Observability Jobs in England

Observability
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Observability skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Observability over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 563 407
Rank change year-on-year -17 -156 +204
Permanent jobs citing Observability 256 398 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.45% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.48% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 166 192 263
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £68,438 £60,982
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £101,625
90th Percentile £110,625 £120,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Observability is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,974 83,734 131,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.66% 95.60% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 49,663 73,196
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Observability as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Observability in England

Observability
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Observability in England.

Salary trend for Observability in England

Observability
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in England

Observability
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
London -41 104 £83,230 +0.88% 61
North of England +67 67 £54,000 +22.64% 15
North West +38 55 £80,000 +30.61% 9
South West +26 50 £80,000 +81.68% 4
Midlands +2 13 £50,000 -44.44% 6
South East -19 10 £87,500 +2.94% 11
East of England +8 9 - - 2
East Midlands +2 9 £65,000 -7.14% 2
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +64 4 £82,500 +87.36% 6
West Midlands +11 4 £50,000 -54.55% 4
Observability
UK

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (9.38%) nginx
2 20 (7.81%) Apache
3 19 (7.42%) Apache Spark
4 17 (6.64%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.56%) Confluence
7 2 (0.78%) CMS
8 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 154 (60.16%) AWS
2 84 (32.81%) Amazon S3
3 63 (24.61%) Amazon EKS
4 58 (22.66%) Amazon ECR
4 58 (22.66%) IBM Cloud
4 58 (22.66%) OCI
4 58 (22.66%) Route 53
5 56 (21.88%) Azure
6 40 (15.63%) GCP
6 40 (15.63%) OpenShift
7 34 (13.28%) Datadog
8 27 (10.55%) Serverless
9 17 (6.64%) GitHub
9 17 (6.64%) MinIO
10 14 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.30%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.52%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.13%) Pulumi
15 7 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.69%) AMQP
2 10 (3.91%) Firewall
3 6 (2.34%) Network Security
3 6 (2.34%) VPN
4 5 (1.95%) DNS
5 4 (1.56%) WAN
6 3 (1.17%) DHCP
6 3 (1.17%) LAN
6 3 (1.17%) Multicast
6 3 (1.17%) SNMP
6 3 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.78%) MQTT
7 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.39%) MPLS
8 1 (0.39%) NaaS
8 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (25.39%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (10.55%) Relational Database
3 26 (10.16%) Big Data
4 25 (9.77%) MongoDB
5 22 (8.59%) SQL Server
6 18 (7.03%) Hadoop
7 17 (6.64%) Presto
8 14 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.69%) DB2
9 12 (4.69%) RDBMS
10 11 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.91%) MySQL
11 10 (3.91%) Redis
12 9 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.52%) InfluxDB
13 8 (3.13%) BigQuery
14 7 (2.73%) NoSQL
15 6 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (2.34%) Metadata
15 6 (2.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 55 (21.48%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 11 (4.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (3.91%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.52%) GitLab
6 7 (2.73%) Git
6 7 (2.73%) Mocha
7 5 (1.95%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.95%) Jaeger
7 5 (1.95%) JIRA
8 4 (1.56%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.78%) Gradle
10 2 (0.78%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.39%) Appium
11 1 (0.39%) Gatling
11 1 (0.39%) GDB
11 1 (0.39%) Vagrant
General
1 64 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 61 (23.83%) Public Sector
3 25 (9.77%) Finance
4 24 (9.38%) Social Skills
5 21 (8.20%) Tech for Good
6 10 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.91%) Banking
7 9 (3.52%) Retail
8 6 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.95%) Law
9 5 (1.95%) Marketing
10 3 (1.17%) Legal
11 1 (0.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (46.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 102 (39.84%) Senior
3 72 (28.13%) Senior DevOps
3 72 (28.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 26 (10.16%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.59%) Architect
6 21 (8.20%) Lead
7 18 (7.03%) Developer
8 17 (6.64%) Big Data Engineer
8 17 (6.64%) Technical Architect
9 16 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Site Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) Analyst
12 11 (4.30%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.52%) DBA
13 9 (3.52%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.33%) RabbitMQ
2 26 (10.16%) .NET
3 23 (8.98%) Elastic Stack
4 21 (8.20%) Spring
5 19 (7.42%) YAML
6 18 (7.03%) Kafka
7 17 (6.64%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (6.64%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (6.25%) Node.js
9 15 (5.86%) React
10 12 (4.69%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.69%) Spring XD
11 9 (3.52%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.52%) OpenAPI
12 7 (2.73%) Jest
12 7 (2.73%) JWT
12 7 (2.73%) MEAN Stack
12 7 (2.73%) MERN Stack
12 7 (2.73%) Mongoose
12 7 (2.73%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 78 (30.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (22.66%) Blockchain
2 58 (22.66%) e-Learning
3 15 (5.86%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (2.34%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.95%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.17%) Robotics
9 3 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 56 (21.88%) Linux
2 19 (7.42%) Windows
3 6 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.17%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) CentOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (62.50%) DevOps
2 109 (42.58%) Agile
3 106 (41.41%) Containerisation
4 88 (34.38%) CI/CD
5 75 (29.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (28.91%) Artificial Intelligence
7 72 (28.13%) Mentoring
8 65 (25.39%) Coaching
9 64 (25.00%) Test Automation
10 58 (22.66%) Secrets Management
11 37 (14.45%) Software Engineering
12 36 (14.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (10.94%) Data Engineering
14 25 (9.77%) DevSecOps
14 25 (9.77%) Fintech
14 25 (9.77%) Platform Engineering
15 24 (9.38%) Microservices
16 23 (8.98%) Event-Driven
17 21 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (8.20%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (29.30%) Python
2 51 (19.92%) Java
3 31 (12.11%) Bash
3 31 (12.11%) SQL
4 25 (9.77%) Shell Script
5 18 (7.03%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.64%) Go
7 15 (5.86%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.47%) PowerShell
9 10 (3.91%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.13%) C#
11 7 (2.73%) Scala
12 6 (2.34%) Ruby
13 5 (1.95%) C++
14 4 (1.56%) Groovy
15 3 (1.17%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
17 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.64%) DV Cleared
3 9 (3.52%) Degree
4 8 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.64%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.69%) SLA
3 9 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.56%) QA
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 9000
7 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 81 (31.64%) Docker
2 15 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (58.59%) Kubernetes
1 150 (58.59%) Terraform
2 115 (44.92%) Prometheus
3 64 (25.00%) Grafana
4 35 (13.67%) Ansible
5 17 (6.64%) HAProxy
6 7 (2.73%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.34%) Kibana
7 6 (2.34%) Puppet
8 5 (1.95%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (1.95%) Kiali
8 5 (1.95%) Packer
9 4 (1.56%) Consul
9 4 (1.56%) Nagios
10 3 (1.17%) Istio
11 2 (0.78%) Netcool
11 2 (0.78%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.78%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.39%) logstash
12 1 (0.39%) Salt
Vendors
1 72 (28.13%) Dynatrace
2 60 (23.44%) IBM
3 59 (23.05%) Red Hat
4 17 (6.64%) Oracle
5 16 (6.25%) Splunk
6 15 (5.86%) VMware
7 12 (4.69%) Sybase
8 11 (4.30%) Microsoft
8 11 (4.30%) New Relic
9 9 (3.52%) PagerDuty
10 8 (3.13%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.73%) Google
11 7 (2.73%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.56%) Databricks
12 4 (1.56%) Dataiku
13 3 (1.17%) Facebook
14 2 (0.78%) BigPanda
14 2 (0.78%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.78%) ScienceLogic
14 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds