Observability Jobs in England

Observability
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 602 564 398
Rank change year-on-year -38 -166 +203
Permanent jobs citing Observability 271 356 1,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.43% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.45% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 176 179 274
10th Percentile £50,625 £42,874 £51,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £57,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £90,313 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £131,139 £110,875
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 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,406 78,691 137,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.77% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,054 48,270 73,559
10th Percentile £29,290 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -34 109 £80,000 - 52
North of England +49 73 £57,500 +30.59% 14
North West +23 59 £80,000 +14.29% 12
South West +14 51 £80,000 - 7
Midlands -17 15 £50,000 -54.55% 5
South East -42 11 £87,500 +2.94% 14
East Midlands -27 10 £39,500 -43.57% 2
East of England -10 9 - - 6
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +56 6 £85,000 +93.04% 2
West Midlands -8 5 £50,000 -54.55% 3
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 23 (8.49%) nginx
2 20 (7.38%) Apache
2 20 (7.38%) Apache Spark
3 16 (5.90%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.11%) Confluence
6 2 (0.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 158 (58.30%) AWS
2 84 (31.00%) Amazon S3
3 63 (23.25%) Amazon EKS
3 63 (23.25%) Azure
4 58 (21.40%) Amazon ECR
4 58 (21.40%) IBM Cloud
4 58 (21.40%) OCI
4 58 (21.40%) Route 53
5 41 (15.13%) GCP
6 39 (14.39%) OpenShift
7 36 (13.28%) Datadog
8 30 (11.07%) Serverless
9 19 (7.01%) GitHub
10 16 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (5.90%) MinIO
11 15 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.43%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (3.32%) Snowflake
14 8 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.43%) AMQP
2 10 (3.69%) Firewall
3 7 (2.58%) Network Security
4 6 (2.21%) DNS
4 6 (2.21%) VPN
5 4 (1.48%) MQTT
6 3 (1.11%) DHCP
6 3 (1.11%) LAN
6 3 (1.11%) Multicast
6 3 (1.11%) WAN
6 3 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.74%) SNMP
7 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.35%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (10.70%) Relational Database
3 27 (9.96%) Big Data
4 25 (9.23%) MongoDB
5 23 (8.49%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.64%) Hadoop
7 16 (5.90%) Presto
8 13 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.43%) DB2
9 12 (4.43%) RDBMS
10 11 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (3.69%) MySQL
12 9 (3.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.32%) InfluxDB
12 9 (3.32%) NoSQL
12 9 (3.32%) Redis
13 8 (2.95%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (2.21%) Metadata
14 6 (2.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 56 (20.66%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 12 (4.43%) GitLab
4 11 (4.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (3.69%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.58%) Git
6 7 (2.58%) Mocha
7 6 (2.21%) JIRA
8 5 (1.85%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.85%) Jaeger
9 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.74%) Gradle
10 2 (0.74%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.37%) Appium
11 1 (0.37%) Gatling
11 1 (0.37%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (23.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 62 (22.88%) Public Sector
3 27 (9.96%) Social Skills
4 26 (9.59%) Finance
5 21 (7.75%) Tech for Good
6 11 (4.06%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.06%) Banking
7 9 (3.32%) Retail
8 8 (2.95%) Law
9 6 (2.21%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.85%) Marketing
11 3 (1.11%) Legal
12 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (44.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 105 (38.75%) Senior
3 74 (27.31%) Senior DevOps
3 74 (27.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 26 (9.59%) Lead
5 25 (9.23%) Data Engineer
6 21 (7.75%) Architect
7 18 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.64%) Developer
7 18 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Site Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Technical Architect
9 16 (5.90%) Big Data Engineer
10 13 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (4.80%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.06%) Analyst
13 10 (3.69%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.32%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.33%) RabbitMQ
2 26 (9.59%) .NET
3 23 (8.49%) Spring
4 22 (8.12%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (7.38%) Kafka
5 20 (7.38%) YAML
6 16 (5.90%) ActiveMQ
6 16 (5.90%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (5.90%) Node.js
7 14 (5.17%) React
7 14 (5.17%) Spring Boot
8 12 (4.43%) Spring XD
9 9 (3.32%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.32%) OpenAPI
10 7 (2.58%) Express.js
10 7 (2.58%) JWT
10 7 (2.58%) MEAN Stack
10 7 (2.58%) MERN Stack
10 7 (2.58%) NestJS
10 7 (2.58%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 77 (28.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 58 (21.40%) Blockchain
2 58 (21.40%) e-Learning
3 18 (6.64%) Cloud Native
4 10 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.21%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.85%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.11%) Robotics
10 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.74%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.66%) Linux
2 21 (7.75%) Windows
3 6 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) VMS
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) CentOS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (62.73%) DevOps
2 115 (42.44%) Agile
3 111 (40.96%) Containerisation
4 94 (34.69%) CI/CD
5 83 (30.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 75 (27.68%) Mentoring
7 74 (27.31%) Artificial Intelligence
8 66 (24.35%) Test Automation
9 65 (23.99%) Coaching
10 58 (21.40%) Secrets Management
11 43 (15.87%) Software Engineering
12 41 (15.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 29 (10.70%) DevSecOps
14 28 (10.33%) Fintech
14 28 (10.33%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (9.96%) Data Engineering
15 27 (9.96%) Microservices
16 25 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
17 22 (8.12%) Event-Driven
18 21 (7.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 75 (27.68%) Python
2 54 (19.93%) Java
3 33 (12.18%) SQL
4 31 (11.44%) Bash
5 24 (8.86%) Shell Script
6 18 (6.64%) JavaScript
7 17 (6.27%) Go
8 14 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 10 (3.69%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.95%) C#
11 7 (2.58%) Ruby
11 7 (2.58%) Scala
12 5 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
13 4 (1.48%) C++
13 4 (1.48%) Groovy
14 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 39 (14.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (5.90%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) Degree
4 10 (3.69%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.21%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) ISEB
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.54%) SLA
3 11 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.21%) QA
5 3 (1.11%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 9000
6 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 83 (30.63%) Docker
2 16 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 161 (59.41%) Terraform
2 157 (57.93%) Kubernetes
3 118 (43.54%) Prometheus
4 64 (23.62%) Grafana
5 35 (12.92%) Ansible
6 16 (5.90%) HAProxy
7 7 (2.58%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.21%) Kibana
8 6 (2.21%) Puppet
9 5 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.85%) Kiali
9 5 (1.85%) Packer
10 4 (1.48%) Consul
10 4 (1.48%) Nagios
11 3 (1.11%) Istio
12 2 (0.74%) Netcool
12 2 (0.74%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.74%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.37%) logstash
13 1 (0.37%) Salt
Vendors
1 72 (26.57%) Dynatrace
2 60 (22.14%) IBM
3 59 (21.77%) Red Hat
4 18 (6.64%) Splunk
5 17 (6.27%) Oracle
6 16 (5.90%) Microsoft
6 16 (5.90%) VMware
7 12 (4.43%) Sybase
8 10 (3.69%) New Relic
9 9 (3.32%) PagerDuty
10 8 (2.95%) AppDynamics
11 7 (2.58%) Google
11 7 (2.58%) LogicMonitor
12 4 (1.48%) Databricks
12 4 (1.48%) Dataiku
13 3 (1.11%) Facebook
14 2 (0.74%) BigPanda
14 2 (0.74%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.74%) ScienceLogic
14 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds