
6 7 (8.24%) Consultant
7 6 (7.06%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Cloud Specialist
9 4 (4.71%) Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.71%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (4.71%) IT Manager
9 4 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Architect
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.29%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (11.76%) React
3 9 (10.59%) Django
4 8 (9.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (5.88%) SOAP
5 5 (5.88%) Spring
5 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.88%) XSLT
6 4 (4.71%) .NET
6 4 (4.71%) HTML
6 4 (4.71%) Kafka
6 4 (4.71%) XML
7 3 (3.53%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.53%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.53%) Blazor
8 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.35%) AWS SAM
8 2 (2.35%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.35%) scikit-learn
8 2 (2.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 15 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Clustering
3 4 (4.71%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (4.71%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.71%) Replication
4 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.35%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.59%) Linux
2 16 (18.82%) Unix
3 14 (16.47%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (63.53%) DevOps
2 44 (51.76%) CI/CD
3 32 (37.65%) Agile
4 30 (35.29%) Containerisation
5 27 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (30.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 22 (25.88%) Platform Engineering
8 20 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (22.35%) Continuous Delivery
9 19 (22.35%) Service-Level Objective
10 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (16.47%) Deployment Automation
11 14 (16.47%) Microservices
11 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
12 13 (15.29%) Performance Monitoring
12 13 (15.29%) Software Delivery
13 12 (14.12%) DevSecOps
13 12 (14.12%) Intelligent Automation
14 11 (12.94%) Cost Optimisation
14 11 (12.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (65.88%) Python
2 28 (32.94%) Bash
3 24 (28.24%) Java
4 16 (18.82%) TypeScript
5 13 (15.29%) PowerShell
6 12 (14.12%) JavaScript
6 12 (14.12%) SQL
7 8 (9.41%) Go
8 5 (5.88%) C
8 5 (5.88%) Perl
9 4 (4.71%) Jython
10 3 (3.53%) Bicep
11 2 (2.35%) C#
11 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.18%) ActionScript
12 1 (1.18%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (1.18%) PHP
12 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 20 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.24%) Degree
4 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.35%) CCIE
6 2 (2.35%) CCNA
6 2 (2.35%) CCNP
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.35%) CITP
7 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.18%) MCSD
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.71%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (36.47%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.71%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (55.29%) Terraform
2 39 (45.88%) Kubernetes
3 32 (37.65%) Prometheus
4 18 (21.18%) Grafana
5 10 (11.76%) Ansible
6 9 (10.59%) AWS Copilot
7 4 (4.71%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.18%) Argo
8 1 (1.18%) Kibana
8 1 (1.18%) logstash
8 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Google
2 10 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 9 (10.59%) VMware
4 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.71%) Cisco
6 3 (3.53%) Oracle
7 2 (2.35%) IBM
7 2 (2.35%) Meraki
7 2 (2.35%) Splunk
8 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.18%) AppNeta
8 1 (1.18%) Broadcom
8 1 (1.18%) Databricks
8 1 (1.18%) Ericsson
8 1 (1.18%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.18%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.18%) New Relic
8 1 (1.18%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.18%) Salesforce