Observability Jobs in the North of England

Observability
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 390 339
Rank change year-on-year +78 -51 +33
Permanent jobs citing Observability 69 39 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.38% 0.24% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.24% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 25 20 50
10th Percentile £38,750 - £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £52,937
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £44,033 £62,998
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -30.10% +22.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,938 £72,188
90th Percentile £90,500 £78,250 £77,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,895 16,001 17,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.86% 96.69% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 7,839 10,706
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,074 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Observability
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Observability in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Observability in the North of England

Observability
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Observability within the North of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West +44 56 £80,000 +30.61% 11
North East - 8 £43,750 -
Yorkshire +63 5 £82,500 +87.36% 5
Observability
England

Observability
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 46 (66.67%) AWS
2 38 (55.07%) Amazon S3
3 36 (52.17%) Amazon ECR
3 36 (52.17%) Amazon EKS
3 36 (52.17%) IBM Cloud
3 36 (52.17%) OCI
3 36 (52.17%) Route 53
4 17 (24.64%) Azure
5 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.14%) GitHub
7 6 (8.70%) GCP
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (7.25%) Anthos
8 5 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (7.25%) Datadog
8 5 (7.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
8 5 (7.25%) Serverless
9 3 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) DNS
2 3 (4.35%) DHCP
2 3 (4.35%) Firewall
2 3 (4.35%) LAN
2 3 (4.35%) MQTT
2 3 (4.35%) VPN
2 3 (4.35%) WAN
2 3 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (52.17%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.25%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.25%) Power BI
5 4 (5.80%) Big Data
5 4 (5.80%) Metadata
5 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.80%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (4.35%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.35%) Data Mart
6 3 (4.35%) DocumentDB
6 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.35%) Redis
7 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) GitLab
2 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.90%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.90%) Gradle
5 1 (1.45%) Appium
5 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.45%) Git
5 1 (1.45%) JIRA
General
1 37 (53.62%) Public Sector
2 36 (52.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Retail
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 4 (5.80%) Marketing
6 2 (2.90%) Finance
7 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (56.52%) DevOps Engineer
1 39 (56.52%) Senior
2 36 (52.17%) Senior DevOps
2 36 (52.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Site Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Developer
6 3 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Lead
6 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) Splunk Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) Spring
2 5 (7.25%) AWS CDK
2 5 (7.25%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.80%) Kafka
3 4 (5.80%) PySpark
4 2 (2.90%) .NET
4 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.90%) Node.js
4 2 (2.90%) YAML
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.45%) REST
5 1 (1.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.45%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 38 (55.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (52.17%) Blockchain
2 36 (52.17%) e-Learning
3 6 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.80%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.80%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.45%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.80%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (76.81%) DevOps
2 49 (71.01%) Agile
3 42 (60.87%) Containerisation
4 41 (59.42%) Mentoring
5 37 (53.62%) Coaching
5 37 (53.62%) Test Automation
6 36 (52.17%) Artificial Intelligence
6 36 (52.17%) Secrets Management
7 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
8 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (11.59%) Microservices
11 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (10.14%) TDD
12 6 (8.70%) E-Commerce
12 6 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Data Engineering
13 5 (7.25%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.19%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) SQL
3 9 (13.04%) Java
4 8 (11.59%) Bash
5 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.25%) Go
7 3 (4.35%) Ruby
7 3 (4.35%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.90%) C#
8 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.45%) R
9 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (75.36%) Terraform
2 46 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 42 (60.87%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.59%) Grafana
5 3 (4.35%) Kibana
6 2 (2.90%) Ansible
6 2 (2.90%) Rundeck
7 1 (1.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 36 (52.17%) Dynatrace
1 36 (52.17%) IBM
1 36 (52.17%) Red Hat
2 5 (7.25%) LogicMonitor
2 5 (7.25%) PagerDuty
2 5 (7.25%) Splunk
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.35%) VMware
5 2 (2.90%) Google
5 2 (2.90%) New Relic
6 1 (1.45%) Databricks